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Know the difference - What is 12mm scale?

12mm is the larger of two popular compromise wargaming scales, for land battles, and is equivalent to 1:160 ratio-scale. It is the same as the mainland-European and USA N-gauge rail modelling scale, but has smaller models than the British 1:148 N-gauge rail scale. The smaller wargaming compromise scale is 10mm.

Matched to 12mm scale for popularity is the railway modelling N-gauge which has two different scales depending on where you buy your models. The larger, British, gauge of 1:148 is suitably close to scale modelling's 1:144 that the two are often interchanged. It is possible, with a little forbearance towards size discrepancies, to use all of these scales together on the same table.

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12mm Wargames Models

If you’ve ever bought Axis & Allies plastic wargaming models, you will have noticed that the figures are true-scale 15mm (1:120), but noticed that their vehicles are a much smaller scale even though they’re advertised as 15mm. Sometimes you will see these vehicles with scale claims of 1:144 / 12mm and placed into the same scale groups as the true-scale 1:144 vehicles and aircraft from the Japanese plastic model manufacturers, yet the Axis and Allies models show themselves to be a different scale to the Japanese-made offerings.

The Axis and Allies models are made in Chinese factories designing to American and mainland European N-scale ratios (1:160), whilst the ever-efficient Japanese are designing to stated order scale for the larger 1:144 and ignoring railway gauge scale-ratios.

Whilst the 12mm / 1:160 scale has it’s origins in railway modelling, the 13mm / 1:144 scale has it’s origins in the “half-1:72nd scale” and “give-away” production markets (think corn-flakes box & “CrackerJack” toys). This has been revitalised over the last decade by Japanese confectionery-makers seeking new markets, and creating souvenir issues of boxed candies with 1:144 scale vehicle and aircraft kits in them. The most famous of these being the extensive Takara range of “World Tank Museum” and “War Birds” semi-collectible issues.

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