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Author Topic: 28mm Medieval Village-in-a-Box?  (Read 2998 times)

Offline Philhelm

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28mm Medieval Village-in-a-Box?
« on: July 13, 2016, 02:24:48 AM »
I've looked online for various plastic (or even resin) buildings, and while they are plentiful, they seem super expensive for what they are.  What I have in mind is something like the plastic Pegasus Gothic Ruins terrain, but with enough walls and roofs to build a several, or a few, 28mm medieval buildings.  It strikes me as odd that something like this doesn't exist (to my knowledge).  Surely, there should be a reasonably affordable, plastic boxed set that contains some generic walls and roofs to make some medieval buildings.  Any suggestions?

Offline FionaWhite

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Re: 28mm Medieval Village-in-a-Box?
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2016, 10:39:41 PM »
Only plastic thing of relevance I recall is the now-gone Tabletop Workshop medieval house. Can't recall the price and as mentioned it's now OOP but I believe I read on the Medieval board that the castle Warlord Games is now selling is the Tabletop Workshop one so they've evidently picked the line up and it might be worth asking them if they're planning to bring the house back to production.

Have you considered the lasercut MDF stuff, or is that a no-go?

I really have no idea what I'm doing.

Offline Elbows

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Re: 28mm Medieval Village-in-a-Box?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2016, 11:47:25 PM »
If you're not looking for modularity...4Ground has some decent sets of MDF kits.

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Offline Philhelm

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Re: 28mm Medieval Village-in-a-Box?
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2016, 01:48:01 AM »
Thank you for the suggestions.  I've looked at some of the MDF buildings, but I don't like that the slots usually seem to show through at the joins.

Ultimately, I wonder why there isn't a plastic, village in a box kit.  Maybe enough to make five buildings or thereabout.  You only need four wall sections and two roof sections at a minimum.  Keep it generic and keep it cheap.

Offline Elbows

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Re: 28mm Medieval Village-in-a-Box?
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2016, 04:41:29 AM »
Warlord had a terrible multi-part kit for destroyed buildings...but it sucked.

Offline FionaWhite

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Re: 28mm Medieval Village-in-a-Box?
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2016, 02:58:00 PM »

Don't Perry do a medieval house of some sort too, actually?

Offline Gary Peach

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Re: 28mm Medieval Village-in-a-Box?
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2016, 09:00:34 PM »
Have you looked @ Sarissa Precision...

Its the tooling costs vs sales vs return again on plastics.

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Re: 28mm Medieval Village-in-a-Box?
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2016, 08:46:37 AM »
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Offline Elbows

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Re: 28mm Medieval Village-in-a-Box?
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2016, 08:48:37 PM »
As much as I thoroughly enjoy MDF kits I would love to see someone step up and start work on a modular setting...shouldn't be that hard to do.  Would be cool to see various options for swapping stuff (you can already do this with some of 4Ground's stuff).

Offline Lowtardog

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Re: 28mm Medieval Village-in-a-Box?
« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2016, 09:17:18 PM »
The gripping beast resin ones arent a bad price http://www.grippingbeast.co.uk/Other_Products/Buildings_and_Ships.html

 

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