Help!!
I'm in the process of ordering some flexible river sections, and I have the choice of 30mm, 50mm or 70mm wide. Now, being an indecisive/obsessive chap, I can't decide which will work best for 10mm (principally WW2). I am leaning towards 30mm and 70mm, for streams/small rivers and a big river, but as this will increase the demand on legal tender, I don't wont to go overboard.
I know I could make this stuff myself, but a) I don't really have the space; b) lack the inclination!
The 70mm wide stuff will be useful for my bridging units, as they wouldn't look daft (a 10cm length of bridge looks silly when used with a 30mm river!)
Is 30mm to wide for streams? On a purely ground scale point of view they are very wide, but from a figure scale perspective, they're probably about right.
Or am I just over-thinking this...
Dithering Dave
For eye candy, if it looks good it is good.
Only worry about streams if your rules specify. Consider using bad going areas that assume a stream and concentrate on depicting rivers. Which to choose will depend on ground scale. Sounds that you might like to go with your mid-width choice as a compromise which is the one I would opt for. But, then, I make my own:
www.michaelscott.name/1809/1809blogpost59.htm (http://www.michaelscott.name/1809/1809blogpost59.htm)
Actual river widths (not coasts that double as river banks) are 50mm wide and work with my ground scale for 10mm gaming.
Cheers, Michael
Fifty mil is a big river, the Severn at Shrewsbury is 30 foot wide.
I'd go 50mm KD.
As often the middle is the golden choice. 50mms. If flat enough you can also obtain wider samples and simple close the gap a little by placing other terrain tiles over it.
The cheapsakte solution would to use a laserprinter - cant get much flatter. Fast, efficient, affordable and as suggested above flexible. :-\
Personally I'd go for 70mm. Ground-scale is all very well, but the river has to fit in with the other terrain pieces. A 10mm building can be 60-70mm square, so anything smaller is going to look really puny. It's only my bias, but I don't like underscale terrain.
Cheers guys :)
I went for 50mm, as I can always get the 30mm and 70mm stuff later :)
Herts, I concur - I prefer my scenery to look 'right', so will never have 6mm buildings with 10mm figures. That said, trees and hills always end up being a lot shorter than they should be...
Dave
p.s. I'll post some pics of the stuff when I get it :)