Victrix Take A Peek At Their 12mm World War II Tanks
March 13, 2020 by brennon
Victrix (or more specifically Victrix Games) has been showing off some of the new 12mm World War II Tanks which are going to be released at Salute this year. Take a peek alongside a handy reference coin for good measure.
Above we have a Cromwell Tank which comes with its Commander and Culin Bocage Cutting Kit. According to Victrix, they are also going to be releasing the anther G, Pz IV H, StuG III, Sherman M4A3 and the Sherman Firefly.
They have also said that there are more kits in the works with a Tiger I, Wespe, M10, Puma, Churchill, Stuart, Sexton and several Sherman variants.
As well as the tanks, a peek into the comments have also revealed that they are working on Infantry, Half-Tracks, Self-Propelled Guns, Anti-Tank Guns and more. The team appear to be looking at releasing one or two kits per month as they grow their range.
Whilst 12mm seems to have caused some grumbles, to begin with, it seems people are getting on board with it now, at least over on their social media pages. Apparently it works well with existing 1/144 kits which is nice to hear.
Are you going to be diving into this range when it releases?
"The team appear to be looking at releasing one or two kits per month as they grow their range..."
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@brennon Is it 1/144 that you mean? (IE a typo).
I seem to recall that 20mm is approx. 1/72.
Most likely – thank you for clarifying
I may be wrong on this but think its N guage for railway modellers
Most of the original scales came from them .
O guage was the original
OO 1/72 nd came around after WW2 I think
N guage came later each one was half the scale of the one above so 1/144th would be appox right.
British N gauge is 1:148. American and European is 1:160.
It’s all Greek to me…
@brennon after @roberts reply I think I will agree with you…
the bit I mentioned was only vague memories from Toy story series .
The James May one , not Tom Hanks!
0 scale is 1:43. 00 is 1.76.2… N gauge depends where it is made… OO/HO are different scales that use the same track. Same as the different N guages use the same track but are scaled differently… The difference is the shape of British locos make it harder to fit motors in them or so my Dad told me years ago.
Isn’t H0 1:87 ?
At least these are actual scales instead of crazy distances …
Something like that. It is 3.5mm to 1 foot on the prototype, while OO is 4mm to 1 foot… just to complicate it more 🙂
OO gauge locos and rolling stock are actually not in the same proportions as the real thing but 00 is mostly a British thing anyway.
if try and think about it too much you’ll go mad I reckon
For wargaming purposes 1/144 is called 12mm and 1/150 or 1/160 is 10mm. Don’t know why. Just is
Though as far as I have read, the new PSC Northag tanks are being marketed as 10mm but they are also 1/144.
I think that’s because Timecast are calling their 10mm modern stuff as 1/144
I think that’s because wargamers are stupid 😉
I asked Victrix a while back what scale these tanks were and they replied 1/150.
You’ll most likely see this “scale” referred to as “10/12mm” because it covers 1/144, 1/150 and 1/160. However, as with 1/56 vs 1/48, there is a noticeable size difference between 1/144 and 1/160.
Almost identical to the PSC Cromwell tank kit.
Even down to the pointless Cullin Prong which was only ever fitted to one Cromwell forna test.
Same sculptor apparently which would account for that similarity 🙂
All i need to do is add 3mm of green stuff and i can use then for my 15mm games…!!!
Looks to be a great tank at the scale it’s in.
They are very nice (in fact incredible for the scale), but I just couldn’t face another change in scale. Probably ideal for someone new to WW2 and Moderns, but for us Grognards a hurdle to far. But then again when it comes to WW2 PSC already do them in 15mm and 20mm (and a few 28mm), so where do you go from there? However it would make rules for 28mm games just “look” a lot better by using these models and not changing the ground scale (so tank ranges aren’t as “nerfed” with 28mm miniatures so that you can get… Read more »
Pretty cool. Good luck reading the instruction sheet though.
Is there a market for 12mm?
I may be the odd ball here, but I wish there was a set standards the industry would pick and stick to for miniatures.
The other scales are pretty saturated, so if your going to launch a range do you attempt to go toe to toe with all the competition or “risk” a new scale. I remember we had similar discussions when 15mm WW2 appeared in the 90s (as before it was pretty much a 6mm or 20mm scale). The 15mm did well because it was well supported and Old Glory/Skytrex brought out a massive range of catalogue codes all within a year or two. So I suppose it’s going to be the same with 12mm, if they dip their toes into the scale… Read more »