"Which company makes 28mm houses for the Indian Mutiny?" Topic
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WillieB | 15 Sep 2017 7:28 a.m. PST |
I've been looking at several companies but at most they have 2 or 3 different adobe- style houses, which often look more Arab than Indian to me, but not much else. Custom work like those gems from the Colonial Steamboat Company are frankly unaffordable to me. So, who makes a nice range of Indian houses? They can be resin, foam or laser-cut MDF with a preference for the first, but the range should at least have some variety. Preferably in the UK or EU but will consider US too if the postage is reasonable. |
robert piepenbrink | 15 Sep 2017 8:15 a.m. PST |
Hmm. Haven't bought a 28mm house in quite a while, but I have been looking at Indian village architecture for my 15mm Mutiny forces. As you go to the north and west (modern-day Pakistan) you hit the flat-roof "Arab" style. But if you're marching to relieve Cawnpore or Lucknow, what you need is stucco walls and a thatch roof. This is poor people's vernacular architecture over a lot or territory--Ukraine, for instance, rural Ireland, and I've found suitable 15mm buildings in a Vietnam range. Obviously a suitable temple would be nice, but if you broaden your search to "stucco with thatch" you may turn up something suitable. Good luck! |
The Virtual Armchair General | 15 Sep 2017 8:38 a.m. PST |
A wide range of card stock buildings of authentic East Indian architecture are available as PDF's in both 15mm and 25mm, delivered by E-Mail are available inexpensively via this link While not of the media you specified, these, like all card stock models, are best made by backing the interior surfaces with either matte board or, better, foam core. The result is an effectively permanent model that has none of the "look" of card stock. The money you can save with these simple models should more than compensate for the extra time devoted to reinforcing them, and you won't have to "approximate" the styles--you'll be dead on! TVAG |
Chokidar | 15 Sep 2017 9:52 a.m. PST |
Mutineer used to do a great range – now owned by Templar – a bit expensive perhaps but great buildings. You can always kit bash some Renedra flat rooved and accessoried buildings around them to add volume – and if you have a look at Jim Duncans remarkable blog he has some MDF flat-packs that he has made very nicely – name temporarily escapes me perhaps Warbases – he gets great results from them. Then there are the middle eastern flat-packs from Barrage miniatures and last but not least Studio Miniatures briefly flashed a building briefly during its Afghan War Kickstarter, that has disappeared since but I understand it will be in the website shop again soon along with a couple of others. Most of this lot will need a bit of tarting up – half balls for domes… some air fresheners have a coned top which is even decorated and paints up nicely as a decorative dome – you can stick them on Warbases towers for example and so forth. There is a firm that makes external details like high doors or wooden caged windows which can be useful – but there my memory fails me. Good luck – not least in resisting the Mutineer Kashmir Gate!!!! |
JimDuncanUK | 15 Sep 2017 12:28 p.m. PST |
Have a look here Willie. link
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Ragbones | 15 Sep 2017 1:10 p.m. PST |
Jim, that's a fantastic bit of work you did. Those walls, buildings, towers and gate are great. And the finishing touches bring them to life. Well done, sir! |
Jlundberg | 15 Sep 2017 3:42 p.m. PST |
I am partial to the old crescent root resin, now available through art of wargaming link
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