Thomas Whitten | 08 Dec 2011 7:29 a.m. PST |
After reading this TMP link I realized that I collect armies. When I see something new, I think in terms of picking up the army, not just a few of the models that I like the most. This often leads me to picking up figures I don't care for or have no use for in gaming. I do this in 28mm. I wonder how many others collect armies and in which scale. Choose up to 5. 2mm 6mm 10mm 15mm 18mm 20mm 25 28/30mm 32mm 40mm 54mm Other Not a serious collector of armies |
Angel Barracks | 08 Dec 2011 7:31 a.m. PST |
Not a serious collector of armies |
Pictors Studio | 08 Dec 2011 7:44 a.m. PST |
6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 28mm I guess you could throw in 18mm and 25 or 32mm as well. I have at least three armies in all of those scales if an army is a force of at least 200 figures. |
TodCreasey | 08 Dec 2011 7:48 a.m. PST |
6mm or 28mm if it is upto me, sometimes 15mm if the lads are doing it. |
Mapleleaf | 08 Dec 2011 7:58 a.m. PST |
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Lentulus | 08 Dec 2011 7:59 a.m. PST |
If by serious you mean "armies assembled in sufficient quantity and with sufficient organization to put on a good game" – 10mm and 15mm. This often leads me to picking up figures I don't care for or have no use for in gaming. Dislike: Not a whole lot, but I suppose I my be odd for liking supply wagons and trucks. Use: The trucks and supply wagons lead quiet lives, but they do see action from time to time. |
Thomas Whitten | 08 Dec 2011 8:03 a.m. PST |
To further define my madness: When I buy a new figure, it either has to fit with one of my current armies or I have to be willing to build an army around it. Otherwise, even if I like the figure, I won't buy it. This also applies to warbands and such for skirmish games. I do have some small exceptions. Mostly, the exception to this rule would be for Call of Cthulhu figures and Super Heroes figures. And I even have the Super Heroes divided up into ‘armies' for Invasion of Earth style games – Earth Defenders: Heroes, Earth Defenders: Villains, Extraterrestrials, and Extraplaners. |
Thomas Whitten | 08 Dec 2011 8:05 a.m. PST |
supply wagons and trucks Those are very useful and can serve multiple purposes. I'll by such and other things as well. |
Patrick Sexton | 08 Dec 2011 8:15 a.m. PST |
6, 15 and 28/30mm. Plus ships in 1/600 and 1/2400 scale. |
Broadsword | 08 Dec 2011 8:16 a.m. PST |
Other (starships), 6mm (mecha) and 28mm (everything else), though I mostly play skirmish games, so an "army" is usually less than 20 figures, and often only a few. Al | ravenfeastsmeadhall.blogspot.com |
ataulfo | 08 Dec 2011 8:37 a.m. PST |
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Martin Rapier | 08 Dec 2011 8:59 a.m. PST |
My main 'armies' are in 6mm, 15mm and 20mm with a side diversion into 2mm (only five complete armies in that scale). |
religon | 08 Dec 2011 9:07 a.m. PST |
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Redcurrant | 08 Dec 2011 9:08 a.m. PST |
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Jovian1 | 08 Dec 2011 9:29 a.m. PST |
What if we aren't serious collectors, just accidentally obsessive-compulsive retail therapy victims who happen to like new shiney miniatures regardless of scale so long as they are new and shiney? |
Connard Sage | 08 Dec 2011 9:59 a.m. PST |
2mm 6mm 10mm 15mm 18mm 20mm 25 28/30mm 32mm 40mm 54mm They're sizes, not scales. |
Angel Barracks | 08 Dec 2011 10:10 a.m. PST |
Well I have seen a 2mm scale on a snake, so maybe it is if you get a lot of them and give them swords.
