Poundland Doll's Houses

[Tacgnol]

The ever-lovely Poundland has doll's houses for sale. They scale up for 28mm very well indeed. Here's where it gets a little strange. There are at least two types for sale, each of them only the "front" of the house. I've only picked up one and there's a little hinge on the right hand side of the back suggesting it might clip onto another frontage (backage?). The other model I've seen has the little garden visible on the left hand side of the pictured model on the right, so I'm hoping that they are actually two sides of the same toy that has been split and repackaged for maximum sales.

If this doesn't turn out to be the case they'll make for decent bombed-out frontages at least.

In addition the one I bought came with a little bag of furniture including a dresser and a deli-style kiosk which scale up perfectly, as well as three chairs and two tables (one of which has an open book on it and could be made into some kind of altar without too much hassle) that scale up to varying degrees of success. The chairs don't look right at all.

[amsvartnir]

sweet...   hope you'll repaint it...

[Tacgnol]

Haha! Give me time mate, I only bought it yesterday!

Seriously though, whether or not it'll fit with the other half-house is going to dictate whether I paint it as a house in good condition or a burned out wreck 

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Thanks for the heads-up. I think I'll be picking one up.  If I don't use it as a complete house, I am sure I can use parts for modelling.

Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

[chantyam]

Dam the smaller of the two Poundlands in Newcastle didn't have them in yesterday that I saw, guess I'll have to travel all of two mintures down the street to the bigger store-by the way they have nice sized steam train not sure on the scale perhaps ok with 20/28mm with some work as its fairly basic but workable.

[Tacgnol]

Updates!

The "type 2" house doesn't really fit well with the "type 1". I'm either going to make them both into bombsites or just scratch up a back for them. Probably the second option.







There's also this rather cool sweet shop.



Furniture packed with the second house includes a bed which is sort of in scale for 28mm, a bath which is most definitely not and a kitchen unit that I think is meant to be a cooker and a dishwasher.

[Tacgnol]

http://instantrimshot.com/   

[Svennn]

How much are these then?

[former user]

damn!
again no poundshop here...

You could use them as city backdrops at the side of the table
they look really pulpy

[Tacgnol]

Good plan former user, I hadn't thought about doing that with them.

[Burgundavia]

Cool looking buildings. I would second the idea of using them as backdrops on the side of the table.

[anevilgiraffe]

how deep is the sweet shop?

I can see that in the Big Meg...

[Tacgnol]

It's about 50mm deep, and yeah, it does look a bit MC-1. I could see it serving as a hottie shop.

[joroas]

I bought 3 today and 1 of yours is different, so there are at least 4 variants on the go..............

[Tacgnol]

Cool, do you have a picture of the one different to mine?