I've just added some more buildings to my C14th - C18th town... These will do for Wars of the Roses and ECW and all points in between (and about 100 years either side
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Having seen Digits' excellent work on his Total Battle Miniatures (TBM) WW2 buildings - and having never come across this company before - I thought I'd try a couple. So I bought a half-timbered row of shops and a barn.
These are from their 'Black Powder Europe' range of 28mm buildings, and do look a bit Mitteleuropa, but will do perfectly well for late Medieval through to Horse and Musket era England...
The TBM buildings are 50 quid each (unpainted), post-free. Which I think is blinking good value and a lot of resin for your money. They're rather nice: large, quite chunky. Good detailing, although slightly grungy casting in a few places. Also with some hairy residue clinging in places. Don't know if this was an attempt to model wattle / daub / animal hair infill, or just some by-product of the casting process. A bit odd. I got quite a lot of the looser stuff off, but you can see some of it still where I just sealed it in place...
The top storeys of the buildings lift off so you can place figures inside, although there's no interior detailing.
Here's the row of shops... A bit wonky, but I think that's intentional.
Close-up...
Three angles on the barn...
At the same time, I also bought another Grand Manner house - the double bay version of one of the buildings I already had.
This range of medieval town buildings was was sculpted by Tony Harwood, (our very own Dampfpanzerwagen here on LAF), rather than by Dave Bodley (Mr Grand Manner himself). Unfortunately, several of them no longer appear to be in the Grand Manner catalogue.
It's a much more finely detailed creation than the Total Battle Miniatures buildings. There again, since Mr Bodley will now only sell his products painted, this little beauty set me back a princely £174 including P&P
Which I feel is rather a LOT, even for such a lovely model.
On the plus side, it does have painted interior detail on both ground floor and first floor - floorboards, doors etc.
This is the 'wargames standard' paint option. Not bad, although fairly basic TBH. It does save a lot of time though, because painting the two TBM buildings was quite a lot of work...
Anyway, here are the three new buildings along with some figures for scale, showing various other angles and backed up with some of the rest of the town... This is about half of it. I can now more or less fill a table with town!