"6mm / 5mm / 1:285 / 1:300" Topic

Do people think there is a significant difference in these scales? I have minis from Irregular, GHQ, C&C, Heroics and Ros, Pendraken, and Baccus Miniatures, as well as GW Epic scales stuff. Some of them seem larger or smaller than others. Does anyone care? I mean, 6mm is 20% larger than 5%, and up close, they seem very different.

Didn't know Pendraken did 6mm figures. I thought they were only 10mm. But I would say, overall, there isn't a lot of difference between all these scales.

The only 6mm models from Pendraken are a range of WW2 and Post War aircraft.

Do people think there is a significant difference in these scales?

It's a bit like the difference between 1/76 and 1/72. Just don't mix them in the same unit. In separate units they are fine.

When ou field a mix unit of tanks in 1/285 and 1/300. IMHO I can tell a difference.

I find there is as much a difference in "scale" of the minis from a single manufacturer as there is between manufacturers. I mix them all freely and let's face it, at that scale who cares? The biggest difference is some have multiple minis on a single base vs a strip of minis you cut off and assemble onto a base. Both work for me.

I usually do a horse & musket period either in H&R or in Baccus, but don't blend them in one army/period. (Apart from anything else, I started with 24 H&R on 2" bases, and Baccus require 60mm.) In WWII, I've been known to swap tanks about between German cammo schemes so that in any given army the Panzer IIIs are more or less uniform, and smaller than the Panzer IVs. But I'm generally held to be fussier than most in these scales.

Yeah, the scale/size/style differences are obvious to me.

I started out trying to be very consitent regarding the scale of miniatures, wasting half my life waiting for some manufacturers to round out lines, rather than mix scales, but some years ago, I just gave up on it, and started filling in the gaps in my armies with what was available.

I still avoid mixing say Pz IV Gs from CinC with those from GHQ in a unit, but four tank types on the table could well be from four different manufacturers these days.

In the end, I find that while the scale and sizes of models are very obvious to me, I don't care once they are on the table. They simply are what they are, and I enjoy the game regardless of the size and scale.

I started in 6mm back in the 1970s with H&R, Skytrex, Lancashire and GHQ, expanding in later years to include Irregular, Scotia and Mainforce. These are all 'proper' 6mm figures in my mind as they are around 1/300th scale apart from the 1/285th GHQ bloaters. Back in the 70s there was also a brief 5mm fad but it didn't last. One of my pals still has some original 5mm SYW blocks, and they are quite a bit smaller than H&R.

To my mind the abominations of Adler and even worse, Baccus, aren't 6mm at all. More like 8mm. The Baccus vehicles are around 1/240th and don't mix with anything else, the Adler figures tower over 1/300th scale vehicles. The GHQ figures are all on the large side but just about acceptable.

So no, I don't mix Baccus with other stuff, although all my ACW stuff is Baccus as I picked up a large unpainted army second hand. They are lovely figures and I can see why people like them as they are easier to paint being so big, but 6mm they aint. Whatever Pete Berry says.

I have mostly GHQ in WWII and moderns, but plenty of H&R and a few from others and the minor differences don't concern me. I don't mix vehicle types within the same unit, but have lots of units of different manufacturers (e.g., H&R and GHQ Soviet tank regiments in the same division). All good.