Total Battle Miniatures and other 10mm friendly scenery

[streetgang]

I've been trying to tackle some all too often neglected scenery in my collection. On this thread I will include pictures of some of the scenery I'm tackling. Initially it will be villages from TBM. I just finished a 6mm "pike and shotte" village to muse with 10mm armies:



Next up will be a 6mm Russian village for my 10mm Crimean War project followed up by a 6mm Italian village for my 10mm Risorgimento project (probably starting to see a theme here).

[Steve J]

Really nice work there!

[fred.]

TBM stuff is great - but you have really made these ones look excellent 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice!

[BernaDotDotDot]

I have always liked a based or diorama scene like this for a town or village better than arranged loose buildings.  That looks great, will have to get one myself.

[Corso]

Very nice

I've been tempted by their 6mm early Medieval stuff for my Merlin project bur havn't bitten yet

This might change my mind

[streetgang]

I have always liked a based or diorama scene like this for a town or village better than arranged loose buildings.  That looks great, will have to get one myself.

BDDD, I feel the same way. I like that most of the TBM villages have a rubber footprint that you place the buildings on. You can take the buildings off and place your figures in there when they occupy the town and move the buildings around. They uniform building sizes to fit into uniform recesses molded into the rubber footprint.

Here, I've removed one of the barns so I can place a unit of Spanish shotte.

[paulr]

      

The recesses are an interesting idea, didn't notice them at all in the first picture

[pierre the shy]

Nice job Streetgang 

Like others here I think the "one scale down" concept of using 6mm buildings with 10mm figures works well.

I personally haven't seen TBM buildings "in the flesh" before, but the rubberised footprint is a very clever concept.

I painted up some 6mm Battlescale buildings for our 17th century Celtic Fringe games recently: https://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,22617.15.html

[Corso]

I agree, I use Leven stuff to great effect

[fsn]

You do you, but I like 10mm scenery for 10mm figures. Why? I think it's 'cos I tend to use fairly small figure ratios. For Napoleonics, I use 1:10, for post 1900 I use 1:1. If you have 1 figure represent 1 person, then a tiny house seems a bit silly to me.

If my 1 tank represented a squadron, if I had 24 figures to a Napoleonic infanty unit, then perhaps I would ... who am I kidding? If I wanted to use 6mm scenery, I'd use 6mm figures. I use 10mm figures, so I use 10mm scenery.   

[John Cook]

You do you, but I like 10mm scenery for 10mm figures. Why? I think it's 'cos I tend to use fairly small figure ratios. For Napoleonics, I use 1:10, for post 1900 I use 1:1. If you have 1 figure represent 1 person, then a tiny house seems a bit silly to me.

If my 1 tank represented a squadron, if I had 24 figures to a Napoleonic infanty unit, then perhaps I would ... who am I kidding? If I wanted to use 6mm scenery, I'd use 6mm figures. I use 10mm figures, so I use 10mm scenery.   

I agree.  10mm buildings are, in most cases, under-scale anyway.

[Ithoriel]

I feel it is some time since I last said it, so, "Wendy Houses!" :-)

Beautiful and would grace any table but still Wendy Houses in a 10mm game.

Each to their own, however.

[fred.]

I use 10mm and 6mm buildings with 10mm figures (not at the same time!)

For games were a base of 3-5 figures represents a company or a battalion then going down to 6mm buildings helps get enough buildings in a given footprint to give the idea you are fighting over a village or town. 

For games were a base is a platoon or squad then 10mm buildings work much better. 

To me it's the footprint that matters far more than the height. In a game you are rarely getting down to eye level and going those doorways look too small. To me it's far more about looking at the roofs, and what they represent. 

[kipt]

Agree with Fred.  For my Regimental ACW I use 10mm buildings.  For my FPW where a stand is a regiment, 6mm houses work best.