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for my vietnam themed imperial gaurd im going to use 5 ton trucks/half tracks with mounted quad 50. guns and im either going to convert them (please any ideas for base models would be greatly appreciated) or by these models, but how do they scale??

http://historyondisplay.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1133

they might be a tiny bit to small, its what i've foudn in the past with 1:35 sutff. most GW is histting 1:38 apart form lotr rubbish.

you might be able to sue the vehicle as a base and bulk up the drivers cab

do you reckon they'll be recogniseable as hydras??

Sgt.Roadkill wrote:they might be a tiny bit to small, its what i've foudn in the past with 1:35 sutff. most GW is histting 1:38 apart form lotr rubbish.

you might be able to sue the vehicle as a base and bulk up the drivers cab

Actually 1/35th scale is massively oversized for 40K. The appropriate scale for 28mm figures is 1/56 or 1/58. Look at a company like Sloppy Jalopy for example. Of course, other than the "lotr rubbish" GW doesn't make an accurately scaled human so I suppose in the end you just want to make sure that the models look "right" rather than exactly in scale. But, the driver's cab on that truck is going to be way too big for your Guard.

Kman is correct 40k uses 28mm scale, road kill must be smoking something...

GW uses "Heroic" 28mm scale, meaning they don't keep things to scale. Try somewhere in the range of 1/40 to 1/50 scale, and you might have a winner.

One thing to bear in mind with building for 40k is that what is "to scale" isn't necessarily the right size. As has been stated, 40k runs large. There has never been a tank the (scale) size of the leman russ so far as I can think, and certainly not modern tanks. I discovered when getting models for my Lost and the Orky that I needed to decide how big I wanted the end model to be, and then get something that size, whether it was a 1:35 Panzer (roughly LandRaider size) or a 1/75 truck (which was a little small for a trukk).

Still, as a rule of thumb when buying blind, I agree that 1/40-1/50 is your best bet.

Wargames Factory sells true scale 28mm which they clain as 1/56. So 1;54 1;48 is probably your best bet for 40K