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I'm mostly looking into their turfs as basing material, but other comments welcome -- including which of these are good deals and must haves!

What railroad scale works best with 25mm and 28mm miniatures?

I already have dead static grass, static grass, and stuff from Woodland Scenics kits.

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O scale is the most usable, though it is on the large side. Ideally you want to find 1:56 scale.

JTT has some of the better trees available.

The textured sheets are awesome.

Many of their detail parts (street lights in particular) are great.

A lot of their small plants are pretty good.

Their flock is a bit - unnatural (or it was - I haven't bought any of their flock for several years).

They are on the less expensive side of things in general as well, which gives them added bonus points for value.

In terms of which scale - O is going to be 1/48 scale from them. It is close enough too deal with the out of wack sizing you get with a lot of 28mm stuff. They started out life as an architectural supply company though - so what they are selling as HO scale (1/87) is actually 1/96 scale. Sometimes you can squeak certain items in with 25mm figures using HO scale items...but the 1/96 is significantly too small for them (pretty much spot on for 15mm though).

Outside of JTT's offerings, O scale can be 1/48 (NRMA), 1/43.5 (Toy Train and UK), 1/45 (mainland Europe) or 1/50 (Japan) - with some variation, crossover and what not between different manufacturers and items. All of those are generally viewed as acceptable by many people for 28mm gaming (granted - I think it looks like a circus act...but, whatever).

S Scale is just the other side of things - at 1:64 scale, it is fairly well set for 25mm to the eye gaming. Popular for shortline and wild west model railroads more than anything else.

OO falls in at 1/76 scale. Works the part for a lot of 20mm to the eye, 25mm to the top of the head or 1/72 gaming (a lot of 20mm lines have suffered from scale creep to the point of being the same size as 1/72 figures).

Now - which of those to use...well, as noted already - 28mm generally will scale out to around 1/56 scale based solely on the height of the figures. So many of them are so badly proportioned though, that they wouldn't fit through a door of a 1/48 scale building...yet at the same time a 1/48 scale shovel is taller than they are.