"Your Preferred Scale for Old West Gunfights?" Topic

Which size of figure do you prefer for Western gunfights?

25-28mm

25-28 mm also.

25-28mm also

15-18mm. I like the room for rifles to be nasty.

15mm

25-28mm

25-28mm

25/28mm – I can see them. If I had not already invested in a large 28mm collection and was starting out in this skirmish period I would go 40mm.

25-28mm

My old Marx figures, definitely! With Lincoln Log buildings to make the town, and some bright yellow, red, and green farm animals in no particular scale.

The Marx figures I'm thinking of were molded separately from their weapons and equipment, and you could swap out guns and a lasso and whatever.

28 for me too!

What's not to like?

25-28 though I do what is essentially old west gunfights in an sf mode uing 6mm.

15mm Using Hey you in the jail, which is slightly bigger than a gunfight, but thought that would be OK?

martin

28mm.

25mm.

28mm

28mm

54mm. Wasn't aware of any others.

15/18 mm – how else can I fit my thousands of Old West figures on one table?! Did I say thousands – well, I meant, thousands. Okay, lots of civilians (mostly unarmed) and I include my cavalry versus plains indians (and apaches and infantry, too) along with the actual gunfighters, good and bad. Lots of wagons, lots of trains, huge number of buildings. And, hey, this collection is actually the one being worked on these days.

Yeah, a wee bit more than a "gunfight" underway on that table. But loads of fun, figuratively and literally!

All told, give a or take a hundred or so, I think my Old West county (fictional) is home to about 2,000 humans, perhaps 2,200 or 2,300. Lots of horses, cattle, and bison, too. And a variety of other critters.

Say, do you want to come by and pick up a paint brush and help out?

I have 150 28mm….

I sold all of my 25s and bought 54s.

25-28mm. I believe I have 150-200 almost all painted.

28mm!

25/28

When I played, 25-28mm.

If I add it back ever then 15mm – 10mm or 6mm would require new terrain or at least new pieces of "Western" terrain respectively – to keep it all in one storage box.

18mm, because a town in 28mm takes up too much space both in storage and on the tabletop and because 18mm matches HO scale so you can leverage the catalog of HO buildings and accessories made for the train world, such as the beautiful Kibri old west buildings. I think an 18mm town just looks better and offers more utility than in 28mm. Those advantages knocked 28mm out of the running in my eyes.

The price I pay for Blue Moon is also 85%+ cheaper if I compare to typical 28mm. That is to say 28mm is more than 7x (700%) more expensive. And unlike with an army where you end up buying more figures overall so the difference is less striking, in Old West I figure you need pretty much the same amount of figures to fill a town in 28mm as you would in 18mm.

That and cost aside I have a preference for the Blue Moon sculpts over most of what's out there in 28mm.

18mm matches HO scale so you can leverage the catalog of HO buildings and accessories made for the train world, such as the beautiful Kibri old west buildings. I think an 18mm town just looks better and offers more utility than in 28mm. Those advantages knocked 28mm out of the running in my eyes.

Yes, but they are quite expensive. All my 28mm western town buildings are scratchbuilt at a fraction of the price you probably paid for your 18mm buildings.

O Scale, matches the cool train sizes!

25/28mm

28mm

Yes, but they are quite expensive. All my 28mm western town buildings are scratchbuilt at a fraction of the price you probably paid for your 18mm buildings.

@MajorB: I bided my time and paid 10-12 each for them, which is a fraction of the price I would consider I paid for them if I made them scratch built with free materials. Time is not free.

28mm

1:1 with live ammo.
(It had to be said.)
I'f go with 25-28mm for gaming purposes.

18mm Bluemoon with 15mm mtd from QRF and Peter Pig.

28mm

28mm.