I saw this crop up in the comments yesterday here and elsewhere so our resident spy, Dessie, went back in for a closer look. Armed with charm, ego and a measuring tape they took these pics:
48mm for the Death Guard lord in termintor armour.
38mm for the Primaris Captain in fancy new armour.
Now you’re just being silly!
Always ultra serious on this blog.
So, nominal 50mm and 40mm respectively, I assume, rather than some slightly different new standard.
Yeah not sure why they read as slightly smaller.
They’ve always been a little off. A buddy of mine was making his own bases a while ago, and wanted to be sure that they were the right size, so he measured a bunch super carefully, and found that there’s actually a couple of mm of variation in the actual sizes of a given nominal base size. I really have no idea how that might end up happening, but apparently it’s the case.
Are the new Plague Marines snap-fit as well?
Not 100% sure to be honest.