28mm Australian Home Guard - '100 club' project from Eureka Miniatures

[carlos marighela]

Actually Battlefield Designs sell a basic timber cottage along with a small shearing shed in MDF. Nic often stocks them in the shop. There’s also a smallish house in there that with some work and some brick card would make a serviceable small rural school. Let’s face it, all you need for most towns in the Wimmera is a pub, a couple of shops, a scattering of houses, the inevitable grain silo and maybe a church and a small school.

Agreed about the Perry plastic house, just replace the roof with a tin one and it’s good to go, replace the windows with sash type and it’s even better. The Perry store works pretty much perfectly and with a bit of work the church wouldn’t look out of place. Quite a few of the various MDF Wild West ranges have useful bits n bobs.

IIRC some of the railway stores make Australian windmills as well as a range of rural buildings, pubs, stations, railway houses etc. Mostly HO but I seem to recall someone did something in O. Check out the catalogues for Branchline and Trainworld in Brighton.

[carlos marighela]

Hmm quick bit of idle googling revealed that grain silos didn’t really become a thing in Victoria until the late 1930s, with the Grain Elevator Board only being established in 1934. Up until then it was pretty much all bagged grain. Still, if you want to to Blamey and the post-war, late 1940s White Army, I suppose one would come in handy.