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I just put together my deathwatch venerable dread from the Death Masque set, and I don't know why, but it just seems small to me.

Now granted, it has been a few years since I used dreads, back when the blood angels let you use dc dreads as troops per dc unit, and the furioso/librarian/death company dread kit first came out.

They just seemed bigger to me. Am I crazy, or am I just suffering from proportional shock compared to my imperial knights?

Anyone else notice this?

Scale creep and the prevalence of large models has probably affected your thinking. I remember my old fantasy giant being a big model but when I look at it now it seems kinda small in comparison to some of the things on the table. I imagine that if this trend continues, everyone will be fielding Titan equivalents for 1500 point games in like 20 years.

Dreads didn't get smaller...everything else got bigger.

Yeah, you guys are probably right, but darn does it seem small. I don't remember a space marine being more than half its height. Maybe it's the fact that it didn't come with the textured terrain base.

Crazy.

 LemanRuse wrote:
Yeah, you guys are probably right, but darn does it seem small. I don't remember a space marine being more than half its height. Maybe it's the fact that it didn't come with the textured terrain base.

Crazy.

The Dreadnaughts haven't gotten smaller but Space Marines have gotten bigger. Look at a Deathwatch Marine (7e kit, about six months old at this point) next to an older Marine, the difference is striking.