Scarlet Road Rage - a game for the future

Scale Nazi - Captain Scarlet in a world of intolerance

I have a bit of a reputation as a ‘Scale Nazi’. That’s not to say, necessarily,

that I’m an exact replica of a member of the Nationalsozialistische party in

a reduced size (or even an increased size, I guess…). What I mean is I

have a thing about things on the table top being in the same scale.

I’ve been trying to work out what my problems are in this area and I guess

the closest I can come is that – the further scales of our ‘models’ are

apart, then the more it seems like ‘just playing with toys’ and the less

comfortable I am with that (harking back, no doubt, to my days as a child

when you played with toys of all different sizes and scales and didn’t care:

I guess I’m frightened of the criticism levelled at me/us that all we do is

play with toys). Anyway…

The point is that I can’t seem to shake it out of my head. Pete Merritt

brought a nice die-cast T62 with crew and – after some discussion about

he crew being too big (I disagreed with that) out came the ruler and the

books and I found out to my smug satisfaction that they were all pretty

much spot on: 1/50th crew and 1/50th tank.

So that’s the downside: my smug satisfaction - which is pretty hard for me

to live with, never mind anyone else. The positive side is – for those that

care, I guess – that I’m always on the lookout for things that fit together,

scale wise.

Anyone who saw Captain Scarlet as a kid and (maybe, like me) bought

the DVD set of the originals when it came out, always loved the Spectrum

Pursuit Vehicle: the SPV. I had the Dinky one and fun it was too. Recently

there has been a rash of interest on the subject of Anderson related stuff

and I’m as keen as anyone could be (hence the UFO game re-launch).

But Corgi recently released a version of the old SPV that is smaller than

the Dinky one.