Winston Smith | 26 Feb 2015 11:07 p.m. PST |
Let's take a break from the monthly "What figures would you like to see made?" Topic and do something different. What buildings would you like to see produced in your favorite scale? I would like to see some 28mm scale buildings suitable for AWI skirmish gaming. Games like the British retreat from Concord or guerrilla fighting in New Jersey or the South. I have a few ACW log cabins and the famous Chew House made by Vatican Enterprises. Unfortunstely all are solid chunks of resin. I made a few myself from foam vote and model railroad sheet stone walls or clapboard siding. But nothing looks really "authentic " like the buildings in Osprey or other books. The books on Trenton by Fischer and Stryker have a lot of nice plates and photos for inspiration. Ditto the Osprey on the Boston campaign. Removeable roofs would be nice. I would buy paper or PDF files too. |
nevinsrip | 27 Feb 2015 1:04 a.m. PST |
The various Gettysburg buildings in 28 mm. I've got enough barns, houses and western town stuff to populate a small state. One of the 10 mm or so size vendors makes beautiful Gettysburg buildings including the Seminary and most of the important other structures in his scale. We need them upgraded to 28 mm. No PDF's or paper stuff for me and I don't care if the roofs come off, either. |
53Punisher | 27 Feb 2015 3:33 a.m. PST |
I'd like to see a 28mm modular haunted house type, giving access to each floor, different rooms, attic, basement, etc. Can't say I've ever seen anything like that. Maybe the wall sections could be separate, so that you could design different rooms instead of using the same layout, making it even more useful. |
Fat Wally | 27 Feb 2015 3:36 a.m. PST |
Windmills, watermills and sawmills suitable for true 15mm figures. This probably means 10mm size buildings as all the Windmills designed for 15mm figures are just too tall and look ridiculous on the table. |
jensutkremp | 27 Feb 2015 3:44 a.m. PST |
Due every year I make more than 50 new sets of buildings, please send me some suggestions. Buildings of AWI and ACW are on my own wishlist. All my buildings are hollow with opened Windows and detachable roofs. Please take contact via my Homepage link |
pzivh43 | 27 Feb 2015 4:41 a.m. PST |
jensutkremp, Very nice stuff!! Any chance for some Russian front items, such as windmills or a domed church (15mm and 1/72)? Mike |
tigrifsgt | 27 Feb 2015 5:08 a.m. PST |
A castle that people can actually afford. |
Disco Joe | 27 Feb 2015 5:55 a.m. PST |
I would like more 28mm AWI and ACW buildings made. In particular a large plantation mansion as seen in the Hollywood movies. An of course it would be nice if the tops came off to be able to put figures in but that is not a requirement. And as Bill stated no PDF's or paper stuff. And Bill Sally 4th does carry a 28mm Lutheran Seminary. |
Carrion Crow | 27 Feb 2015 6:03 a.m. PST |
A range of hard plastic 28mm urban buildings, similar to the Plasticville stuff, but more modern and more readily available to those of us in the UK. Things like a petrol (gas) station, fast food restaurant and individual single storey shops. The Dust Tactics Warzone Tenement meets my multistorey building needs. I know these are available in MDF and cardstock, but I WANT plastic! And intact, not ruined. |
Rhoderic III and counting | 27 Feb 2015 6:42 a.m. PST |
I'm aware this is an absurdly specific wish (fantasy, really) for a highly uncommon scale, but the perfect product for me would be 12mm scale facades, sold as "sheets" no more than perhaps 3-4mm thick (including surface detail), for generic modern/futuristic low-rise and mid-rise urban buildings, cast out of resin or, better yet, some sort of lightweight flexible material. The idea here is that "sheet" facades alone ought to be considerably cheaper (in both production and, importantly, shipping) than blocks of resin. Constructing my own foamcore boxes to the right size, fixing the facades onto these and covering up the joins at the corners would be a perfectly acceptable minor hassle under the circumstances. Even making the roofs wouldn't be a big deal, if a few roof fixtures were to come with the sets. Cast facades would be preferable to laser-cut ones as they would allow for more natural-looking surface detail with some depth. I could also live with 15mm ones, if they were made from a material that can be cut – I would then cut off a fraction of the height of each story so as to scale them for 12mm, and perhaps replace the doors with slightly smaller scratchbuilt ones. Alternatively 10mm ones that I could heighten on every story, and likewise replace the doors. (And no, I absolutely do not think that either 10mm or 15mm is close enough to 12mm to be acceptable without at the very least converting the doors. I've bought some resin buildings as test pieces in both scales, and turns out stories are the wrong height and doors the wrong size next to 12mm infantry.) I've actually been slowly scratchbuilding my own facades so I can make latex moulds of them. The intention has been to cast up enough facades for dozens of buildings and then pass most of them on basically for free to fellow Heavy Gear Blitz players on the Dream Pod 9 forums (12mm gamers have to stick together, and all that). But I keep running into technical complications, so it's probably not going to happen. Besides, most other HGB players seem to be content with the imperfection of 15mm or 10mm scale buildings. Traitors… |
jeffreyw3 | 27 Feb 2015 7:38 a.m. PST |
I would love to see more pre-Cold War Russian buildings in 6mm. Churches/monasteries in any scale that actually resemble the real thing are much needed and appreciated. |
