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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: TheKing30 on February 08, 2022, 02:17:17 PM
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Hi all
I'm painting up figures for the Spanish Civil War (Empress figures from Age of Glory - highly recommended!!) and I was thinking about terrain and buildings. Anyone have any they can recommend? Either 3d printed or MDF..
Thanks all
TK30
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Things from the Basement has a Mediterranean Village range!
(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/p180x540/244116705_267917982001748_5078060840830716707_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=e3f864&_nc_ohc=lPrB-1J_F1YAX8LYQGS&tn=0g-xvmbn0OInCk8F&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=00_AT9npdlvJhmRMkdP9U59ZXpb5oBJTCizYvnpOiQfMN7PDg&oe=6207BADF)
https://www.thingsfromthebasement.com/store/c44/Mediterranean_Village.html (https://www.thingsfromthebasement.com/store/c44/Mediterranean_Village.html)
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Not a perfect fit for 20th century but both Empires at War and Sarissa Precision produce nice looking MdF Italian/Spanish buildings. The former are pre-coloured.
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Thanks for the recommendations!! I have to admit - I think I need to save my pennies and grab some of the "Things from the Basement" range.
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Charlie Foxtrot has useful stuff, handily those difficult pantile roofs are resin casts:
https://www.charliefoxtrotmodels.com/collections/pantile
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TT Combat do a Venice range that can be used.
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@Things from the Basement...
I just placed an order from your Mediterranean Village. Do you have a tutorial on how you painted them?
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Thanks a lot for your order!
There are tutorials on my website: https://www.thingsfromthebasement.com/tutorials.html (https://www.thingsfromthebasement.com/tutorials.html)
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Actually it's me who should thank you. The tutorials are excellent. The church is next.... that piece is beautiful.
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Empress produce their own range of SCW buildings.
In addition there are the Jens Najewitz models licensed through a number of printing companies. Bound to be one local to you.
https://www.otpterrain.com/collections/italy-spain
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Also…
https://www.otpterrain.com/collections/napoleonic-vol-3/products/peninsular-village-set
as well as various other goodies in the Napoleonic range.
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Those are beautiful - but I think they're coming from Australia. The shipping to the US would be a killer.. :'(
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Also…
https://www.otpterrain.com/collections/napoleonic-vol-3/products/peninsular-village-set
as well as various other goodies in the Napoleonic range.
15 mm, in case that matters.
EDIT: Oh wait, they come in multiple sizes. Print-on-demand I suppose?
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Those are beautiful - but I think they're coming from Australia. The shipping to the US would be a killer.. :'(
They are licensed prints, a number of companies produce the same models. There’s bound to be one in the US. If you have a printer or a printing service near by you can just buy the STL files direct from the designer.
https://www.3dprintterrain.de/
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15 mm, in case that matters.
EDIT: Oh wait, they come in multiple sizes. Print-on-demand I suppose?
Yep multiple scales, print on demand.
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They are licensed prints, a number of companies produce the same models. There’s bound to be one in the US. If you have a printer or a printing service near by you can just buy the STL files direct from the designer.
https://www.3dprintterrain.de/
At nearly 1,000$ for the full town in 28mm, I can't imagine this being even remotely economical to produce outside of home printing.
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Mebbe, mebbe not. I have probably bought half a town’s worth of buildings from OTP over the past couple of years. They have the occasional sale, so, it hasn’t worked out to badly.
When I compare the product received compared to its MDF equivalent it’s actually pretty good. In Oz I could buy the average 28mm house for around what it costs and sometimes less when I factor in p&p for what I would pay for an MDF equivalent. Might just be me but I will then probably spend about another 25-30% on materials bringing the MDF building up to something I’m happy with.
With these I just clean up the prints and paint them. Even painting them is cheaper, as they tend to need only one pass of the spray primer can, rather than multiples with MDF.
I live in Oz, we have only two real local manufacturers of MDF. I can buy Sarissa postage free but anything else has a postage. Of course there are cheaper options, I can scratch build, I can buy or print card stock or buy cheapish dolls houses. I recently discovered my local hardware store makes a nice very useful dolls house shell that retails at about $15 AUD. All of this takes a lot of work.
So, balancing the aesthetics with actual costs and time, I find these are not unreasonable in terms of price point. The one downside is wait time but that’s entirely understandable.
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Ive enjoyed these buildings. Strong, lightweight and nicely done.
http://www.tablescape.co.uk/Catalogue/Mediterranean/MediterraneanRange.htm