In most of our games to date there has been some form of town or village, generally as an objective. The difficulty has been placing figures in the buildings without using some of the overly large ones, that would take up too much space, that I have in my collection with removable roofs.

I searched through my three regular mdf. building sources, Sarissa Precision, Knights of Dice, and TTCombat and come up with this cheap solution in TTCombat’s “last chance to buy” tab. As an aside there are some interesting other pieces in the same section that will only be around until the sell out that might be worth a look.

The model is a very simple 5 piece assembly, which is being phased out, but it was exactly what I needed. The tables will be used as scatter terrain for other projects down the track.

The building is just large enough to take a battalion of four 60mmX40mm bases quite easily and solves the problem while still maintaining quite an ascetic look.

They look good en-masse as a large village or town, or as individual “stand alone” pieces.

I built them “as is”, painted the inside walls with PVA glue, and sprinkled fine sand to give a rendered look inside.

As they were destroyed buildings I wanted that burnt out look and so just sprayed them with cheap grey primer, matt black and a light spray of undercoat white to paint them. Some quick dirtying up and dry brushing finished the models.

The buildings are designed not to start on the table but to replace more ascetic buildings when troops are garrisoning or occupying them.

I have purchased and put together six in case we have a large fight over a substantial town or village.

When the building are not in use to replace others in order to hold figures, they can double up as cool looking dice trays!

Here the French have scored 3 sixes for their skirmish roll.