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[rickles23]

Hi, I just took delivery of some new 1/72 scale figures. I might be too picky but the new ones do not look right when compared to Revell and Nickolie figures of the same scale.
Regards

[Bunkerbarge]

Assuming an average height of a male figure of 6 foot your 1/72nd scale figure should be 2.54 cm.  So 2.6 is a little bit on the big side.  The new ones actually work out at 5'5", which is not a bad height.  Bearing in mind a range of heights and weights for a group of people I would say both types of figures are within an acceptable range.

[Tug Fanatic]

2.3cm (5ft 5in) is rather short and 2.6cm (6ft 2in) at the taller end but the problem is probably only obvious if you mix the figures. As long as you stick to one type on a model they are both likely to be just fine.

[Colin Bishop]

A trick I have heard of to shorten figures is to take a slice out of the lower leg and stick the foot back on. It is usually unnoticeable.

As said above, it is mixing the figures which can draw attention to any discrepancy and height is the most obvious difference.

Colin

[ChrisF]

The painted figures do look bigger though, bigger heads and bigger overall.

Chris

[Andyn]

I’m 6’4” with a bigger head than most (ask anyone who knows me) and large features. If all the figures were the same height and proportions it’d look strange to me

[NickelBelter]

The new figures look 3D printed and are probably more accurate than the old ones.  Older hand-sculpted figures tend to have seriously oversized heads.

[tigertiger]

The average height of a British man born in 1920 (so about age 20 during WW2) was 5'8"/173 cm, so the models should be about 2.4cm for that era. Sailors of 5'5" would have been around. I served with men of all sizes and some parades were very diverse in body size in the corps.
If you want to be really pedantic about scale. A person's height is measured when they are stood bolt upright, a person going about their job is not bolt upright. A flat cap beret could add 1/2" to a persons height, a beret with a peak folded above a cap badge could add 1", a peaked cap (cocked at an angle) could add up to 2" (Soviet 4"). Like I said, pedantic. One thing you would not see in a working unit is uniform sizes.

Scale figures can cause even more problems for historic models, as people in the 18th and 19th century were much smaller, especially considering the number of young boys that went to sea. Personally I gave up looking for small enough figures. It seems like a lot of manufacturers assume modelers want 6ft figures.

[Baldrick]

I think the best model figures around are the "Modelu." they are scanned from life models and printed to a large range of scales . The have a considerable catalogue to choose from but unfortunately are very model rail orientated with not many marine options. However their on - line catalogue is worth browsing and some figure can be adapted to suit needs.

[warspite]

Contrary to popular belief, especially for those in the NHS, the BMI of most people is not the same (and very difficult to attain - grrr), so chunkier people is more common than you would expect even in the 1930-1940 era 


As long as you do not have them obviously close to each other then having different characters on the vessel is perfectly fine, especially if they are doing a job that needs to be depicted. My flower class and the Vosper MTB's have characters from Airfix and Matchbox, both are acceptable and match the same BMI and height etc. I even have plans to use the military figures from Airfix that are in a softer plastic that will need their bases removed when fitted to a deck (when I get around to building the vessel).


 

[rickles23]

Hi and thank you all for your replies.


I contacted the seller and he admitted that the figure were not true 1/72 scale.


He said that he made the to suit himself.


However he did refund the whole costs and I consider it now closed.


Regards