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RavenscraftCybernetics | 08 Dec 2011 10:58 a.m. PST |
I dont collect serious armies, only parodies and satirical ones in 28mm size. |
Connard Sage | 08 Dec 2011 11:03 a.m. PST |
Behave AB, or I'll get the comfy chair out. |
wrgmr1 | 08 Dec 2011 11:04 a.m. PST |
15/20/28 mm and I have an old 6mm army I haven't used in over 15 years. |
Micman | 08 Dec 2011 11:10 a.m. PST |
I currently collecting figures for land based games in 6mm 10mm 15mm 25/28mm |
Thomas Whitten | 08 Dec 2011 11:15 a.m. PST |
Some points for Connard 1> The list was made in accordance to the standard accepted practice within the miniatures community by both Manufactures and Consumers. 2> Xmm is shorthand for Xmm per some Y distance on an average human. And though not very precise, it is technically a ratio. Either way, the use of scale here is generally understood. |
Connard Sage | 08 Dec 2011 11:25 a.m. PST |
1> Most manufacturers seem happy to sell XXmm figures without attempting to attach a scale to them. The average punter, on the other hand, seems to believe that 'size' and 'scale' are synonymous. They are not. 2> Great, find me an 'about 1:50,000 scale' map. Remind me not to do any serious navigating with it. Either way, the use of scale here is generally understood. Erroneously. Or perhaps I should tell our drawing office to throw away CAD and that any old doodle on the back of a fag packet will do instead as long as they attach a nominal scale to it? |
Pictors Studio | 08 Dec 2011 11:53 a.m. PST |
"Or perhaps I should tell our drawing office to throw away CAD and that any old doodle on the back of a fag packet will do instead as long as they attach a nominal scale to it?" It would seem that the Romans managed the Colosseum without CAD. I'm sure the miniature wargaming world can survive the use of the term "scale" to mean what size figures are.
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Thomas Whitten | 08 Dec 2011 12:17 p.m. PST |
Or perhaps I should tell our drawing office to throw away CAD and that any old doodle on the back of a fag packet will do instead as long as they attach a nominal scale to it? I'm sure that would be humorous. An infallible source* states scale can be expressed in four ways: in words (a lexical scale), as a ratio, as a fraction and as a graphical (bar) scale. linkSo for the foot-to-head method of measuring figures, the below would be the ‘scale' for 25mm: 2.5cm to 1.763 m, or 2.5:1.763 or 2.5/1.763 or 25mm in shorthand (much nicer then the 3 previous.) To me that works better then thinking of it as size. When I purchase 25mm superhero figures, only some of those figures are actually 25mm tall. Those that would be behemoths in reality are behemoths in miniature (say 33mm tall) when compared to the average figures (25mm tall.) They got scaled using the 2.5cm to 1.763 m ratio as did every other figure in that range. Maybe I'm just a punter or I don't get it. BTW, a figure of me scaled down to the 25mm 'scale' would be slightly larger then 25mm. *That is sarcasm in response to the sarcasm poll currently going. |
Caesar | 08 Dec 2011 1:50 p.m. PST |
6mm and 28mm. I have strongly considered 10mm and 15mm. |
fitterpete | 08 Dec 2011 2:37 p.m. PST |
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DisasterWargamer | 08 Dec 2011 5:55 p.m. PST |
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skinkmasterreturns | 08 Dec 2011 10:33 p.m. PST |
I've sold too many figures to be a serious collector. If I were serious about it,they'd find me in the corner,sitting on a pile of lead,paintbrushes sticking out of my nose,with a wide eyed stare and gibbering. |
Raynman | 09 Dec 2011 4:30 a.m. PST |
28mm and my ever growing 15mm Ottoman Turkish army. |
John the Greater | 09 Dec 2011 7:21 a.m. PST |
15mm almost exclusively, though I do have some 25/28mm's. Of course, I am now confused if that is size or scale. I'll go with scale. My "size" is way larger than 25mm!
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Martin Rapier | 09 Dec 2011 2:19 p.m. PST |
"1> The list was made in accordance to the standard accepted practice within the miniatures community by both Manufactures and Consumers." Not by me, although I might grudgingly accept that it is common to label figures within rather broad ranges of actual sizes with a notional measure. I also have 1/3000th and 1/6000th scale ships. I do have a few larger figures as well, 1/32nd scale or '54mm' plus some 1/35th and a handful of 28s. |
Old Contemptibles | 10 Dec 2011 7:10 p.m. PST |
25/28 mm and 15mm. I always buy with the intent of using them all in gaming. I usually look a paticular battle OB and I buy to fit the OB. |
Grand Duke Natokina | 11 Dec 2011 9:41 a.m. PST |
Since Connsrd brought it up already, 1/76th & 1/72nd. |