That we all agree, the reference scale is the 54mm, 54mm measured from the feet up to eye level!
And even if it is important to know if it's 1/30 or 1/32 °, you will not judge a model at its height, but its beauty!
Anyway how to measure a figurine moving, sitting, riding ...
The only usable ladder is the weapon that has a regulatory length!
So how to do when there is no regulatory weapon?
If you're displaying a figure on a plinth, individually, then it probably doesn't matter all that much.
If you do as I do, and you put together larger displays, then
proportionality is a criterion. 1/30, translated by different manufacturers differently (as is 54mm), is simply too large for most figures in that scale to be displayed alongside figures in 1/32/54mm.
Do not assume that I expect some uniformity across all of the figures in a display. I understand that in any group of people, there will be natural variations. And I also account for criteria for the period I collect, the 18th century. So, I expect a cuirassier to be bigger than a hussar, for example. Guard figures should be larger, since most sovereigns sought out taller, larger men for their guard units. As long as the figures look good
proportionately, they will work.
For an example to see where figures were made to a specific size, without regard to proportions, look at Stadden's classic figures. His Prussian hussars were as big as his Prussian cuirassiers. His Ziethen figure is as big as his Seydlitz. But they're all 56mm.
Again, figures made to 1/30 generally look bigger proportionately than figures made to 1/32/54mm. A good example to illustrate this principle is Tamiya's 1/35 figures, placed alongside Monogram's old 1/32 figures. The Tamiya figures are proportionately smaller and do not work with Monogram's figures.
And we don't all agree that 54mm is measured from the feet to eye level. Some manufacturers measure it from the soles of the feet to the top of the (bare) head. That's another complication.
No, this is a nice figure, but I'm afraid it's too big proportionately to go with my other Russian SYW figures.
As far as Romanova goes, I'm not finishing her as the Tsar's daughter. I'm converting her to a German princess as an honorary colonel-in-chief of a Uhlan regiment, so I don't really care how tall Tatyana was. All that matters to me is that the figure fits in proportionately with my 54mm figures.
Prost!
Brad
