Reply To: What do you call "GW size" minis?

[John D Salt]

Rhoderic wrote:

Come to think of it, “heroic scale” would also suit well and I may just start using that term. People should probably be able to surmise that “heroic scale” with no actual measurement attached to it refers to heroic 28s as opposed to, for instance, heroic 15s.

Whenever I hear the word “heroic” in this context, I interpret it as meaning “suffering badly from scale creep”. While I’ve only heard “heroic 25mm” as an early term for 28mm, I tend to think of 6mm as “heroic” 5mm, 12mm as “heroic” 10mm, 18mm as “heroic” 15mm, and I suppose 32mm, which I had never heard of before, must be “heroic” 30mm.

Since I started wargaming at about the same time as some of the other old fogeys in this group, in 1970, I regard wargaming with figures as an outgrowth of the scale modelling hobby. I therefore have a hard time understanding why so many figures are not proper scale models; although this is perhaps the difference between a figure and a toy soldier.

All the best,

John.