Paper Vehicle sizes?

> >In a message dated 4/9/2004 7:40:23 AM Central Daylight Time,

No pressure then!

What about sizes? Give me some ideas over how big say an MBT should be in
15mm. I'm terrible with scale and I tend to make models that look right along
side the figures.

Any suggestions on height, length etc..?

Cheers

Jeremey www.germy.co.uk

In a message dated 4/11/2004 4:54:08 AM Central Daylight Time,
> germ@germy.co.uk writes:
No pressure then!

What about sizes? Give me some ideas over how big say an MBT should be in
15mm. I'm terrible with scale and I tend to make models that look right along
side the figures.

Any suggestions on height, length etc..?

Cheers

Jeremey www.germy.co.uk
I'd say bear in minda the size scale for Stargrunt which runs from 1-5
for vehicles, i being a motorcycle and side car maximum, five being a Hammer's
Slammers kind of grav tank and use your eye, it must be pretty good guy. One
thing that would help is to give a ZOOM scale for producing the same size
ration in
25-28 mm on the card, so one can x-rox if necessary to make it fit with
one's
troop size, many of us play Starfrunt in 25-28 mm as well.

Regards,

Scott

> > >In a message dated 4/9/2004 7:40:23 AM Central Daylight Time,

Hi Germy,

For a largish MBT, I'd be inclined to go for a length of around 70mm or so,
and a width of (say) 30mm. This would kind of keep it in line with the larger
sort of real "modern" vehicles (7m long x 3m wide).
15mm dimensions are easy to work with for converting real-world
vehicle sizes - it's near as dammit 1/100 scale, so just divide real
dimensions by 100 (I'm sure you must have at least a basic reference book or
two on real tanks, I don't know any wargamer that hasn't!).
;-)

15mm gives about 1:122 for scale. so for a few current tanks.

AMX-13 Light Tank
Length 4.88m = 40.0mm Width 2.51m = 20.5mm Height 2.28m = 18.7mm

British Scorpion Tracked Recon Length 4.79m = 39.2mm Width 2.24m = 18.3mm
Height 2.10m = 17.2mm

Chieftain MBT Length 7.48m = 61.3mm Width 3.51m = 28.7mm Height 2.90m = 23.7mm

T-72B MBT
Length 6.91m = 56.6mm Width 3.58m = 29.3mm Height 2.19m = 17.9mm

Leopard 2 MBT Length 7.69m = 63.0mm Width 3.70m = 30.3mm Height 2.79m = 22.8mm

I recommend you pick up scalecalc a scale calculating program.

http://home.att.net/~ShipModelFAQ/smf-qShareWare.html

it lets you do these conversions easy.

Bob Makowsky

> In a message dated 4/11/2004 4:54:08 AM Central

> 15mm gives about 1:122 for scale. so for a few

Most of the "historical" 15mm range manufacturers go for 1/100
(Skytrex, QRF, Peter Pig) or 1/108 (Quality Castings/Battle Honours),
which mix together OK if you're not too over-fussy.

Jon (GZG)

> AMX-13 Light Tank

So I guess they must go up to the eyes for height which would give around
1:111 or so. Easy enough to round to 1:100 and then it makes it a bit easier
to figure without a calculator.

Anyway, from your previous post we get about the same figures for a MBT

Bob Makowsky

> --- Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com> wrote:

> No pressure then!
Our 15mm tanks are in the 60-65mm long range - most are scale-ups of our

6mm stuff so I reasoned that scaling 6mm vehicles up to 15mm would involve
multiplying all the dimensions by 2.5 (and would result in models scaled at
1:120th).