Have just come across a new (to me) supplier of structure kits & accessories that are purchased as downloads for printing onto appropriate thicknesses of card. A couple of free downloads are available & the whole range seem a good source of basic structures & parts for kitbashing & scratchbuilding.
Find them on scalescenes.com.
Usual waiver applies (no commercial interest!)
Happy modelling,
Ken
Definitely well worth a look. If you have access to a decent colour printer these kits are well worth a go (my only connection to the company is as a customer!). You actually print onto paper, not card so you do not need a special printer. The kits are very reasonably priced and the deal is that you pay for the kit once and can then print it out however many times you like as long as it is for your own use. Thus if you make a hash of something you can just reprint. Last weekend I bought the warehouse kit which includes 17 A4 pages of parts. Some sheets are templates which are stuck on card which you then cut out. Other sheets are parts that you cut out and stick and wrap around the card wall sections so that you never get those cut board edges you get with most card kits. The interiors are also detailed. The kit is also designed so that parts get layered up producing a building with lots of relief - no more flat fronted buildings like those of my youth. The kit is designed in a modular fashion with lots of options and there is endless scope for modification. For instance I'm not actually making a warehouse at all, but using modified warehouse parts to scratch build a narrow gauge engine shed.
Anyway, when it is finished I'll try and post some photos of the result.
Cheers
Eric
Er....heres some I made earlier.
5.5mm scale for wargaming....
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the flats were photoshopped versions of their textures, as was the Banksy graffiti.
Hi Stephen,
A bit off topic but is this a variation on the Dark Future road warrior game? which I still have lurking in the loft somewhere :-[
Regards
Ken
I think we used KillZone ;) It was called Mad Madge: Beyond the Millenium Dome.
The buildings were simplified a lot, little interior detail, 6mm MDF wall carcase, no bay windows.
We used Prittstick to glue it down, but if you do the same don't store them anywhere like an attic (good test run for a layout) as any damp effects them.
printed on a works colour laser printer :angel: Which is good as it turns out to be pretty waterproof ink.
Stephen,
An impressive set of buildings which presumably cost about
Flats were from their texture sheet of bricks and photos of real windows.
Printed out at 135% of the original on A3 paper (it easily fits with space to spare A4 to A3 is 144%)
Took about a week with two of us for the building, and we got quicker as we went along. Terrain took about the same, the "rock face" was bits of garden bark covering.
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Brick walls were texture sheets stuck on hardboard, pavements the same.
WIP of terraces
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It was meant to be quick and robust.
The photo shows an engine shed that I am scratch building, mainly using parts from the warehouse kit next to part of a Metcalf kit put together by my eldest son Oskar (aged 8).
I recently had a virus attack that forced me to purchase another pc.
This meant that all my Scalescenes downloads were gone forever - or so I thought.
I e-mailed the company on a Sunday evening asking if I needed to re-purchase the one kit that I really wanted.
Next morning I checked my e-mails expecting to find an automatic reply that my mail had been received and what a surprise I got - everything I had bought from this company was re-sent as a free download.
Needless to say I can heartily reccomend Scalescenes and their amazing after-sales service.
Thanks again to John Wiffen at Scalescenes.
I hasten to add the usual disclaimer that I have no connection with this company other than as a very satisfied customer.
Ken