10mm buildings....resin or paper

[acctingman]

Looking at prices for resin Western/Eastern European building in 10mm makes me realize I don't have the money for this and the patience. That's a lot of painting time and I'd rather spend time on my tanks/infantry. At $8+ a building, it's a little bit of a hit to the wallet too.

Anyone here use paper building?

Any sources of free downloads or something on the cheap?

Thanks

[fsn]

What periods are you looking for?

http://www.ss42.com/pt-buildings.html

[Ithoriel]

Many of my buildings come from charity shops at a pound or so a time and ready painted.

Easier to get things more suited to Rural England or fantasy than the Eastern Front or an industrial estate to be fair but worth a look if you get the chance. 

[Subedai]

Like you have found that, like you, resin buildings are a tad on the expensive side but I don't really like paper buildings so I tend to make all my own buildings from cereal packet card. There again, it's something that I enjoy doing so it's no problem for me.

MickS

[Leman]

You could have a go at MDF. Supreme Littleness has a good range, some of which is pertinent to the Eastern Front. Also the Escenografia Epsilon buildings from Pendraken are ready painted and very reasonable. Again there is plenty pertinent to the Eastern Front.

[Leon]

As Leman says above, some of the Escenografia stuff is probably a good option, as it's pre-painted and very reasonable prices: http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Escenografia-Epsilon-buildings-c34/  The Eastern Front set with the windmill works out at around $6 per building once you've taken off the VAT and added shipping to the US. 

[petercooman]

i use all sorts of buildings togheter and they work fine in my opinion.

For paper buildings i use these:

http://www.grundschule-pretzschendorf.de/en/Our_village/paper_models.html


top: pegasus medel pre painted plastic log house
big L-shaped house: paper model from the site above
ruins by pendraken
building with red roof: pendraken stable model
building at underside of the picture, again from the site above.

[Orcs]

I can highly recommend the model kits by Metcalfes

http://www.metcalfemodels.com/n-gauge-kits

These go together really well using pva. Get a quick drying pva if you can.

Use a suitable coloured pencil along the white edges during assembly and they look really good.

I can also recommend the Epsilon buildings as good value.  Supreme Littleness Designs are excellent and go together extremely well. the ones I made were some of the best designed MDF kits I have seen.

[toxicpixie]

Wargames Model Mods has some good 10mm stuff as well, in MDF!

Paper kits - too many to mention, a good google will give you a generous grouping, but buggered if I can remember any off the top of my head... larger/smaller scale printed ones can just be resized at the print stage, which is a handy cheat

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello am

I use a lot of paper/card models. Here are some other links:-

http://www.maquettes-papier.net/forumenpapier/topic9428-30.html (scroll through this thread)
http://paper-replika.com/index.php?option=com_alphacontent&section=10&category=67&Itemid=169
http://members.chello.nl/a.wijers/paperbuildings/download.htm
http://reseau-st-michel.tumblr.com/telechargements
http://desktopwargames.com/sample-page/

for eastern front (not much available apart from churches) you can have a look at this:-

http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/free-paper-ukrainian-house-3d-model/642095 Page has instruction graphics



(I'd take the graphic of the bits and flood fill the black with white to cut down on ink)

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[toxicpixie]

Consider those pinched, GOM, they're some good links and that's a great model

[GrumpyOldMan]

Consider those pinched, GOM, they're some good links and that's a great model

No problems TP.

Other Eastern Front buildings are available but are not free:-

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?cPath=19749_21618

[acctingman]

GoM, thank you so very much.

Appreciate the information all, thanks

[lentulus]

Model railway buildings in plastic are the third way.  Some model railway shops (like my local) buy used sets (mostly from estate sales) and among other things sell the buildings at a good discount.

[FierceKitty]

Or go the 6mm resin route.

[Ithoriel]

Or go the 6mm resin route.

Wendy Houses

[Leman]

But go it anyway. 6mm buildings look fine with 10mm figures and give a smaller footprint, viz:



Some of those shown are paper as well and have seen active service over the past 20 years. They seem to do ok once they are based.

[FierceKitty]

Wendy Houses

At my age, the Peter Pan option has its appeal!

[Leman]

I'm beginning to get a little worried about Ithoriel's obsession with Wendy. He is rumoured to be shadowing her.

[toxicpixie]

I think he's actually just interested in her house. He is an estate agent or double glazing salesman, right?