Happily, I've got Newhaven. OK, Newhaven is 28mm rather than 42mm, but then lots of people have buildings that are to a smaller scale than the figures, plus one house = one village... Not relevant! This is basically a 1:1 toys scenario! The question is: what do they look like next to each other.
So I've had a couple of quick sessions trying things out.
This is my Lledo brewery. Very much something to be defended from those Foreign types.
Likewise, Sarissa country manor (normally used as part of Miskatonic University) fits well. The Sarissa fencing also fits in very nicely scale-wise.
Different photo session, Sarissa church - these larger buildings all go very well with the figures.
However... 1897 is very much a British affair - most of Newhaven is obviously American. Don't think the TTCombat police station is appropriate somehow.
So, conclusion - 28mm buildings go very well with 42mm buildings. However, it does mean having to buy and build a load of British houses if I'm going to represent the sort of High Street I grew up in (and which would have been easily recognised in 1897.)
They do go well with each other.
ReplyDeleteNow if you'd just substitute US bluecoats for French it'd all look just fine over here.
Must check and see what was happening in Canada during this war...
DeleteVery nice. I agree that the 28mm buildings do work well with Shiny Toy Soldiers it's partly due to the view of them as toys not models.
ReplyDeleteActually in a wargames context I think that 'models' would work as well - although have to stress that this is great with the larger buildings, will need to see how a bunch of back-to-back terraces will look.
DeleteThe problem I have with full scale house models for any size figures is that you soon reach the point where a cottage can hold a battalion and you suddenly find a large building where one end is beyond rifle range of the other.
DeleteModeration, compromise and fooling the eye are the key things imo.
There are a lot of issues like that in wargaming. It's when people have a figure scale, different building scale, then a further different ground scale.... then go on about how 'realistic' it is!
DeleteBattle of the Brewery, I'm liking the sound of this! The buildings look great.
ReplyDeleteI believe most of the defenders don't remember much about it as many many of them had come down with a strange malady - mainly headaches.
DeleteDefend the Brewery at all cost, never let it be said that an English does not understand priorities! Do think the building mix in well!
ReplyDeleteTotally untrue story about my family. An uncle worked in an ironworks shovelling coal into the furnaces. After work, he would go home via a local beverage supplier to -well, wind down or something - and one day they pulled it down. It is said that he didn't arrive home that day. In fact, it was a couple of days before the police brought him home saying that they had found him wandering around in a 'dazed condition.'
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