Being a Civil war buff and railroad modeler I was thrilled with these 28mm Perry Brothers figures:A diorama is planned in Scale57. Visit:http://www.55n3.org/civil_war/Thank you if you visitHarold
Also Scale57 has the only 43" driver available to make a Camel and a malleable chassis:
HO Roundhouse 66" drivers translate to 43" in Scale57 with a Bowser HO Pennsy Decapod frame. The frame will be widened with brass strips.
Harold
Good Grief ! ! By the size of those large anti-tank rifles and the 3.5'' x 4 foot bayonets, this is a formidable force. They don't look too happy either.
tatansGood Grief ! ! By the size of those large anti-tank rifles and the 3.5'' x 4 foot bayonets, this is a formidable force. They don't look too happy either.
D-oh, they are models of soldiers.
They may be soldiers, but the weapons are way out of scale.
alco_fanThey may be soldiers, but the weapons are way out of scale.
They're not. What do you base that on?
http://www.hackman-adams.com/guns/58musket.htm
The rifles are the right length and a small percentage thicker because of casting reasons.
hminky alco_fan They may be soldiers, but the weapons are way out of scale. They're not. What do you base that on? http://www.hackman-adams.com/guns/58musket.htm The rifles are the right length and a small percentage thicker because of casting reasons. Harold
alco_fan They may be soldiers, but the weapons are way out of scale.
Dunno. They look pretty good to me, too. Maybe he counted the rivets on the stock...
To quote the applicable passage from your link: "The 56 inch long musket (40" long barrel) was about as tall as the average man of the era. With the 18" bayonet installed, the whole thing was considerably taller than the soldier."
The slight difference in diameter is right up there with seeing reviews in our host's magazine that say, "The drivers are 3 scale inches too close together." Which in HO scale is 0.034 inches. Can your eye really see that difference?
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The bayonets look about 4-5" deep.
But hey, if you don't care, I sure don't care. I was just trying to explain the earlier post you didn't seem to understand.
Wow. A bunch of uniformly husky fellas. Must be just off the farms. (They have the proportions of a five-foot something.) They'll soon change with the introduction of dysentery. And to my eyes, the details are grossly large. And where are their hats?
Mark
My wife says the rifles are too big - and she KNOWS EVERYTHING!!!!!
And this from a group who thinks Athean Blue Box are to scale.
Sorry guys
CatWell, I do a lot of miniature wargaming as well as railroading. Gamers generally call 28mm figures a 'scale' when it is really just a height of figure, usually measured from sole to eyeball. But they are never 'scale' figures. Due to the constraints of lead/white-metal castings, everything is usually quite chunky compared to the height. This is especially noticable in finer details, such as evidenced by the bayonets.
I am aware of lack of "scale" of wargaming figures. The Perry Figures are finer than most and they are the basis of my "28mm Civil War Railroading" project. Most 28mm figures are Lord of the Rings "Dwarflike".
A Perry artillery set