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Considering aesthetics, price, user friendliness, sausage factor, etc...
What is better for small scale, 6 or 10mm?

All excellent. I can see myself doing a 2mm project in the next 2 years though

6mm definitely. Especially for Naps. Just looks awesome. I just don’t understand 10mm. It seems half way between 6mm and 15mm without having the advantages of either?

Hmmmm controversial.

I'm not sure the two belong in the same category. Simon's 10mm AWI chappies are simply stunning and, I think I'm correct in saying, they are based and played with in the same way as their larger cousins. So on that basis, I'd put 10mm as the smallest of the big stuff.
Nevertheless, I have voted, because everyone likes a survey.

I love Leon's 10mm. I chose 6mm decades ago because I wanted to do big battles and economise on terrain by only using one scale.

And of course, COTOTS teaches us that all users of Other Scales will be forgiven, but only after having their ghoulies roasted over the coals of hell for three quarters of eternity.

no 15mm sits between 10mm and 28mm without having the advantages of either

If you look at the stuff produced by Leon there are some fantastic figures available for 10mm. Their footprint is a lot less than a 15mm figure (many of which tend towards 18mm anyway). Cost is a lot less. You do get the big army feel but with detailed figures. For me its perfect for AWI. I also did Napoleonics for DBN and you get a satisfying number of figures to the base.

10mm figures just seem to get better and better, Pendraken being a great example. I've not been tempted though for the same reason I don't go for Baccus and Adler in 6mm - there's so much tiny detail I just couldn't do them justice.

Others seem to be able to produce fantastic results, and I'm always in awe!

Another problem with the Baccus and Adler approach is that in order to get the detail they end up as grotesque proportions. The Pendraken figures are lovely by contrast. Although the sculpted eyelids were a challenge on the LOA range. H&R and Rapier do a much better job of 6mm.

My comments weren’t based on the loveliness of the figures, but more on what the scale is good for. 6mm allows you to replay Eylau on a 6x4. 15mm allows bigger battles than 28mm but is still visually appealing. 10mm doesn’t allow the size of battles of 6mm or have the closeup visual appeal of 15mm

goat major wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:51 am All excellent. I can see myself doing a 2mm project in the next 2 years though

I have some Odzial Osmy Napoleonic Revolutionary War figures in 3mm and they are excellent. I got them to use for 'amphibious actions' for 1/1200 Napoleonic Naval.
After painting and basing a few packs I am thinking of the potential for having battles using Regiments that look like Regiments (Using 150 figures in each).