RON MUECK hyper realism and scale

Ron Mueck's work is described as 'hyper real' because he strives to make his sculptures appear as life like as possible, with fastidious levels of detailing - Every wrinkle, muscle, and proportion is anatomically correct, and painted in a highly realistic manner. His sculptures demonstrate a highly skilled craftsmanship, which probably comes from his background as a proffesional model maker and puppetteer in the entertainment industry. He worked on the movie 'Labyrinth' which I haven't seen, but I know that it was a fairly high end Hollywood production, so Ron Mueck obviously knows how to craft convincing life-like figures.

Personally I like that about his work-the fact that he puts real work and craftsmanship into his sculptures. The subject matter of his work is usually people, and I guess one of the interesting things about it is the scale of his sculptures. Its some kind of ironic condraction or something, that even though his figures are presented super life-like, with hyper realistic levels of detailing expression, they are always presented out of scale.
'Pregnant Woman' for example, which, despite its misleading title,  is a sculpture of a pregnant woman, is nearly 2.5m tall, which is roughly four times life size I guess. And 'Dead Dad', which literally is a sculpture of Mueck's dead father lying on the floor, is only three feet long. I think Mueck does this because the weird contradiction of his figures being at once hyper realisitc in appearance and completely out of scale from reality creates an unsettling kind of emotional impact that might be lacking if his figures were simply life-sized representations of a bunch of people lying around, or crouching. In his own words:
"I never made life sized figures because it never seemed to be interesting. We meet life sized people every day."
I guess he's got a point. The 'Dead Dad' is probably a good example of this. If he were life sized, it would simply look like some kind of movie prop of a crime scene or something, whereas at only a third of life sized, it becomes more vivid, in the sense that the frailness of life, or the vulnerability of it, is encapsulated in the sculpture's smallness, just like the 'Pregnant Womans' Warmth and mother earthyness (could be a word,could not be, I don't know) is encapsulated more vividly through her imposing size and presence.