scale of destroids and other toys

[kanata67]

scales of the matchbox destroids as we know them so far. Other scales/measurements of other toys are most welcome as every toy is slightly different. This is copied from my original post on the old boards which was copied to robotech.com and copied back so all non HG approved data was lost. If anyone wants to go back and grab the missing data, I wouldn't mind at all . This is intended to be used for reference whether for having display shelves of respective scales or up-sizing part for customs properly...

anyways... "real" height / actual height = scale

Mech in cm "real height"

PHALANX aka

Spartan 7" 17.8 12.05 m

scale= 67.696629

spartan aka

Gadiator [head antennas] 7" 17.8 11.31 m

scale= 63.539325

tomahawk aka

Excalibur MkVI [head] 6 1/2" 16.5 12.7 m

[rt shoulder missle bay] 7" 17.8 maybe?

1270/17.8 scale= 71.348314

defender aka

Raider X [head antenna] 6 11/16" 17.0 11.27 m

scale= 66.294117

Zentraedi power armor

Botaru [head] 6 7/8" 17.5 16.8 m

scale= 96

Same for Quadrono

Invid scout 6 3/8" 16.2 2.5 m

scale= 15.432098 ???

invid shock trooper

head in level position [head] 8 1/4" 21.0 5.4 m

scale= 25.714285 ???

Zen officers pod [head] 9 3/4" 24.8 54' / 16.55m

[top of head cannon] 11" 28.8 18.1 m

1655/24.8 scale= 66.73387

Zen tactical pod [head] 10 3/4" 27.3 15.2 m

scale= 55.677655

oh yeah... I hope this is the correct forum. If not, I am sure the mods will relocate it as required. I just prefer to do it right the first time

Edited September 17, 2003 by kanata67

[ewilen]

Click here for the original discussion in the old forum.

The only thing I have to correct is my reference to a 1/65 "carded bootleg cheapie". As noted in the Reviews section, the bootleg in question is really 1/60. So there may not be a good scale match for the destroids and Glaug. On the other hand, the scales we came up with in this thread may be off due to ambiguities in the measuring points.

[ewilen]

Inspired by my receipt of destroids and Botoru (Nousjadeul-Ger) from kanata67, I just did some measuring of my own and came up with slightly different numbers. For the officer's battlepod (Glaug), I got it to stand up as straight as possible by wedging folded-up bits of paper behind the feet, then I measured to the top of the gun, and I got a height of 30.6 cm. 30.6/1655=~1/54, or close enough to 1/55 to be a better match for the chunky monkeys (and I suppose MPC) than the 1/60 Yamatos. I think top of the gun is the correct measuring point since we're comparing to the height overall.

For the N-Ger, I get a height of 16.7 cm measured to the top of the head. (I believe this is the correct measuring point for height overall even though the shoulder-mounted gun is higher than the head on the toy, because in the line art the gun is lower than the head.) The official height of the N-Ger according to the Compendium is 16.4 m, so the scale is 16.7/1640=~1/98, thus very close to the 1/100 Takatoku/Bandai/bootleg toys.

See also the thread "1/48 Valks vs Matchbox Battlepods" for further discussion and pictures.