12mm World War One

[Sunray]

I am always reluctant to mention or promote in any way another range on the Pendraken website, but have just become aware of Kallistra -  they do  eclectic ranges from ancient hordes, AWI, ACW and WW1.  Just figures and guns, no vehicles.

Has anyone seen them up close and personal ?

I ask because if compatible with Pendraken (and some 12mm are) I would consider them as a WW1 Guards unit.   

[Fenton]

AQs far as I am aware  and from what I have read online they are noticeably bigger

[sakura]

great figures
not at all compatible with pendraken which are also great but much smaller
shame

[fred.]

Kallistra's ranges started with some of the Pendraken Fantasy figures. And the Pendraken fantasy ranges are considerably bigger than Pendraken's historical ranges.

The later Kallistra ranges were made to be compatible with their initial ranges - and therefore are much bigger than Pendraken historical. This is a real shame as there are some lovely figures in the Kallistra ranges.

[Sunray]

My thanks to all for the  sound intel.    I will stick with 10mm

  It might be useful if someone did an up to date 'Mad axeman' review of the current crop of 10/12 mm on the market.

[Maenoferren]

Fantasy ranges on the whole are the Pendraken figures moulded into a strip.

[FierceKitty]

I use some of their stuff mixed in with others, mainly for my Muscovites, Chinese, and Turkish armies. It works better than you'd think; em masse in particular, men are not all the same size.
I'm always amused by the "maximum load 15 persons" sign in the lifts in the S. and M. Building (slight liberty with the name). I'm easily twice the body mass of many of my students.

[Leman]

Proper wargamer then.

[Sunray]

I use some of their stuff mixed in with others, mainly for my Muscovites, Chinese, and Turkish armies. It works better than you'd think; em masse in particular, men are not all the same size.
I'm always amused by the "maximum load 15 persons" sign in the lifts in the S. and M. Building (slight liberty with the name). I'm easily twice the body mass of many of my students.

That's my logic with wargame figures. Some of my favourite  modern bases are a mix of Minifigs 12mm  special forces and 10mm Pendraken Vietnam Aussies . They work very well, but perhaps these are the smaller end of MM ?

[WeeWars]

As I mentioned in another post, at Claymore this year the trader from the Kallistra stand brought some of his WW1 miniatures over to my WW1 demo game to compare figure sizes. The Kallistra figures not only looked like a different scale next to the Pendraken miniatures but were also too big alongside my scratch-built 10mm houses. We both agreed that for us they were not compatible and it was a case of one or the other.

[FierceKitty]

http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,10931.msg136078.html#msg136078

Russian feudal horse from Kallistra fighting Pendraken Polish hussars. There's no scale difference you don't rapidly adjust to, IMFFHO.

[Sunray]

No argument, although some sculptors do make their horses smaller in proportion to humans than other sculptors. It is a difficulty at this scale.  The horses can fit. but the foot figures may be too large ?

[sunjester]

I looked at the Kallistra WW! figures. Really lovely sculpts but way too big to fit with my Pendraken models.