City Scape board building ideas

[Yodaking]

I'd like to start an open discussion on the scale of C3G. With so many different toy and model lines creating city related structures and objects, many C3Gers want to know what they can get to spice up their games. I'm hoping this thread can become a 1 stop shop for gamers to find usable items for their games.

So anyone that has come across some interesting items you feel may be in an appropriate scale, please take pictures of your items in a C3G game context and share them here. Let us know where you found the item, how much it cost, and how you intend to make use of it in your games. Then other C3Gers that like what you have found can go an buy that item with confidence knowing it will be a good fit. When standing in the toy aisle with no heroscape figure in hand to compare an item in it's packaging too, it can be hard to judge what would be a good fit. Also feel free to share any items you bought thinking that it would be a good fit only to get home and discover it was 'off' just a bit too much. That will save some of us from making the same mistake.

First thing we need to acknowledge is that their is no perfect scale. That is because Heroclix, from which we get most of our minis, has never maintained a consistent scale themselves. Take a look at the pic below of 4 human figures.



As you can see Nick Fury is shorter and has skinnier legs and arms than Mocking Bird, which is not an accurate scale to each other at all. Furthermore the Hawkeye figure down on one knee still has his head at the same level as Nick Furys' shoulder. Which means if he were to stand up he would tower over Nick like some kind of freakish Dum Dum Dugan giant sized man. When the parent company has not maintained any level of quality control for the scale of their toy line, it makes it difficult to match up the scale to other toy lines. With that being said, these are the universal scale designations that I have found to best fit with the figures and terrain we already have.

Model Trains: O gauge
Wargame Minis: 28mm and 30mm
Model Cars: 1:43, 1:48, & 1:50 scale
Boats & Doll House: 1:48 or 'Quarter' scale