Post by medievalthomas on Sept 25, 2017 17:43:00 GMT
Scale creep seems to be the hobby norm. Its first hit we 25mm guys as we have crept up to 28mm and now 32mm has started to appear. Fortunately the plastic companies lead by the Perry Bros have settled on a "small" 28mm size so are cross compatiable.
15mm started as 1:120, now has risen to 1:100 and recently a company started callings 1:87 (HO) 15mm. It used to be the old 20mm "scale" which has grown through 1:76 to become finally standarized at 1:72 (which for old timers was the original 25mm "scale").
Phil remains (happily) in the Dark Ages of figure size - hence his reluctance to give us adequate sized depths to accomdate current figure ranges. It seems most of us have just gone with 15-20mm depth for 15's and 20-30mm depth for 25/8mm. Phil did give us the option of 40-45mm depth for 25/8 mounted (but not out to 50mm for some reason).
My current basing convention (28mm): Solid: 20mm depth; Fast: 30mm depth. "Heavy Foot": Pike/Blades/Spear etc. 4 figures; "Medium Foot": Bow/Aux/Warband etc. 3 figures. I find varying base depth works better to distinguish Solid/Fast than figure count. Close order Foot looks cool cramped (literally) together shoulder to shoulder while the "bigger" posses of archers and warband types look and fit better 3 per base. (Also serves as rough reminder of Combat Factor.) Since 28mm is not a traditional "scale" for DBX I don't feel any great compulsion to stick with the old and rather arbitrary basing schemes.
TomT
15mm started as 1:120, now has risen to 1:100 and recently a company started callings 1:87 (HO) 15mm. It used to be the old 20mm "scale" which has grown through 1:76 to become finally standarized at 1:72 (which for old timers was the original 25mm "scale").
Phil remains (happily) in the Dark Ages of figure size - hence his reluctance to give us adequate sized depths to accomdate current figure ranges. It seems most of us have just gone with 15-20mm depth for 15's and 20-30mm depth for 25/8mm. Phil did give us the option of 40-45mm depth for 25/8 mounted (but not out to 50mm for some reason).
My current basing convention (28mm): Solid: 20mm depth; Fast: 30mm depth. "Heavy Foot": Pike/Blades/Spear etc. 4 figures; "Medium Foot": Bow/Aux/Warband etc. 3 figures. I find varying base depth works better to distinguish Solid/Fast than figure count. Close order Foot looks cool cramped (literally) together shoulder to shoulder while the "bigger" posses of archers and warband types look and fit better 3 per base. (Also serves as rough reminder of Combat Factor.) Since 28mm is not a traditional "scale" for DBX I don't feel any great compulsion to stick with the old and rather arbitrary basing schemes.
TomT
