"PaperTerrain Releases Central European Buildings!" Topic

PaperTerrain is proud to announce its latest offering: Central European Buildings! This has long been a serious gap in our product line. Central Europe, which includes Germany, Austria and many other countries has been the scene of dozens of wars over the centuries. The Thirty Years War, the Seven Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, World War II, and many others, have raged across these lands. The towns and villages, with their distinctive half-timber construction, have often been caught up in the battles. Our new kits allow you to add these buildings to your game table.

We have two Central European Hamlet Packs, each of which include six buildings, plus sheds, fences and garden walls. In each kit five of those buildings come with both slate roofs and thatched roofs giving you the option of which to use.

We also have a church kit.

Finally, we offer you a Village Set which includes both hamlets and the church for a reduced price. These kits are all available in 10/12mm, 15mm, 20mm, and 25/28mm scales. Additional models will be released soon.

Available at: link

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Really nice buildings Scott,
I see the bug still abides though!

Oh those are nice Scott.

You'll get an order later this week!

Those look really great!

Any chance for a red-orange, or burgundy tiled roof option as well?

Many of the current day, and historic images I see show those colors to predominate, instead of the slate or thatched roof options.

Any eta on a 6mm scale version?

I'm planning on adding a few more town buildings and a pair of walled farmhouses and a large granary. Once those are done I will scale down the whole lot to 6mm.

Those other buildings sound great, be sure to let us know when they're done so I can place one big order!

Do these also have the ruin inserts?

@BattleCaptain: Oh yes, they all come with the ruin underneath!

Great! Looking forward to the 6mm goodies being released. Be sure to let us know.

looks great, I agree that red tile roofs would be a nice option too, allowing a better feel for Netherlands and Belgium.

Hi Scott,

I have some of your Mediterranean buildings, including the church (really the size of a cathedral) which I use for my Napoleonic Peninsular set-up.

I also have some of your original European buildings, which I have used for my Jacobite Rebellion set-up.

Finally, I have recently built your Vauban fort.

I use your 15mm buildings with my 1:72 plastics, and they are excellent. I am planning to expand my 18th Century set-up into the War of Austrian Succession, so these new buildings will be ideal.

Rod

+1 for a red roof option.

Okay, there is enough support for the red roofs that I will add them. Dare I ask what SHADE of red you would like? :)

The red tile option in your European set would be fine by me.

Scott. Where I live here in Stuttgart,Germany (Baden-Wurtemberg) most of the tiled roofs are colored a dark red-brown. Weathering adds streaks of black to them. Folk Art Artists' Pigment 943 Burnt Sienna, is what I use on my 3D model roofs. It is the closest match I have.

While many other color roofing tiles abound (like Terra Cotta), this seems to be most prominent. As you go further north (Belgium, Luxemberg, Netherlands, Northern France, etc.) you will see more reds and orange tiles. All based upon the color of the local clays from which the tiles are made of. Here are a few shots taken in Rothemberg, Germany, offered as examples:

I have more up here, if interested:

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Hope this helps.

v/r
Tom

Thanks Tom, that is very useful! Not just the roof colors, I think I may use one of those clock towers in the next set of buildings.

Okay! Red roofs are now included with all the sets! No extra cost!

Nice looking buildings you have there.
The colour of the roof isn't so much of an issue concerning authenticity, as that is much a question of period/century and geographical area. You would see many houses black-greyish slater cover, where available, or reddish clay brick. Today the letter is much cheaper. I know it because we had the roof of our new space done in historic slater cover this year.
Historically, most houses of the lower classes and country folk had their dwellings universally covered with straw, being the cheapest material found. Only with the introduction of compulsory fire insurances during the end of the 18th century the straw covered roofs disappeared throughout the Empire.
I learned this earlier this year in a guided tour through the Hessenpark museum, which preserves old historic architecture from the Lands of Hesse. Within densely build up towns, off course, no straw covered roof would have been found much earlier. Way too dangerous.

Cheers,
Christian

Glad to hear it on the roof color, Scott. Thanks for offering that as a free option.

For some of the villages in the Fulda, Germany area I've looked at, the orange, and burgundy colored roofs seem to predominate, with far more of the former (as shown in the above pics, by Tom).

Scott, I don't know if you have seen the use we have made of your 3mm village sets for eastern Europe:

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and northern Europe:

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Both sets have been used in the context of 6mm figures.

Robert

Wow, Robert, those are fantastic looking tables (and you are gaming inside a real castle?!) I'm honored that you think my houses are good enough to use on such wonderful game boards! Thanks for sharing!

Scott

My pleasure. The Marne 'game' was displayed inside the Dormans' Château (I guess it depends on what you mean by 'castle' ;-) for the test set up and then inside the huge memorial chapel, which commemorates the 1st and 2nd Marne battles.

Robert

Nice work,Scott. Any chance you will offer them in micro scale?

I've sent the editors a complaint on this, so hopefully they will re-title the article as paper terrain buildings, or something equally searchable, eventually.

mkck1947

Yes, they will be coming out in micro-scale. I'm planning on adding a few more town buildings and a pair of walled farmhouses and a large granary. Once those are done I will scale down the whole lot to 6mm (and probably 3mm, too).

A village shop or two would be nice, and useful.