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A NEW RANGE – 1/56 (28mm) Modular Buildings

MDF buildings had been gaining popularity for the past year.  Pricing usually range from £12 to £20 for small unpainted buildings to over £60 for painted ones.  We had been working on a new project experimenting with different concepts and designs for over a year.  Now that we have some solid groundwork done, we would like to share it with you before moving onto the next work phase.

Disadvantage with MDF buildings are:
Heavy – because MDF are made from wood fibres with a resin binder
Thick – because they are made from standard industrial MDF boards
Flat – because they are laser cut, everything is 2D
Square – you will never see round corners or bent surface
Burnt Edge – because of the laser interacting with the resin, you always will have a burnt edge
WYSWYG – there is no way you can customized your building except with a different color

Besides MDF buildings, there are paper, resin, some plastic ruins, plus a few plastic huts of fixed design.  OR you can create your own with mixed material taking lots of planning and preparation work.

Our goal is to create a generic Modular Plastic Building for the wargaming community.  Advantages of our design include:
Plastic – light weight, sturdy and easy to handle
Modular – meaning you can customize the look of your building
Stackable – every floor and rooftop is removable to show interior
Details – everything are highly detailed
Expandable – expansion products are planned to add variety on a regular basis
Low Cost – most basic components are common to the whole range which meant lower retail price

Here are some possibilities and concept design for your comment:







We would like your participation to make this a better product for the community.  Things like:
- Type of wall pattern you want to see on the final product
- The look of the door design
- The look of the shop window display
- The look of the chimney
…and so forth!

Mind you this is still something of a work-in-progress project, if development cost is too expensive we might not proceed further.  We do have some 3D prototypes done, will post them up on the forum later!

C&C welcome!
;)

OzzyUK:
This would be a most welcome addition to your range, interior detailing is a bonus. You can get mdf with interior detail but it does push the cost up. I look forward to seeing how this develops. Now, if you can kick these out as 15mm as well as 28mm.......

Eenies:
Looks great!

smurfben:
These would be fantastic! laser cut buildings in 28mm cost just as much as other terrain products in the same scale and they are significantly less detailed. At 15mm the laser cut products are fine because you want the effect of scale from afar when looking down at a flames of war table. For 28mm its all about detail and these look like they'll be superb!

Laffe:
I think your samples look vaguely European. In Europe, hell in Normandy alone, styles could vary a lot. So I think you should offer a lot of options :-)

Like in this one you have brick partially with render and those wooden frame rendered walls:
Traditional buildings in Normandy by EIL Intercultural Learning, on Flickr

Here is plain stone, probably more common on farm buildings like that modular warehouse:


If you remember the old Mordheim buildings (I still use them for WW2 skirmish) their way of affixing corners with plastic stonework would work with plastic walls as well. Is that how you are going to assemble the buildings? But I think your corner stones would need to look more uneven, sort of like this:


(Link to the page if the image doesn't work: http://www.bugbitten.com/photos/Europe/colleenashfield/Brittany_Normandy_amp_Paris/2431-342-73914.html)

So Stone, Brick, Rendered walls (some damage with stone or brick underneath), plain brick, with bigger alternating corner stones. Seems like you get more and more stone and brick houses when you go north into Belgium and Holland. But I'm no architect...

You also get some thatched roofs in Normandy and Belgium too.

Here's a lot of information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Normandy

This blog post is very nice: http://belgianpearls.blogspot.se/2011/01/belgian-architecture-and-interior.html

I'm not sure going fully modular is the way to go, maybe a modular series combined with one-offs that are more quirky and characterful.

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