BoB: 4 Ground Buildings pack of East European buildings

12/03/2014

Following on from the AVBCW Big Game, several of the attendees asked whether I’d be dojng another Big Game, and whether it would be BoB. Simple answer is yes.

So whilst recovering on Sunday evening, I decided to buy some more scenery suitable for BoB/RCW. I remembered I had seen the new 4 Ground Eastern Europe scenery and decided to check that out.

I ordered it Sunday evening, received a dispatch notice Tuesday morning, and an hour later the courier turned up with it !

A veritable pile of pieces. I opened up the Russian building pack. The figure gives some idea of how many components are involved in these buildings. The figure is a 28mm piece from the Mannheim Partizan convention that I bought and was delivered a week or so ago. (A dismounted Cossack – lovely figure)

I thought it was going to take a month of Sundays to build these buildings given the double sided A4 instruction leaflet.

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But I didn’t think I’d be using clothes pegs to hold stuff together.

By 8.30pm however, the building was 90y% complete. I did the main walls and interior and then the roof section in parallel which reduced the time. I did not press out all the wall sections to further ‘distress’ them as I wanted a half habitable building. This morning all I had to do was glue on the shutters, cut and paint a base, and then this afternoon glue the building to the base, flock and add static grass.

Ta da !

  • A bit pricey at £20+, but you get a fully painted building with interior and exterior detail that you can customise, so worth it.
  • Follow the instructions closely
  • the building is solid with good thick walls.
  • I’ll be buying their paints to finish off the joints better.

Well worth the money and a super quick service.

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BoB/RCW: First Corps Russian Houses

06/06/2013

I bought a certain armoured car last week that had been advertised on TMP from 1st Corps, a subsequent visit to their web store and I stumbled on their scenery which I’d not seen advertised previously.

So with the upcoming RCW/Bo Big Game, I thought I’d nab them quickly. They arrived today. A house with porch and shingle roof, and a second house with thatched roof.

Outhouse, well and store house – always useful as clutter on the battlefield. The well also comes with a dinky little bucket. This would be a very useful objective in games set in arid/semi-arid areas.

The castings are niceand crisp with minimal flash.

They come as multiple piece castings.

Good internal details and believably thick walls.

1st Corps have now brought out (this week) a few more buildings

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