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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: baldlea on December 02, 2015, 07:36:53 PM

Title: What is this building? NEW BUILDING 24th Dec
Post by: baldlea on December 02, 2015, 07:36:53 PM: Hi all

I want to make a building for a sci fi "fringe" setting from this. What do you think it should be? Some sort of shop, information point... Please help.

(http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w467/baldlea/Mobile%20Uploads/20151202_192701_zps4aexhkdk.jpg)
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Post by: axiom on December 02, 2015, 08:07:57 PM: Not sure, but it looks cool. Where's it from?
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Post by: baldlea on December 02, 2015, 08:12:43 PM: The tip or a car boot sale.
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Post by: Elbows on December 02, 2015, 08:36:38 PM: They look like GI Joe size doors...how big is it?

It looks like it could be a shop if you replaced the twin sets of doors with rolling shop-gates...replaced the small steps with a ramp for cars/trucks. Shop door on the back side...throw an a/c vent up top. Add a fence w/ supplies/tip/etc.
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Post by: YPU on December 02, 2015, 08:47:12 PM: Could make for an interesting mech bay.
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Post by: Warren Abox on December 02, 2015, 09:17:06 PM: Corner tech store or open door cafe. Throw some tables out front and it would fit the part.
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Post by: baldlea on December 02, 2015, 09:28:31 PM: The doors are about 55mm. A little big, I suppose.
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Post by: YPU on December 02, 2015, 09:37:37 PM: Quote from: Warren Abox on December 02, 2015, 09:17:06 PM
Corner tech store or open door cafe. Throw some tables out front and it would fit the part.

Actually if its a fringe style setting I could see it being some sort of scrapyard come bazaar.
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Post by: gamer Mac on December 02, 2015, 10:17:05 PM: How about a fire stattion :D
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Post by: Elbows on December 02, 2015, 10:21:56 PM: Quote from: gamer Mac on December 02, 2015, 10:17:05 PM
How about a fire stattion :D

(slaps your mouth)

YOU WATCH IT MISTER!
Title: Re: What is this building?
Post by: The_Beast on December 03, 2015, 06:23:18 PM: Amusing, but I actually think it makes a poor fire station. :)

Cafe, fast food, it actually has a very similar lay out to a Starbucks down the road. They'll slide something in ANYWHERE. :o

Doug
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Post by: has.been on December 03, 2015, 07:10:37 PM: 1)Subway entrance, subway either working or abandoned.
2)local regulator/peace officer's office.
3)Med-point, basic (& I mean basic) medical treatment.
4)Waiting room for the shuttle/bus
5)repair shop (with lots of scrap about).
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Post by: FramFramson on December 03, 2015, 07:33:27 PM: Some kind of passport/entry control station lying outside the starport's landing pad?
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Post by: von Lucky on December 04, 2015, 10:14:37 PM: Garden shop. With all those weeds in the post-apoc/sci-fi future I'm sure there will be a few green thumbs insisting on being able to get something "nice" to plant in the garden.
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Post by: grant on December 05, 2015, 12:22:15 AM: Reminds me of the fire station at Disney World, the Reedy Creek Fire Department
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2797/4318627555_1674c34048_b.jpg)
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Post by: eilif on December 05, 2015, 03:03:45 AM: I have a very similar building. It also came from a cheap fire playset. A bit different but with the same doors. I painted the doors bronze and the building grey and used it for a generic urban building.

Not that inspiring and I never took proper pics, but you can see it in the side of this pic.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zB2mw5g72Ow/T3DzmysKbDI/AAAAAAAABss/SaM2wSqMrs0/s1600/IMG_3483.jpg)

and the upper right side of this pic.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9G9YZDLwqe0/T6LaxOETItI/AAAAAAAABxM/EYapPfkzRKo/s1600/7+Layout.jpg)
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Post by: baldlea on December 05, 2015, 08:31:54 AM: Blimey. Must have been made in the same Chinese factory.

Thanks for all the ideas. I'm leaning toward cafe or 'bus' stop.
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Post by: Red Orc on December 05, 2015, 11:15:16 AM: I'm with The_Beast here. If there's one sort of cafe that's going to make it into space we humanity colonises the galaxy it's going to be 'Star'Bucks.

It's like when Europeans took measles to the Eskimos and rats to Mauritius.
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Post by: The_Beast on December 14, 2015, 12:42:37 AM: :'(

We're

SOOOO

sorry....

(After ALL these years, you'd think they'd learn to do a proper roast...)

Doug
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Post by: Red Orc on December 24, 2015, 12:30:51 AM: lol

I wasn't complaining, really. Just saying, they replicate like a kind of virus.
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Post by: baldlea on December 24, 2015, 09:59:29 AM: Thanks for the suggestions above, I have another building that needs some work. I managed to procure one of the buildings in my blog post here: http://crapidfire.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/things-i-want-to-steal-from-my-4-year.html?m=1 (http://crapidfire.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/things-i-want-to-steal-from-my-4-year.html?m=1)

My son sold it to me for a tenner.

The building is shown below and the second image shows another way it can be configured (probably more useful for wargaming). So, with the same fringe/backwater world setting in mind, what is this new building?

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZkmyvPLrCdk/VAWrZlkcMlI/AAAAAAAAAs8/pegeO5nSKkw/s1600/20140902_083317.jpg)

(http://www.kidsplacefortoys.com/images/playmobil-take-along-police-station.jpg)
Title: Re: What is this building? NEW BUILDING 24th Dec
Post by: has.been on December 24, 2015, 01:42:29 PM: Passport/ Immigration control & Inoculation point. Get yer jabs here before boarding/crossing the border/entering the 'Zone'
Title: Re: What is this building? NEW BUILDING 24th Dec
Post by: eilif on December 24, 2015, 03:49:08 PM: I'll be curious to see what you make of that. I've got the same building waiting for conversion but it's missing the front white wall piece. It does at least have the roof though.