"Choosing a Miniature Scale Based on Your Eyesight" Topic

Never really picked one scale. 6mm+……to 54 I guess. Age 53, declining eyes, had lasic, wear readerssince anyway to paint. Never changed.

My eyesight seems to have plateaued for the last few years (I'm nearly 67) with only middle distance showing deterioration and I still only need reading glasses.

I use a 1.75 magnifier to help painting (have done so for 15 years) and lots of light. Don't have any more trouble with painting 2mm than I did 20 odd years ago.

I do find playing with smaller scales a bit more difficult as the other side of a 5ft table now counts as 'middle distance' and I can misidentify even 15mm enemy units.

I think some people use eyesight as an excuse – if you really want to paint small stuff, there are ways round the problem for most people.

For me, I'm so used to painting 2-10mm that I'm struggling to do the few 28mm I've picked up recently. It is a new scale for me and I'm finding it difficult to get the results I expect using modified versions of my methods on 10mm. I'm too old to bother developing new techniques so I'll probably just struggle on until the next 10mm project gets started.

Hmm. A gratifying list of options, but it's a little more complicated for me. I'm painting as small (2mm) and as large (54mm) as I ever have, myopia and cataracts are catching up with me, and I am taking steps.
--the smaller castings are going on larger stands, and the number and/or alignment of the castings may be informative.
--Whenever historically possible, uniform colors between armies differ light/dark and the troops are different in profile.
--in smaller scales, information is painted on. Armies are color-coded on the back edge of the stand, for instance, and in 5/6mm and under, the nature of a crew-served weapon is painted on the base in NATO symbology. (You want to sort out 2mm AT from MG from mortars in the middle of a game? Not me, thank you.)
So far, it's working well enough. The 54mm castings in the garage are for when it doesn't.

Using magnifiers I can still paint the smaller figures. They just don't look as good on the table anymore, so I am generally moving to larger figures.

Other: I now pay to have my figures painted.

My eye sight is such now that I cannot paint to the quality level I use to. So I have farm out most of my painting to professionals now. I occasionally still paint but not anywhere near the volume or quality I did when I was younger.

I find it difficult to use magnifiers. I loose all sense of proportion. All my work looks okay until I put a magnifier on it. Then it looks awful. I tend to take much longer to paint when I used magnifiers.

My eyesight is worse than it used to be. However, I still use 6mm and 10mm figures. I recently invested and painted up a bunch of 6mm WW2 figures. The tanks are easy enough to see. The infantry is a bit tougher to discern. Makes me wish I went with 10mm figures.

I'm having much more trouble with a tremor than with eyesight these days for all scales.

One of the advantages of high grade myopia is that sometimes your short span vision actually gets better with age – so I can still go my 6mm!

The past 20 odd years it's been 2mm and 6mm only,recently tried 3mm for Dux Brit.