For this image to make full sense A basic measurement of Lego building blocks has to be made against the scale as established against the Square-hex form.
A standard sized block is about 3/8ths of an inch in height, or roughly 1 and 1/2 quarter inches on quad-graph-paper.
Using 13 inches for each quarter-inch side this sets a standard height of about 18".
As each standard height can be reached by snapping 3 flat-blocks together a flat-block is about half a foot in height.
This makes the Lego representation somewhat informative.
The bracket flat-block is roughly where the shoulder would be, the white flat-block shows a rough idea of where the toes would extend if pointed out for kicking, the holes at the midpoint and head are roughly where the center of gravity and the head would be, and a few others.
It can help a LOT with proportional visualization.
This is assuming that Giants and Halflings are in fact proportional to Humans with a Halfling being half the Humans size and the Giant being double the size.
Perhaps you see things differently but this gives us a starting point from which to build with.
And I don't require Lego, blocks.
By sticking to english measure (or metric, pick your poison) many real-world materials work out well for height demos.
A beer carton can be cut into strips, 8 of which stack to a height of a quarter inch.
This gives each strip an equivalent of 1.625 inches judged against the 13 inch square-side.
2 strips are 3.25 inches in height... a Scale-hex quarter-inch square the size of the palm of your hand...
It's rarely so important, but SO nice to have available.
And modeling is a lot of fun when it contributes so well IMO.
It's much simpler to make my point about a swimming Figure (or sprawled out dead) taking up more than 1 hex by putting a scaled component on the board rather than spending many minuets trying to describe it.
Anyone wanna find the major hole in the Giant, Human, Halfling Lego pic?
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