Chapter House Studios Bring out the TRU-Scale Bitz
May 30, 2012 by brennon
If you're looking for a way to TRU-Scale your miniatures for Sci-Fi wargaming then how about checking out the new kit from Chapter House Studios?
This Order of the Empress's Tears kit allows you to build 6 Sci-Fi Knights in TRU-Scale. Obviously from what you can see here you will need to buy some arms, heads and weapons but all of the components are modelled to scale appropriately with 28mm pieces.
Here's what some of your miniatures could look like with another of the TRU-Scale kits...
A full squad of six painted by Worthy Painting looking fairly amazing and with plenty of action in their poses.
This guy is from the Knight Praetorius Conversion Kit but looks fairly awesome I think you will agree.
So is TRU-Scale something you think you'd go for with your Sci-Fi Knights?
Didn’t know the Empress cried red tears… 😉
Perfect for true-scale Blood Angels and their successor chapters of course – the paint job by @worthypainting shows them off very well. You could combine these parts with the Warsmith stuff like someone from Worthy did for more variety too. Blood Angels iconography isn’t too distinctive since teardrops aren’t especially protectable so I’d guess this is legally possible…I wonder how many other chapters can be done?
Certainly they have amazing paint jobs, but it only serves to hide pretty lackluster sculpts. Compare these with Forgeworld marines and the difference in quality is noticeable.
Are FW Marines True-Scale?
Compared to the GW ones they have the correct proportions, but not ‘true scale’ in the sense of towering over guardsmen minis.
I recall a thread on Dakka but forget the poster’s name, where he was making these and CH took them on.
AFAIK the CH ones will be proper True Scale ie towering over guardsmen/fluffysized dudes.
That’s going to be some big blood angels!
I agree with bedfordmkIi the sculpting is not very crisp and its a problem I find with a lot of the after market add ons they are never as good quality as GW. Really like the idea of true scale but in the original rouge trader Space Marines were normal sized humans the massive stature came later as the various artists struggled to make the armour work in illustrations.
Drawing SM’s is not too easy if you take into account the anatomy in bulky armour as you correctly say. I am not that keen on the models tbh for these reasons. Poor guys have to walk like they have an imaginary horse between their legs. But it can’t be helped. If you think of how close your legs are together when you stand straight and walk, there isn’t room for PA. The hips have to be radically displaced. I don’t know the history of the fluff but it does now say that SM’s are much bigger than humans, but… Read more »