6mm or 10mm buildings

Started by Axebreaker, 11 October 2013, 08:21:30 PM

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mollinary

DP,

Great looking set up.  I also go for 6mm buildings with 10mm units for exactly the same reasons.  However, that said, I would agree that the closer you get to a 1:1 figure to man ratio, the stronger the argument becomes for the use of 10mm buildings.  At present my APW figures are at about 1:20.  For certain scenarios I may go to 1:10, and may then have to rethink the building scale.

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With Horse and Musket armies 6mm buildings seem to look right - they are taller than the troops, and you can get a few in the right area for the troops.
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Yep, but most of these buildings were scratchbuilt.

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Quote from: Hertsblue on 14 October 2013, 09:24:43 AM
Yep, but most of these buildings were scratchbuilt.


Quote from: Axebreaker on 13 October 2013, 04:16:20 PM
Looks great Dour Puritan! 8)

Does anyway have some 10mm building with troops like Dour's to give a comparison?

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Axebreaker

Super bit of scratch building Hertsblue! 8)

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Hertsblue

Actually built by a mate of mine who is an architectural model-maker by profession. And it shows!

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Axebreaker

Ahh.... still very nice built buildings by him. 8)

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Quote from: Hertsblue on 14 October 2013, 09:24:43 AM
Yep, but most of these buildings were scratchbuilt.

Get's my vote. Great sense of scale. Good one, Ray!
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To come back on this - a town in SYW period seems to work best in 6mm (also use this scale for C19th as well). That said I use 10mm buildings with my Dux Britanniarum figures as there are generally fewer figures used in those games, even where three 10mm figures represent one 28mm figure.
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tschuma

http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,8172.0.html

Is the link to the Batrep for my Nachod game with Paperterrain 6mm buildings.  As per the many previous post, I think it depends on the scale of your game.  This was 1 stand equals 300 men and 1" equals 100 yards so 1 - 10mm building would have been huge. 

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Techno

Damn fine job by your mate, Ray !
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chalkie

I take it they are unit cards ? Like the idea of that, can you tell me what info is on them please ?

Wulf

Quote from: tschuma on 16 October 2013, 04:55:35 PM
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,8172.0.html

Is the link to the Batrep for my Nachod game with Paperterrain 6mm buildings. 
I have some of those buildings too - looks like you actually folded up the chimneys too! I must admit I gave up on that...  :-[

Axebreaker

With my Late Romans I'll go with 10mm as I think it will work just right for that. If and when I do anything with horse and musket I think 6mm will be the right way to go.

Great looking board Tom! 8)

Christopher