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TMP just had an article on using model train O scale stuff for 28mm gaming:

http://theminiaturespage.com/news/612057/

some more buildings are here:

http://www.trainworld.com/bachmann/bachmann_o%20.htm

Anyone else used them?  They seem to work.

 

and would be a boon to cityfighters.  They're pretty cheap.

Looks a little small to me...

i thought HO scale would be the best if you wanted to go down this path?

it would be way, way cheap compaired to GW, if the size is right.

O scale is much closer, HO is almost Epic scale.

The figs used in the articles are old copplestone sculpts, closer to 25mm, so yeah, maybe too small for GW.

why does that give me a whole "sniper in a bell tower" kinda feel?

That would be so cool if the marines would fit. Im tempted to roll by my local hobby store and pick one up just to try it.

O scale is right at 1/48 scale GW is right around 1/43 scale.  It works quite well I had an O scale radio tower that was perfect for 40K.  I may pick up that church and log cabin set for Fantasy. 

Are these only mail order or can the be had in normal stores?

O scale and O27 scale are basically Lionel and American Flyer train set scales. I used some of my old Lionel train accessories from my days of mis-spent youth in a necromunda campaign. For terrain and it worked really well. not perfect, but really well. I even did an ash wastes scenario towards the end there where I got out my old engine and a few flatcars and we did a rolling train heist scenario. now that was a blast!

God, I hate the undead.

hehe, sorry about that, didnt even pay attention to the date...was just doing a search on "scale" to see what everyone thought the closest scale to GW 28mm scale was and this article caught my attention since I have over 30 years experience with O and O27 scale.

My apologies to the haters of the dreaded necro-thread.

~Bart