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Okay, but I believe that on the website Titanicus was labelled as being 8mm scale. Also, thank you for correcting me.

 Conservative Heretic wrote:
Okay, but I believe that on the website Titanicus was labelled as being 8mm scale. Also, thank you for correcting me.

A nice mess, that one. In 2018 GW designers commented on "making the minis at a scale where marines would look nice [for future proofing, most likely]", which would be about 8 mm for our favorite transhuman monsters. This got mangled through their communication crew, who ran with the "8 mm scale" as well as with general rules mistakes about AT through the next year or so on WarCom, while we as the player base did measurements on the models (about 1:270, ~6.5 mm for a 180 cm normal human), compared them with our old Epic figures (which look spot on next to titan doors and Civitas terrain) and so on... It's just sometimes a bit frustrating to see the "8 mm on the website" thing when it's been proven false from the very moment it aired, so I apologize if I sound a bit curt about it

Funnily enough, Vanguard's main man, John, is also constantly on the war footing with people on Facebook when someone touts the 8 mm thing. Might have something to do with their main income coming from the 6 mm market

 Sherrypie wrote:
Printing in 8 mm is a mistake, though, as no-one uses such a scale (Titanicus and Aeronautica are heroic 6 mm, Space Marines would be 8 mm as per the designers but they aren't normal humans).

Epic and the old Aeronautica were 6mm, and Titanicus and the new Aeronautica are noticeably bigger and commonly described as 8mm. They're certainly not 6mm, 'heroic' or otherwise.

Edit: Not that Epic was ever consistent about scale, but if you want infantry to look the same standing next to the A:T/AI titans and aircraft as Epic infantry did next to Epic titans and aircraft, you do need to print at a slightly larger scale.

@catbarf: again, not really. The modern kits are more like 'truescale' 6 mm in comparison with the old stuff, where infantry was fine and vehicles all over the place. Planes are big, the old ones were tiny and titans were originally made for 2-3 mm scale. The technological limits of yore aren't there anymore, so we can just do stuff without arbitrarily upsizing everything. 8 mm is silly. Even the little grots included in the newer Aeronautica bommerz are the same size as Vanguard's 6 mm ones.

Here's what I know: If I take an STL for a 40k knight and reduce it to 25% size I get one that matches the Adeptus Titanicus plastics almost perfectly. So for AT plastics to be 6mm that means 40k is 24mm, which it is clearly not.

It doesn't matter if people misinterpreted things said at the launch, things just look right at 25% of 40k size. If you're going to print stuff to match AT plastics, it's the way to go.


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If someone was going to print for 10mm, I'd recommend taking STLs designed for epic and increasing them to 166%. And you can double check by taking the measurements of the 40k models and and if you're just under a third, it'll look right.


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Confirmation that 25% of 40k is correct. Further discussion here:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/763073.page