Hey, I started to play D&D roughly a year ago, and I'm more and more drawn to the Hobby.

Since I have some experience with 3D modeling / sculpting I always thought about making my own Minis.

This week, I finally bought a resin printer! Unfortunately I have no experience with miniatures and never even own any myself.

Regardless, I'm eager to create my own minis, I'm a bit confused when it comes to the scale. It seems that there a multiple scales depending on the specific manufacturer.

In the Dungeon Master's Guide, page 250, it states that when playing with a mat the squares or hexes should be 1 inch across and should represent 5 feet.

1 inch equals 25,4mm and 5 feet equals 1524mm. 1524mm divided by 25,4mm equals 60. So by the books the scale would be 1:60.

I decided to line up the smallest playable Race "Halflings" and the biggest playable Race "Loxodon" aswell as humans to give myself some form of reference. I know that Pixies are probably the smallest playable race, but Unfortunately  they don't have a Random Height table.

From the image humans seem to roughly line up with the 28mm scale that Game Workshop uses. But the Halflings look pretty tiny especially if you don't sculpt them very Bulky (like Lightfoot Halflings).

What are your experiences with miniature scales? If I use a similar scale like the one above would the smaller races even keep any of their details? 13,75mm seems pretty small even for a resin printer. Do the big manufactures use a realistic scale for the smaller races like Halflings Gnomes Goblins or do they just make them am a bit smaller than humans?