why are the figs so small?????????

Mr Evil said:
combatdroid113 said:
that will look dinky playing exsisting ranges of SST against the dwarves!

or invasion of the giants from dimension X :D

tee hee hee thats so damn funny hang on why dont i go out and by some plastic army men and play against you you know the ones that are about 3.5 inches tall covered in flash and made out of crap plastic.... talk about smash the ambiance. this is what the new scale will do to anyone who has exsisting SST minis.

sorry to be mildly offensive i just find the idea of the smaller scale mildly offensive
 
Thanks for that picture Matt!

Taking measurements off the screen, I make the BF:EVO figures to be about 29mm head-to-toe (the picture is about 1.14 times life-size, based on the Cadian). Discount the helmet and the soles of the boots, and that puts them at 27-28mm. Account for the stance and you're at the high end of 28mm head-to-toe, with the Arab being markedly taller.

Now to get technical...

At 1/65 scale, the 28mm tall guys work out to be 1820mm if they were 1/1, which is actually rather tall.

Working the other way around, translating 28mm to 1700mm (IMO a better average male height) would make the scale 1/60.

A 1700mm guy at 1/65 would be 26mm.

My opinion, then, is that the scale is a bit off between the infantry and the vehicles, but that it is technically quite minor. In fact, considering the vagaries of 25/28mm scaling, I would not be surprised to see you sell quite a few of these vehicles to people with existing collections of modern miniatures.

Personally I would have preferred it if the infantry had been scaled down to around 25mm, or the vehicles up to 1/60. This would leave the vehicles slightly oversized (instead of slightly undersized) which would have been good to accomodate for the fact that the minis are on bases (I love the new flatter bases, but they're still bases!).

That said, the difference is quite small and it really depends on the person whether they're cool with it. An easy fix for those who are bothered by the scale would be to mount their vehicles on 2-3mm bases as well.
 
dont forget ANY SLIGHT MISCALCULATION YOU MAKE IN MEASURING IS 65 TIMES GREATER ;)

ok here is an earlier discusion on this, we have to many threads on this where it has already been answered !!!

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=24850

so best to work from the scale not the measurments

a good size for a male is around 6ft although some call 5'10" so we shall just sit at a simple 180cm = a smidge under 5'11"

the scale has been called at 1:65 = 1800mm divided by 65 = 27.69 rounded up to 28mm

now the vehicles i have are 1:64 = 1800mm divided by 64 = 28.125 rounded down to 28mm
 
This is the big one, actually, because it's the only one with a Mongoose mini that allows an actually accurate measurement:

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=25017
 
There's even a size difference between the factions. Look at the pic in comparison, the MEA looks a bit bigger in terms of build and beefiness compared to the USMC.
 
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