Post Apoc scale dilemma

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Post Apoc scale dilemma; need some advice
Tweet Topic Started: Mar 19 2011, 06:32 AM (626 Views)
Gunner	Mar 19 2011, 06:32 AM Post #1
Mutant Posts: 3 Group: Members Member #245 Joined: Dec 12, 2010	Hi guys, I'm new to this site, I love the PA genre and have wanted to start a project for a long time, my best work is with 15mm so thats what I am collecting, I bought a heap of Khurasans PA figs (very nice to) and a shed load of vehicles, and I need some help with a scale dilemma, I do prefer to have everything in scale, I have both Matchbox/hotwheels and cheap Chinese cars, the Hotwheels cars are great and will make excellent PA road warrior cars but they are over scale, the Chinese cars are, well crap really, but they are more to scale, (they were 1/4 of the price to) I have some conversion skills, so do I convert the hotwheels into something over scale but which will look great or convert the Chinese crap into something workable but in scale? Or do I mix the to, maybe in differant factions? I will be using the trucks etc anyway as they are not bad and will look good when finished, I have added some scale picts, what do you think? http://gunnerswargamming.blogspot.com/



mattblackgod	Mar 19 2011, 11:21 AM Post #2
Big boss warlord dude! Posts: 15,699 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jul 22, 2008	That was one thing that put me off 15mm - hotwheels cars look just too large. The chinese cars are poo but the trucks work well. So guys come on and pass on your advice for Gunner! btw - I love the modification of those EM4 robots into walkers for 15mm! Ace work.



Mr. Clean	Mar 19 2011, 11:43 AM Post #3
Wasteland Legend/Cat Skinner/Bad Speller/Super Nice Guy B^) Posts: 3,577 Group: Members Member #134 Joined: Jan 7, 2010	Hello and welcome! Yeah, those Matchbox cars just dont look right.But you know the cheap cars dont look to bad to me,a little paint a little plasticard and i think they could be very nice. Brian



Ironblood	Mar 19 2011, 12:01 PM Post #4
Cannie! Posts: 729 Group: Members Member #73 Joined: Mar 6, 2009	iirc 15mm looks better with 1/87 scaled cars, I know hotwheels has made some in the past, they come in a little display boy type of thing. Most of the big trucks in "1/64" are actually closer to 1/87.



Annerios	Mar 19 2011, 03:59 PM Post #5
Wastelander Posts: 152 Group: Members Member #286 Joined: Feb 28, 2011	I don't think the Chinese cars look that bad if you think of them as raw material. They are just the base for conversions which will be painted and often covered with metal plates, etc. If you were going to leave them pretty much as is, then they might not look that great. That Mad Max look-alike from Khurasan looks much larger than the other human figures they make. He may pass for 20mm, which works for my preferred scale. The mutants look terrific. I have to get some of those. Great photos.



Gunner	Mar 23 2011, 09:40 AM Post #6
Mutant Posts: 3 Group: Members Member #245 Joined: Dec 12, 2010	Thanks guys, I will raise the hight of my figures with their bases, this will help scale them a bit better against the Hotwheels, I may use a mix of the Chinese and Hotwheel cars, I'll play around with them a bit.



tinker	Mar 23 2011, 05:30 PM Post #7
CEO of "Rat-on-a-Stick" Industries Posts: 9,394 Group: Admins Member #11 Joined: Aug 4, 2008	Gunner, Welcome to the group... Your Trojan Miniatures are fantastic! Good luck on the 15mm work. Have you considered HO model railway vehicles? Maybe FleaBay has them acceptably cheap enough for PA work.



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