Vehicle sizes

1 posts ยท Oct 23 1996

From: Steve Pugh <steve@p...>

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:41:32 -0400

Subject: Vehicle sizes

> Mike Wikan wrote:

I measured my scratch built MBT, it came out as follows:

length: 17.0cm (hull) 20.5cm (with turret forward) width: 9.0cm
height:   6.2cm (to top of commanders hatch)

Assuming scales of 1:60 for 28mm miniatures and 1:68 for 25mm. (Remember the
25 or 28 refers to height to the figures eyeline which is why
25mm figures are not 1:72 scale despite 1.8m / 72 = 25mm.)
This works out at:-     28mm            25mm
length 10.2m 11.56m width 5.4m 6.12m height 3.72m 4.22m

In Stargrunt terms I had imagined this as a size 3 MBT, but maybe I should
revise that to size 4. It does look big next to my APC (Scarab from Grendel).

IMO most 25/28mm vehicles are too tall. It's hard to model low profiles.