Saturday 24 March 2012

A question of scale

This is one of the photos I took for the new edition of Air War Games, which I thought I'd share with you. I wanted to easily demonstrate the differences between some popular scales and hit upon this. The Bf 110 is the only aircraft I have in so many scales!

15 comments:

Peter Douglas said...

Tim

You can use all of these in the same naval game - use the smallest models for planes at high altitude and the largest ones for planes on the deck!

PD

Al said...

Some good posts lately Tim. Scale is usually only a problem for me when things appear side-by-side, but if it's near enough I don't worry too much.

ps, thanks for the presents, progress post asap:)

Paul said...

A lovely shot as seen by thy Hurricane fighter coming in from the sun. Tally Ho Ginger!

Tim Gow said...

Pete Douglas
Or vice versa?

Tim Gow said...

Al
I adopt a very laid-back attitude to scale, but I'd draw the line at the four toys in the photo appearing in a single game! Probably.

Tim Gow said...

Paul
I think a single Hurri might have its work cut out against four Zestorers. The Heavy Fighter - its the future....

Don M said...

I've always liked the "Zestorers"
too but this is one case where the technology was not up to the concept!

Don M said...

not to worry Paul , Tim is over looking Gingers pals in the flight
of four Spits coming up underneath lol

Pete. said...

Nice comparison shot- no 1/600th though?

Tim Gow said...

Don M
Too true - much safer to admire it than fly it!

Tim Gow said...

Pete
There's no pleasing some people......

Pete. said...

I only ask as my air war stuff is all 1/600th... hate to think they'd be overlooked.

Looking forward to the book though.

Cheers,

Pete.

Tim Gow said...

Pete
Is it the Tumbling Dice models you have? I have a few (but no Bf110....). They're highly suitable for my Sturmstaffel game which appears in the AWG book.

Pete. said...

Yes it's the Tumbling Dice 'planes I've got. Great little models- cheap and do the job nicely. I've got them for Korea and starting to move into WW2 and Vietnam, whilst my mate has got loads for the med. Check my other blog for pics of his convoy game with them in.

Cheers,

Pete.

Tim Gow said...

Pete
Nice photos - looks like a good game.