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A note about scale:

There are many different scales knocking about these days in the world of miniature collecting. The most popular at the current moment is the so-called 28mm/30mm heroic scale , popularised by GW, which is the same scale I am working in. In truth, many Heresy figures are slightly taller than this in some cases, and shorter in others.

I do NOT agree with the idea that all figures in a 28mm scale should be the same height. This is clearly nonsense! When I look around myself at real people, they are all different heights yet they are all, you must admit, on the same scale. Bear this in mind as you read on.

Heresy figures do vary in height a little, on the whole. Figures such as Big Boris are enormous compared to the 'average height' man, such as the wizard, Erasmus, or the jailer, Scrote. What matters to me is having the size of the figure related to what type of figure it is. Figures that represent 'average joes' are more or less the same size. If I believe that the character I am sculpting should be shorter than the average man, I will sculpt it shorter. If it needs to be taller (such as an Elf) it will be taller. But all the figures are in scale to each other, and that scale is the 28mm scale. This is the height measured from the base of the feet to the eyes of a model. 28 mm represents an average human height of a around 5 foot 8 inches tall. Boris is about seven and a half feet tall. The vampire lord is well over six feet tall, as is Mullet. Most of the barbarians I will be doing will be tall and imposing Men of the North, the hardest of their breed. If you really want a small, unimposing barbarian model, you will have to look elsewhere for now. This is not fastidiously accurate wargaming I am aiming at - I sculpt in a comic book style. Limbs and weapons may be exaggeratedly large in order to portray strength or power. Hands especially so. I am a great fan of such acclaimed graphic novels as The Dark Knight Returns, and I get a lot of reference material from these images. It is interpretation as much as representation.

I hope this makes it clear for you, and doesn't offend you! You can find actual size scans of the figures on the catalogue page by clicking the links that say 'View components' and scrolling down.

If this opinion does offend you, well, you should really try to calm down a bit, think it through, and realise that in the grand scheme of things there are actually more serious issues in life to be concerned about. Click on the forum of doom link if you wish to hurl abuse at me. But think it through first!

 

Andy Foster, 2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

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