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| 15mm and HO scale; Got any photos? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 30 2010, 04:10 AM (2,232 Views) | |
| ConfusedDad | Sep 30 2010, 04:10 AM Post #1 |
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I've been playing various post-apoc scenarios with 28mm figures and O-scale terrain. It's a pretty good match...BUT...it takes up a fair amount of room to set up a nice battlefield and it's bulky to haul around. So I'm going to change things up a little bit by painting up some 15mm figures (Zombies and post-apoc gangers). I'd like to paint up and detail some HO scale buildings, similar to what I've done with O-scale. I know that technically HO-scale is sized to a 20mm figure, but do 15mm figures look way out of scale? Does anybody have a picture of some 15mm figures in front of some HO-scale buildings? A picture's worth a thousand words! Thanks! |
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| mattblackgod | Sep 30 2010, 07:49 AM Post #2 |
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Big boss warlord dude!
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Looking online HO is 1:87 so in theory it isnt much larger. OO is 1:76 which is 20mm. Of course the websites I am looking at could be wrong as I thought it was the other way around. |
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| shadowbeast | Sep 30 2010, 09:13 AM Post #3 |
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HO is 1/87, sometimes called 18mm but many 15mm figs eg FOW are the same size anyway. Japanese HO is 1/80. OO was an expedient adopted so the British could have something smaller than O without having to make a special track, due to HO mechanisms not fitting into the smaller British locos, at least not economically. |
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| infojunky | Mar 4 2011, 06:46 AM Post #4 |
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I say if HO stuff looks good with your choice of 15mm figures do it. While the stated scale of 15mm is 1/100th, it really comes down to what you think looks good. Lots pf people use Rocco Minitanks and other HO vehicles with 15mm and they look fine. Athern makes unpainted 20 foot containers that I personally love for 15mm. I am also using Airfix 1/76th scale M133's as Rhino analogs for 15mm. |
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| ConfusedDad | Mar 5 2011, 07:33 AM Post #5 |
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Thanks for the various inputs. I broke down and bought a couple of HO scale buildings and a few 15mm figures to test it out. I haven't painted anything up yet, just checking scales. It doesn't look bad, so I think I'm going to build and paint more HO buildings and 15mm figures. (More projects added to the queue!) |
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| BRUTPAUL | Mar 5 2011, 09:04 AM Post #6 |
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I used H0 buildings and think they look perfect. In this batrep you can see some Man against the Machines 1 |
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