If like me you liked the container range from AT-43 as decent non nonsense plausible LOS blockers you might be happy to note that Tomix can provide a container park for you at a fairly reasonable price if you look carefully. I will end here with a Tomix 'skyscraper' that is 25cm tall and pre-assembled prepainted as seen here yet selling for only £17 if you look carefully. 10mm gaming is going to be big thanks to Dropzone Commander and while Hawk Wargames Hawk Wargames are doing a fine job in providing accessibility for structures in scale I know we can take it to a whole new level with Greenmax and Tomix kits. I will be producing an article including kitbashing guides (mostly taken from model railways sites), my own kitbashing attempts as they progress and a sourcing guide. I will leave you to search the rest for yourself. the kits also include a large choice in roof edging and toppers so you will have more than enough stuff to trim the roof edges, provide ventilation units etc and still have room for stands of infantry. You can easily make up flat rooved high rise buildings for objectives with this, many kits include extra base elements so you can convert those into extra roofs to allow for the doubling up. As the buildings are sold in pairs or sets of four you can do this from a single kit. So by omitting internal dividers a two unit kit can be either joined together or doubled up and built twice as wide and deep with the same walls. Think about stacking these kits high or wide as you might a GW bastion. Very 'Kurita', but also with a little work quite futuristic. Not only are they big but you get multiple models in the set, score.Ĥ6-6 and 46-7 are different kits but have the same instructions. More thasn enough to cover 6" height buildings with roof space to place stands of infantry. Kit 44 especially can be assembled as large tower blocks real easy. I am reading so much on how both or those kits are kitbasher gold. I \m going to buy a whole lot more Greenmax kits especially: I bought the factory as a starter and its every bit as impressive as I hoped it would be. I held off my review of Greenmax stuff until I saw it for myself. An exception being the factory I will review below, which pays back with its limitless versatility. As they are Japanese kits you can make them more futuresque for the most part, some other buildings fit straight in as 'kurita style'. This mans that with a little simple interior detailing (mostly just a top floor made of plasticard one can stand miniatures on or in them. We wont need stuff that tall but could certainly use the versatility.Īs a bonus most of these kits are flat roofed or can be modeled with removable roofs. There are numerous kitbashing threads for Greenmax model kits, mostly involving making skyscrapers out of them. All of which are cheap have as many of six buildings in the set that are assembleable many aways and can be kitbashed for spares. Much is missing.īTTrains is reasonably cheap as are Lees Trainsįor those in the US I recommend BT trains or Lees Trains as a source, here is the relevant page for Greenmax items. I am resorting to eBay shop Plaza Japan for now, it is not expensive, but stock levels are fluid. One could try this website that deals inside Japanīuying in the UK is difficult as the one or two sites selling include a HUGE markup. Search both under the words Tomix N gauge structure or Greenmax n gauge structure Two eBay webstore frequently get supply, neither have an off eBay presence (I asked). So access is going to be difficult, thanks to Miguelsan on Dakka Dakka for some research into this. Now here is the problem, they only deal to Japanese toy shops and don't deal direct. Here is a link to the relevant page of the companies online catalogue. The plastic kits are the quality of what you would expect from a plastic model kit company and have sprues laden with bits. Greenmax, which is the real prize deals entirely with plastic kit buildings. The building above is large, in scale and above all potentially very cheap. Tomix, also known as Tomytec deals with cheaper pre-constructed buildings, example here: Unlike other N scale Japanese railway kits these are at a decent price. The companies and ranges I am going to recommend are mostly Japanese, one is called Tomix the other Greenmax. This article is for 10mm gaming which notably includes Dropzone Commander and MW A and/or Battletech at that scale. The article is not done yet, but I have received an order of the stuff I was after and can confirm its quality as well as its price. I promised that I had a source of cheap buildings to talk about you and was going to write an article there.
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