Miscellaneous

1001AreaRugsGalore
- If you want to decorate your HeroClix interior with rugs, you can find
all sorts of designs here. Just size the preview JPEGs as desired.

AllPosters.com
- If you need to decorate your HeroClix building interiors with artwork,
you can find movie posters, popular posters, and even art prints advertised
at AllPosters.com. Just size the preview JPEGs as desired. (See the Heroix
Videaux Store for an example.)

Full-Scale
Carpentry Techniques for Miniatures - Explains how real-life
buildings are constructed, and relates that to building miniature buildings.
Uses 1/12 scale rather than 1/48 for examples, though.

Rug King
- If you want to decorate your HeroClix interior with rugs, you can find
all sorts of designs here, too. Just size the preview JPEGs as desired.

Automotive and Aviation

On Site DieCast
- Emphasizes military models. Check out their clearance
page. Remember to look for 1/48 or 1/43 scale.

Police
Car Models.com 1/43 Sale Page - 1/43 is slightly larger than
the HeroClix 1/48 scale, but if you can live with that small discrepancy,
you can get die-cast police cars here. Some are very expensive, but some
are as low as $4.

Search
eBay for 1/48 scale models or for 1:48
scale models - These searches will return both automobiles
and airplane models, plus anything else listed at 1/48 scale.

Search
eBay for 1/43 scale models or for 1:43
scale models - This will also return both automobiles and
airplance models, plus anything else listed at 1/43 scale.

Dollhouse-Oriented
Vendors

Dollhouse
Miniature Printables - Offers patterns for printable miniatures
(not unlike the cardstock miniaturies patterns elsewhere on the Heroix
web site) as well as printable dollhouse wallpapers, rugs, and so on.
Remember to work in 1/4" scale.

Dollhouse-Miniatures.com
1/4" scale catalog - By no means the best online catalog
in the world, but they do have flooring papers and wallpapers. You might
even find the online JPEG previews as useful as the physical papers.

Jim's
Printable Minis - Offers patterns for printable miniatures
(not unlike the cardstock miniaturies patterns elsewhere on the Heroix
web site) as well as printable dollhouse wallpapers, rugs, and so on.
This link leads to the 1/4" scale page, but you could also use the
1/2" or 1" scale miniatures simply by reducing them to 50% (1/2"
scale) or 25% (1" scale) of their original size.

Miniatures.com
- Has shopping functions as well as information. Features a free online
book, Everything
You Wanted to Know about Dollhouses but Didn't Know Who to Ask,
which has some good tips on building scale buildings.

Search
eBay for "dollhouse miniature scale" - Remember
that you are looking for 1/4" scale items.

Railroad-Oriented Vendors

Oakridge
Hobbies - O Scale - Offerings include structural components
like beams and girders; building decorations like staircases, shutters,
windows, doors, chimneys, skylights, ladders; textured styrene and plastic
sheets for realistic brick, stone, metal, vinyl, and wood exteriors; dollhouse
furniture including kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, dining room, living room,
and other types of furniture; kits for building entire buildings; dollhouse
wallpaper for interiors; lots of accessories including vending machines,
pool tables, cement mixers, forklifts, musical instruments, playground
equipment; asphalt, concrete, and water-type mats for terrain; ready-made
foliage; and the list could go on. Oakridge has something for every scene,
but don't expect it to be inexpensive.

Valley
Model Trains O Scale - Wide selection from multiple manufacturers.
Take a special look at the Evergreen
Hill Designs detail parts, Model
Tech Studios detail parts and Model
Tech roofing, Plastruct
Inc. rock and stone exterior sheets, Schomberg
Scale Models detail parts.

Search
eBay for "o scale" items - Much of what you will
get will be buildings and railroad cars, but sometimes you will find useful
accessories.

Miniature
Scales in Other Hobbies

Tabletop gaming is by no means the only hobby where accurate scale models
are appreciated. The most notable hobbies that revolve around scale models,
other than tabletop gaming, are model railroading, automotive and aviation
modeling, and dollhouse making. By learning a little bit more about these
hobbies and their terminology, tabletop gamers can more easily find appropriately
scaled miniatures to dress up a HeroClix combat diorama. Various hobbies
use different ways of referring to scale. Once you learn how these references
work, you can easily determine whether a particular set of, say, dollhouse
furniture might be appropriate for your 3D supervillain hideout.

1/48 or 1:48 - Some hobby modelers use the notation
"1/48" or "1:48" to denote the appropriate scale for
HeroClix miniatures. This notation means exactly what the fraction seems
to suggest. Items in 1/48 scale are modeled at 1/48 of their "actual"
size. HeroClix miniatures depict people about 6' or 72" tall as figures
1.5" tall; notice that 72"/48 = 1.5". The "1/48"
or "1:48" notation is often seen used for automotive and aviation
models. (Note: Many automobile models are also made in 1/43 scale. In
1/48 scale, 1.5" represents 72"; in 1/43 scale, 1.5" represents
64.5". If you can live with that very small difference, you can use
1/43 scale automobile models in your HeroClix settings. Note that standard
Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars are in a smaller scale and can vary quite
a bit. On my shelf are a Ford Mustang in 1/61 scale and a TV news van
in 1/73 scale, for example. These are too small to be realistic in HeroClix
settings.)

O gauge or O scale - Model railroad scales are usually
indicated by letters. Most people have heard of HO-scale trains. There
is also an O scale in which items are modeled at 1/48 of their "real-world"
size. Thus O-scale (or O-gauge) miniatures from the model railroading
industry work very well in HeroClix settings. (However, most model railroading
accessories are rather expensive.)

1/4" scale - In dollhouse modeling terminology,
scale is usually indicated by citing the number of inches need to represent
one real-world foot. Thus, to dollhouse hobbyists, 1/4" scale uses
1/4" to represent 1'. This is exactly the HeroClix-appropriate scale
of 1.5" (6/4") = 6'. Most dollhouses are built in a larger scale,
1/2" = 1' or 1" = 1', but there are products and resources available
for 1/4" dollhouse modeling that could also be used for dressing
up HeroClix scenes.

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