"Your 1st Scale?" Topic

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.

Whatever scale those Airfix plastics from the 70s were. I used to call them 20mm, then 1/72nd, now….?

1/72 Airfix… that's all there was…

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.

54mm Britains and Timpo toy soldiers. We played on the carpet.

Phil

15mm Napys, 1000's of 15mm Napy's

6mm / 1:285

Battletech

25mm Airfix, Scruby, and Minifigs. I find it the height of irony that these figures are considered 20mm today.

15 for miniatures, but my first figs were 25(and they were 25 in '76)for D&D

54mm Marx followed by 1/72 Airfix.

Scruby 20mm Napoleonics.

25mm Der Kriegspielers Confederals. Still have the first unit I painted (20th Maine).

1/72 Airfix

1/72 ESCI circa 1989

1/32 Airfix with Little Wars rules

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).

15mm Martian Metals for Striker followed by 25mm Ral Partha Colonials.

1/72, 1/76, 1/87 …

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)

15mm

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.

25mm for AD&D, liked Ral Partha

1/72 Airfix.

Airfix land kits, like tanks and figures, were never 1/72 but 1/76th.

1976 Ral Parthia 25mm Lord of the Rings.

Still got ‘em.

25mm

285th micro-armour

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!

Airfix HO/OO along with Der Kriegspielers (20mm although they were billed as 25mm).

15mm

1/285 – 6mm

54mm plastic army men, then I graduated to 25mm old school D and D miniatures.

true 25mm

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.

We are all jargon focused nerds. Noone (including me) said this yet …

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.

20mm

25mm Ral Partha and Frontier

1/72 Airfix and Marx 54mm(?) …

30mm flats (mixed metal and casein)

x42

25mm Grenadier and later Ral Partha to a larger degree.

Airfix 1/72. Closely followed by HO scale, Roco Minitanks.

airfix 1/72