Sunday, March 29, 2015

A short review of a couple Pico Terrain buildings and my view of 3mm buildings in general

I have been a customer of John and Pico Armor for several years.  I have not bought much terrain, because I had not found a rule set that I was satisfied with.  I did find one, Fist Full of Tows 3.  I have now started to acquire terrain to make the gaming table look smart.  Of course no one wants a gaming table to look dumb, it leaves a bad impression.  A couple of my first purchases are below.

I bought two building types from Pico Armor.  These were Pico Terrain, formally owned by Simply 6.  I purchased S6-305  3mm terraced houses and S6-307 3mm European street section.  The following photos are the terraced houses.
One will have to file or cut the mold excess off of the bottom.  I did not take photos of the bottom of the European street section which were worse then terraced houses by a far margin.  Quite a bit of grinding on my Dremel was required to allow the street section to lie flat on a surface.  It did not take long, but it was messy.  Though the final results were well worth the extra work and one cannot beat the price.
And now onto the editorial portion of this post.   3mm gaming  has been growing in popularity over the last few years.  What has not kept pace with the popularity of this scale is terrain.  I like to put a game on a good looking table.   As I have gotten older, the look of the table has become even more important to me.  Pico Armor and Gamecraft Miniatures are a good start, but by no means enough.  I know there are a lot of 2mm buildings and those are adequate, but I would rather have true 3mm buildings.  Please manufacturers here my cry, please increase your lines.

Thank You for reading.

Mike

9 comments:

  1. I cannot echo you sentiments on the need for more 3mm buildings loudly enough. You've done Adobe job with these. I am also a happy 3mm addict

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  2. Are you aware of this range from totalbattleminiatures http://totalbattleminiatures.com/skirmish/3mm/westerneurope.html? I have a lot of these beautiful buildings

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  3. I did come across those and had forgot about them. They are very nice. The only issue is shipping to here in the US. I do not fancy 30-40% of the order in shipping. It makes the buildings very expensive.

    Mike

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  4. Take a look a Leven http://www.levenminiatures.co.uk/ They make some very nice building. Some of the best where from Leva years ago. Leva can be found on ebay from time to time. Where about in Michigan are you from. I'm located in Chesterfield.

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  5. Try leven miniatures http://www.levenminiatures.co.uk/

    The best where made by Leva from Canada years ago. I'm from Chesterfield MI.

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  6. I knew that Leva made 6mm, but did not realize that they made 6mm also. I am from Adrian. If you attend Pro or Con, Battlefields, Sparta Con of any gaming event at Ft. Meigs. You probably have seen me. I have been known to run CY6 games at those conventions.

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    1. I use to skirmish with the North South Skirmish association during theAdrian County fair in September for years. That before it became a golf course. Missed this past Pro or Con. Being 66 yrs old I kind of stand out..lol

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    2. You do not have that many years on me. I was not at Pro or Con this year. sick.

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  7. Nice paint jobs Mike. I have always been interested in 3mm I might even dip my toes so to speak.
    Also I have finally after a couple of years decided to use my blog :-)
    http://danjaygamer.blogspot.com/
    Dan

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