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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Hammers on 06 February 2012, 02:38:10 PM

Title: Domus Romanica Kits
Post by: Hammers on 06 February 2012, 02:38:10 PM
Alex, not *exactly* what you are looking for but are you familiar with Domus kits from Spain? They make some *very* nice kits with bone fide, real micro bricks. They have several roman and romanesque buildings in 1:50 to 1:65 scale.

http://www.domuskits.com/en/series/arteromanico/catalogo.php?op=ser&id=9 (http://www.domuskits.com/en/series/arteromanico/catalogo.php?op=ser&id=9)

(http://www.domuskits.com/includes/foto/romanico40095.gif)

Some of them could with a little addition work as fortified villas.
Title: Domus Romanica Kits
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 06 February 2012, 02:52:31 PM

thanks for the link, Peder, they look fantastic! About 6000 pieces a kit..crazy..:)

any idea about prices, didn't find anything on the page?
Title: Domus Romanica Kits
Post by: Hammers on 06 February 2012, 03:00:18 PM
Quote from: Prof.Witchheimer on 06 February 2012, 02:52:31 PM
thanks for the link, Peder, they look fantastic! About 6000 pieces a kit..crazy..:)

any idea about prices, didn't find anything on the page?

Well, they aint cheap. I got an English villa and it set me back about €40. The modelling possibilities are vast. Just imagine what you can do if you model some scaffolding around a part of the building and leave a part above it half finished and heaps of bricks on the ground.. There's a piece of story telling scenery right there! Romans trying to establish themselves across the Rhine by building villas.
Title: Re: Domus Romanica Kits
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 06 February 2012, 04:01:20 PM
made it to a thread.

Great idea to make a building site, like it.

where did you buy them? at this page?
Title: Re: Domus Romanica Kits
Post by: Hammers on 06 February 2012, 04:08:19 PM
No, at an idiosyncratic hobby store in Uppsala, Sweden. I'd love to make one of the Romanesque churches but I really refrained from buying it as I did not have an immediate use for it. Got other projects to finish first...

EDIT: I was/am keenly interested in this one:

(http://www.domuskits.com/includes/foto/romanico40091.gif)

It's 1:65 but I think that by enlarging the doors, one can make it work.
Title: Re: Domus Romanica Kits
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 06 February 2012, 04:12:31 PM
found them in Germany:
http://www.steinbausatz24.de/domus-kits-steinbausaetze-arte-romnico-c1771841

 not cheap, really, but worth thinking about it, we will see
Title: Re: Domus Romanica Kits
Post by: Koppi on 07 February 2012, 09:35:52 PM
Do you know the fantastic range of Jens Najewitz:
http://www.lasermodellbau.de/index.php?option=com_jshopping&controller=category&task=view&category_id=40&Itemid=9&lang=de
I have the roman villa, and it's really great.
Title: Re: Domus Romanica Kits
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 07 February 2012, 10:11:11 PM
looks very fine, indeed but what scale? 1/72?

(http://www.lasermodellbau.de/components/com_jshopping/files/img_products/full_aba2a2421d99a46e6ff38e8156faf62c.jpg)
Title: Re: Domus Romanica Kits
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 07 February 2012, 10:44:51 PM
sorry, I see, it's 28mm