Anatomically Correct, My Foot!

I took one look at this illuminative side-by-side comparison done by NapNuts, and was totally taken aback.

Above: Tamiya 1/48 Sherman with (L-R) Artizan, Crusader, BTD, Tamiya 1/48 (picture courtesy of NapNuts Singapore Wargamers/Wargames)

Full Comparison: http://www.napnuts.com/gallery_tamiya48.htm

They’ve basically put 28mm figures from Artizan, Crusader and Black Tree Designs (the three “Big Names” in 28mm WW2 miniatures) next to a 1/48 figure from Tamiya… and the results are pretty shocking.

Standing next to an actual anatomically correct Tamiya model, the 28mm ones look so grotesque and disfigured!

To think that I actually thought that these 28mm models looked realistic… what was I smoking? (figuratively speaking – I don’t smoke)

All that time spent with Warhammer 40K miniatures must have really skewed my sense of aesthetics.

But then I hear that these beautiful Tamiya models aren’t really built for wargaming, and tend to be very fragile. More bad news is that 1/48 isn’t as popular a scale as 1/32 or even 1/72, so I’ll have trouble finding a good variety of models for wargaming.

Oh, well. Guess I won’t be using either 28mm or 1/48.

Back to deliberating between 15mm and 20mm…