28 mm wargaming structures

Thanks for the different source. I see some interesting ideas!

They fall between O and S in size, but work very well with my Marx 3/16 O-27 and should work well for background structures.

Yeah, that scale is way smaller than O. As I understand it, 28MM is about perfect for S scale. I know a guy who built a German themed layout in O and used some of the higher-end wargame structures for it, but still like foot bridges and such where the scale wasn't obviously off.

Hmm. This is very small representation of the Arnhem bridge: http://battlefield-accessories...em-style-bridge-28mm

The real bridge was quite larger than that (the current bridge is essentially a copy of the bridge fought over in WW2, and I've driven over the 'new' one):

A good rule of thumb tool is keeping a 6" metric rule in the desk drawer or your pocket, and use British model railroad scales. OO scale at 1:76 is 4 millimetres to the foot, and S is at around 5 mm/foot. Their O scale is 7mm/foot.

Those numbers will come in handy when you're eyeballing wargame structures for the layout. A 28mm figurine is around average height for S, but probably a bit stocky. A mediaeval fair on your layout maybe?

I'm running a Marx 999 and freight set in 3/16 (S scale on O-27 trucks).  I'm looking to add more 999 and Mercury trains, all converted to double reduction gearing, and there isn't much on my toy train layout that is scale anything.  Lots of Plasticville, K-Line. tin cookie boxes, etc., some scratch structures and. so far, one Menard's quonset hut.  Cars and trucks are all over the size map and so are most figures.

This doesn't bother me because it's a toy train.  I'm 10 years old again and having a blast.

I got scale out of my system with 50 years or more of HO.

The 28mm wargame scale supposedly equals about 1:56 but wargamers are not fanatic about this.  Some may actually be about 1:48 O scale, while others may look like tall S scale figures.

these are great for back ground scenes to force perspective