September and my fingers smell of burnt wood again. This time pre painted 28mm Adobe style houses. Again these should fit a host of roles.
They are also quite nifty as they use thick card cladding to give the plaster work a more 3D effect where the brickwork shows through. A nice touch.
I have to admit having very little experience with the real versions of these sorts of houses but for 28mm buildings the doors, and actually the internal ceiling heights, are a little low to my eye… As scenery for a simple wargame though, they look and work real well.
Back to the BKC grind next time!
Steinberg Shed Space 
Very nice! 🙂
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Those look good for MDF houses. I think, with regards to the heright, that the base of the figures pushes them up somewhat.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Yep that plays a part. Better to be a manageable size as well I guess, so as to not take up too much room on a table.
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Like Pete said above, I wonder if you base the MDF building would the doors come up enough to make up for their low 28mm height?
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There is a price to pay in terrain. Full size buildings are HUGE. Slightly off scale lets buildings fit. I built a scratch-build Mordheim building with realistic looking ceiling heights and it is sooo big. Lol.
Those buildings look nice. I feel all mdf buildings need something applied to give the plain, flat mdf some texture.
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Agreed. Its the compromise we make on size that makes scenery playable or just too big. I once tried to make a large building interior to allow us to do room to room skirmishing. That build came out huge and was never very playable even at that size…
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I like Jeremy’s (at BMC ) idea dor buikdings. Make the building and base seperate. Then no walls to get in the way of pushing models around.
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Absolutely true. When we look at the size of, say, a typical wargame terrain house on the table relative to the vehicles and infantry it seems fine.
Now imagine how large your own home would have to be on the table – how many tanks/space marine rhinos/whatever could fit in if the walls were removed. Suddenly the big 6×4 table is taking up the space of perhaps a strip of suburban road with 5 houses & yards on each side of the road.
Or one supermarket (car park not included!)
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Forget retail places! Unless you are playing PostApoc and then a mall is a necessity. Even if it fills the entire board!
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Though with a combination of game mat and some creative use of foam core/foam card, a Mall could be a pretty sweet game board…
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Very true. Scale can either help or hinder depending on what we want it to do with it.
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