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Don't joke about that dude

yeah, just crack jokes about the trashcans of doom. Tbh if we banter on for 4 more pages it'll make him speed up his que and he'll have to post pictures that much sooner!!!

Yes, but then I'd have less models painted ya jackass

OR YOU COULD PAINT MORE MODELS YA GIT!

not at the speed you lot procrastinate at, I can't

Oh and go vote on my damned tardis wench







Ok randomly, after talking with one of my followers on Tumblr, I started to think about scaling up Tyranid's to try and figure out their size if they were real... and I found GW books really don't do their size justice in their descriptions... going on the assumption that GW models are 1:48 scale...

My converted Hive Tyrant from nose to tail translates to roughly 32 feet in length... and has a wingspan of 52 feet

A termagant is just over 3' high to its shoulder with a length from nose to tail of just over 8'

a Tervigon is 20' tall with a length of about 23' and a width of 12'...

I'm sorry, but if I was a guardsman in the Imperial Guard... I'd kill myself sooner than fight Tyranid's...

good thing IG fight mostly from the back behind all the tanks and titans, and space marines, and artillary fire, and fighter squadrons etc etc.

I know lols... don't you find it a tiny bit odd that none of the GW books put any emphasis on scale?

 Wh40kPicasso wrote:
good thing IG fight mostly from the back behind all the tanks and titans, and space marines, and artillary fire, and fighter squadrons etc etc.

I beg to differ, my IG wipe them selves with SM scum

they must get through a lot of undies then...

but seriously though, how many of you have actually thought about the scale of the models and their real life counterparts?

Thats a good point, about scale, it means a hormogaunts claws are close to 3 feet long!

Om nom nom for the hive mind indeed.

Your flyrant model is damned impressive, can't wait to see it painted, banters funny, but more model pics would be nice

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:
they must get through a lot of undies then...

but seriously though, how many of you have actually thought about the scale of the models and their real life counterparts?

I do alot actually, how weird and warped heroic scale is in comparison to heads, and vehicles mostly

 Sheep wrote:
Thats a good point, about scale, it means a hormogaunts claws are close to 3 feet long!

Om nom nom for the hive mind indeed.

Your flyrant model is damned impressive, can't wait to see it painted, banters funny, but more model pics would be nice

Actually a Hormagaunt/Termagant is 8 foot long nose to tail and 3 foot tall to its shoulder... quite a scary thought tbh

and welcome lols, yeah I know what you mean about models, well hopefully by page 100 I will have at least 3 units done... but with how much we procrastinate round these parts it varies lols...

Thanks for the Flyrant love too, painting him is on the horrizon... just got to power through some termagants and some Hive guard first...




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 Rogue Wolves wrote:

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:
they must get through a lot of undies then...

but seriously though, how many of you have actually thought about the scale of the models and their real life counterparts?

I do alot actually, how weird and warped heroic scale is in comparison to heads, and vehicles mostly

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, i wouldnt attempt to scale heads up in 40k... they'll end up looking like the balloon heads in Sim Hospital...

I think as a rule of thumb with vehicles just add 33.3% of the end number to itself and you'd get something close enough...

... and there seems to be a discrepency in working out the flyrants wingspan too... as the wings arent quite enough to give it proper flight... there's a ratio for working out how big a wing span needs to be to attain flight... but I forget what it is

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:


Ok randomly, after talking with one of my followers on Tumblr, I started to think about scaling up Tyranid's to try and figure out their size if they were real... and I found GW books really don't do their size justice in their descriptions... going on the assumption that GW models are 1:48 scale...

A 1/48th scale, 6' tall guardsman without a helmet would be 1.5" tall. GW human figs are closer to 1.25" tall, which would be 1/60th scale for our helmetless 6' tall guardsman.
28mm minis are also often called 1/56 scale figures, so I would suggest running your scales at 1/56 or 1/60 (or both...).

Tim

timd wrote:

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:


Ok randomly, after talking with one of my followers on Tumblr, I started to think about scaling up Tyranid's to try and figure out their size if they were real... and I found GW books really don't do their size justice in their descriptions... going on the assumption that GW models are 1:48 scale...

A 1/48th scale, 6' tall guardsman without a helmet would be 1.5" tall. GW human figs are closer to 1.25" tall, which would be 1/60th scale for our helmetless 6' tall guardsman.
28mm minis are also often called 1/56 scale figures, so I would suggest running your scales at 1/56 or 1/60 (or both...).

Tim

1:48 scale is the generally accepted scale in comparison to GW miniatures. But, it is only as a rough scale, especially considering a SM is the same height as a Guardsman, is the same height as an Eldar is the same height as a Sob is the same height as a Tau etc etc.

now considering a true scale Space Marine figure is about 2", if you go by the 1:48 scaling, you get an 8' Marine, exactly the height they re supposed to be.

But I would be inclined to believe that Tyranid models are the right size already to be scaled into 1:48. the same goes for Guardsmen and SoB (guardsmen are only thought to be the average modern day height which = 5'10", and SoB are thought to be of roughly the same size). Tau are a little shorter being about 5'5" and Eldar are closer to 7' in height.

So as I say, 1:48 is the rule of thumb, because the GW range is not in scale with itself like myself and RW have already said.

mmmm, drooling over the ideas im having about the reaver my girlfriend is gettin me for my birthday...

also in case you werent wondering about my next project, i've recently got a contemptor dread, with assault cannon and a heavy conversion beamer!

Edit: @ RW/Childe
also your little guardsmen will gak in fear when my contemptor bears down on them with all the fury of the inquisiton and the Emperor at its heel! <---- evil laugh in case you're wondering. also you havent seen anything yet until you've seen the reaver concept i've come up with!@ <----also evil laugh in case you were wondering! Bwahahahahahahahahah

congrats on the front page tardis!

WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? HOW? EH?

second the congratz!!!

Thanks RW & Vik, it means a lot... I'm a little shocked tbh, but yay!!! lols

well... my own stuff never made it fronpage *poutes*

lols bless ya Vik... well get us all to vote and it'll appear there

well.... actually the last coupla months NO FETHING ONE has visited my gallery at all??? at least i have a lack of comments there... which is a kind of indication for the traffic that has subsided...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
well.... actually the last coupla months NO FETHING ONE has visited my gallery at all??? at least i have a lack of comments there... which is a kind of indication for the traffic that has subsided...

I think people are trying to limit OT banter at the minute, but also kids are returning to school soon as well as a few other things.

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
well.... actually the last coupla months NO FETHING ONE has visited my gallery at all??? at least i have a lack of comments there... which is a kind of indication for the traffic that has subsided...

I think people are trying to limit OT banter at the minute, but also kids are returning to school soon as well as a few other things.

Who are you calling a kid im this many * holds up 7 fingers * mommy says im a big boy now

LOL... RW... good boy^^


and

people are trying to limit OT banter at the minute

*gasp* i don´t think i could cope with that for too long...

lols well atm I'm trying to do more hobby work than spend my days procrastinating

GW scale is 30mm, or about 1:42. Just an FYI.

Brian it's 28mm aka Heroic scale, but the main problem as I said before is that all the mini's are the same size so there is no sense of scale what so ever...

I see you on the stage, but you make no appearance? Have your nids fallen prey to the vile weapon known as Raid? Trolololololol. And if they havent, i have a giant fly swatter waiting for your flyrant!

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