I am looking at the Brigade Miniatures that I use for SLAM equipped LLP
forces in my game setting. They are /great/ but is it just me or are
they smaller then other SF vehicles? I don't have any (well commonly
used) size 5 vehicles in the LLP inventory; Size 2 APC's, Size 3/4
MICV's
and size 2/3/4 AFV's plus all the usual 'other' stuff (Cargo, armored
cargo, ZADS, LAD, Recon, etc. platforms) so I wondering how they compare.... I
*do* have the excellent tank (BIG!) that Eureka made to
Derek's design, way cool, and mostly I have GHQ and C-in-C/Pfc-in-C
moderns and WW2 conversions but I am looking at the GZG stuff (plus
others) to create/finish out certain units. I am concerned that there
might be an obvious 'discrepancy' between vehicles of the same nominal
size. Is this micro-worrying about trivial details or is there a clear
size difference that might be glaring on the table? I can PSB my way
through if there is but I just want to have a PHB (Psuedo-Historical B.)
ready if there are major differences.
Gracias,
> Glenn M Wilson wrote:
I suspect they probably are slightly smaller than most other SF manufacturers.
When I made the first models I sat them next to some
1/300th moderns to make sure they looked 'about right'. Even then,
they're still slightly larger than their modern equivalents. However, next to
some GW Epic models I have (I only bought them for the infantry, honest!!)
they look rather titchy. Nevertheless, I am trying very hard to resist the
temptation to increase the size of our models.
I suspect that 6mm, just like 15mm and 25mm, is suffering from scale creep.
Some time soon we'll be renaming it '7.5mm' and then everything
will be alright again ;-)
> I don't have any (well commonly
As long as your opponent knows what's what before the game starts, I wouldn't
worry about it (unless you start claiming that the scout car speeding down the
road is really a size 5 battle tank, in which case he might have a cause for
complaint).
> From: Tony Francis <tony.francis@kuju.com>
> themselves
My favorite SF figs are a set of tanks I bought from C in C, they are almost
exactly in scale with GHQ - style 6mm. The bigger stuff (Even GZG's,
but Battletech is the worst offender) is just too big for me to use all my
modern micro armor with it.
2B^2
I love CinC's stuff too. I have a bunch of M109s that fit in perfectly with my
GHQ M1s. They have less detail than GHQ models though. I don't really find all
GZG minis to be that big though. The Triton medium tank is just slightly
smaller than a GHQ M1. Although things like the Deimos
are huge, they're supposed to represent huge GEV/Grav tanks that no
longer have to worry about road limitations. On the other hand, most Scotia
Models moderns actually seem too small to be used with GHQ models. Anyone else
noticed this problem?
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> Chen-song Qin wrote:
Probably because the Scotia models are 1/300th scale, whereas GHQ are
1/285th. It's a fairly small scale difference, but enough to be visible.
Allow a bit of 'scale creep' as well (I have some GHQ models which are
definitely larger than their stated scale) and the difference will be
significant.
> Tony Francis wrote:
> medium tank is just slightly smaller than a GHQ M1. Although
Be all that as it may, I wonder how many people run games where one forces
"6mm" stuff is significantly different in scale to the other forces
"6mm",
and how gracious people are in overlooking this difference?
One other observation:
I recently purchased an old mini, still packaged, called a "Moon Bus". It
could pass for 2mm OR 6mm OR 10mm, depending on what you define it as. As a
VTOL or GEV vehicle, it looks to be 6-10mm. As a lander, it's probably
2mm.
Has anyone noticed that using an assault lander model in the same scale as the
vehicles makes it take up HUGE amounts of ground? I was thinking of
using s smaller scale of lander model. I know it's esthetically less
attractive to have tank models as large a s the lander "exiting" it, but in
terms of ground scale, it seems more practical. Has anyone considered this
issue before?
2B^2
Are there really "oversize" GHQ vehicles? I thought they always maintain size
consistency between their own vehicles?
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