Searching for a lost product - Vac formed terrain tiles

[dwbullock]

Well, maybe not.  Maybe just a dodgy website address that I have....

[Iain R]

Amera went out of business? 

No. No they did not.
http://www.amera.co.uk/

As for the OP's tiles, I know the exact ones he's talking about, we sold them in the model shop I worked in back in that exact timeframe (I was there 2003-2008) but I cannot for the life of me remember the manufacturer. They were in grey plastic, the screw connectors were white. We had an big 6x6 or 8×8 desert board set up using them in the gaming area, it was glorious.

[manchesterreg]

Amera website is infected with a virus or malware, my av will not even open it, and just black screen it

[Mammoth miniatures]

No. No they did not.
http://www.amera.co.uk/

As for the OP's tiles, I know the exact ones he's talking about, we sold them in the model shop I worked in back in that exact timeframe (I was there 2003-2008) but I cannot for the life of me remember the manufacturer. They were in grey plastic, the screw connectors were white. We had an big 6x6 or 8×8 desert board set up using them in the gaming area, it was glorious.

Those sound like the ones!

The ziterdes ones don't match my memory - although they may have changed them over the years so it's possible they made them.

[fastolfrus]

don't remember them at all, but in the 1970s I got some WWII scenic pieces that were in very thick vac-formed plastic (about 1mm thick?) about 2 feet square, also a castle about 3 feet square (with towers rising to about 8 inches)

[Harry Faversham]

Daft wot you come to regret, innit? Me and our kid bought the Bellona walls in the 60s, ala Charles Grant. We used them up to about 10 years ago, when I flogged 'em to go upmarket. Now I wish I'd have kept and tickled them up.


 

[Doug ex-em4]

Daft wot you come to regret, innit? Me and our kid bought the Bellona walls in the 60s, ala Charles Grant. We used them up to about 10 years ago, when I flogged 'em to go upmarket. Now I wish I'd have kept and tickled them up.


 

Just in the process of "tickling up" my Bellona walls which are the same vintage as yours. I’ve carried them round all that time, through six house moves and only got round to refreshing them now.

Doug

[Harry Faversham]

Sell 'em to me Doug, save yersen a ton of work!!!

 

[Tom Dulski]

 Are there pics anywhere of what these look like? I'm curious to see.

[Harry Faversham]

Charles Grant's 'The Wargame' and 'Battle for Practical Wargamers'!
 

[Doug ex-em4]

Are there pics anywhere of what these look like? I'm curious to see.

These are mine pre-refresh. Fifty years of wear and tear has had its effect. They were intended for 20mm figures, as I recall but are fine for larger figures.




And here they are in use a couple of years ago.



Doug

[Tom Dulski]

 Okay thanks, looks like something that could be easy enough to make yourself if you can't buy it.

[Mammoth miniatures]

I was very kindly provided with a picture of the advert from Harbinger issue 5 for the WARSCAPE vac formed terrain tiles and sure enough, that's them! There doesn't seem to be a single other bit of info about them online and the name warscape has been picked up and dropped a dozen times in the last 10 or so years.