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Offline FramFramson

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Re: Buildings for Spanish Civil War
« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2022, 07:55:05 PM »
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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Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Buildings for Spanish Civil War
« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2022, 09:40:22 PM »
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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Offline MiniPigs

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Re: Buildings for Spanish Civil War
« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2022, 02:52:27 AM »
Ive enjoyed these buildings. Strong, lightweight and nicely done.

http://www.tablescape.co.uk/Catalogue/Mediterranean/MediterraneanRange.htm

 

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