Quiet time

[martin goddard]

Not much new at the moment.
This is due to  me having a weekend away and doing some DIY. All righteous.
On the slab at the moment are Macedonian mounted skirmishers, dead and Alexander the great (16mm tall).


On the rules front CK is away at  the printers and PBI is just swinging into view with both arms waving.



martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

Thanks for the updates, Martin.

You may want to allow yourself a little time off more often too? 

Simon

[Sean Clark]

I look forward to a 16mm tall Alexander. My Romans would like to order a 14mm tall Caesar please  with all the trimmings. 

[Panzer21]

Shouldn't Alexander be smaller? 13-14mm
Or are you going for "heroic"?

Neil

[Colonel Kilgore]

I hadn't realised he was so short.

The interweb offers estimates of 5'4" to 5'5", and even as little as 5 feet ["the average height for Greeks of that time"?!].

Simon

[Panzer21]

I hadn't realised he was so short.

The interweb offers estimates of 5'4" to 5'5", and even as little as 5 feet ["the average height for Greeks of that time"?!].

Simon

Yep. Apparently Darius was a tall muscular type.......
One up for us normal / shorties over the freakishly developed giants....☺

Neil

[Leman (Andy)]

Yes, Alexander was a little guy.

[Colonel Kilgore]

As were Hitler, Napoleon, Mussolini, Lenin, Franco and Churchill...

Simon

[Panzer21]

As were Hitler, Napoleon, Mussolini, Lenin, Franco and Churchill...

Simon

Franco 5'2" or 5 '3"
Lenin 5'5"
Napoleon, Mussolini, Churchill 5'6"
Hitler 5'8"

One out of 6 then ☺ the rest are average height, especially for the time.

Stalin may have been short estimates vary.

All figures from the internet.....
Neil

[Leman (Andy)]

It would seem then that Alexander was probably about the same height as other Macesonians and not head and shoulders above, unlike Tsar Nicholas' uncle.

[Colonel Kilgore]

As were Hitler, Napoleon, Mussolini, Lenin, Franco and Churchill...

Simon

Franco 5'2" or 5 '3"
Lenin 5'5"
Napoleon, Mussolini, Churchill 5'6"
Hitler 5'8"

One out of 6 then ☺ the rest are average height, especially for the time.

Stalin may have been short estimates vary.

All figures from the internet.....
Neil

Like I said, they're all short 

Simon

[Sean Clark]

Short by modern standards though 

Probably there or there abouts for the average height of the time.

[Smiley Miley 66]

All my height ! I was 5ft 7 but I think I am nearer 5ft 6 these days !
Miles

[Colonel Kilgore]

I must admit to being surprised by how "average" in height Hitler was. He always seemed to be surrounded by much taller people.

Napoleon was called "le petit caporal", though, which I'd always assumed implied that he was shorter than his peers.

Simon

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

I think Martin fully deserves some time off to stop his fingers smoking...
You should see Napoleon's explanation in 'Time Bandits'... but it is all down to interpretation of 'figure scale'- or is that 'ego scale'? 

Neil