Reply To: What height of a man are miniatures based on?

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I could be wrong here, but I always thought the strict 15mm height of a figure was based on the height to a man’s EYES.

Not necessarily to the top of his head or his full height.

This is why a 1:100 figure, 15mm, is always a little bigger than 15mm.   And if 1/100 was truly 15mm, men would be only 1.5 meters tall, or 60 inches, or five feet.

Also, because of all the head gear (especially in earlier periods) would make it tough to measure where the top of a man’s head actually was.

Would the same apply to other scales?