More 15mm Buildings

More 15mm Buildings

My friend got another shipment of 4Ground buildings, from the Game Chamber, London's Ontario's newest and best gaming store, and asked me to build them for him.

His order consisted of 4x15mm and 4x28mm buildings, all from the the Europe at war range.

The 4ground buildings are very easy to build, these kits took somewhere between 60- 90 minutes each. The instructions are better ordered than the previous kits I built, but I didn't follow them, I mainly used them to determine what pieces went with each floor.

I built three of the 15mm buildings and these are the results (The penny is for scale, I don't have any 15mm figures to use)

First up: North West European shops

Front

Back

Side

 I had a problem with this kit, the roof end gables were just a hair to short which resulted in a bit of a gap, I discovered it after I had constructed the roof and let it dry :(

This picture shows how incredibly small the sizing error of the end gable is and how big the gap is.

I had to cut apart the roof and reattach the shingles with a bit of a gap

Here it is in floors

 Next: North West European Semi-detached house, type 1

Front

Side

Rear

By floor

Next: Terrace 2

Front

Rear

By floor

   I was preparing to do the last kit and noticed the bag had a hole in one corner. I laid out all the sheets and discovered one of the pieces had fallen out and was nowhere to be found. Desperate I trudged, uphill into the sleet, to the Game Chamber in the vain hope they had found it in a box somewhere. No such luck, fortunately, the store is, at most, a five minute walk for me.

   Cecil offered a piece of Balsa wood  for me to make a replacement piece, the missing piece is an internal roof support, and no one would see it. I declined as I had big enough scrap pieces for me to construct one, but I really didn't want to scratch build if I didn't have to.

  Before heading to bed I e-mailed 4Ground in the vain hope I could get a replacement piece.

   I was mentally preparing a blistering indictment on the modern practice of not supporting a product after it has reached its end user.

   This morning, I checked my E-mail and the 4Ground Public Relations machine had completely blindsided me by replying the missing piece will be dispatched ASAP.