Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6582316-20130219155935

Okay, so it was bothering me that we had no idea how tall any of the characters were so I did a few calculations. I started with this photo and some notebook paper



I measured Ruby's height to be about 11 bars on my paper I then looked for something to use for scale and settled on the bullets she has on her hip, there seems to be a general consensus that they are 50 cal rounds, and they were almost exactly one bar so I googled the total length of a 50 cal round wich is 5.45 inches. If you multiply that by 11 you get 59.95 inches or 4 feet 11.95 inches which we might as well call five feet. Now in this image

we see that Ruby seems taller, if Wiess was significantly taller than she would appear to be of equal or greater height even with the angle of the camera working against her, but since Ruby seems taller that means they are approxamately the same height. Working with that rough idea in mind I looked for some way to verify this, I settled on these pictures.

I knew I needed to work with proportions now so I measured Weiss' height as a little over 11 bars (value not related to previous measurement as this picture has no reference for scale) I looked at the second picture and decided that the basket of the sword was at eye level and the blade reached about mid thigh I did some math and that turned out to be  about 6 bars of blade or 55% of her height, if she is about 5 feet tall then 55% of that would come out to 2 feet and 8.727272727 inches, or about three feet. IT is speculated that her blade should be around three feet long so I am reasonably confident that this is right, but I want to make sure so I'm posting this for peer review, is my math good?

P.S. I didn't know if anyone was interested, but Crescent Rose is approxomately 8 feet long with a five foot blade 