"Best Scale for Jet Combat Games?" Topic

Used to use 1/300th for jets and WW2. Prefer 1/600th for jets and WW2.

Now Biplanes… those wings in 1/600th… well, never use super glue, the shear stresses exert themselves at the worst possible moments. Switching to resin glue to hopefully over come the "flying wing" syndrome…

Also backing up WW1 1/600th with 1/300th aircraft incase I don't find a suitable solution. Yes, pun intended…

no 1:1 option :(

1/300 for me because I am bad at painting anything smaller

For the biplanes, though, 1/144 all the way – I like the look of the bigger models, especially those German fighters

I am with Frederick, although I prefer 1/72 for biplanes.

To me the "game" is all about the looks. I want to actually SEE the planes, and although you need a lot of room, 1/300 looks good.

Two things strike me:

1) At this time, 55%of the responses are what some call "micro-scale" – i.e., 1/300th (6mm) and 1/600th (3mm)

2) The "lack of love," as a friend calls it, for 1/200th scale.

I also wonder what "other" means scale/size wise. 1/1200, 1/2400, 1/72, 1/144, 1/6000? At least one 1/72 I would guess

Edit: Is 1:144 the WW1 WoW/WoG scale used for airplane figures?

Sorry I thought I took 1:144 out of the body of the sentence about "other scales" but I guess I missed removing that when I added the edit line.

It depends.

I voted 1/300th, since I like the larger minis, but 1/600th are better for permitting more maneuvering room on the tabletop.

1/144th are even nicer, for an impressive look on the tabletop, so, I'm a multi-scale gamer.

55% for 1/6700 – 1/300.

32% for no Opinion (some non-aerial types and some just not saying types I am sure,) make a running sub-total of 87%.

Wow I thought the larger scales would be reflected more here. Maybe what I see on the tables at the local conventions is just a local aberration. That would fit the culture here…

I suspect some of the no opinions might be for multi-scale gamers who couldn't choose one scale over the other, as well.

Larger scale minis look very nice, but frequently with jets, you want lots of maneuvering room, and with the addition of long-range missiles, some separation between aircraft.

For the latter, especially, smaller scale minis are better.

So, no favorite scale?

I see different scales for some things, (land combat – 15/25+mm for skirmish, 6/10/15/25+mm for small battles such as Platoons/Companies, and 3/6mm for larger battles,) but it seems that Aerial (or possibly naval) might tend towards a single scale preference for frequently is more one model is one plane/ship gaming.

Part of the issue to me is that speed changes make problems if you are looking for one family of rules for WW1 through today. I see Air War 1918 and Air War C21 but as for the WW2 era there isn't a set of rules that crosses the gap from the same producer.

Ditto the Wings AT War series (Duel of Eagles, [WW1], Desert Spitfires [1948-1949], Wings Over Suez (1956], Thud Ridge [1965-1972], Flames above the Falklands [1982] has a WW2 gap.

Wings OF War/Wings of Glory has a WW1/WW2 set but no Jets (that I know of) and this compounded by two different scale miniatures (1/144 and 1/200?) too.

Oooh Shiny or To Each Their Own I guess.

Edit: Hmm, this is becoming a thread hijack, let me move this conversation thread to another Board.