| General Scott | 11 Apr 2021 10:19 p.m. PST |
To be honest, I play 1/87 scale tanks (resin and/or ROCO) with FOW figures. It seems like the FOW tanks are too small compared to the men. The troops look like they are 7 feet tall! |
LaserGrenadier  | 12 Apr 2021 3:31 a.m. PST |
I agree. I also use 15mm figures with 1/87th (HO) vehicles. Many manufacturers' figures are often larger than their "scale." On the other hand, I still had a large HO collection from the 1970's and later, and wanted more accurate late war figures (than Airfix) and a wide range of support weapons to go with them.
On the other end of the scale, I always felt that 20mm figures were too large to be a good match for my HO vehicles. |
| Big Red | 12 Apr 2021 4:50 a.m. PST |
I use Old Glory/Skytrex figures with Battlefront vehicles and they appear to work just fine. I don't know if its the sculpting or the manufacturing process but Battlefront figures seem to have suffered from scale creep when they switched from metal to plastic/resin. |
| chironex | 12 Apr 2021 5:53 a.m. PST |
Does this help?
What we call 20mm these days is usually 24-25mm. Remember, HO and OO are scales with an associated track gauge, but HO/OO is just a track gauge, NOT a scale! |
 Mserafin | 12 Apr 2021 8:27 a.m. PST |
Are you accounting for FOW's thick bases? Their figures gain about a scale foot of height just from the bases. And then they get glued to yet another base! |
| Martin Rapier | 12 Apr 2021 8:29 a.m. PST |
If you base your vehicles too then it compensates for the thick bases pretty much all 15mm figures are cast with. |
| Col Piron | 12 Apr 2021 10:02 a.m. PST |
Are you accounting for FOW's thick bases ? And then they get glued to yet another base ! According to one of BF's scuplters , that has be accounted for . BF's figures vary in size , depending on the sculpter . |
| raylev3 | 12 Apr 2021 4:33 p.m. PST |
but HO/OO is just a track gauge, NOT a scale! Actually, HO/OO is a scale. HO models are built to 1:87th scale. … HO trains run on a 16.5mm gauge track. OO scale is generally only used for models of British prototype. OO describes models with a scale of 4 mm = 1 foot (1:76) running on HO scale 1:87 (3.5 mm = 1 foot). Soooo, a six foot figure in HO scale is 21mm tall, while in OO scale a six foot figure is 24mm tall. |
| VonBlucher | 12 Apr 2021 5:09 p.m. PST |
Their hard Plastic German's are right on as I put a standing figure next to one of their plastic Panther's and the helmet just barely rises above the hull top. That is also with a thin metal base and the plastic base from the figure. Their latest soft plastic figures are monsters compared to the hard plastic figures |
| General Scott | 28 Apr 2021 12:58 p.m. PST |
Thanks for your answers! By the way, I use size 8 washers for my troops. |
| Dan in Vermont | 18 May 2021 10:16 a.m. PST |
Laser Grenadier: which manufacturers make 15mm that seem to fit with 1/87?.i.e. which ones are closer to 18mm I tried some Flames of War but they seemed to small compared to my ROCO. |
