6mm Cold War-era terrain?

[CaptainHaddonCollider]

Hi all,
I'm currently building some 6mm Cold War armies with a mate, but we need some more terrain to fight over. It seems to be a bit of a jungle out there, and quite expensive as well, so I was wondering if I might pick Your collective brains for some inspiration on companies who sell 6mm terrain at a good price! I'm currently hooked on Timeline, but would love to know what else is good?
Thanks!

[grant]

How about free?
GHQ Models hosts a whole series of downloadable buildings.

http://www.ghqmodels.com/pages/military/freestuff.asp

Scroll down to paper buildings. I sent mine to a print shop for heavy card laser printing, and paid about $3 for thirty buildings. That’s good gaming value.

[CaptainHaddonCollider]

 
Free is my favourite pricetag

[grant]

 
Free is my favourite pricetag

You’re welcome 

[Brutal Cities]

If you want to get some more buildings for your CaptainHaddonCollider,
 I've now got 3D printable 6mm Cold War Brutalist terrain available, as well as the MDF collection.

The standout design is this one: A Brutalist public library (could be a government building too)



For STLs > https://brutalcities.com/collections/3d-printable-terrain-stls

For the whole 6mm cold war terrain collection  >  https://brutalcities.com/collections/6mm-terrain-sci-fi
P.S. Don't worry about the sci-fi URL - I market the terrain as sci-fi, but much of it is brutalism, which of course is perfectly suited to cold war gaming.



What do you think?


 

[carlos marighela]

Lovely models but it is worth bearing in mind that brutalism was:

1) Always a minority architectural form, even in its heyday and confined largely to large public buildings in major urban centres.

2) Much more popular* in Anglo-Saxon markets, particularly the UK where it originated. There are  examples in Western Europe but it never quite caught on to the same degree. Its resemblance to all those concrete bunkers and Atlantic Wall defences was probably a bit off-putting. Other modernist styles both pre-dating and post-dating it were more popular. Probably the two most famous examples of brutalist architecture in the former West Germany were the Mausbunker (a bizarre looking animal research laboratory in West Berlin) and the truly unspeakable Maria, Königin des Friedens church in Neviges, Westphalia.

Certainly buildings of the type are useable if you are planning on investing Frankfurt but you won't find much evidence of them if you are planning on fighting in the villages and towns of the North German Plain or the Fulda Gap for that matter.

Scotia did a small range of 1/300 buildings IIRC.

Timecast do a large range of suitable 1/300 buildings:

http://www.timecastmodels.co.uk/range_3/range_3.html

Naturally enough you can get a lot of 1/300 resin prints via printers on Etsy, Alibaba etc but
you can also look for Z scale buildings. These are nominally 1/220 scale but many will work convincingly with 6mm figures. Noch, the German model railroad manufacturer makes ideally suited items for German rural settings in this scale.

If you do want to do major urban settings then you'll find quite a bit of useful stuff with Outland's Z scale range, including battle damaged buildings.


* Popular being a relative term. It was widely reviled in its day and still is to a large extent.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

...
2) Much more popular* in Anglo-Saxon markets, particularly the UK where it originated.
...
* Popular being a relative term. It was widely reviled in its day and still is to a large extent.

Popular for planners, definitely not so much for those who have to live with them (or worse in them)

[carlos marighela]

I dunno. Was there ever a better edifice to hurl a cinematic baddy from than the former Trinity Square  multistorey carpark in Gateshead? Classic brutalism on so many levels.* 



*See what I did there?

[SJWi]

Leven Miniatures produce a huge range of 1/300 terrain including buildings suitable for "Cold War". Not as finely detailed as Timecast but perfectly acceptable. Unfortunately it appears the owner has been ill and the website is offline at present.

[Ben Waterhouse]

Probably the two most famous examples of brutalist architecture in the former West Germany were the Mausbunker (a bizarre looking animal research laboratory in West Berlin) and the truly unspeakable Maria, Königin des Friedens church in Neviges, Westphalia.

That church was built by Satan, no doubt…

[Daeothar]

From a human perspective, it's quite off-putting, I get that, but architecturally speaking, it's absolutely awesome!  (and acoustics are probably wild!)

And hardly cheap, but perfectly suitable for the German countryside, you might have a look at Z-scale model railroad buildings. Technically they're 1:220 as opposed to 1:285, but at that scale, who's counting, right? Also; since your minis are undoubteldy based, the scale would work out really well.

It's not as popular a scale as for instance N or HO, but there's still a lot out there that will work.

Personally, I've populated pretty much half a Dropzone Commander table by buying 2nd hand N-scale buildings at a miniature railroad convention once. And I had the opposite problem; I needed as modern as possible (and preferably futuristic) looking urban buildings, while the offerings were usually German/Austrian/Swiss rural buildings

[jon_1066]

Some sites for paper buildings, you just have to print them out at suitable scale:

A German village with a variety of traditional houses, churches, etc
https://www.grundschule-pretzschendorf.de/en/Our_village/paper_models.html

A site with lots of different buildings:
https://papermau.blogspot.com/2015/10/desktop-architecture-series-05-by.html

Dutch stuff but not dissimilar:
http://miniatures.free-creativity.com/

Traditional German town
http://www.kaukapedia.com/index.php?title=Bastelbogen:_Romantische_Altstadt

Dropzone commander buildings for more modern stuff:
https://ttcombat.com/pages/dropzone-commander-buildings

More buildings:
https://www.ghqmodels.com/pages/modeling-guides-paper-buildings

For larger more modern city buildings in MDF check out Blotz:
https://blotz.co.uk/product-category/wargames-terrain/6mm-terrain/

For scatter terrain:
https://perfectsixscenics.co.uk/shop/ols/categories/6mm-scenics
 

[nickdives]

The Timecast buildings are superb, based on Barry's time serving in Germany.