6 or 10mm Dark age buildings for 10mm gaming

[Kikuchiyo]

Looking for a few buildings to fit my compact terrain

I'm in two minds whether to go with small 10mm buildings or the larger 6mm as I want the same footprint. The main issue for me is door size.

There are quiet a few options out there for 6 and 10mm. Leven in particular seem to have just what I'm looking for with their Viking stuff, it's a shame it's not 10mm, does anyone have any of that range and some 10mm figures I could see in the same shot

[ithoriel]

The Baggagetrain (https://the-baggagetrain.com) has 6mm and 10mm stuff suitable for Late Roman/ sub-Roman/ Saxon Britain in their Fortifications and Buildings section.

Various forts and houses. You can buy a fort or buy the bits and design your own, though the forts are designed to sit on a table edge so you need to add rear defences if you want it to sit nearer the middle of the table. There's even a small Dark Age port in 6mm, complete with boats.

[Kikuchiyo]

I did look the them but I don't know why but they seem to lack detail when you conpair them to battlescale or totalbattle

[FierceKitty]

I make a lot of use of Leven's 6mm range with my 10mm armies, preferring that Rome should look like Rome, not a mile castle on the Great Wall of Scotland. Reliable company.

[Thoronde]

I use slightly smaller buildings for my 10mm models. But it depends if you are playing a skirmish game or a mass battle, with mass battles smaller buildings feel more natural in my opinion.

[Kikuchiyo]

Thanks all for your input

Does anyone have any pictures of the leven darkage stuff next to 10mm figures?

It would really help me make the final decision

[FierceKitty]

I'll see if I can get the Better Half to take a piccie or two tomorrow.

[Kikuchiyo]

Brilliant thanks

[FierceKitty]

Viking Bondi facing the Norman Milites and the Brittany Spears. Wife's busy, but even my photography should show relative sizes.

[SJWi]

Sorry but I don't have photos.  I agree with Kikuchiyo's comments.  If I'm planning a small scale skirmish-type game is opt for buildings in the same scale as my figures. For mass-battles where quite often buildings are more "representative" I'm quite happy to use smaller scale buildings. This is because larger size buildings can take up quite a lot of table space. Interestingly some manufacturers know this and make buildings of the correct height and door dimensions but with a reduced footprint. For instance I use Timecast's 1/300 Vietnam buildings with my Skytrex 1/200 Vietnam collection.     

[Kikuchiyo]

Viking Bondi facing the Norman Milites and the Brittany Spears. Wife's busy, but even my photography should show relative sizes.

Just to double check, that's a 10mm figure with the 6mm leven Viking tower in he 2nd photo

[FierceKitty]

Correct.
A few of the nondescript figures in the camp are 1:150 architect's plastics, but anyone with an axe or spear is 10mm lead. (Actually, I use a few 12mm figures in the berserks, since that gives them a bit of the "huge terrifying barbarian fanatic" look, and one of my opps is an enormous Norwegian, but I haven't included them here).

[Kikuchiyo]

Thanks the tower looks perfect for what I'm after

[FierceKitty]

Be very specific when you order. The first they sent me looked like something from a 1944 POW camp. They replaced it, but I'm not a patient waiter!

[Kikuchiyo]

I saw that one, but they have an online shopping cart system, not sure how to be more specific than use that?