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Allen5708 Mar 2015 9:04 a.m. PST

I have a couple Chinese looking buildings in 6mm size.

Who makes Chinese/Japanese/oriental buildings in 2 or 6mm scale?

Greg G108 Mar 2015 1:27 p.m. PST

There is this company.
muraminiatures.com

Sobieski08 Mar 2015 5:57 p.m. PST

Lovely Japanese stuff; I use a lot. But no Chinese.
If you like using metal terrain (I don't), Irregular Miniatures have a bit of useful 6mm in that direction.

boy wundyr x09 Mar 2015 2:35 p.m. PST

You could use Irregular's Vauban walls and glue two of the same type of wall lengthwise, to give yourself a Great Wall with battlements on both sides. Not sure how well the towers would fit when the walls are double-wide, but they might work.

Paper Terrain has a 6mm tropical village, so grass peasant huts if that fits with your project.

You might also scour pet stores and dollar stores with pet sections for aquarium pieces with an Asian theme. I have a tall Chinese tower that probably best fits with 10mm, but could be 6mm in a pinch, and the smallest of those Buddha's stone heads might do too. There may be more I've passed when I wasn't thinking of 2 or 6mm; some general castles might work as well.

For 3mm I've used a "finding" (in the bracelets section of craft stores) for the top of a pagoda:
link

I also made stilted huts with stables and plastic Monopoly houses; I've also texted the roofs of Monopoly houses to turn them into huts. They're also in that blog post and this:
link

I don't think any of the Safari Toobs with buildings had anything more Asian than the Taj Mahal, but I might be out of date. My final thought is that there was some free paper terrain of great buildings of the world that might have had something Asian in it; there was the Taj again at least.

boy wundyr x16 Mar 2015 7:54 a.m. PST

Was in a pet store last week, National Geographic has a line of aquarium/terrarium scenics, saw a few Great Wall pieces that might do for 6mm, and picked up a Mayan monkey god head that will be perfect for pulp gaming in 15/28mm. May go back for the matching pillars, can do the platforms myself with foam.

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