I've been collecting 1/144 scale WWII tank miniatures and model kits. However, upon receiving a M10 TD from Arrowhead Miniatures I noticed a problem. Either the M10 was way too big or all my Shermans by New Millenium were way to small. I also have a LST ship model by Revell that I haven't gotten around to building yet, I opened up the box and constructed one of the Shermans that comes with it and noticed it was about the same size as the M10 by Arrowhead.I trust Revell the most, so I'm assuming the New Millennium models are the ones that are incorrect.
However this leads me to a problem, Nearly my entire German armor collection is New millennium with the exception of a couple Dragon STUGIIIs kits I built and a couple Takara World Tank Museum Jagdpanzer IVs. The Takara collection is supposed to be spot on, so I compared the road wheels and tracks on their Jagdpanzer IV to my New Millennium Panzer IV, STUG IV and Sturmmpanzer 43, since all four of the vehicles are variants of the same chassis. The good news is despite being two different manufactures they were a perfect match. Though this could just mean that they are both off :-P
Well, now I'm a bit paranoid about the scale of my Panthers and Tigers. I looked online everywhere trying to find site with too scale profile pics of different tanks or at least photos and had very little luck. So I though I'd just post a couple comparison pics of some of my tanks and see what the SimHQ community's take would be. I also have a T34/76 I just got that I'm a little uncertain about scale wise.
Left to Right: M10 (Arrowhead Miniatures) M4 Sherman (revell) Tiger I (New Millennium) T34/76 (Arrowhead) Panther (New Millenium)
Apologies for my terrible phone camera resolution, but the important thing is the size comparisons. I'm ok with them being off by a millimeter or less, as it's to be expected from different manufactures. My main worry is the Tiger feels a bit too small to me, and the T34 seems possibly too big? I know there are a lot of history buffs on here that might be able to help me figure this out. Also anyone know of a website with scale drawings of tanks that can be compared to one another?