Mixing scales?

[JohnReid]

Scale opinions please.
Somewhere down the road I am thinking about doing a diorama in 1/32 scale using 1/35 scale figures.Having only worked in 1/16th to this point I was wondering if it would be acceptable practice, given that most figures and aircraft for that matter, do vary slightly in scale.What has been your experience?
Personally,I don't mind using a little artistic license to tell a good story but only within reason.
Cheers! John.

 

[tonydawe]

Hi John

The idea of doing a diorama in 1/32nd scale and using 1/35th scale figures has certainly been done before, some with excellent results. In my own experience, the differences in scale between 1/35th scale and 1/32nd scale are not that easy to overcome.

For example, a 1/32nd scale rifle in the hands of a 1/35th scale figure will look ridiculously oversized. Equally a 1/35th scale rifle in the hands of a 1/32nd scale figure can look like an undersized toy pop gun.

I think you need to balance artistic licence with the possibility that the scale differences will detract from the story you are trying to tell in your diorama.

Cheers

 

[JohnReid]

Thanks Tony!

 

[Johnny Dioramix Winter]

Just my 2 cents. In case of figures on a diorama (more than 10 figures) I mix sometimes. The one and only is to use only 1:35 for weapons, helmets and accessories. The men can be bigger or smaller, thicker or tall, with a bigger head or hands or smaller...

If You take always the smaller scale !1/35) for bigger men (1/32), you build the reality. I am 1,86cm high and have a weight of 97kg. I am sure, here are a lot of men smaller and with less kg and somme with more cm and more kg.

 

[Bluesking]

For what it's worth, in my opinion, and I have also done it in the past the difference between 1/35 and 1/32 is too great, when I am looking for figures of different stature I mix manufacturers because as we all know some 1/32 are closer to 1/30 etc.