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We are slowly accumulating various miniatures for tabletop gaming and can never feel fully "decided" on scale. We tend to use either scale as proxies for experimenting with various different tabletop systems (kings of war, hail caesar, oathmark, conquest, warmaster, WHFB, Warhammer Ancients etc etc). I love 10mm for the way in which it represents "mass" and I love 15mm for the detail in the sculpts. however I do feel 15mm scale makes units look too "sparse" when based to represent a regimented unit. So we generally mix and match units and scales which can look a bit...uneven to say the least. How do you guys decide on scale? Or do you just give in, as well, and collect both!?

We are starting to cast our eyes over epic 40k/dropfleet commander as well and thankfully the decision seems to made for us as most sci-fi seems to run at 10mm scale (with the vehicles and infantry units then working quite well for Battletech as well!)

Also - Apologize if this is not in the correct forum index. Not entirely sure of the right place to put these thoughts!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/800709/11211398.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/800709/11211398.page GMT 40k scale conflict on a reasonably sized board. 28/32mm is great for super detailed infantry models, but the battlefield seems a bit cramped.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/800709/11211408.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/800709/11211408.page GMT
Personally - I like 15mm for larger scale games. enough details and painting "can" be fun depending... Anything smaller gets hard to paint with anything beyond "green" or "Grey". But 6mm is fun for a campaign.


** I used to do a lot of historical 15mm ancients and napoleonics so that skews me a bit.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/800709/11218226.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/800709/11218226.page GMT
15mm had one thing going for it - I have access to Battlelore and Joan of Arc Time of Legends (both friends' copies) so if we wanted it, we had a ready-made pile of volunteers for our budding armies!

But 15mm ultimately felt too close to 30mm: you get no significant speed painting bonus, as the models are so detailed that they don't paint up that much faster than their larger brethren. 15mm still has the larger footprint, and as noted above this limits the options for packing them in for a more epic massed-battle look (we also wanted to model ancients-style battles with the minis, with thousands or 10s of thousands of men on the field). I just felt, why use 15mm if I've got a ton of 30mm? I wanted something significantly different. The "strips" of 10mm figures all modeled together make for very nice formations and make painting a little easier. And then I discovered Forest Dragon, who makes figures for Warmaster Revolutions (fan-based revision of Warmaster) and the details on his models are just stunning.

Finally, the storage solution for 10mm seems easier. I'm using steel bases, and will store them on a magnetic sheet. They're light enough that they shouldn't move around much, if at all. So 10mm will store that much easier than 15mm.

So ultimately, it was an easy choice to go with 10mm. I'm in the thick of painting and modeling right now, but what I've done looks really nice!

(My friend has a bunch of 6mm. While in theory, I like the idea of 6mm, they are just too small to see easily and differentiate between the units. My old-man eyes!)]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/800709/11286830.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/800709/11286830.page GMT