HALF PINTS are three inch tall figures carved with the half inch scale equals one foot.  A six inch tall carving of a hobo would be to the scale of an inch equals a foot. These five Half Pint Hobos in this posting followed the basic design of previous hobos carved in the one inch scale. Half Pints are also characterized with having one monochrome coloring to emphasis that texture is color as seen in the facet surface texture of the carving process. Miniature carvings are typically categorized as no larger than fitting in a two inch cube.  Half Pints are slightly larger at three inch tall on a one inch square base making them just a little above being a true miniature.

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