Question about 1:16 vs 1:18

tosborne3 · Post by **tosborne3** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:51 pm

Hello all. My question is, how much of a size difference is there between 1:18 & 1:16? I've been looking at maybe buying some of those 1:16 guys from Badcat, but I would only want them if there wasn't a big difference from x/d. 1:18 is about 4" so how about 1:16? Maybe 4 1/2? I'm sorry if this seems like a dumb question,

but I'm just curious. Thanks.

Post by **aferguson** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:59 pm

The size difference is 11%. In human terms that's the difference between a 6 foot tall man and a 6 foot 8 man. It's a bigger difference than between 1/32 and 1/35. Very noticable with figures.

Vehicles you can sorta get away with, but the size difference between two of the same vehicle in each scale would be quite noticable.

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:09 pm

Crewed weapons work out pretty well and since there are few if any in 1:18..

I did this mortar a while back and was very happy with the results. Mortar is 1:16 aka 120mm, crew is 1:18.

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Aferg is right in that the vehicles sitting next to each other generally don't work well. There are some exceptions like a Pershing which was supposed to be large anyway. The Ford Truck Krieglok did turned out great and the figures fit too! Something not even the 1:18 vehicles can always claim.

tosborne3 · Post by **tosborne3** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:31 pm

Thats what I thought. Thanks fellas.

Gunner · Post by **Gunner** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:14 am

Also, some of the Verlinden printed products like the MREs and C-Rations (that are 120mm or 1/16 scale) don't look too bad out of scale, IMHO.