Cmde Perry | 15 Oct 2019 2:49 p.m. PST |
1/32 & 1/35 plastic models (Tamiya, Revell, Monogram, etc.). Switched from military modeling for dioramas (mainly for extra credit in history class) to skirmish gaming using Featherstone's rules. At that scale we quickly moved from ping pong table to train platform to church basement floor, and Tractics rules. |
21eRegt | 15 Oct 2019 3:18 p.m. PST |
Whatever scale those Airfix plastics from the 70s were. I used to call them 20mm, then 1/72nd, now….? |
Glengarry5 | 15 Oct 2019 4:36 p.m. PST |
1/72 Airfix… that's all there was… |
Ragbones | 15 Oct 2019 5:18 p.m. PST |
Not counting plastic 54mm Marx playset and Airfix HO figures my first figures were Der Kriegspielers Napoleoniques, 25mm or 20mm depending upon who one asks. |
Yesthatphil | 15 Oct 2019 5:30 p.m. PST |
54mm Britains and Timpo toy soldiers. We played on the carpet. Phil |
skipper John | 15 Oct 2019 5:35 p.m. PST |
15mm Napys, 1000's of 15mm Napy's |
manyslayer | 15 Oct 2019 5:49 p.m. PST |
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Florida Tory | 15 Oct 2019 6:24 p.m. PST |
25mm Airfix, Scruby, and Minifigs. I find it the height of irony that these figures are considered 20mm today. |
dilettante | 15 Oct 2019 7:54 p.m. PST |
15 for miniatures, but my first figs were 25(and they were 25 in '76)for D&D |
Perris0707 | 15 Oct 2019 8:00 p.m. PST |
54mm Marx followed by 1/72 Airfix. |
rmaker | 15 Oct 2019 8:20 p.m. PST |
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gamertom | 15 Oct 2019 9:03 p.m. PST |
25mm Der Kriegspielers Confederals. Still have the first unit I painted (20th Maine). |
Doctor X | 15 Oct 2019 9:45 p.m. PST |
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Uparmored | 15 Oct 2019 11:43 p.m. PST |
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IUsedToBeSomeone | 16 Oct 2019 12:08 a.m. PST |
1/32 Airfix with Little Wars rules |
Lluis of Minairons | 16 Oct 2019 5:27 a.m. PST |
I started with 15mm and after three decades it's still my prefered size – although my preferences range has grown somewhat since (20mm for SCW, 28-32mm for LoTR, 1/450-1/600th for Age of Sail gaming, 1/144 for aerial dogfights and so). |
Rich Bliss | 16 Oct 2019 6:43 a.m. PST |
15mm Martian Metals for Striker followed by 25mm Ral Partha Colonials. |
Legion 4 | 16 Oct 2019 7:38 a.m. PST |
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Huscarle | 16 Oct 2019 9:32 a.m. PST |
My 1st metals (in my very early teens) were 25mm Minifigs/Garrison minis. Prior to that when I was a wee nipper the old plastic Airfix figures (1/72 and 1/32) |
Old Contemptible | 16 Oct 2019 10:05 a.m. PST |
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Doug MSC | 16 Oct 2019 10:21 a.m. PST |
54mm Marx Playsets then 1/72 Airfix then on to 20mm Segom figures then to 15mm Napoleonics then to 25mm various ranges then 28mm ranges then 40mm Trident Designs now 60mm Expeditionary Force figures. WHEW!!! I feel like a Yoyo. |
USAFpilot | 16 Oct 2019 11:13 a.m. PST |
25mm for AD&D, liked Ral Partha |
advocate | 16 Oct 2019 12:15 p.m. PST |
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PiersBrand | 16 Oct 2019 2:05 p.m. PST |
Airfix land kits, like tanks and figures, were never 1/72 but 1/76th. |
Dukewilliam | 16 Oct 2019 6:40 p.m. PST |
1976 Ral Parthia 25mm Lord of the Rings. Still got ‘em. |
Chuckaroobob | 17 Oct 2019 11:46 a.m. PST |
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von Schwartz | 17 Oct 2019 7:05 p.m. PST |
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Sgt Slag | 18 Oct 2019 9:27 a.m. PST |
25mm, then, five years later, I introduced my three sons to wargaming using 54mm plastic Army Men. Two of the three still game with me, using the Army Men figures, and rules. Great fun, since the 90's, for us. Cheers! |
custosarmorum | 18 Oct 2019 5:12 p.m. PST |
Airfix HO/OO along with Der Kriegspielers (20mm although they were billed as 25mm). |
Wargamer Blue | 19 Oct 2019 9:56 p.m. PST |
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ACWBill | 21 Oct 2019 12:29 p.m. PST |
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peterx | 22 Oct 2019 3:27 p.m. PST |
54mm plastic army men, then I graduated to 25mm old school D and D miniatures. |
JimSelzer | 23 Oct 2019 3:48 p.m. PST |
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Asteroid X | 31 Oct 2019 9:38 p.m. PST |
I was going to state 1/72, but then thinking about it, I'm not sure if was that or 54mm … Maybe both around the same time. 54mm for smale skirmish and 1/72 for larger battles. 54mm would have been Timpo, Britains, Marx, Timmee. 1/72 was Airfix and Giant, then Atlantic when they became available in Canada. |
etotheipi | 01 Nov 2019 4:00 a.m. PST |
We are all jargon focused nerds. Noone (including me) said this yet …
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Der Krieg Geist | 30 Jul 2020 2:58 a.m. PST |
etotheipi, Nice! Gave me a smile. :) I suspect 50mm Plastic Army men plus a few odd huge ones 100mm I think. Rapidly followed by second hand Airfix 1/76-1/72 by the time I was six and some Airfix and Matchbox 1/32. Those lead me to true 25mm Medieval them Fantasy Science Fiction to finally to 28mm. |
Joes Shop | 30 Jul 2020 5:45 a.m. PST |
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Corporal Fagen | 30 Jul 2020 9:10 a.m. PST |
25mm Ral Partha and Frontier |
Legion 4 | 31 Jul 2020 7:10 a.m. PST |
1/72 Airfix and Marx 54mm(?) … |
x42brown | 01 Aug 2020 7:10 a.m. PST |
30mm flats (mixed metal and casein) x42 |
USAFpilot | 12 Aug 2020 3:27 p.m. PST |
25mm Grenadier and later Ral Partha to a larger degree. |
DOUGKL | 02 Oct 2020 7:22 p.m. PST |
Airfix 1/72. Closely followed by HO scale, Roco Minitanks. |
JimSelzer | 08 Nov 2020 6:40 p.m. PST |
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