Just got an Airborne Miniatures figure off ebay and the guy is 7ft tall in scale has anybody else had this issue

It can be a real PITA. 54mm figures used to be 54 mm, but now most of them are 60mm, which can be good because that little extra size gives space for better detail and definitions. And it gives a better scale of 1cm/1 ft; easier for scratch building. But older 54's look puny compared. And now Draconia ha a line of "54 mm" fantasy figures that actually measure out to almost 70 mm! What gives? Some sculpters work to their own rules (pun intended).

sounds closer to 1/32 scale?
J

Is it possible that some sculptors measure 54mm to the top of the head and some measure 54mm to eye level of the figure?

I ran into the same confusion when moving to tabletop wargaming and the differences between 1/72 scale and 20mm figures.

That is precisely the problem. Especially in the miniature gaming world, different companies measure differently, some include the base, some measure to the eye, some to the top if the head, etc.. If you go on the mini forums you'll always see questions about whether this line of figures will go with that line. If the differences aren't too egregious it can work to your advantage, after all not everyone is exactly 6 feet tall. Where it really becomes a pain is in equipment. And also in the figure world you have the omnipresent problem known as "scale creep", where over time figures get bigger, even in the same line. 25mm used to be one of the standards but it underwent so much upsizing that it finally became known as 28mm. Now we also have "heroic" 28mm. These millimeter scales really don't cross to proportional scales anyway.

Having said that though a 1/35th scale figure should be that. Of course there has always been some fluctuation. Tamiya is famous for making small figures. But a seven foot guy, unless it's a 1/35th scale basketball team is going to be a PIA.

Sounds like a Verlinden giant. I believe that Dragon and Trumpeter figures measure up, fairly accurately. As far as resin, I don't have enough of a collection to judge by.