Mordheim Assassin - WIP

sergus_miniatures

Serf
Hello,

I have been doing a mercenary assassin for my dwarf band, but now that it is almost finished, I have realised that I have been using the "wrong" scale as refference. I was using one of the human BB figures, form 1993, but Mordheim figures were made after that (1999), and were quite shorter (specially the legs).

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Now I can leave it as it is, and use that scale for the future human figures I do, or make some cuts and shorten the legs.

P.S. I know, I know, did smaller hands. It was on purpose, because the humongous hands from the early 90s were weird even in that moment XD And I thought it would make the figure look too odd.
 
Let us first say that your assassin sculpture looks very successful to us.
For the size of the body, it should be noted that the first miniature on the left of your photo is Felix Jaeger, produced in 1993 - therefore technically Middlehammer, rather than Oldhammer. Compared to other human figures of the Eighties, Felix is ​​already a little taller and with exaggerated limbs according to the 'heroic scale' - by the way it is the human miniature that we too have chosen as standard!
It is therefore a miniature exactly contemporary to that of BB, who however has longer legs and enormous fists. Mordheim's sister looks more like Felix in limb length, but is a little taller.
That said, it seems to us that your assassin can go well with all the miniatures, without making drastic cuts: what seems important to us are the proportions of the head, of the hands, of the feet, the width of the torso. Sometimes, comparing some miniatures from the Eighties and Nineties, the former seem like teenagers compared to the latter ... in your case this does not happen at all. Your assassin will simply be a bit lanky compared to other adventurers in Mordheim, but such a figure is assumed to be slim and agile, so he has the "phisique du role"!
 
Nice. I thought the oldhammer would be more strict. Like "this is the right scale, that is from another era and doesn't fit with our figures". That relaxes me A LOT, because I was about to start cutting XD It isn't a hard work, but a waste of time, after all.

Then... If Felix s from the 90s why is it SO small? It is almost the same height as a dwarf. I thought it was from the first waves. Around 1986 or so.
 
We are pleased that you decide not to modify your sculpture.
However, we would like to clarify that we certainly do not pretend to speak on behalf of the entire community - we are newbies and there are far more experienced members than us, who may have very different opinions! We repeat, in our opinion there is up to a certain point a tolerance in the difference in size (as happens in reality between people). Considering the scale creep, we think it's very difficult to create a miniature that fits perfectly both with miniatures, say, from 1980 or with miniatures from 1999 ...
For the "right" dimensions of the dwarves compared to humans in the Eighties and Nineties, we refer you to the photos that Citizen Sade had posted in the topic "Is this the scale?" on the forum.
 
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