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markus
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Printing error?
« Thread Started on May 17, 2012, 11:07am »

Hello,

I just started making paper minis. So far it went pretty well. I found some sets in this forum which I really like and started building them.
After finishing a few minis I noticed that my printouts are about 35 mm high - from feet to head. I thought this should be 30 mm models. Have I done something wrong when printing? I printed the PDFs with "no scaling" activated and used A4 sheets.

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Re: Printing error?
« Reply #1 on May 17, 2012, 1:18pm »

This question has come up from time to time (here, here, or here).

The quick answer is the size can depend. I like to scale One Monk stuff to 90% to fit better with the Sanity Studios stuff.

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Re: Printing error?
« Reply #2 on May 17, 2012, 2:31pm »

As Labrat says, each designer adapts their scale a little differently. In theory the 30mm is from bottom of the feet to the eyeline, but with bent legs etc. there is a lot of artistic license.

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Re: Printing error?
« Reply #3 on May 18, 2012, 9:23am »

Thanks for the quick answer.

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Re: Printing error?
« Reply #4 on May 19, 2012, 6:32pm »

I hate pimping my own blog but the top of this post covers scale

http://sirrob01.wordpress.com/2011/10/05....asic-adventure/

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