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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Aspen Modeling Company Horses vs Calamity Miniatures

It has been a long time here without a single post. Traveling for work has really killed my hobby time. While I have managed to get a miniature painted here and there I haven't really been able to focus on getting anything completed. From a request on the Lead Adventurers forum I managed to find my Aspen Modeling Company S and O scale horses. Aspen's products are geared towards model railroading but a lot of their components are quite useful for gaming purposes as well, especially if you are doing a little extra detailing on your western buildings. I was hoping that their horses would be a good scenic item as well. They are nicely sculpted and the price is pretty good. I started off by ordering a couple of S Scale horses which arrived promptly. These horse were cast in beauty and look like they will paint up nicely, not that I have had time to paint.

I think that overall they are going to be to small for my purposes. Compared to most of the miniatures they are closer to ponies than horses. However, miniatures vary a great deal from manufacturer to manufacturer so I have some side by side comparison shots for you to make your own opinions from. As a side note when looking at the pictures, I have removed all the original bases from my western miniatures and re-based them on lower profile bases so side by side they can all be measure from the same ground zero (there are a few differences in height for those mounted on "interior" bases because of the green stuff used to carve the wood floors).

Here are the S Scale (S Scale is 1/64 or one real inch is equal to 64 scale inches):
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To be honest I don't remember who makes this mini. If you know drop me a line.

Knuckleduster

Dixon

Reaper

Black Scorpion

Wargames Foundry

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With the horse mounted on its own base it would base for a smaller horse for some of these miniatures a mid sized horse for others and a small horse or pony for the largest (Reaper and Black Scorpion). I decided that S Scale was probably not the right choice, so I ordered a couple of O Scale horses from Aspen to see how those might work. The O Scale horses are cast in resin and are a little rough but should clean up okay.

Here is how the O Scale horses stack up (O scale is 1/48):
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To be honest I don't remember who makes this mini. If you know drop me a line.

Knuckleduster

Wargames Foundry

Dixon

Reaper

Black Scorpion

To be honest I don't remember who makes this mini. If you know drop me a line.
As you can see the O scale horse is going to be large even for the tallest minis and gigantic compared to the smaller ones. While I can see getting some use out of the S Scale versions I think the O Scale ones aren't going to work at all. Someone on the Lead Adventurers forum mentioned that Perry Miniatures had both a pack containing a horse holder and four horses in their ACW line. I think that might be the best way to go to get some horses to tie up outside the various businesses of Calamity.

8 comments:

  1. No, neither one would work perfectly. That too bad as they are both nice sculpts.

    Sorry to hear that work is keeping you away from the hobby so much. Take care!

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    1. Work is just killing me. One project on the east coast and the other on the west coast, my sense of time is totally shot!

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  2. I think the S scales is certainly usable , forget the O scale. Scale is going to be relative thing with both people and horses being within a range of sizes. I would with best pleases your eye rather than on a set scale one. Knuckleduster do some standing horses which are ok

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    1. The O is definitely out. I'm thinking the horse holder pack from Perry Miniatures out of their ACW line will give me the "look" I want. I don't need a lot of standing horses just enough to make Calamity more visually interesting.

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  3. S is more reasonable in scale, not perfect but oh well....

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    1. Close is often good enough. If I need a horse to be a hero then I'll find something more suitable.

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  4. Warlord games do an ECW horse holder too if you want cariety in the horse furniture.

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    1. I'll have to take a look at that. I not a fan of their ECW stuff though.

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