Figure size

[Leman (Andy)]

Fortunately I find fantasy and sci=fi about as appetising as boiled tripe.

[Colonel Kilgore]

I agree with both Leman and Martin's "quality and range" point.

Please stick to 15mm / 1:100 - if it works, don't try to fix it!

[Smiley Miley 66]

Mine is mainly 15mm. PBI, CWB, Bloody Barons, ROF( when i paint them) Pirates same again. AK47. FOW and Team Yankee.
Westerns but i also have 60 odd figures in 54mm with scenery too !

20mm Battlegroup.

28mm for various project yet to be completed

1/300th Team Yankee, pick a side i have Loads !!!
1/450 POE
1/600 Hammering Iron and
MTB game. Night fighters and Bombers too.

Full Thrust and Star Trek ships loads of not sure of the scale 1/2000-3000 ?

[Leslie BT]

Don't knock the tripe my next door neighbours have it regularly, and their well into their 80's, so it can't be all bad.

Often the figure scale is matched to the style of the game and the rule set being used. Skirmish style games with fewer figures seems to becoming very popular.

[martin goddard]

Tripe...yuk Les!

[Noggin]

Well, I seem to have quite a few periods and scales depending how my interests and club projects have changed over the years

32mm
Tombstone - Black Scorpion Wild West

28mm
Saga - Late Roman, Romano British, Saxon, Scots, Welsh, Viking, Irish, Jomsviking, Crusaders, Saracens, Mutatawiwa

Ronin - Samurai

General Ancients - Republican and Early Imperial Roman

Medieval - Viking, Frankish, Crusader, English - Lion Rampant

20mm
WW2 - German, British, American - mostly Rapid Fire

15mm
Early Imperial Roman, Classical Indian, Welsh, Norman, Ottoman, Crusader, French Ordnance - all from my days of DBM
Vikings - PP Longships
ACW - They Couldn't Hit an Elephant / PP Civil War Battles
Samurai - PP BAW
Napoleonic - French, Spanish, Austrian, Russian - mainly Blucher / Black Powder
ECW - PP RoF / FK&P
SCW - PP B&I
WW1 - Belgian, British - PP SB
WW2 - German, Italian, French, British, American - CoC
Old West - Plains Indians, Army, Cattlemen, Mexicans, Townsfolk

ACW ships - PP HI2

10mm
ACW - Altar of Freedom
Napoleonic - British, French, Prussian
FPW - French, Prussian, Bavarian and Crimean War British, French, Russian - mostly Bloody Big Battles

Fantasy
28mm - Frostgrave
10mm - Dropzone Commander

[steve_holmes_11]

Cut my teeth with Airfix, then after a break jumped in to 6mm.

Currently using

6mm
* A division of Russian Napoleonics (Black Powder Rules).

15mm
* Several age of exploration forces (Dragon Rampant rules). Portuguese, Somali, Javanese/Malay, Ming, Japanese (and Orcs).
* Urartu - Chariot age proto Armenian civilisation (Hail Caesar).

28mm
* Various small warbands (Frostgrave, Song of Blades and Heroes) - Orcs, Early Tudor, Ottoman, Viking, Landsknecht and a Cricket Team.

[martin goddard]

My 5mm adventures

In 5mm i had some of the mini fig blocks. solid blocks with detail carved out. A bit like the 3mm ACW from PP but before them.
Also had 5mm  Minifigs WW2 tanks etc.   I really liked Minifigs back in the 70s.

Did a fair bit of 1/300th tank warfare, in the early 1970s again. Firstly with Kirk miniatures. A very helpful seller. This is when Ros and Heroics were separate companies.  The Ross tanks came as two track units, hull and turret. Very fiddly. had some GHQ. amazing detail but delicate barrels, went down to Portsmouth Tricorne centre to buy them.

In those early days, infantry were difficult to get hold of (until the fantastic Heroics WW2 figures). Thus i made a large number of WW2 bases, but all in prone positions (just press the detail into Plasticene then pour in resin, so that they could be cast in "plasticraft"( A hobby resin for making transparent  blobs with things in them).

Made a large collection of WW 1/300th buildings, including converted Christmas cake buildings.
Put a 1/300th game on at Sussex university in 1973. Pictured in model soldier magazine (short lived gaming publication)

Did some figure gaming with Heroics ancients. Good fun, but probably chose too small a base size for easy handling.

Used little fir cone things (from the  local woods) for trees.

Then did sci fi . A 6x4 table with 10 men per side. Based upon Starship Troopers (the book not film). Each man had an "on foot" variant and a "flying" variant stuck on a long pin. The board was of beaver board and the men could be stabbed into the board. Great game with plausible ranges and movement, but figures literally got lost amongst lichen etc (lichen was the modelling scenery for all periods and scales in 1972).

Also the Peter Pig range "interceptors and Intruders" with an accompanying range of fighters on stands.

After all this i wandered off to 1/150th and 1/200th for tank gaming.