"Wanted: WWII Russian buildings for 1/144 gaming" Topic

I want buildings for 1/144 tank gaming on the East Front. 1/150 (10mm) to 1/160 (N scale) scales will be just fine – I prefer buildings to be somewhat underscale anyway.

I know about Timecast, Battlescale and Pendraken. What other options should I be looking at?

- Ix

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And if just starting out a pretty economical yet very nice looking alternative is paper terrain
paperterrain.com

Check out some of their European village packs for some great deals

And a very good selection for the Russian front
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I am a big Total Battle fan. While marketed as being in 6mm scale, I have used their buildings with my 10mm forces. There are even entire villages available with the groundwork. Total Battle have started to populate their long neglected 10mm ranges with upscaled 6mm offerings. I am attaching a link that takes you direct to their 6mm range FYI. link

I'm also a huge fan of Total Battle Miniatures, and I built a town out of their 3mm buildings. In 10mm they have North Africa covered, and quite a few of their 10mm buildings for other eras will work for WWII Western Europe, but nothing looks Russian to me. I'll keep an eye on them for future developments.

I'm disinclined to use 6mm buildings for 1/144 gaming. The difference between "6mm" and "10mm" doesn't sound all that great, but the difference between 1/285 (6mm) and 1/144 (12mm) is 2x, so the buildings will look excessively diminutive next to the vehicles, fences, trees and people.

- Ix

You can't say that the link does not show Russian style buildings. Of course, your desire for in-scale buildings is most valid for many (especially if you intend to do MOUT fighting).

For many of us, it is just an enhancement for the overall look of the game table. MOUT fighting is done abstractly because of the level of command used. Town/city fighting is a huge drain on available resources and just allocating enough to secure their coming out to attack your entrails allows for your offensive to carry on. Guess it depends upon the level of tactical knowledge of your gamers?

Pretty sure more will come on to the market as gamers ask for it. Pretty popular theatre for sure!

The Timecast buildings are are fairly hefty. I use their 6mm Russian buildings with my 15mm stuff!

They will be fine with 1/144.

You mean they're overscale for 6mm?

- Ix

Yellow Admiral, Battlescale also makes 10mm buildings.
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Martin Rapier do you have any photos of 15mm tanks near 6mm Timecast buildings? I'd love to see the size comparison.

No, they aren't overscale, they just have a much bigger footprint than eg Hovels

There are a couple of the wooden huts used as scatter terrain on my blog post here if you hunt around a bit (the elements are on thick movement trays for this so higher than normal).

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YA, Battle Honors 3D printed scenery has a couple of Russian churches, and also this Karelian Village set in 10-12mm size -

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I've been looking at this set as possibly something I can adapt for my 1/144th scale Donbas (2014-15) War project also. I would be thinking of gluing on corrugated or tin-section roofing, to bring them up to 'modern' standards as a Donbas set.

I bet these Battle Honors buildings might fit in well with the Pegasus Hobbies' models (or Pendraken). The Pegasus models do have thatched roofs though.

Btw, the Pegasus "Ukrainian Houses" are way too large in my eye for being 1/144th scale – closer to 1/100th I think (I gave mine away for playing with 15s).

Yellow Admiral, did you end up pulling the trigger on any of these buildings mentioned in the thread here?

No, not yet.

Nothing quite grabbed me yet. I decided buildings are a whole project I'm not ready to tackle yet.

These Battle Honours buildings look nice though. I'm saving this link for sure.

Those are nice buildings indeed!

I decided to pull the trigger on a couple sets of the Battle Honours 3D buildings – and I can't. The only way to check out is to make an account, but I get to a page that says To continue, let us know you're not a robot with a Submit button, and when I click it, I get an error page. There is no way I can find to get past this (different browsers, turning off ad blocker, disabling extensions, etc.).

Has anyone successfully bought anything from this site?

- Ix

YA, with your prompt here, I decided to see if I could order the Karelian Village – I registered my new account, and transacted successfully.

The registration process never asked for the "you're not a robot" confirmation though (hmmmmm).

Dave

I have a vague suspicion the site is prejudiced against linux users like me. The site has a lot of very fancy web design cues that imply expensive software and over-engineering, and when done cheaply (e.g. by someone without a lot of commercial web design experience) this tends to lead to bugs with specific client browsers and operating systems.

I submitted a help request through the "contact" form, we'll see if that gets me anywhere.

- Ix

Hoping you luck, and good follow-up results.

Pegasus did Russian Log huts. Prepaints. They look a bit 'tidy' for Russia… but if you have Barrels, Cart/gun wheels lying around…or just matchstick 'log' pile fine. Winter add SNOW!