This guide is to assist participants in each hobby with crossing the scale divide, in order to buy and sell to each other, and to make use of resources available in the hobbies which are not their own.
Please note - this guide is about scale, not about track guage for railway modellers. It is primarily concerned with the size of medels and their compatibility between hobbies, for that reason, railway scales are stated as scales, not guages.
Arranging the most commonly used scales from smallest to largest, we find the following variants (millimetre scale in parentheses is the nominal height of an average man (6-foot or 1.85m) at that scale - not the size per 12 inches as used by railway modellers)
1:3000 - A micro-naval scale used by wargamers yielding models of the world's largest warships as only an inch or two long.
1:2000 - Another micro scale for naval wargaming
1:1200 - A favoured scale for "Age of Sail" and Ancient Naval wargaming.
1:600 (2mm) - Another micro scale also used by wargamers, most commonly for coastal/inshore naval wargaming.
1:300 (6mm) - The most popular micro scale for wargaming, especially for land battles.
1:285 (6.5mm) - A scale originating from the plastic kit modelling world. Some wargames micro manufacturers launched their first ranges in this scale (e.g. Skytrex WW2 micro) before companies such as Heroics
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