It was while playing a long campaign for Germany that I sometimes wondered about the relative size of other AFV`s. Were the Polish, and French tanks really that much smaller than the German ones?
Then I made some tests. I dumped the icons in Mobhack and compared A LOT of different AFV`s icons.
It`s very difficult to come up with numbers, but I guess that 90%+ of all the AFV icons are properly relatively scaled and sized. That means, that you easily can take any AFV icon and cross compare it with any other AFV icon and you usual come up with the proper relative size, i.e. if a AFV is smaller or bigger than another, it`s by the 6 inch for 1 pixel size given in the manual.
But there are serious exceptions for this. Some icons are really obviously too small (up to 25%).
My intention is to resize these icons. I DO NOT want to alter them (except for the resizing).
Now some examples. I usually choose an AFV which has comparable size to check if an icon is sized correctly. I usually take German AFV`s icons as basement because their relative size is quite correct through the whole OOB (they belong to the 90%+ icons):
The Panzer IIF hull icon (unit #3; icon #1012 in the German OOB)
is 4810mm long and 2280mm wide.
The Russian T-70 (icon #4291)
is 4285mm long and 2420mm wide.
Difference is 52,5cm in length and 14cm in width. So the T-70 should be
3 pixel shorter and
1 pixel wider than the Panzer IIF, right? (1 pixel is 6 inch = 15,24cm)
Well, it`s
9 pixel shorter and
3 pixel SMALLER than the Panzer IIF. That`s a deviation of
6 pixel in length and 4 pixel in width, alltogether the T-70 is some 25% too small.
Have a look, stock T-70 and Panzer IIF:
And this is how it should look like after resizing:
Here is another example, the Polish TK-S (TK-3)
lenght 2580mm, width 1780mm
To sum it up, I want to first identify all the AFV icons that are too small, and then resize them. I already did all the russian AFV (BA-64, BT-5, BT-7, SU-76, T-26, T-37, T-38, T-40, T-60, T-70, ZiS-30).
If Don and Andy are interested I can make a list and send them all the icons as bmp.
@Don and Andy - AFV resizing project
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