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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:54 am 
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Here's the picture for ease of lookin'



If the scale's about right this is a great proxy.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:29 am 
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What scale are DP9 ?  10mm ? 15mm ?  :rock:

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:36 am 
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The battletech line from Iron Wind minis is 6mm; the Dark Age stuff is nominally N scale, but their scale is erratic at best (so is the Iron Wind stuff in some cases).

I don't know the exact scale of the DP9 stuff. I have seen the game played, and the robot-thingies stand about 1.5" tall or so. I know that some people who play Battletech in N scale use them as proto-mechs, so that would put them about half the size of a 3" tall mech. I have no clue what that makes the infantry, though.

I have some of the Battletech: Dark Age battle armour. Would some comparison pics of that against say, a dreadnaught and some infantry help at all? The Dark age figs are the N-scale clicky stuff.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:42 am 
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Thanks "T" ...  I'm guessing then DP9 Infantry is about 10-12mm.  Which I believe is N scale = 1/160th ... IIRC

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I actually just checked Wikipedia, and apparently DP9 is 1/144th, but it can vary by as much as 10% depending on when the sculpt was produced.


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Ah ... that makes sense ... so that's a little smaller than 15mm ?




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Yeah, it seems to fall right between 15mm and N-scale, so that is what? 12mm or so?


I guess your first guess was pretty accurate.  :vD  Impressive!


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:21 pm 
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Yeah ... I think this came up with some stuff I bought from MiniFigs ... 12mm( + or - ) is pretty close ... Vehicle sizes are generally good for Epic.  But Infantry is too big/tall ... :D

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