Does anyone know how I could figure out how long something like a Scout/Courier or smaller craft would be at 15mm scale?
Figuring out scale?
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Awesome!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Timerover51
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I take it that you are working up some 15mm scale deck plans?
According to The Miniatures Page's All About Scale page, it's actual 107...
This has to do with Traditional 15mm scale being 15mm feet to Eyes (1610mm), not to top of head (1730mm). The modern average height varies by nation from a low of 1580mm (bangladesh), to 1856mm (Dinaric Alps).
In practice, it varies from 1:105 to 1:120.
I was reading about that last night. I guess a lot of mini manufacturers aren't aware of that and just measure to the top of the head.
More like a place-mat. Just an outline of a ship that I can put next to a town miniature. For a sense of scale.
I stand corrected. I've always thought it was to the top of the head. Even with that I was a tad over the mark since 1:120 would make 15 mm equal 180 cm. But I thought the added ease of using a round number was worth the inaccuracy.
(Hey, perhaps people of the Far Future average a bit higher than 175 cm.
)Hans
I'm going with 1:120. It puts the Scout/Courier at right about 1 foot long, if I use 37.5 meters listed in Traders and Gunboats.
EDIT: Unless I'm calculating wrong.
EDIT: Unless I'm calculating wrong.
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Note that official Traveller 15mm Deck Plan Scale was 1/2"=1.5m. 12.7:1500, or 1:118. Which is off scale to most 15mm minis (the minis are too tall), but it's standard already.
So also was FASA's for STRPG.
And it's pretty close to the scale used for many 15mm fantasy maps of 1"=10'.
(Note that by 1980, most commercial fantasy maps were being done at 1"=5', to work with the more detailed 25mm scale. which said, traditional 25mm to eyes was 1/64.4 ... 25mm:1610mm, but used a 1:60 ground scale.)
Patron Zero
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A time back when I was running a 'regularly' scheduled Traveller game, I had some high quality copies of various deck plans printed then such were 'trimmed' down following the ship's outline.
One side was left a solid color to represent the ship either dock in orbit or having landed dirtside, the other had a 'generic' deck plan of the ship's interior.
One suggestion, I did upscale a few copied deck plans to 54mm, that allowed for use of the atypical plastic army man to be incorporated into play. With the sheer number of different 54mm figures by the Marx Toy Company alone, I had my choice of astronauts, soldiers, civilians and select monsters and dinosaurs to be crew and aliens alike.
Truly cool was the 54mm set-up allowing the ship's mascot to be properly represented and present, such being a rather large bulldog named Churchill.
One side was left a solid color to represent the ship either dock in orbit or having landed dirtside, the other had a 'generic' deck plan of the ship's interior.
One suggestion, I did upscale a few copied deck plans to 54mm, that allowed for use of the atypical plastic army man to be incorporated into play. With the sheer number of different 54mm figures by the Marx Toy Company alone, I had my choice of astronauts, soldiers, civilians and select monsters and dinosaurs to be crew and aliens alike.
Truly cool was the 54mm set-up allowing the ship's mascot to be properly represented and present, such being a rather large bulldog named Churchill.
