Hi all.

I'm thinking about building a 1/32 aircraft. I was looking to add a Tamiya 1/35 Austin Tilly placing it near if not immediately next to the aircraft. I was also thinking of putting at least one 1/35 figure next to it as well. Do you think there'd be any major scale issues in doing that? I figured in 1/32 the Tilly should be about 9mm longer than the 1/35 how glaring a difference do you feel that is?


I know Tamiya figures are a little on the small size so I'll avoid those, but some Verlinden basketball players might fit the bill well. Do you think the Tilly would look terrible out of place?

Thanks for your opinion.

Jeff

Its not an issue at all and it has been discussed quite a bit here. The key is keeping constant sized items from the same scale. See the below post for more details.


Mixing Scales

I agree with Gino on keeping the gear such as weapons the same scale. If most of the figures are 32nd scale , use 32nd scale weapons and it will look like there are a few little guys. If mostly 35th use 35th scale and it looks like a couple of big guys. I have done this before and it does not look odd. You just have to make most of the figures in one scale or another without too many of the other scale.

ive always thought about using something like 1/35 near front of a diorama, then 1/72 near the back, then make everything in the diorama middle scale down
so when you look at it from the front it looks like a trippy perspective......
but alas im not that good with models to pull it off.....yet

Sounds interesting. Don't give up on that idea.

Thanks for all the advice, makes sense.

Jeff

There is a diorama like this at the Museam of the Regiments in Calgary. It uses forced perspective on the scenery and 1/35, 1/48 and 1/72 shermans in Korea.

Also seen it in a large aircraft battle scene shadow box. It was really effective.

That is the key to using vastly different scales in a diorama to show distance as a forced perspective. The shadow box forces the viewer to look at it in the right plane so the effect is seen. If it is an open dio on a sheet of wood, it just looks like there are a bunch of smaller toys scattered about with larger vehicles.