| Warwick13 | 29 Dec 2012 10:30 p.m. PST |
More and more great minis are being produced in scales I don't use. It's killing me! The 28mm "heroic" and 32mm minis aren't as common as they used to be. I'm seeing many more 15mm news posts. And Dreadball – which I pledged mainly to get multi-purpose sci-fi minis – is true 25mm and looks TINY next to my other models. Great. What I don't need is to confuse things with another scale. My brain isn't big enough for that nonsense. Is the wargaming industry leaving 32mm behind? |
| dragon6 | 29 Dec 2012 10:35 p.m. PST |
Dreadball? I seem to have missed this one. What's it about? Kwel minis? |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 29 Dec 2012 10:50 p.m. PST |
Now you know how some of us felt with "Heroic" scale… |
| CorpCommander | 29 Dec 2012 11:21 p.m. PST |
You need to come to the church of the One True Scale. Of course that is 20mm and only WWII. Embrace it. You will be much happier. ;-) |
Augustus  | 29 Dec 2012 11:35 p.m. PST |
Uh what? Dying? For sci-fi? …the joke? I have Dreadball miniatures (Trontek 29ers) and those are definitely 28mm heroic to me; not true 25mm. Though to caution, Mantic always have been on the slim end. Have you seen the recent releases from Victoria Miniatures? Pig Iron? Chapterhouse? HiTech? Puppetswar? Blue Moon Manufacturing? Did the possibility ever occur that 15mm needs advertisement? It's not like there are these huge genre-dominating corporations making 15mm anything with droves in the multi-thousands. They are small companies. Give the 15mm guys a break. They need the help. If they did not advertise, the scale would have a very hard time surviving. |
| Allen57 | 30 Dec 2012 12:04 a.m. PST |
Im still holding out with my true 25mm SF which I picked up 20 years ago. Sure I would like to see some of the stuff being done in 15mm or heroic 25mm in true 25 but I have plenty of stuff. Fill out your 28mm with the available ranges. I dont know about the 32mm but I suspect there is enough around. We all get dumped as scales change. I do not wish the 15mm crowd ill but it will happen to them sooner or later. Of course, you could sell off what you have and start over in another scale. I wont do it but lots of other guys have. What frosts me more than anything is the headache one gets trying to figure out exactly what size figures advertised ##mm really are. |
| Paint it Pink | 30 Dec 2012 3:52 a.m. PST |
You got it all wrong, 10mm is the new true one wargaming scale being heroic 6mm. :-) |
| Buff Orpington | 30 Dec 2012 4:21 a.m. PST |
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| 14Bore | 30 Dec 2012 5:11 a.m. PST |
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| altfritz | 30 Dec 2012 5:28 a.m. PST |
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| 14Bore | 30 Dec 2012 6:48 a.m. PST |
You are right, I mean 15-18mm Rules! |
| CPBelt | 30 Dec 2012 6:51 a.m. PST |
I thought this would be about 10mm fantasy and historicals dying. |
| The Gray Ghost | 30 Dec 2012 7:00 a.m. PST |
Heretics!, 28mm is the only right scale |
| Mooseworks8 | 30 Dec 2012 7:27 a.m. PST |
For a quick skirmish game with a few infantry squads and a mech or two I play 15mm. Now the fun stuff for me is in 6mm skirmish. It gives you infantry, tanks, helicopters, hovercraft, mechs, artillery, VTOL aircraft, beast riders, and many other choices. Terrain choices are plenty as is the craft side of finding many things that would serve as good 6mm terrain. To find out all that 6mm has to offer I refer you to Michael from Angel Barracks, the Lord of 6mm. |
| Cardinal Ximenez | 30 Dec 2012 7:35 a.m. PST |
Give up and give in to the whisperings of scale madness. Buy it all. Just buy it all. DM |
| T Meier | 30 Dec 2012 7:43 a.m. PST |
Fifteen posts and no one has pointed out scale is a ratio not a single measurement? Standards are dropping around here. |
| Doug MSC | 30 Dec 2012 8:53 a.m. PST |
No, no. you got it all wrong! 40mm is the new scale! Tears squirting out of my eyes as I double over in pain because they just don't understand, they just don't understand!! |
| Paint it Pink | 30 Dec 2012 9:06 a.m. PST |
Get your hands off my 6 to 12mm figures you damn filthy apes you… Channeling Chuck |
| Wolfprophet | 30 Dec 2012 1:26 p.m. PST |
Have you seen the recent releases from Victoria Miniatures?Pig Iron? Chapterhouse? HiTech? Puppetswar? Blue Moon Manufacturing? Ermm. Only two of those companies aren't just 3rd party manufacturers of parts for 40K models. So….it's more of the same, but different. |
| Sysiphus | 30 Dec 2012 2:19 p.m. PST |
People grow to be all different sizes. Why worry! |
| T Meier | 30 Dec 2012 4:13 p.m. PST |
People grow to be all different sizes. Why worry! I know this was meant to be reassuring but frankly if someone ever said it to me I would not feel better. |
| Cardinal Ximenez | 30 Dec 2012 4:29 p.m. PST |
>>>People grow to be all different sizes. Why worry! Yikes !! |
| raylev3 | 31 Dec 2012 9:54 a.m. PST |
It's easy, I've limited myself to 1/285, 15mm (WW2), 18mm (ACW/Napoleonic), and 28mm for a lot of stuff. |
| Cadian 7th | 31 Dec 2012 12:15 p.m. PST |
I luckily have several scales and genres. Recently, I ressurected my old ral partha battletroops. Once I find some decent tanks for them, I shall take my mountains of metal and plastic and hunker down in my bunker.
Then I'll happily game away in my fortress of solitude while you all fight it out for the one "true" scale…."there can be only one."  |
| KenofYork | 07 Jan 2013 9:48 p.m. PST |
1/72 scale is the future. |
| Patrice | 13 Feb 2013 3:21 a.m. PST |
Lovecraft wrote about the terrible things which happen when people begin to grow scales. scale is a ratio not a single measurement Yes but you know that when wargamers say "28mm" it also means the scale of the miniatures houses, vehicles, etc, that they think fit best with their 28mm miniatures. |
| sumerandakkad | 11 Mar 2013 3:49 a.m. PST |
I guess the true scale is the Wellsian one. Followed,obviously, by 25mm the table top wargamers choice of yore.
Now, anything above 6mm is a skirmish game! |
