help needed for 120mm figure

[Akkilas78]

hello fellow planeters, could someone help me find lifesize (if its called like this????) plans of 120mm figure please? i was searching the internet but could not find something.
i want to make a 1/16 figure from scratch and i would like to print (if i find....)the plans and make my armature on to the print (as a reference).Any help would be more than welcome. Thanx in advance!

p.s sorry for my english.

 

[arj]

Try Googling 'human male body front back and side views'.
You'll get plenty of pictures.
I'm a bit of a dinosaur, and my method for getting a scale printout is to use Microsoft Excel. From the drawing section produce a vertical line and print it. Check how far out you are, and adjust your line accordingly. Eventually you'll print a 120 mm line.
Then import the picture you've chosen and enlarge / reduce it until your 120 mm line extends from the soles of the feet to the top of the head.
Your printout should then give you a 120 mm figure.
No doubt someone will come up with a simpler solution, but it works for me.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[housecarl]

This all I have.

 

[Dan Morton]

Are the attached helpful? They are scaled to 1/16th based on the 1:1 or actual heights indicated. So if you want to sculpt a figure based on a modern man of average height, maybe choose the 5 ft 8 inches (1727mm*) or 5 ft 10 inches (1778mm) size. The 1/16th scale size for 1727mm is 108mm from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head with no hat.

Some printer software (Hewlett Packard especially) will try to fill the page with the image vs. printing the height of the diagram you actually need. So you'll have to work out how to compensate for this.

All the best,
Dan

* I use this online conversion software to change units of measurement. http://www.onlineconversion.com/length_common.htm

 

[Akkilas78]

Thank you arj,housecarl and Dan for your advices !it wasnt exactly what i was searching but all the advices gave me hints on how to figure it out! Thanx again for your help ,cheers!

 

[Dan Morton]

Alexis - If you've figured out what you really needed, could you show us or explain? You've piqued my curiosity.

All the best,
Dan

 

[Eludia]

I use the Loomis proportions charts (just google "loomis proportions"), they give the real world size for the ideal male head as 9".

I just divide this with whatever scale I want and then resize the printout till I get the size I want (using a good old fashioned ruler, and trial and error) As proportions are generally based on head lengths, this method works for me. If you get the head right then everything else will be right

 

[Akkilas78]

thanks Eludia ....!So the best that i did was this: i took the template that housecarl posted and made a line in paint (windows),mesured the line on my monitor with a ruler and it was 12cm. I printed it and then mesured the actual lenght that it gave me and it was 8 cm.So... a 1/16 figure is about 12cm ,that makes us 4cm more of actual lenght.I did the math and made a line on my monitor that finally would give me a printed line of 12cm. Then i fitted the template next to the line (enlarged it) and printed the hole thing and thats it !!! WOW i wrote all this (it worked for me ) i hope that you guys could understand what i did and maybe it could help others because its very easy to convert any template to any scale!So thanks again all of you for your ideas

 

[peedee]

You are all very clever fellows.

I am now going to throw away my calculator, pirate your ideas and use them without the headaches you all had working this all out !

Now who knows how to work out what a 1/32nd scale figure would measure in 1/16th scale?

Just kidding.

Thanks a million guys.

Paul.

 

[Dan Morton]

Cool! Glad you worked it out!

All the best,
Dan