| Vaggelis M | 29 Mar 2015 11:08 a.m. PST |
Hi all, could you please help me about my dilemma:
Mick Yarrow's 1/ 4800 or Hallmark 1/ 6000 great war's ships?
I need small castings for my game and I loved to hear your comments about those miniatures.. Thanks, Vaggelis |
| Sundance | 29 Mar 2015 12:16 p.m. PST |
Have bunches of 1/6000. Great ships – enough detail to tell one class from another. Inexpensive compared to larger scales. Easy to paint due to lack of detail. And if you have a space large enough, you can play games in actual 1:6000 scale (1 foot = 1 nautical mile). I have done it and it's visually remarkable to get an idea of the true relative distance. |
 Extra Crispy  | 29 Mar 2015 12:20 p.m. PST |
I went with 1/6000 as well. Your ground scale can match your figures. 1/3000 and 1/2400 always looked like a naval battle on a duck pond to my eyes… |
| Bellbottom | 29 Mar 2015 2:23 p.m. PST |
I'd second 1/6000, I have lots too and concur with all of the above posts |
| Allen57 | 29 Mar 2015 5:15 p.m. PST |
I hate to agree with the votes for 1/6000 since I am very heavily committed to 1/4800 but I find myself rather dissatisfied with the models. you really cannot tell much more about a 1/4800 model vs. a 1/6000 model. I have to put the name on the base and since that is necessary why not go with the smaller models. A fair percent of the 1/4800s have inaccuracies I cannot reconcile. A much larger percentage of the 1/6k are better sculpts. Finally the ground scale is really telling. |
 ColCampbell  | 29 Mar 2015 5:44 p.m. PST |
And for 1:6000 scale ships, you can use the AH Jutland rules and counters, just gluing the ship models on them. Works wonders. link link Jim |
| Allen57 | 29 Mar 2015 6:32 p.m. PST |
I had not thought about what ColCampbell said but the same could be done with all the Avalanche Press games too. |
| Vaggelis M | 30 Mar 2015 11:57 p.m. PST |
Thanks all of you for your messages. I'll go to 1/ 6000. |
| colkitto | 02 Apr 2015 1:35 p.m. PST |
The 1/6000 stuff is pretty good but just too small for me nowadays. I'd absolutely love to go with 1/4800, but I fear the MY range quality is variable and sometimes quite poor, and there are significant gaps in the WW1 stuff. Would buy it in loads if someone would re-do it though; I do have quite a lot of the WW2 models and on the whole am reasonably content with it. |
| hindsTMP | 03 Apr 2015 9:16 a.m. PST |
I myself prefer the 1/6000, despite my failing 63-year-old eyes. FYI, I believe that most of the MY 1/4800 stuff is derived from the old Leicester Micro Models line from the 1970s. They were quite crude compared to a more recent line like Figurehead (1/6000). If you can stand using Shapeways FUD "printouts" (I can't), there are additional 1/4800 printouts available to supplement the limited range of CinC 1/4800 metal castings. There are some images of painted examples in the Yahoo 1/4800 group. MH |
| Bozkashi Jones | 11 May 2015 8:18 a.m. PST |
The detail on the 1:6000 minis is surprising and I'm starting to be won over. I know these are WW2, but here are Bismarck and Hood – easily recognised with a satisfying amount of detail and a breeze to paint. I'd like to game WW1 as a future project and I would not consider any other scale having used 1:6000…
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