My Napoleonics are 6mm and I have been doing them since the 1980s when Adler started so no changing scale for me. But I am painitng up the Leven range of buildings for Waterloo (still expanding) and just had a thought about their use for 10mm. La Haye Sainte is not a small 6mm but the fooprint is not that large and I would say probably not suitable for larger scales, but Papelotte is big and I think would do pretty well for 10mm:
http://smww2andnapoleonic.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/waterloo-buildings-part-3-papelotte.html (http://smww2andnapoleonic.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/waterloo-buildings-part-3-papelotte.html)
The base for the main buildings is 17cm by 13cm. Hougoumont is also very large and needs an A4 sheet for the base. I have not done mine yet but there are some pictures on the Leven site:
http://www.levenminiatures.co.uk/gallery5.htm (http://www.levenminiatures.co.uk/gallery5.htm)
Leven overall is a mid size 6mm range - not as big as Timecast but bigger than most other 6mm. but the newer Waterloo buildings seem to be on the larger side. Also great quality casting and good value
Steve
I use them all the time; super models.
Another vote for Levan 6mm with 10mm figs, personally think 10mm model footprint actually looks over scale up against the figs and prefer the opportunity 6mm and Leven gives to create clusters of realistic looking models as opposed to one or two buildings huddled together in 10mm. On top of that as already noted Leven models are superb at a great price. Happy customer, I'm using them for my WW1 set up, the Normandy range in particular are great.
I don't know. I'm not fond of buildings and miniatures in different scales.
Quote from: barbarian on 18 April 2015, 06:33:20 PM
I don't know. I'm not fond of buildings and miniatures in different scales.
I sympathise to a degree, but what made me consider, and eventually adopt, 6mm buildings for use with 10mm figures was the issue of ground scale and figure ratios. If 1" is 50 yards in your ground scale, and/or 1 man is the equivalent of 50 men, are you happy that a single house is 100 yards long, or could accommodate a complete battalion? I don't think there is a right answer, but I have gone for a similar compromise in vertical scale to the ones I have adopted in the other dimensions.
Mollinary
I prefer buildings and figures to be the same scale. If I can cope with a dozen figures representing a battalion, I can cope with a single house representing a village and with single houses being lost in the landscape along with small brooks, single trees and all the other things we don't represent at that scale.
End of the day though, it's down to whatever format that allows you to exercise "the willing suspension of disbelief."
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 April 2015, 08:47:40 PM
I prefer buildings and figures to be the same scale. If I can cope with a dozen figures representing a battalion, I can cope with a single house representing a village and with single houses being lost in the landscape along with small brooks, single trees and all the other things we don't represent at that scale.
End of the day though, it's down to whatever format that allows you to exercise "the willing suspension of disbelief."
I agree With the above
Take care
Andy
It is personal taste. I like 6mm buildings with big battlefields, but 10mm buildings with smaller scales. I have had years to build up collections to allow this though.