{{Short description|Scale model size standard}} thumb|right|250px|1:285 scale vehicles and 1:300 infantry from Heroics & Ros
'''1:285 scale''' or '''6 mm figure size''' is a US Army scale introduced in the late 1960s, and used for wargames and some scale model dioramas. It is used in miniature wargaming to depict large battles in a relatively small gaming area.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20020626050118/http://www.fanaticus.org/dba/guides/scale.html Picking a Figure Scale]}} at fanaticus.org</ref> '''1:300 scale''' (5 mm scale) is an almost identical NATO standard scale.
Both figure scales are based on the 1 mm = 1 ft calculation that reduces the average 1.72 m height of a human male to a 5.7 mm tall figure. "6 mm" is therefore used as a rounded-up reference to the scale.
In 1:285 scale, a typical 20 mm base can mount approximately 3-5 infantry figures; or three strips of four figures in rank-and-file formation.<ref>[http://www.wargames.co.uk/RandomS/Library/size.htm "Size does matter!"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928072823/http://www.wargames.co.uk/RandomS/Library/size.htm |date=2007-09-28 }} article at wargames.co.uk</ref>
1:285/1:300 is a popular scale for micro armour games, while modern games emphasizing tanks and other vehicles have been catered to by specialist figure manufacturers such as GHQ, Heroics and Ros and Baccus Miniatures. Sci-fi and fantasy games that use these scales include ''BattleTech'', ''Ogre miniatures'',<ref name=sjg/> ''Epic''<ref name=stephane/> and Hammer's Slammers.<ref name=slammers/> Other genres, such as historical periods (ancient, medieval and later periods) and medieval fantasy have miniatures made by Heroics and Ros, Baccus Miniatures and Irregular Miniatures.<ref name=gmi/> There are many sites of landscape creations and miniatures <ref name=napoleon/>
==References== <references>
<ref name=stephane>{{cite web|url=http://www.stephane.info/show.php?code=ne_history|title=Epic History|accessdate=19 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022140449/http://www.stephane.info/show.php?code=ne_history|archive-date=22 October 2007|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> <ref name=sjg>{{cite web|url=http://www.sjgames.com/minis/ |title=Steve Jackson Games Miniatures |accessdate=19 May 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070520142656/http://www.sjgames.com/minis/ |archivedate=20 May 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> <ref name=gmi>{{cite journal|journal=Games Master International|publisher=Newsfield|date=February 1991|title=Beyond the Citadel: Irregular Miniatures|author=Blease, Steve|page=35|issue=7}}</ref> <ref name=napoleon>{{Cite web|url=https://napoleon6mm.blogspot.com/|title=Napoleonic Wargame with 6mm (1/300 or 1/285) miniatures|website=napoleon6mm.blogspot.com}}</ref> <ref name=slammers>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hammers-slammers.com/home.htm|title=Home|website=www.hammers-slammers.com}}</ref>
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