| acctingman1869 | 27 Sep 2015 11:19 p.m. PST |
So, I'm not sure I'm going to miniature game, but I REALLY want to paint up some mini's for display/therapy! :) If YOU were going to buy mini's for modeling/painting/display only….would you go 20mm or 28mm? Does someone know of a site that shows these two scales side by side? Display area is somewhat of an issue and larger scales aren't my bag. Thanks for entertaining my quandary! |
| Mako11 | 28 Sep 2015 2:01 a.m. PST |
Given your parameters, I'd go with 20mm then. Lots of choice, less expensive, superbly detailed minis in this scale, and with a smaller footprint for displaying them. |
| Martin Rapier | 28 Sep 2015 2:18 a.m. PST |
Figures or vehicles? '28mm' vehicles are a bit of a misonomer as there is some debate about what constitutes the right scale. Anything from 1/60th to 1/48th. Anyway, when I was a modeller, I worked in either 1/76th or 1/35th scale vehicles. Display figures were usually at least 1/35th if not considerably larger. Some people do beautiful work in 1/76th, but these days it is a bit fiddly for my big fat fingers. Missing Lynx has lots of beautiful eye candy, predominantly 1/35th, but also smaller scales like 1/48th, 176th etc. missing-lynx.com/gallery.htm Modellers refer to small scales like 1/76th as 'Braille Scale', but don't be put off. |
| Andy ONeill | 28 Sep 2015 4:22 a.m. PST |
Miniatures are pretty small.
If you paint for display then you want waaaaay bigger than 28mm.
1/35 vehicles or a diorama.
120mm for figures. Get hold of an airfix figure or some such and put it in the middle of your coffee table.
Sit back on your sofa and take a look at it. |
mysteron  | 28 Sep 2015 4:57 a.m. PST |
If it was purely modelling and not gaming then ignore the 1/56th range of vehicles ie the wargaming scale and go for 1/48th or 1/60th models .Better still 1/35th scal or larger . Vehicles of 1/48th, 1/60th and 1/35th. have been designed for the modeller and not the gamer and therefore most will have more detail than say their gaming counterpart. |
| acctingman1869 | 28 Sep 2015 8:06 a.m. PST |
1/35th is too big for the limited display area I have. 1/100 might be too small but I do think the 1/72-1/76 stuff might be exactly the right size. Thanks |
| MajorB | 28 Sep 2015 10:30 a.m. PST |
1/35th is too big for the limited display area I have. How much area (what dimensions? ) do you have? |
| acctingman1869 | 28 Sep 2015 10:52 a.m. PST |
Were talking maybe a standard bookshelf….2 or 3 shelves. It's by choice. Not a fan of clutter |
| MajorB | 28 Sep 2015 10:57 a.m. PST |
Were talking maybe a standard bookshelf….2 or 3 shelves. 2 or 3 shelves? Let's say what 80cm wide and 15cm deep? You could display about 20 1/35 scale vehicles in that amount of space and maybe 2 or 3 times as many 1/35 figures. |
| acctingman1869 | 28 Sep 2015 11:03 a.m. PST |
There are easily 50-80 different vehicles/aircraft I want to build/paint. After watching some video's to gauge sizes I think 15mm is too small and not enough detail, while anything larger than 28mm is just too big, too much work and doesn't allow for my limited space. Thanks for letting me bounce this off here :) |
| MajorB | 28 Sep 2015 2:40 p.m. PST |
I think 15mm is too small and not enough detail, while anything larger than 28mm is just too big, Looks like you'll need to go with 20mm (1/72 or 1/76) then. There are easily 50-80 different vehicles/aircraft I want to build/paint. I think you'll struggle to get that many 20mm models on your 3 shelves, particularly if a number of them are aircraft. |
| Mako11 | 29 Sep 2015 2:02 p.m. PST |
Those you can just hang from the ceiling. ;-) |
ponders nirvana.