"What scale do people want to see their vehicles in?" Topic

I have been dabbling and experimenting with my 3d printer and am curious as to what scales people really look for vehicles in. Thanks for any input TMPers!

When looking for large numbers, it's usually 15mm/ yeah I know that's not a scale.

Well, for me it is 1:285 (6mm) for my big hub-to-hub WWII games

I know nothing about 3d printing, so how hard is it to rescale things? Could you not do same vehicle in say 1\300, 1\100 1\76?

That way cover lots of bases

15mm scale or 1:100 size

Yes you can re-scale models but I am looking for data on what scale people really prefer so I can make something that can be photographed to show people what the quality is like.

1/ 285 or 6mm for me.

1/300th

@Gunner Phil: The problem is that you get into minimum detail sizes pretty quickly. 28mm (1/56ish) and 20mm (1/72 or 1/76) can pretty easily rescale. Maybe even down to 1/87 without trouble.

15mm (~1/100 scale) starts to get problematic, often requires a new 3d model. You can sometimes scale 1/144 scale up to 1/100 without trouble, but scaling down causes problems.

1/285 and/or 1/300 re-scale just fine.

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Personally, I game almost everything in 15mm, with 1/100 vehicles.

1:72 or 1:76

ditto 1/72 or 1/76

@Lion in the Stars. Thank you for that. Explains a lot.

Good name by the way.

And in answer to original question 15mm 1\100 for me.

1/56 for land, sea, and air vehicles. 1/4000 for spaceships.

There's almost nothing in 1/56 except a few tank kits

another for 1/72 or 1/76

1/56 and 1/100.

1:285 (6mm)

1/144th.

Need the MBT-70, amongst others I recently listed as needed in this scale, in a separate posting, a few days ago.

@Bashytubits: If you have a high-resolution printer at home, you might be able to 3d print your masters and then resincast the finished product.

1:56 or 1:48

OK so nowadays it's 1:144.

However you cannot scale a CADDS model between scales as it were. At least not simply. The problem is regardless of model scale there is a minimum printable size (typicaly about 1 mm), So for instance track thickness cannot go below 1mm. Build a 1/3 model with 1mm tracks scale it up to 1/72 and it looks daft. Siumilarly a 1/72 model will not scle to 1/300 it would be unprintable.

Even 1/144 to 1/56 shows some degradation.

If you had Pro E it would be possible but the cost of the software is well beyond the profit margin and its not easy designing parametric models.

1/72 for me. Your earlier stuff looked great, I am curious at what you come up with now!

1/72

A vote for 1/300 scale models that fill the gaps left by Heroics & Ros and Scotia.

1/100 for vehicles and helicopters which have to land, 1/144 for aircraft and helicopter gunships.

1/100

1:56 and 1:100

1:100

I have WW2 vehicles in 4 different scales:

1/87 — my favourite, not a lot of wargamers use this, but HO scale is one of the most popular for model railroading. Still have a large stash of Heiser resin kits in the resin mountain, so have not gone looking for 3D prints in this myself.

1/100 — this is the scale I have been buying 3D prints for. Arctic Skunk on Shapeways has helped me fill in a lot of obscuritées.

1/56 — way too pricey in 3D prints for my budget.

1/285 — I only got into that as a scale of convenience because the club was doing it. But, if I ever went back to it, 3D prints would certainly be affordable.

To the question of what would show better, I would say 1/100 or 1/72 would be the best choices.

1/72 (or 20mm)

TomT

I'll umpteenth the call for 1/72……. especially vehicles not available elsewhere……a commercial decision would lean towards 1/100 (15mm) especially a T64 looking at the clamouring amongst the Team Yankee crowd.

Another vote for 1/100.

1/48

1/48 or 1/43

1/72 or 1/76.

1/100 or 1/285 for me.

Cheers and good gaming.
Rod Robertson

1/48 for me

1/285

Vehicles? Other than aircraft (3mm/1:600) I think it depends.

Most land vehicles I buy (6mm/1:300) for combined arms action; for skirmish/small battles I would need APC/trucks to haul infantry around in 15/18 mm – whatever scale that is; maybe horse drawn wagons for legacy 25mm Fantasy.

What few naval ships I have I use 1:6k models.

anything in 15mm/1:100, 6mm/1:285, and some aircraft in 1:144 would be nice

1:76

Sorry they make wargame stuff in scales other than 1/72 1/76 20mm you learn something new every day

If you want to entertain the idea of printing larger scales for masters and then have them done in cast resin for production, contact me at :
Us103_z_man AT yahoo DOT com.

It is both far faster and more economical this way.

Joe

1/72 or 1/76

potentially 1/56…depending on cost and if it is a 'one off must have'

1/72

The only true scale for WW2 combined arms

1/32..the only scale for correctly proportioned human figures.

oooh – good point 4th. I have some 54s lurking waiting for an opportunity of a game

1/72.

1/100

1/56 mainly, so all of mine are similar size, light weight. Plastic now preferred.