Star Wars Toy Scale/Size

[franz bolo]

What scale/size are the small Hasbro Star wars dolls like the one below.

Thanks

FB

 

[Gigatron]

If those are the 4" (3 3/4" whatever they are these days), they'd be in the 1/18 scale. That's based on 12" being 1/6.

-Fred

 

[franz bolo]

Thanks Fred! So in 1/18 scale, what does an inch equal?

.056" So a 6 foot person would be about 4 inches.

This scale thing confuses me but I think I got it now. Were most of the Star Wars ships 1/24 scale?
That would make the people 3" right?

FB

 

[Gigatron]

Scale is based on 6' tall person. How this came to be, is beyond me.

12" = 1/6, 1" = 1'

6" = 1/12, 1/2" = 1'

4" = 1/18, 1/3" = 1'

3" = 1/24, 1/4" = 1'

2" = 1/48, 1/6" = 1'

1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 are the most popular military aircraft scales, but as you can see, 1/32 is in the middle, so it starts getting into inches and fractions per foot (i.e. something like 2.6" = 1/32).

Military armor and figures use a different scale based on mm, so they get weird mesurements like 1/35.

I believe most SS models are considered to be roughly 1/24, but I don't know if the model makers stayed to any particular scale.

-Fred

 

[franz bolo]

What's 3 3/4" scale? I noticed a couple people mentioning that.

FB

 

[OldKen]

What's 3 3/4" scale? I noticed a couple people mentioning that.

FB

When they first made the figs (70's) they decided on 3 and 3/4 inches to be the average height. thats really it, it coulda been anything.

Since they was so successful with those, theyre pretty much the same average size today, accept at least chewie and leia arent as close to the same height anymore! :lol

 

[KnightAsylum]

What scale/size are the small Hasbro Star wars dolls like the one below.


Thanks

FB

That is not a "doll", but an "Action Figure" Don't make me feel like a girl :confused
Just kidding of course:lol

3 3/4 isn't so much a scale, but what size in inches what the SW figures are. When I have heard people use that term like it was a scale, they were just meaning the toys would fit the ships. The are not actually in the same scale, but the ships where made to hold an 3 3/4 size action figure so I have heard people say they are in the same scale.
Of course I could be wrong, it happens ALL THE TIME!

 

[mikk]

Supposedly when Kenner was planning out the toys someone asked what size they should be & the head guy said "this big". They measured the distance between his "forefinger & thumb" & it was 3 3/4th's inches & thats how the came up with the size of the figures & therefore the scale for the line itself.

So the story goes.