[SG] Religious Wars Re: Modelling Scales

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We've talked endlessly about this many times before... there's probably lots
in the list archives about it.
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Certainly true! Also, numerous posts to rec.games...

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FWIW, my rules of thumb are:
15mm figs with 1/87 or 1/100 vehicles.
20mm figs with 1/72 or 1/76 vehicles.
"True" 25mm figs (eg: our stuff) with 1/60 vehicles
"Big" (GW) 25/28mm figures with 1/48 vehicles.
However, it's all SF, so you can be flexible - use whatever looks good!
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Good guidelines, but most of the arguments seem to center on sculpting, not
scale. I've some 1/48 plane crew from a B-25 kit that are almost half
again as tall as a GW IG fig, but any hatch that would be snug for the crew,
the IG soldier would not pass. His shoulders would just be TOO big to fit.

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> Really what I want to know is how compatible are 1/72 vehicles with

They'll look a bit small.
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Well, during a rec... thread, I pointed out that I thought most APC's were a
lot smaller than folks think, and had several professional passengers
agree that they were plenty crowded. ;->=

Also, I have it on good authority that AFV's look MUCH bigger bearing down on
you than viewed from 'on high'.

HUGE YMMV here. Hope the referred-to web sites and archives can put this
one to rest for awhile.

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I still question how an AI is going to get out of the tank and help you fix
that thrown track or torn skirt.
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Of course, it's going to replicate the damaged part, and teleport it into
place!

...diving for the inadequately anti-flame reinforced bunker.

The_Beast

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> devans@uneb.edu wrote:

One thing that has always struck me when visiting tank museums etc is
that most vehicles are considerably _smaller_ than I expected them to
be. Many early WW2 tanks are quite a bit shorter (and some narrower) than my
car.

> At 4:18 PM +0100 7/25/01, Tony Francis wrote:

Those would be the scout/light tanks.

I suspect that when you look at the Sherman and its larger brethren,
they take up far more room. Get up to the M48/60 units and you've got
some monsters. Same thing goes for the Panzer Vs and above. Sure the Renault
FT was tiny, so were a number of others (harry Hopkins, Tetrach, Honey) but
they weren't medium tanks.

Now, look at some of the wheeled armoured cars. The Puma and the South African
(Puma like) are huge as are a number of British special purpose command
trucks. Rommel used a captured Brit Armoured Command truck in North Africa.