Eureka JDF scale question.

[commissarmoody]

Does any one have the Eureka miniatures Japanese defense force troopers from their Kriegspiel line?
If so I was undering how they scaled up to there other lines such as the USMC, SEALS and ANP? Also how well they stand up to Empress moderns?

I have a Few of the Empress modern PLA on order from there recent kickstater and was thinking of using them in a FOF or a SS game.

[carlos marighela]

They are noticeably smaller. These were  Mike Broadbent sculpts for the Kriegspiel range so more in the realm of large 25 mm. As I don't have them in front of me I'm going on memory but I think they are about 26mm foot to eye. For me this works as one can use the Hollywood convention that Japanese males are shorter than the average Western male.

They aren't the best of sculpts, something true of the Kriegspiel range as a whole but they are quite serviceable, unlike the Kriegspiel Brits and they are unique. I think you will find they work well enough.

[6milPhil]

For me this works as one can use the Hollywood convention that Japanese males are shorter than the average Western male.

Not just Hollywood of course:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Troops_of_the_Eight_nations_alliance_1900.jpg



Troops of the Eight nations alliance of 1900. Left to right: Britain, United States, Australian colonial, British India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia Italy, Japan.

Interesting enough the Cheyenne people were some of the tallest in the world at one point with an average height of 5'10" in 1800. That was a good half a foot more than a White American.

/digress

[Arlequín]

Not just Hollywood of course:

Times have changed a bit since that photo. The average Japanese male is 5'7", a mere 3" below the average American/Brit (5'10")... although arguably we're way ahead on width. Oddly the Dutch, Danes, Baltic States and the Scandinavians are the tallest on average in the World, closely followed by the Balkans, Germany and most parts of Eastern Europe. Even China manages an average of 5'8".

I am intrigued by an Eight Nation Alliance which lists nine countries (presuming Britain and India count as one that is), unless Australian counts as British too.

 

[carlos marighela]

Btw, the JDF figures actually make quite decent proxy Indonesians.

Improved diet has generally increased the stature of most Asian populations, North Korea being the odd man out but for precisely the same reason: diet.

I think the relative altitude of the average Dutchman is a natural genetic safeguard against the dykes breaking with a consequent need to keep one's head above water. No idea why Scandinavians are so tall. Similar safeguard against higher than average snowfall?

[commissarmoody]

Times have changed a bit since that photo. The average Japanese male is 5'7", a mere 3" below the average American/Brit (5'10")... although arguably we're way ahead on width. Oddly the Dutch, Danes, Baltic States and the Scandinavians are the tallest on average in the World, closely followed by the Balkans, Germany and most parts of Eastern Europe. Even China manages an average of 5'8".

 

So your saying I would fit in pretty well over there with my towering height of 5'8.
Speaking about the JDF, is there any more info then the regular wiki about there capability's?

[georgec]

I am intrigued by an Eight Nation Alliance which lists nine countries (presuming Britain and India count as one that is), unless Australian counts as British too.

 

It was the British Empire, dear boy . The 1922 Washington Naval Treaty was still signed by the and for
The British Empire, and it is only in the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Statute of Westminster that the Dominions assumed the same, autonomous status within an overarching Empire

[6milPhil]

Times have changed a bit since that photo. The average Japanese male is 5'7", a mere 3" below the average American/Brit (5'10")...

Well all we you have to do is work out what that 3 inches means in height difference in 28mm scale. Simple! 

although arguably we're way ahead on width.

Hurrah! We're still world class, eh?

[Arlequín]

Well all we you have to do is work out what that 3 inches means in height difference in 28mm scale. Simple!  

As soon as figure manufacturers decide what the height of a 28mm figure is, I will get right on it.  

Having said that sometimes typical height differences 'should' be depicted within a range of figures.

[carlos marighela]

Oh god  jim, you aren't still on that quixotic quest to get Morecambe and Wise figures in 28mm are you?

[Arlequín]

Do not mock my dream of setting up a 'That Riviera Touch' cast for 7TV.