I happened across this Kickstarter which I hadn't seen promoted, and I thought the concept was very clever. The idea is to use some standard box configurations as the skeleton to which fully pre-painted mdf "skins are affixed, using strong earth magnets. This allows rapid assembly and disassembly, and reduced storage needs. What's more, the same basic boxes can potentially have a wide variety of different genre "skins" that can be used with them. They are currently looking at doing Sci-Fi, Western, and Gothic Fantasy, but imagine Mediterranean, Russian, and French skins for the Napoleonic era, Middle eastern skins, Oriental skins, Modern skins, Medieval skins, ACW skins.... all re using the same basic boxes as a framework. A huge variety of buildings would be possible with greatly reduced storage needs. The buildings look to be geared to 25/28 mm figures (confirmed), without having overly large footprints.
Check out their Kickstarter (a very well done presentation) if you are so inclined! I have no connection to these guys in any fashion, nor any idea how likely they are to be able to deliver the product (due May 2019). It looks like they showed the prototypes at Salute this month, though.
Check out their Kickstarter (a very well done presentation) if you are so inclined! I have no connection to these guys in any fashion, nor any idea how likely they are to be able to deliver the product (due May 2019). It looks like they showed the prototypes at Salute this month, though.
In my opinion, it takes a Village....
A neat idea...thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteAs I said, I think it is very clever and has a lot of promise. I have seen little publicity for it in the US.
DeleteThey were at Salute. Look good, idea being you can buy basic frames then after that just buy different 'skins' for different buildings, etc. Should be good once they have a decent range.
ReplyDeleteGood to hear. Obviously, the usefulness will increase exponentially as they develop skins for more genres. The money to do that has to come from somewhere, which is why this project makes excellent sense as a Kickstarter!
DeleteThey do look very interesting. I'll have to resist though as I have more buildings stockpiled away awaiting some attention than I care to think about.
ReplyDeleteIf you have tones of unpainted terrain and now storage issues, this is probably not a wise KS to back, LOL!
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