minifig scale

[Bart]

Ehm just a question I´ve read alot, and I see people talk about the ´minifig scale´and I was wondering what that is?

You take the length of a minifig and that is 1 meter 80 (6ft) or is on minifig feet 1 ft. ?

I also came across the 'minifig ilusion scale' but if I'm correct that is the scale Lego builds in, wright?

Bart

[Admiral Croissant]

Ehm just a question I´ve read alot, and I see people talk about the ´minifig scale´and I was wondering what that is?

You take the length of a minifig and that is 1 meter 80 (6ft) or is on minifig feet 1 ft. ?

I also came across the 'minifig ilusion scale' but if I'm correct that is the scale Lego builds in, wright?

Are you planning to build a minifig scale ship? That would be awesome

Anyway, minifig illusion scale is about 1:40 (so 1cm on your ship is 40 cm on the real ship).

I believe some people use scale 1:35 (or 1:38?), but 1:40 is better.

Minifig illusion scale is what most ships here are. It's usually a ship on prefab hulls which looks like minifig scale, but is actually too small.

Edited February 6, 2011 by Admiral Croissant

[Capn Frank]

The scale of mini-figs has been discussed in the Lego and General News forum right here.

For ships, a lot of people use minifig illusion scale to take advantage of prefab hulls and due to limitations on space, time, money, etc.

Perfectionist's Achile is a good, recent example of a frigate that is minifig illusion scale:

ZCerberus' Phantom is a good, semi-recent example of a frigate that is minifig scale:

First difference you'll easily see are the differences in size. I mean, people like ZCerberus are crazy for building a ship of this size! A frigate, which is a small war ship, requires A LOT of build space and bricks.

[Bart]

The scale of mini-figs has been discussed in the Lego and General News forum right here.

oh thanks it looks I didn´t search well enough

Bart

[BrickPerfection]

To be perfectly honest, ZCerberus ship there is still not minifig scale... it's too small, maybe 80% of 1:43 which would be exactly minifig scale. It makes your figures 172cm high. I'm using 1:42 myself because it's more convenient and CGH and Teddy build at approx. 1:40.

The trouble is that so far many projects of this size have been started, but - as of now - none has been finished!

I found this tool to be very useful for calculations.

[Aanchir]

"Minifig Scale" doesn't really refer to any specific scale. Generally it's used to refer to a scale designed to be compatible with minifigures, but since minifigures don't have realistic human proportions, there's no one ratio that will convert real life measurements to "minifig scale". For example, minifig scale by height would be different than minifig scale by width.

Here's some more information.

[BrickPerfection]

That image is really funny! Well, I still guess on ships the height should be most important because that determines how high the decks are (which is important for overall proportions). On a car the width could be more important, but on ships it almost doesn't matter.

In fact it allows you using less figures than historically accurate, which saves money if you want to crew an entire ship!

[Ralph_S]

That image is really funny! Well, I still guess on ships the height should be most important because that determines how high the decks are (which is important for overall proportions). On a car the width could be more important, but on ships it almost doesn't matter.

In fact it allows you using less figures than historically accurate, which saves money if you want to crew an entire ship!

Even for a car it very much depends on what you want to do with it. If you put it in your city with pedestrians and cyclists around it, the height of the figure also is a pretty important measure. Cars that can seat two figures side-by side will be very tall compared to a standing minifig.

Cheers,

Ralph