Godless-Mimicry wrote:GW's
LoTR range is at 25mm scale and always has been, their Warhammer ranges are at 28mm scale.
They
say their Warhammer ranges are 28mm scale. In truth, very few "28mm scale" models are 28mm scale. Depending on how one chooses to define scale, the average 28mm scale across companies tends to be 30mm to the eye, 32mm overall.
LotR is about 28mm overall. This, however, is not the main difference in size.
The difference is in the proportion.
GW's Warhammer ranges are "heroic", with chunky builds - thick limbs, proportionally large heads, bulky torsos, oversized weapons*. The
LotR ranges are much more proportionally correct.
This is partly why I sculpt to about 58mm scale when I'm making scratch builds for Inquisitor (54mm, although I do 28mm as well). As I prefer using natural proportions and anatomy, the models can tend to look small alongside the bulky Inquisitor models (despite the fact that the chunkiness is less exaggerated on
GW's 54mm Inquisitor models).
I therefore tend to sculpt slightly bigger, such that the anatomy looks less spindly in proportion, and then use a thinner base to cheat back a couple of
mm on the height.
*Seriously so. I can use
GW's 28mm weapons on the 58mm sculpts.
This Battle Sister uses a converted Phobos pattern, a coupla grenades and Space Marine hands. As reference to
the art she's based off will tell you, it's all pretty much in scale - for example, the bolter is about the same length as her lower leg on both model and art.
I will however concede that the Phobos is slightly larger than a normal plastic bolter.
