With the miniatures production line coming to a temporary halt as I have run out of bases I have been turning my thoughts to terrain - namely buildings.
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| Inspiring rural base at 6mm.wargaming.info |
I have fallen in love with these Middle Eastern building terrain boards on
6mm wargaming and part of me wants to create something like the picture above. Whether I do or not will depend on the buildings I can source to go with the couple of
Irregular ones I already have.
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| Leven Miniatures desert dwelling |
Big Lee is using buildings from
Leven Miniatures for his WW2 desert project. These are quite nice (and perfect for WW2) but possibly a bit too rough looking for an era when concrete buildings have become the norm.
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| GameCraft Middle East shops |
The best range appears to be
GameCraft Miniatures with a superb selection of resin buildings including a petrol station, residential buildings, shops etc. The only negative is that they are in the States and that means postage and customs could be an issue. That said I may well use them for select items that cannot be sourced in the UK.
The final source I have found (with photos so I can see the items -
Battlefield Buildings take note!) is
TimeCast whose range falls somewhere between
Leven and
GameCraft. I have taken the plunge and ordered a few buildings off them (as well as some palm trees) to see what they are like.
It will be interesting to see how they turn out; my thoughts are turning increasingly to 6mm and my long-abandoned Eastern Front armour in particular.
ReplyDeleteI am also looking at dusting of some 6mm armies of my past. So I have Been watching your progress with much interest.
ReplyDeleteThose Gamecraft buildings a very cool. If you order more than £15 of goods from the US watch out for excessive customs charges when they arrive in the UK. Actually, its not the customs charges its the £8 'handling charge' that Royal mail will stick you with for processing the import duty that will really stick in your craw. I got stung by that recently and I'm still smarting!
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