Re: [GZG] 25mm a dead scale?

Samuel Penn wrote:
> On Fri, October 17, 2008 11:31, Phillip Atcliffe wrote:
>> Michael R. Blair wrote:
>>> I am disgusted by the scale creep that has led to 25mm becoming 28mm
and
>>> frankly I would not be surprised to see them continuing to grow.
> 
>> It's happening. You see a lot of vehicles and scenery advertised as
>> "suitable for 25/28 mm", and there's stuff out there now that calls
>> itself "28/30 mm". It'll be 30/32 next, and so on.
> 
>> Is there really _that_ much difference in size?
> 
> It can be very noticeable. It's okay if you've got a mix of
> humans and aliens (or aliens and aliens), where a size difference
> is acceptable. If you've got what is meant to be a slender 28mm
> female next to a typical 25mm bloke, then it looks wrong.

I always like to refer to Andy Cowell's page since it has a nice picture
showing the popular scales:
<http://www.cowell.org/~andy/min/scale.html>.

I don't think that Kra'vak would look good against GW figures (at least
from this example).  Since they're aliens one could probably get away
with it, maybe.

So even outside human-vs-human comparisons, some aliens or monsters are
just supposed to be bigger.  For example, I've run into scale problems
when the old D&D troll no longer looks imposing when facing a Reaper
hero that is as big or bigger.

--
JF

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