"Approx what scale are 42mm figures?" Topic

Irregular miniatures do 42mm figures. If i used their WWII stuff, what scale would model vehicles need to be to look right?

thanks

1/43rd scale. The old Revell, Snap Plastics, Life-Like, UPC, Adams and a few others "used" to offer plastic armor kits in 1:40th scale. (One of my personal favorite things to collect…am looking for Revell infantry….)

I haven't seen any of the Irregulars you speak of in the "flesh", but if truly 42mm, they would be just shy of being 1/43rd scale.

These would be the closest that "I" know of.

Best,
Tom Dye
GFI

1/43 = 7mm to the foot . Its a model railway thing .

The wrong scale? ;-)

I suggest, 1/48, or 1/50 scale vehicles.

;)

Roughly "O" scale.

1/43-1/48, or 7mm to the foot.

Also known in ship modeling circles as 1/4" scale.

Best bet is to place a sample figure next to the vehicle in question and see how it looks.

1/48 is 38mm high, so go with 1/43, or 'o' gauge in railway terms, should be ok.

38mm at 1/48 is a hair short of six feet, which is about average in modern Holland (Who are the tallest nation on earth apparently) but not in any historical period.

‘O' is a gauge, that is the distance between tracks 1.177" it corresponds to several scales depending on the manufacturer, that is all manufacturers of ‘O' gauge models have the same width between the wheels but the model of the train set on the wheels can be 1/43.5, 1/45 (this is called ‘Q scale' in the US) or 1/48, the latter being most common.

42mm (sole to crown) would be an average 5'8" man at 1/41, it would be six feet at the nearest railroad scale, 1/43.5

superb – thanks

Try S scale (1:64), a bit smaller than 1:56 but you could mount them on thick bases

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Or try O scale one but those be quite big