What IS a mini?

[Torn blue sky]

Sometimes we get visitors.

 

[Chrome]

Sometimes we get visitors.

That when you start making haggis? ;D

 

[Torn blue sky]

>: D Still haven't found the roman XI legion ya'know. Not so much as a breast plate bwahahahaha! When a world conquering army has to build a wall to keep you out, you know you've hit the big time in general badassery.

 

[cassar]

*cough* "IX"or"VIIII"*cough*.....jock muppet!


the XI th were bumped off by "zee germanns" along with a couple of other legions, boudica did for most of the IX th in the south of england, the survivors of the IX th were all probably absorbed into other legions, sorry mush, ancient history's a bit of a hobby o mine ta for letting me show my nerd tho

 

[Torn blue sky]

'sarite, least you were able to verify it did actually happen to one legion or another lol! They all taste the same to me anyway!

 

[cfwheeler58]

As far as I am concerned....

150mm ( roughly 1/12 ) and smaller for figures is a "mini".
Anything larger in scale but less than 1:1 is simply a "model".

That perception probably comes from the fact that I was a model builder FIRST,
then a mini painter.

 

[Einion]

For me a miniature is anything smaller than 1:1 where it still 'fits' to use the term, so for very large-scale stuff (1/6, 1/4) the word model suits better since the thing is not actually miniature in size.

But a mini specifically refers to fantasy miniatures which would normally mean 32mm (and stuff scaled for this nominal scale), or smaller.

Yes, this is the type of pedantics we like to see!

However, I'd contend that the it's the SUBJECT, not the range of sizes that subject belongs to that should make the scale.

So, even if a particular human could be 50% of an average sized one....it doesn't matter as it's an individual being represented. So, lets say we are sculpting bill who stands a nice even 6 ft tall.

If a sculptor 'scales him down' 50% to a stubby 3 feet tall, that is a MINATURE Bill. Surely we know that there are 3 ft tall humans, but that is not what is represented with a 3 foot Bill.

Thus we have a miniature Bill.

Anything less than a 1:1 of the subject of the sculpt = a mini (IMHO)

Sense!

A friend I just showed this thread to made a point I'm willing to consider, even though it isn't a miniature of the subject I still think I'd call an up-scaled model of a small creature a miniature to some degree...

No, that's a model. A miniature is by definition smaller than the prototype, unless it's okay to devalue the term entirely by extending its application to where it doesn't any longer make sense... and we don't want to do that, do we?

Einion