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Post by zuludon on Mar 14, 2023 3:14:03 GMT
Unfortunately, I seem to be drawn to siege games and you can only make a miniature fort so small without making it indefensible. Therefore I own a full sized 54mm Rorke's Drift, a Foreign Legion fort and an Alamo fort large enough for me to take a nap inside.
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Post by spiritofethandune on Mar 14, 2023 8:02:10 GMT
Gobsmacking! (Pardon the vulgarity)
Anthony
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Post by 79thpa on Mar 14, 2023 14:00:04 GMT
If I wanted to go that route, I'd look for small cardboard boxes and cut off the flaps.
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Post by JohnY on Mar 14, 2023 14:58:12 GMT
Has anyone had any success finding wooden blocks of the right size to serve as buildings once painted?
If you mean a house shape, I bought this set (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008W72D) for my son when he was a toddler. I may have gotten more use out of it than he ever did (I may still use them  ). Some of the triangle pieces when placed on a rectangle look pretty good with 54mm figures (but I like a toy look). If you mean something like an office building, they're not wide enough unfortunately.
Good luck!
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Post by oldminer on Mar 14, 2023 18:23:27 GMT
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Post by thereferee on Mar 14, 2023 22:34:58 GMT
Thanks for the links! Yes the triangle on top of rectangle look is what I am going for, with the building details painted on, which perhaps some texture added with sand and putty. A selection of houses, hovels, inns and maybe a religious building. I’ll check eBay and charity shops.
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Post by zuludon on Mar 14, 2023 23:21:52 GMT
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Post by oldminer on Mar 15, 2023 1:31:29 GMT
Just for fun, I downloaded one of the linked files and built a little house… snip snip glue, done.  First I printed the thing at the size it came. Seems OK, some small but that’s what we were talking about. I also added some masked images of weeds and dirt around the base of the house.   Cut out with scissors. I use a triangular ruler to make the bends in stuff like this. Makes it very easy to do, just line up the card and press it down over the top of the ruler.  Plain old glue stick (sticks fast and doesn’t warp the cardstock) and we have a house. Those are 54mm army men.  Oh, it took 15 minutes or so to print and build. |
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Post by tradgardmastre on Mar 15, 2023 6:31:15 GMT
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Post by justalad25 on Mar 15, 2023 14:21:45 GMT
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Post by roxbury75 on Jun 22, 2023 19:47:55 GMT
I know quite a few people who game with smaller scale buildings than the figures themselves. What scales do you all use for buildings and terrain? I do AWI dioramas in 54mm and 60mm with about 320 metal figures. I use paper mache buildings from a certain hobby store. They come in a set of three's-7 inch, 9 inch and 12 inches. I paint them and then scribe mortar marks in them with a very cutting file. I show this on a wood bench 36 inches high. I have two benchworks, one 4 feet by 8 feet and the other 4 feet by 4 feet. I can move the smaller of these to reflect different settings. I do this because I don't have room for a 4 feet by 12 feet table. I can create various spreadout battle scenes, various town and city scenes and madeup battle scenes. There are times where I do have to focus on the main part of a battle or show the battle in two parts. Because of the size, it generally takes me 4 to 7 days to tear down and create some other battle scene. But what a glorious scence with the big ones-54mm-60mm!!!! Henry |
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Post by Brian Cameron on Jun 22, 2023 20:35:45 GMT
I'm with the suggestion for making buildings out of materials such as card (worth reinforcing with some bracing to prevent warping) or foamboard. The latter is my favourite, easy to cut up and cut windows out of and quite robust. These two were made that way, the one on the right made use of the images from Peter Dennis's Little Wars from his paper soldiers range. I've also built a number using the European Buildings set already mentioned.
Wargames Vault has lots of options, these are from Dave Grafam models and built around foamboard (the figures are 30mm)
In almost all cases I've resized images to suit my requirements.
Brian
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). Some of the triangle pieces when placed on a rectangle look pretty good with 54mm figures (but I like a toy look). If you mean something like an office building, they're not wide enough unfortunately.
