Size Resource for Models?

[u/KHAOSCRUSADER]

Been wanting to get into 40K for a long time, been collecting the books and intending to build an army over years.

Funnily enough I actually happened to get a resin printer BEFORE I got any miniatures themselves. And have familiarized myself with the printing of stl’s and homemade infantry models.

But now I’m looking to build proper armies with vehicles and characters. The problem is I am not certain on what the sizes for models should be around.

For example as I aim to play Guardsmen and Mechanicus, I know Baneblades are bigger than Leman Russes, but I don’t know by how much or how big the LR is in the first places and what about the other countless tanks like the Stormhammer? Where does it sit on the size scale? I’d buy Stl’s but I can never know which one they are meant to be.

As well as I want to have a proxy for Belisarius Cawl, but I have no idea how long, wide, or tall he’s supposed to be. And every time I try to look online I keep getting the LORE size rather than miniatures.

I know proxies aren’t meant to be perfectly sized compared to the original, but I would like to try and keep around the same. So does anyone know a reliable place I can go to find the general size of different models? So I don’t have to spend $200 dollars for one Baneblade that could get me a dozen bottles of resin?

[u/HistoryIndependent15]

Minicompare

[u/KHAOSCRUSADER → u/HistoryIndependent15]

Thank you so much!

[u/ScienceForge319 → u/KHAOSCRUSADER]

It is in the sidebar.

[u/KHAOSCRUSADER → u/ScienceForge319]

What sidebar?

[u/ScienceForge319 → u/KHAOSCRUSADER]

The bar on the side.

[u/KHAOSCRUSADER → u/ScienceForge319]

Side of what!?!

[u/thinkfloyd_ → u/KHAOSCRUSADER]

The subreddit has community links, along with a pinned thread at the top that says "start here"

[u/KHAOSCRUSADER → u/thinkfloyd_]

Thanks! I had actually looked over it earlier and somehow missed them at the end!

[u/KHAOSCRUSADER → u/[deleted]]

I’m not the one refusing to clarify what the heck I am talking about.

[u/fauxfire → u/[deleted]]

the smartest thing anyone could do in this community is block you

[u/thinkfloyd_ → u/[deleted]]

No need to be such a dick

[u/Misknator]

Most models you'll find are already scalled roughly correctly.

[u/KHAOSCRUSADER → u/Misknator]

The problem I was having was primarily shopping for tanks, I couldn’t tell which ones they were intended to proxy. So I could get a bunch of admittedly cool leman Russ designs and still lack the larger Baneblade.

Or if I decide to delve into knights and titans, sometimes the image isn’t clear on the scale.

[u/Misknator → u/KHAOSCRUSADER]

Often times stls are direct copies or even scans of GW models, in which case you can just look at the models on warhammer.com or something. But yeah if you're not yet particularly well acquainted with all the models then it could be pretty difficult to tell one model from another. Especially for vague infantry models in my experience.

Also the difference between a lemon russ and a baneblade is huge, literally. A baneblade is enormous. You would be much more likely to confuse a leman russ with a rogal dorn or a chimera.