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Reply To: Any true to scale 28mm – 1/56 Rail Road freight cars available ???

October 6, 2021 at 6:57 pm #1684970

limburger

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@sundancer common scales for models are 1:35 – 1:48 – : 1:72 (and for some reason 1:76). There are more, but they’re usually for things like ships and airplanes which would be too big (and expensive).

The 1:56 is unique to wargames and possibly toys as far as I know.
I think Revell has an X-wing in 1:56-ish scale and I think that air speeder is similar, but that stuff is kind of non standard for whatever reason that I can’t understand.

https://wargamesandrailroads.blogspot.com/2013/04/s-scale-vs-on30-for-calamity.html

I’d prefer the O scale over the S scale mentioned in that article to be honest … but it will depend on what minis you do have.
Big chunky ‘heroic’ scale minis won’t look bad against O scale, but they’d look ridiculous next to the S scale train.