"Hornby Skaledale Buildings" Topic

I'm in the States and have never seen any Hornby buildings but they look interesting. They look like they would be perfect for an "Operation Sealion" scenario.How would they look with 15 or 20mmo figures? Most of my figures are 20mm, but I sometimes game with 15's. Any comments would be appreciated.

Try looking at the info on Hornby's site:

hornby.com/brands/skaledale

It is 'OO' scale which roughly equates to 1/76 which equates to approx 21mm

Phil

4mmm to the foot for Scaledale, little end is for N gauge railways and is 2mm to the foot.

I've used them with 20mm figures and they look good. They do not take packing and unpacking very well if you're going to move them about much think about some sort of base. A bit of hardboard with a portion painted as pavement (side walk?) showing at appropriate sides worked for me.

x42

For a cheaper option and with a greater range you could try Superquick:

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There are more buildings that would fit a southern English setting (the Skaledale stuff is distinctly Northern) and the kits are flat so would post easily to the USA. They're alsi very sturdy once constructed and easy to put togther.

You should also check out the Bilteezi range (which has some excellent buildings) and Scalescenes which has downloadable buidling kits:

scalescenes.com

Naw then, theers nowt wrong wi bein Northern, tha knows.

However the Skaledale range are rather twee, a sort of southerner's concept of the north sort of thing and are, of course well out of the average northeners price range.

Superquick are quite sturdy and I expect a skilled craftsman could do some interesting adaptations.

(Mind you, if I wasn't a penniless Lancastrian, I might have wondered about Lilliput Lane cottaces for 15 or 10mm)

I live a lot further north than Jeremy and I used them for FoW and they looked okay.

Expensive option, at least the ones I've seen are. Cheaper are the Daptol ( ex Airfix) railway models, though they might require a little more work. The best value for money in my book are the Conflix range, prepaints in a durable resin at half the cost of Skaledale.

Oops meant Scenix,conflix is the battlefield range by the same company.

Hattons provides good service and carries a few ranges including Hornby:
ehattons.com

The building kits are broken into several categories. If you go to the OO selection, I think you'll find more of them under "Stations and Buildings" than under "Buildings and Structures", it's a British thing :P

Metcalfe has a nice range of card kits, for durability you could base them on wood blocks or foamcore:
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I model N guage railways, so couldn't tell you a good shipper for those.

I had a whole town of Superquick buildings years ago and I'm going to build another when I get round to my 20mm Sealion project. (I have a few unmade in store including an out of production kit). They are relatively cheap and simple to make up over a few evenings as you need to let the PVA set before proceding to the next stage. As above there are other makes of card kits in the model railway world and you should find all you need. Once made its well worth the extra effort of painting in the 'raw' cut edges of the card with suitable acrylic colours watered down.

They are study when made up and you can use the off cuts to put in more corner braces. The chimneys and ridge tiles are a bit fiddly but not that difficult. Next time around I'll base them, probably on plasticard or ply with paving added.

Of Hornby: I find them a bit twee and not worth the extra cash over the card kits.