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

Trees for the gaming table on the cheap

I was walking through a local craft store after Christmas and happened onto their clearence area with all the Christmas leftovers.  I happened onto a fake evergreen garland.

It was a $1.50 and it occurred I could use the sprigs for making trees for 3/6mm or small trees and brush for 15mm.   You will need a few things, wire cutters to remove the sprigs from the garland. Something to base them on, I used fender washers and something to make the foliage  adhere to the washer.

I used Milliput for the adhesive and it made a little contour on the washer.  I also paint my washer black.  I think when they are plain steel, the washers stand out too much  Just put a small amount of Milliput on each washer and start sticking those sprigs.  I then applied glue and dipped the base in flocking.

The following photo is the result of less then an hours work.  Also the photo that I took of the garland had all of the trees that I made and then some.  I ran out of Milliput.  I think I can get two to three hundred trees out of the garland.

That is a lot of trees for not much money. 

Thank you for reading.

Mike