I have been really fussy about relative scale for most of my four decades of miniature painting. I want figures to be close in size to each other, which has led to me making some rash decisions about using slightly smaller scale miniatures with slightly larger miniatures typical of the Big Game Juggernaut.
Recently, I was out for a walk and had the old “no one is the same height, why stress that in miniatures so much” thing brought to life in living contrast. I am a little over 2 meters in height, and most people I encounter in the world are a little shorter, or sometimes quite a bit shorter than I am. So, yeah… why am I stressing out about that so much with miniatures?
By placing those roadblocks in my way I’ve been blocking perfectly good Frostgrave minis from taking up space on my hobby table. They’re inexpensive, fun to paint, and make great rabble and foot troops for my skirmish games.
Sure, they might come up to a Warhammer hero’s shoulder, but on that walk most of the dudes I was passing by came up to my shoulder. So, that’s settled. Frostgrave minis are back on the menu, boys!
This might seem a little silly to most folks. Wardollies and their scale don’t keep most people up at night. I’m going to try my damnedest to give this a shot and not stay up all hours shrieking into the void about it!
Oof, those layer lines on my terrain, though! I think it might be time to get back to scratch built terrain. No knock against 3D printing, but I miss the charm of scratch built buildings! That, though, is another post. Here’s a cultist to wrap things up!
Am I alone in this? Does anyone else out there stress out about size differences within a scale? I’m not really losing sleep over this, but it does bug me a bit!
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