Width and Height please!

They all vary by a few millimetres from memory. A lot depends upon the manufacturer and what they feel is right visually. I've scratch built some accurate 1/144th scale buildings that have looked too small and have to scale them up a bit so that they look right. Ditto for doors and windows.

The Kestrel railway station I'm currently putting together has doors 8mm wide by 15mm high. The Wargame Mods MDF terrace houses, 6mm x 13mm. Metcalfe seem to favour 6mm x 16mm. So anywhere around those values should work fine. Also depends on whether you are doing a one to one building representation or not.

- Neil.

10mm = 5-6' right?  So surely a door should be around 12-14mm?

Strangely the doors on my 10mm buildings are 10mm scale. I also have 28mm scale buildings with 28mm doors, 15mm buildings with 15mm doors etc. Have I missed something here?

At 10mm scale (1:150th) 1ft = 2mm, so a door would be 13/14mm high.

Just found this interesting page:

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/news/what-is-scenery-scale-and-how-big-should-my-doors-be/

QuoteHere are the sizes for some other common wargames figures:

18mm (1/89) = 11.2mm x 24.9mm            (base = 1.9mm)

15mm (1/107) = 9.3mm x 20.7mm            (base = 1.6mm)

10mm (1/161) = 6.2mm x 13.8mm            (base = 1mm)

6mm (1/268) = 3.7mm x 8.3mm                 (base = 0.6mm)

EDIT: Pic resized.

That's a handy pic, very useful.  The '10mm' version comes out to about right then, being just under 14mm high.  They seem to be off on a some of their scales though, 15mm is commonly accepted as being 1:100th, 6mm being 1:285th or 1:300th depending on which manufacturer you go to and we take 10mm as being 1:150th. 

I believe 1:150 is UK N-gauge and 1:160 is US N-gauge when talking model railways. Maybe that explains the difference?

Can't imagine anything's changed since I posted this 4 years ago:

www.michaelscott.name/1809/1809blogpost06.htm

Good stuff, Wee Wars - and a very interesting and useful link, Raffles. Bottom line is - use a visual trick.

If you try to find out what "N" scale is, you'll see it is complicated. As Ithoriel says, it ranges from 1:148 to 1:160 but confusingly, both use "N" gauge tracks at 1:160 (the 'gauge' is the distance between the rails). As I understand that UK model railway "N" scale uses 1:148, in my mind, that means that UK trains / rolling stock models must be taller than they should be (as for length, I don't know).

However, as this seems to work well with railways, from a wargaming perspective, it shows how we can get away with a slightly higher vertical scale than the ground scale for not only our model doors but for the whole building also.