"25mm or 28mm?" Topic

Other … I call the smaller traditional scale 25mm and the newer, larger, more space marine scale 28mm.

I don't consider them one scale at all.

Phil
(but, hey, at least we are being mature enough to call the definition by figure height a scale … time was we'd have to spend the first 4 pages of debate being lectured on how you can't use standard terminology in a way everyone commonly does and understands )

If I must use a number, 25mm when I am talking about a figure I know is called 25mm by the producer or seller. Same principle for 28mm.

When talking generically about figures that come in one of the sizes I often use 25mm/28mm but may just use 25mm or 28mm indiscriminately.

Since moving to 15mm/18mm, 6mm, and 3mm for different applications I find people get hung up on sizes in the first case.

I use 25mm. Because that is the way I roll…

I call 25mm figures 25mm and 28mm figures 28mm. They are too different to mix, and generally I use 25mm metals if I can. More generally I use 20mm plastics in preference to both, but that's a different debate and I wouldn't want to drift off topic.

I call 'em 25/28mm notably as I do use both sizes on the same game table – just not in the same unit (ah, I see the Prussians have that under-fed runt infantry unit again!)

I still call them 25's (too old to change). That said I will not allow true 25's on the same table as 28's. This means my British, German, Russian colonials and their enemies will never meet my U.S, Cuban, and Spanish.

I call them 25mm because I haven't bought any figures in that scale since the late 70's (when I switched over to 15mm). All I have is 25's.

I generally call them 25s because that is what I grew up. Sometimes I will refer to them as 25/28mm.

They are two completely different scales.
My lovely old Ral Partha 25's are NOT related to 30mm cartoon figures.

I call it whatever the voices tell me to call them. You must not upset the voices.

"28mm" or "heroic" scale.

This is why I went to 15mm.

Kyoteblue,

"18mm"

I try to make the distinction. Some people don't bother.

Like the assholes who list their 28's in the "25mm" category on Ebay, and vice-versa. My God, how I wish they would just combine the categories!

I got into this when they were all called 25mm, and I'll never cotton to changes.

I also still refer to Constantinople, Upper Volta, the New Hebrides, the Chicago Cardinals, Blatz beer, and Coleco.

Two different scales. 25mm does not fit with 28mm.

I don't put them in the same unit but in a pinched I will put the 25mm units on the same table with 28mm. I called them 25mm for a long time even though they were actually 28mm. Now I tend to do the 25/28 thing.

This is why I went to 15mm.

You mean true 15mm or 18mm or 15/18mm?