Recent content by willypold

Why funny? I simply want to know if the figure in the image is typical. Is this a short guy? Is he one of the taller ones? Are there any variations? On another note - Continental European O scale is 1:45.

A question for anyone who has any of the figures already - how tall are they exactly from the top of the base to the top of the helmet?

True to scale O scale people are between 34 mm (short people) and 38 mm (taller guys) tall. Putting a Games Workshop Space Marine or Imperial Guard figure next to any of my O scale train models is not entirely silly, as there are three reasons why the guard figure standing next to the Colorado &...

There is a huge problem with S scale. It's a nearly dead modelling scale. Most of the stuff that can be found is geared for either the narrow-gauge modellers - making everything super expensive - or for the tin-plate crowd - or in effect, toys, and also super expensive. It is also a scale that...

Gorkamorka (and everyone else who feels the same), please, cool down. The hype destroyed the game? Really, it hasn't even been distributed to the stores yet, and already you bemoan the death of it? Aren't you over-reacting just a little bit now? I want to see this game. I want to try the...

I think the regular wargaming community is giving itself a little too much credit. Try this angle for a change - Battlefield Evolution is not a game for wargamers... If the game plays as well as everyone says, and if the minis are as good as WotC Star Wars or even better, the game will probably...

1:64 is a primarily American model railroading scale called S (for "standard"). There are some model railroading material available, but it is either the tin-plate stuff, the typical toy trains from Lionel, for example, or fairly expensive fine-scale miniatures. You can find some really useful...

These ARE Volvos... and Scanias too... :D If you are talking about the m/42 it was ordered in 1942, hence the m/42 designation, and was delivered beginning in 1944. The series of trucks built by Volvo were scrapped in 1970, but the series built by Scania (same specification and looks) kept...

What I said - no problem! Will check it out, thanks for the tip! :D

Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast and is deeply involved with Star Wars toys. There is no way they would let someone else do a SW game this side of whenever! But no one says you can't use your toys the way YOU want to. If the Mongoose spaceship game is better than the WotC game it's always...

Is the BFEvo scale established at 1:65? If so, anyone looking for scale buildings and such should take a look at S scale, which is 1:64. It is an American model railroading scale (I haven't seen any models for non-American stuff anyway). The buildings available are generally expensive, but there...

You mean something like this: http://www.volvotrucks.volvo.fr/trucks/global/en-gb/aboutus/history/1930s/TVA_and_TVB.htm ...or: http://user.tninet.se/~juq669m/ ...or you were perhaps referring to the offroad m/42 KP: http://www.pansarmuseet.se/kpbil.htm

The one and the same! Small world! So what's your Helgon name? (For the rest of you: Helgon.net is a Swedish community for various sub-cultures, goth, metal, punk, larpers, anyone with a non-standard dresscode, taste in music and such, basically...)

Swedish translation? Has that been done yet? If not, who should I talk to? I'm a professional translator and used to work for Target Games a long time ago as an editor, translator, games developer and whatever, and I've translated just about everything from novels to non-fiction for the past 20...

I don't know if this aspect has been brought up before, maybe it has, and I just didn't find it... Anyway... I came over to the Mongoose site because I had bought a box of Rippler Bugs real cheap to use as gargoyles for my Games Workshop Tyranid horde, and then I discovered a whole bunch of...