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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: geoffb on February 01, 2016, 10:56:44 AM

Title: 1:56 scale armour
Post by: geoffb on February 01, 2016, 10:56:44 AM

Hi

I have a quite a few 1:56 tanks and vehicles and have bought from a number of manufacturers.
I've generally been fairly happy with how close to each other in scale until purchasing a Warlord Panzer II on the weekend.
Some quick measuring and a bit of wiki'ing and the its looking somewhere around 1:50-1:52 scale and is quiet noticeable to me.

I also have a Warlord SU76 which looked a bit big but is not too bad when measuring.
I have Die Waffenkammer, Rubicon and Warlord so far and was hoping to have picked up a Blitzkreig Miniatures 38T at Crusade but there were none to be had.
As long as they look fairly close to the eye I'm no overly concerned but this is the first I've come across that does jar visually - what are your experiences?
Anything to avoid?

Title: Re: 1:56 scale armour
Post by: der teufel on February 03, 2016, 10:05:22 PM

Until they got expensive I was getting Corgi armour from various sources, so when I bought the Warlord Panzer it was a size shock. I will stick with Corgi and even some 1/48th kits ( Frog and Fuman).

Title: Re: 1:56 scale armour
Post by: carlos marighela on February 04, 2016, 07:14:28 AM

First Corps and Westwind are fairly upfront about being 1/48 and 1/60 respectively.  Blacktree Design seem to be all over the place and some of their kits or as some would have it, misshapen puzzles, are huge the Universal carrier being a prime example.

I have a couple of different examples of Warlord and Rubicon kits  (T-34 and M5A1) and they are pretty much identical in terms of proportions. I understand although I haven't measured one that Minairons' 1/56 offerings are pretty much true to scale.

Title: Re: 1:56 scale armour
Post by: Captain Blood on February 04, 2016, 07:41:46 AM

I asked a similar question a few weeks ago: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=84635.0

You might find some answers there. (Or you will find the same people write much the same things here all over again  ;))

Title: Re: 1:56 scale armour
Post by: lou passejaire on May 12, 2016, 05:11:58 PM

and again ...
anything professionally produced in 3D design will be true scale ...
Old stuff produced by modellers ( including a lot of the Warlord resin stuff )  is of "varying scale" ...
I was surprised to see that the old AGN Hotchkiss tank are real 1/56 scale ...