![]() The Land Raider is larger than the Rhino, and the Leman Russ is larger than the Chimera. The basic PzKpfW 38 - a WW2 German tank captured from the Czechs, was used as a tank, and as a chassis for two different self-propelled guns. The running gear is often very characteristic, and a number of armies used one basic chassis for a variety of vehicles. GW vehicles are built in families on the same chassis (Rhino, Razorback, Predator, Vindicator.) You should choose vehicles which have some sort of common features to make them look like a family. To some extent the appearance of a vehicle can be disguised by modifications and wargear, and to help this along you could choose vehicles from the smaller armies such as Japanese or Italian. Whether you go for something that is similar to the GW originals or something a bit different - you may want to choose vehicles that are not easily recogniseable as historical. Do you want to follow these kind of styles, or go for a variant style? The galaxy is large enough to allow for a high-tech Guard army or half-track Marines. ![]() What is the style of your army? SM are a bit more high-tech than IG whose vehicles basically look like tanks from WW1 or the 20s and early 30s. There are five points to consider when choosing kits for your army. It is often remarked that GW’s own vehicles are not nearly large enough to contain the models they are able to transport.īy choosing 1/35 scale you will get vehicles that match pretty well to the GW models in width and height, though they will tend to be longer. It is also clear that while 1/48 scale should match reasonably well to 28mm heroic, they are actually significantly smaller than the GW vehicles. You can see that GW vehicles are rather short and wide compared to real vehicles. The M113 is the most useful vehicle to look at since the Rhino is based on it. ![]() Here is a table showing the dimensions of GW kits and some historical vehicle kits in 1/35 and 1/48 scales. But a GW figure next to a 1/35 scale vehicle looks ‘about right’ although it is theoretically a much smaller scale (1/60 compared to 1/35.) If you put a GW figure next to a 1/48 scale vehicle, it looks rather large. If you put a GW figure next to a 1/72 scale figure, it looks absolutely massive. However scales can be deceptive because the appearance of models depends partly on our psychological interpretation of the key features of the model. This is what’s called ‘heroic’ proportions and it helps give 40K figures a look to themselves. The head is enlarged, the legs are shortened and the accoutrements and the weapons are exaggerated. However, the proportions of the figure are distorted. If you take a GW figure and measure it, it probably does measure about 28mm to the eyes. (A six foot tall man measures five feet eight to the eyes.) Other manufacturers sometimes describe 28mm as 1/56 scale. If you convert this to proportional scale, GW infantry models are supposedly about 1/60 scale. The nominal scale of 40K is 28mm ‘heroic’. Classic wargame scales are 25mm, 15mm and 20mm. Wargame figures are traditionally expressed in terms of the height of the model from sole to eyes in millimetres. It’s also easy to convert up from the model’s dimensions to the original item, or to a different scale model. Look up the dimensions of the real life item, and divide by the scale. This makes it easy to find out how large a model kit is going to be. The scale 1/72 means that a part which is 72 feet long in real life, will be only 1 foot long on the model. Scales are normally specified in terms of their proportion, such as 1/35 or 1/72.
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