Rdfraf | 27 Feb 2015 7:56 a.m. PST |
Something Chinese, there are plenty of Japanese themed building but very few Chinese ones. |
PVT641 | 27 Feb 2015 8:00 a.m. PST |
For 15MM Iroquois village palisade, Bell of arms tent, Chew House. |
DeltaBravo | 27 Feb 2015 8:26 a.m. PST |
I'd like to see some accurate 15mm or 28mm modern buildings for sub-Saharan Africa. And not shanties. |
mbsparta | 27 Feb 2015 8:50 a.m. PST |
I need some 28mm Goats … Suitable for sacrifice … Leonidas |
OldBlackWater | 27 Feb 2015 8:51 a.m. PST |
For my civil war land and sea project I would like to see more 3mm 1/600 US civil war buildings, especially iconic ones from the western theater. How about the courthouse at Vicksburg, the State House at Baton Rouge, and the Federal Customs House on the waterfront at Galveston, or some of the forts on the Gulf Coast-Ft Morgan or Gaines at Mobile, Jackson and St Philip for New Orleans, or Pickens and Barrancas at Pensacola. How about a steam sawmill, plantation house, cotton gin/warehouse, sugar mill, and some camp stuff such as various tents. Unlikely I know, but you asked. OBW |
miniMo | 27 Feb 2015 8:56 a.m. PST |
28mm: The French Village from MGM Backlot #2 — used in Combat! and the Man from U.N.C.L.E. link
28mm: a rolling bascule bridge that can be moved up/down. Laser-cut, double-layered gear-teeth would allow the rolling movement and be sturdy enough to survive playing with it. 15mm: Small (~2") medieval half-timbered houses, so 2-3 could be used to represent a village without taking up a huge footprint on the table. |
Andy Skinner | 27 Feb 2015 9:01 a.m. PST |
Someone mentioned haunted house above. This is close: link andy |
Long Valley Gamer | 27 Feb 2015 9:57 a.m. PST |
Hi Jens, Tried to place an order with your company but had to register first,(not sure why since I was paying you and you would have all contact info) I find it difficult to register on your site since I cannot create a password… Advise would be helpful |
Old Glory | 27 Feb 2015 10:12 a.m. PST |
An exact replica of the house I grew up in in Des Moines, Iowa. regards Russ Dunaway (hobby Legend) |
IronDuke596 | 27 Feb 2015 10:33 a.m. PST |
In 28mm: a small barn and various small clapboard houses suitable for AWI and War of 1812. |
Grelber | 27 Feb 2015 11:09 a.m. PST |
Southeast European buildings would be nice, particularly Greek. A few farmhouses, a couple outbuildings, and an Eastern Orthodox church. Carefully select the design, and you could have things that could be used from the Ottoman conquest through recent fighting in FYROM. I'd take them in 15mmor 25/28mm. Grelber |
londoncalling | 27 Feb 2015 12:41 p.m. PST |
It has probably been already mentioned in the past, but this is a good thread to paste as a reminder link I guess it's up to the wargaming community to respond when the manufacturers ask, the more support they see then I guess the greater the chance of getting what you need ? Hopefully.. |
evilcartoonist | 27 Feb 2015 12:57 p.m. PST |
42mm Japanese mansion (sengoku period) with interior and sliding panel doors. |
Skeets | 27 Feb 2015 2:09 p.m. PST |
I agree Radfraf, Chinese buildings are a great idea. |
joekano | 28 Feb 2015 1:35 p.m. PST |
Another vote for Chinese buildings, both Eastern and Western styles. I'd also really like to get my hands on 28mm European colonial buildings for Africa, especially a train station. |
Borathan | 28 Feb 2015 2:23 p.m. PST |
Chinese buildings are available to some extent if you look the right place and can figure scales from dimensions. There are a LOT of the wooden architectural puzzles of various chinese buildings that work well with very little work for a permanent setup, most of the things are also doable for being able to disassemble them for storage as well. |
DuckanCover | 28 Feb 2015 6:33 p.m. PST |
Concrete bunkers replicating actual designs constructed by Germany, Poland, the USSR, and Czechoslovakia during the Inter-War period and the Second World War, in "15mm scale" (1:100 would be better, for my purposes). Machine gun and observation types are the priority. There have been a some German examples, to be sure, a few Russian, and two Czech, that I know of. However, it would be nice to find all four countries represented by ranges manufactured by one source (preferably, with an English language catalog). Solid resin castings would be best, don't care much for paper……… Duck |
Doctor X | 01 Mar 2015 12:26 a.m. PST |
25/28mm buildings for for the AWI are sadly lacking. |
uglyfatbloke | 01 Mar 2015 4:48 a.m. PST |
Gettysburg buildings, Arnhem buildings, Asian 'shop-house' buildings – the latter preferably made so they can be laid out as a terrace with the five-foot and maybe a monsoon ditch at the front? |
sumerandakkad | 01 Mar 2015 5:18 a.m. PST |
6mm/25mm ancient middle east houses, temples etc. (Hittite, Babylonian, Persian) |
Rhoderic III and counting | 01 Mar 2015 11:24 a.m. PST |
I'll add something that came up in the discussion thread for the latest Brigade Aeronef news item: VSF native Martian/Venusian buildings in 15/18mm. By all means also in 6mm and 28mm. First and foremost I'd like something in a Barsoomian style – slightly South/Central Asian in appearance but also with that alien touch (maybe inspired by some episodes of Star Trek TOS and old sci-fi paperback covers). Domes, spires, curving arches, finials, that sort of thing. Then maybe something more primitive that says "Lizardmen of Venus". And by all means, other alien architectural styles with a "traditional" (as opposed to technological) feel. |