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How tally-tall is everyone now?
« on: April 16, 2022, 01:19:14 AM »
Back for a quick post to ask for updated heights of the various races and "guestimates" of how tall they might be in their armour? Errr, for... reasons.

TIA!

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Re: How tally-tall is everyone now?
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2022, 04:34:05 AM »
I will get my eldar and tau codex some time next week, I shall answer that question at that time xD

Also what is that suspicious reason xD
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Re: How tally-tall is everyone now?
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2022, 09:29:09 AM »
Grots: Tiny
Squats: Squat
Guardsmen: Normal
Orks: Big
Eldar: Tall
Astartes: Big and Tall
Primaris Astartes: Bigger and Taller
Custodes: Even Biggerer and Tallerer
Primarchs: The Biggest and Tallest
The Emperor: The Biggester and Tallester

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Re: How tally-tall is everyone now?
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2022, 11:46:01 AM »
Back for a quick post to ask for updated heights of the various races and "guestimates" of how tall they might be in their armour? Errr, for... reasons.

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Space Marines are around 7ft Tall, Primaris a head taller.

Custodes probably around 8ft tall.

Aeldari are about 7ft

Orks are taller than Humans, but due to their slouch are human height.
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Re: How tally-tall is everyone now?
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2022, 12:46:05 AM »
Back for a quick post to ask for updated heights of the various races and "guestimates" of how tall they might be in their armour? Errr, for... reasons.

TIA!

Space Marines are around 7ft Tall, Primaris a head taller.

Custodes probably around 8ft tall.

Aeldari are about 7ft

Orks are taller than Humans, but due to their slouch are human height.
Hmmn. So nothing has really change that much then. Cool.

28mm + ~5mm/foot.

So for your list this would be (ish):

  • Victims Humans - 28mm
  • Space Marines - 33 mm (or 35-36 mm if you believe Philip Sibbering; 38mm if you believe many on the Interwebz)
  • Primaris/Custodes - 38 mm
  • Aeldari - 33 mm
  • Ork Boyz - 28 mm; bigger unz are, errr, bigger

Is that in armour, out of interest? Or do Eldar pointy heads given them a bit of extra height? So, could they be, say, 35mm?

Just asking for opinions. No reason whatsoever that I'm converting over to arbitrary units in millimetres.  ::)

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Ah yes, the rule of cool "Big is 'ard" (fnar fnar).

Guess he had to have a glamour on him for 40,000 years?

Edit: Apparently so...

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Re: How tally-tall is everyone now?
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2022, 08:01:05 PM »
The idea of the Emperor as being Yhwh-condemneded FOURTEEN FEET TALL always struck me as hilarious rather than imposing.

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Re: How tally-tall is everyone now?
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2022, 08:25:50 PM »
The idea of the Emperor as being Yhwh-condemneded FOURTEEN FEET TALL always struck me as hilarious rather than imposing.
Kind of a variation of:

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Re: How tally-tall is everyone now?
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2022, 08:32:22 PM »
I always felt that the emperor wasn't that tall, but due to his abilities appeared larger.
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Re: How tally-tall is everyone now?
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2022, 06:54:24 AM »
The idea of the Emperor as being Yhwh-condemneded FOURTEEN FEET TALL always struck me as hilarious rather than imposing.

This is the genesis of my response above. The comparative size of beings in the 40k universe is basically ridiculous.

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Re: How tally-tall is everyone now?
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2022, 11:32:32 PM »
The idea of the Emperor as being Yhwh-condemneded FOURTEEN FEET TALL always struck me as hilarious rather than imposing.

This is the genesis of my response above. The comparative size of beings in the 40k universe is basically ridiculous.
But, for the sake of discussion, surely we can get some basics down. Also interested for other models, too. Errr, again for no other reason than general intereste.  ::)

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Re: How tally-tall is everyone now?
« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2022, 09:30:12 AM »
um, what about the immense big 30k miniatures, compared to old space marines? any lore reason for it? In real life, it's nice for beginners to have big minis to paint but...

 


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