"15mm Native American Building Quest" Topic

To go along with my Mound Builder project, I am in need of 15mm Native American buildings of the Mississippian Period.

Something like this:

Or this:

The closest I have found is the Numidian building by Baueda:

Any others out there I might be missing?

Check out the Blue Moon buildings at Old Glory:

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And if you have their Army card you get 40% off!

Tim

In the 1/72 plastic IMEX Eastern Friendly Indians set you get two bark wigwams that will work for 15mm scale. Of course they're wigwams, not Mississippian houses. A few other pieces from the set might be useful for a 15mm Indian village:

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In the Sunwatch Village museum store in Dayton I picked up a 'school project' sort of kit of a Fort Ancient house, square with wattle-and-daub walls and a pitched, thatched roof. I haven't built it yet, don't know how it will look when finished. Scale is 54mm or bigger, too big to be an ordinary house in my 25mm collection, but I plan to put it on top of a mound as a 'big house', a temple or a palace. When I build it. Wunna these daze.

Unfortunately Sunwatch Village has no online shopping capability and doesn't illustrate their stock. You might try emailing them, or stop by the Sunwatch Village museum store the next time you're in the neighborhood and see whether this kit suits you:

sunwatch.org/sunwatch-store

Hey Irv!

I have one of those houses from Sunwatch, sounds like I have proceded as far as you have.

Thanks for the tip re: the plastic set. Might have some useful bits. Really want something that looks more Mississippian though for the houses.

tberry – Those are nice buildings, but a bit more "modern" than I desire. Might not have any choice though, or I might have to figure out how to scrtachbuild my own, which could be an exercise in futility!

I'd suggest that you get some of the plastic Easter eggs that come apart in the middle. Use the rounder end as the core for your hut and then cover it with Milliput (I recommend the regular/yellow gray Milliput) and then score it with a hobby blade. Scoring the Milliput was what I did for roofing when I made my ancient German village. You can see the results in pic 25 (the last pic) of my Pax Romana Gallery at link

Hey back atcha Darryl!

Not Mississippian. Useless for Vikings and Skraelings. Maybe useful for 15mm or 20mm Conquistadors in the Southwest, or anything to do with Puebloans, or Anasazi or Hohokam in those scales:

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A cut-and-glue cardboard Pueblo. I have an unbuilt copy and the scale is clearly 1/72, but is readily usable for 15mm gaming. Inappropriate modern details include ground-level doors, outward-facing windows and stove-pipe chimneys. These could be left off and/or painted over.

If you decide to build your own Mississippian town, start with small rectangular craft boxes from Michael's or Hobby Lobby. I think you're more likely to find cardboard boxes in the right size than wood, but check for both. Add a pitched roof of the right shape from thin cardboard, then cover it with something fibrous for the thatching, cuttings from broomstraws or a placemat or something. Make up a couple dozen and voila, instant Cahokia or Mabila.

For the first image, look at Japanese buildings & extend the thatch with putty?