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
What periods are you looking for?
http://www.ss42.com/pt-buildings.html (http://www.ss42.com/pt-buildings.html)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff441/petercooman123/DSC02906_zps0a12f0c2.jpg)
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.
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 ;)
Hello am
I use a lot of paper/card models. Here are some other links:-
http://www.maquettes-papier.net/forumenpapier/topic9428-30.html (http://www.maquettes-papier.net/forumenpapier/topic9428-30.html) (scroll through this thread)
http://paper-replika.com/index.php?option=com_alphacontent§ion=10&category=67&Itemid=169 (http://paper-replika.com/index.php?option=com_alphacontent§ion=10&category=67&Itemid=169)
http://members.chello.nl/a.wijers/paperbuildings/download.htm (http://members.chello.nl/a.wijers/paperbuildings/download.htm)
http://reseau-st-michel.tumblr.com/telechargements (http://reseau-st-michel.tumblr.com/telechargements)
http://desktopwargames.com/sample-page/ (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 (http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/free-paper-ukrainian-house-3d-model/642095) Page has instruction graphics
(http://preview.turbosquid.com/Preview/2014/07/07__18_25_51/U_H_view_C.jpg196ae802-63de-4357-8fac-7b131c4a7d26Original.jpg)
(http://preview.turbosquid.com/Preview/2014/07/07__18_25_51/U_H_view_G_map.jpg02177f15-e874-45b3-8438-1785d3b6edf9Original.jpg)
(I'd take the graphic of the bits and flood fill the black with white to cut down on ink)
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Consider those pinched, GOM, they're some good links and that's a great model :D
Quote from: toxicpixie on 17 August 2016, 10:36:05 PM
Consider those pinched, GOM, they're some good links and that's a great model :D
No problems TP.
Other Eastern Front buildings are available but are not free:-
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?cPath=19749_21618 (http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?cPath=19749_21618)
GoM, thank you so very much.
Appreciate the information all, thanks
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.
Or go the 6mm resin route.
But go it anyway. 6mm buildings look fine with 10mm figures and give a smaller footprint, viz:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/10mm%20SYW/IMG_0986_zps8a1eeb13.jpg)
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.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 August 2016, 12:29:16 AM
Wendy Houses :)
At my age, the Peter Pan option has its appeal!
I'm beginning to get a little worried about Ithoriel's obsession with Wendy. He is rumoured to be shadowing her.
I think he's actually just interested in her house. He is an estate agent or double glazing salesman, right?
Whatever he is, his ideas should be panned.
You know what they say, small houses, small ... minds :P
Just looks weird to me.
I normally use the correct scale houses but cannot see a problem with having houses a scale smaller works well, particularly for big battles, otherwise the villages, farms can be to close to each other.
So I suppose you could say I am in both camps
Perhaps Ithoriel needs to have "big houses" in the same way some men need "big cars" :)
I need my houses and .... cars in proper proportion ;)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 August 2016, 07:04:26 PM
I need my houses and .... cars in proper proportion ;)
But not the number of men in your units? We all make compromises somewhere - leaving aside your cars :D. How big are your houses on the horizontal scale?
Mollinary
Quote from: mollinary on 18 August 2016, 07:07:08 PM
But not the number of men in your units? We all make compromises somewhere - leaving aside your cars :D. How big are your houses on the horizontal scale?
Mollinary
That's pretty much my argument in a nutshell. If your battalions are 24 figures strong then a single house model is a village of around 30 - 40 buildings.
So, 10mm figures, 10mm houses. 6mm figures, 6mm houses. 28mm figures ... too big, way too expensive and take up too much room on table and off :)
Interesting! I could no more have a single building represent a village than I could have a single figure represent a battalion. Each to their own. A propos of nothing, how tall are your trees, and how many make a wood? :-\
Mollinary
Trees are ... tree sized. Anything from 15' or so up to 100' to scale normally.
One tree is a small copse, several trees are a wood.
Simples
Just can't seem to get him Hooked on small houses, the little Tinker!