RE: [FT] Miniture sizes

Fortunatly (or is that unfortunatly), there is no standard. 
Best method is to put minis side by side and make an estimate.
Remember to take Volume into consideration.

Some people have posted size guidelines in the past, but these
usually don't take into account the girth of the mini.

Several months ago, somone indicated that he used a grams
scale. He weighed the mini, weighed the stand, subtracted the
stand from the weight of the mini, then did a numeric comparison
from several of the GZG minis. With this as a baseline, he 
weighed the non-GZG minis and placed them in the appropriate
catogory. However this seemed like too much work for me.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
http://members.xoom.com/rlyehable/ft/	 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: J Noble [SMTP:jnoble@alaska.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 3:48 AM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	[FT] Miniture sizes
> 
> I've got a small collection of miniatures I will use for Full Thrust, 
> but only 2 classes of GZG minis (the 2 smallest FSE I believe - 
> Mistral and Ibiza)
> 
> I would like to know about what size GZG ships mine relate to.
> 
> What I have is a handful of RAFM ships, most bought as traveller 
> ships, though they sell the same ships for Silent Death with 
> different names.
> 
> Cuspid Class	(AKA Silent Death FireBat)
> Fang Class (AKA Silent Death Rattler)
> Darrian Patrol Cruiser (Don't know name, but also sold as a Silent 
> Death Figure)
> Aslan (?Border Cruiser?) (AKA Silent Death Hornet)
> Type A Free Trader
> Fat Trader (Subsidized Merchant)
> System Defense Boat
> 
> Silent Death Remora
> 
> Battlefleet gothic Sword class frigates
> 
> Most of these are fairly small, I know, but I'm looking to see what 
> they come closest to in GZG ship sizes
> 
> 
> I also have a bunch of GameScience trek minis, as well as some TFG 
> Starline 2200 ships.	Oh, and of course the trek micromachines.  If 
> anyone knows how those compare in size that would be fine as well, 
> but I'm focusing on the others first.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jared
>