Minifig scale conversion?
- Aidan
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Minifig scale conversion?
I'm sure someone else has though of this but this is what I am using.
Assuming a minifig with no hair is 6 feet tall, which equals four bricks high, a brick (without studs) converts to about 1.5 feet. Or a plate converts to .5 feet.
Using the same assumption, a brick is 1.2 feet wide.
So my castle walls are 27 feet high and 4.8 feet thick ! I feel safe !
I have not converted it to metric ?
Any thoughts?
-Aidan
Assuming a minifig with no hair is 6 feet tall, which equals four bricks high, a brick (without studs) converts to about 1.5 feet. Or a plate converts to .5 feet.
Using the same assumption, a brick is 1.2 feet wide.
So my castle walls are 27 feet high and 4.8 feet thick ! I feel safe !
I have not converted it to metric ?
Any thoughts?
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*can't wait to show off the still in construction wall section, when its completed*
Hint:
It attaches to this corner guard tower....
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Hint:
It attaches to this corner guard tower....
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=608286
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I'd like to see that battering ram! Bring it on akochan !
Everything is relative. In the Lego set world the walls are 12ft high and 1.2 feet thick. I always had a problem with that growing up. If someone gave me a boost I could be over the wall of the kings castle! So even when I was young I was making my castles 2 wall pieces high. The problem still was that they were a mere 1.2 feet thick. Not until I broke from using wall pieces (I never felt so free ) did I start making thicker walls.
Everything is relative. In the Lego set world the walls are 12ft high and 1.2 feet thick. I always had a problem with that growing up. If someone gave me a boost I could be over the wall of the kings castle! So even when I was young I was making my castles 2 wall pieces high. The problem still was that they were a mere 1.2 feet thick. Not until I broke from using wall pieces (I never felt so free ) did I start making thicker walls.
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JPinoy if that is only a corner gaurd tower I am worried that you are going to bankrupt your kingdom with castle construction!JPinoy wrote:*can't wait to show off the still in construction wall section, when its completed*
Hint:
It attaches to this corner guard tower....
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=608286
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Re: Minifig scale conversion?
Not bad. Using your scale, my walls are 38H x 9.6W.Aidan wrote:So my castle walls are 27 feet high and 4.8 feet thick ! I feel safe !
Or 25.5 x 8 by the brick.
Safe? One would hope so.
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Yes I think about it since long. I was about 10-11 years old when I think of a correspondance.
I always considered a 1x6 plate as a 6 feet rule. 1x6 plate is a bit more taller than minifigs. Peoples are a bit shorter than 6 feet habitually. It correspond well. It make's minifigs to be about 5'5" I think. About the mean tall of true people. Plus ! mean Middle ages peoples were a bit shorter than today's people.
So it's easy to remember. 1 stud = 1 feet. 6 stud = 5 bricks tall. So 5 bricks tall = 6 feet.
For the correspondance in meters it's easy. 6" is about 2m.
1 stud = 1/3m, 3 stud = 1m.
I always considered a 1x6 plate as a 6 feet rule. 1x6 plate is a bit more taller than minifigs. Peoples are a bit shorter than 6 feet habitually. It correspond well. It make's minifigs to be about 5'5" I think. About the mean tall of true people. Plus ! mean Middle ages peoples were a bit shorter than today's people.
So it's easy to remember. 1 stud = 1 feet. 6 stud = 5 bricks tall. So 5 bricks tall = 6 feet.
For the correspondance in meters it's easy. 6" is about 2m.
1 stud = 1/3m, 3 stud = 1m.
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HeheheAidan wrote:JPinoy if that is only a corner gaurd tower I am worried that you are going to bankrupt your kingdom with castle construction!JPinoy wrote:*can't wait to show off the still in construction wall section, when its completed*
Hint:
It attaches to this corner guard tower....
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=608286
Actually its more expensive for me to buy the large armies that protect the City-State than to buy construction material for the fortifications.
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Dave Eaton has a terrific scale converter. It's like a LEGO calculator.
http://www.suave.net/~dave/cgi/scale.cgi
http://www.suave.net/~dave/cgi/scale.cgi
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Dave,
If 5 bricks equals 6 feet, then each brick is 1.2 feet tall. That would make a minifig only 4 feet 9 inches ! Thats a pretty tiny fellow ! And that is with shoes!
I prefer to think of my knights as 6 feet tall . That would make a brick 1.5 feet tall and 1.2 feet wide.
The average height was around 5'2" back then, but I can't have a Black Falcon army that is 4'9"! I just can't!
If 5 bricks equals 6 feet, then each brick is 1.2 feet tall. That would make a minifig only 4 feet 9 inches ! Thats a pretty tiny fellow ! And that is with shoes!
I prefer to think of my knights as 6 feet tall . That would make a brick 1.5 feet tall and 1.2 feet wide.
The average height was around 5'2" back then, but I can't have a Black Falcon army that is 4'9"! I just can't!
Let them come...
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Re: Minifig scale conversion?
Using the calculator with 5.5 feet as minifig height and a few guesses, the height of one of the tower-walls on the new KK castle (excluding raised baseplate, as that would be pretty easy to scale) is 7.54 feet. I don't feel safe.Blasterman wrote:Not bad. Using your scale, my walls are 38H x 9.6W.Aidan wrote:So my castle walls are 27 feet high and 4.8 feet thick ! I feel safe !
Or 25.5 x 8 by the brick.
Safe? One would hope so.
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LOL! So if they had a to-scale sized Yao Ming minifig, he could reach over the wall of that castle.
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