Pray for Victory in Tabletop Workshop’s Chapel
October 4, 2013 by dracs
This October Tabletop Workshop will be releasing two pieces of plastic terrain for your 28mm medieval minis. Whether they are in need of a cottage to say in or a chapel for worship, these buildings are sure to cover your needs.
These plastic buildings are sporting a nice level of detail and fit in well with medieval style fantasy and historical gaming. The chapel is particularly welcome as such terrain pieces are usually rather grand, unlike what a small town chapel would actually have been like.
Apparently Tabletop Workshop are planning on bringing 1 new building every month, so we will definitely be keeping an eye out for more terrain from these guys.
After yesterdays announcement I nearly missed these. They look great, the roofs don’t just come off they are detailed on the inside as well. I’m intrigued by the lugs on the bottom wall shown in the picture does it have flat pack storage potential I wonder.
Also as you state one new building a month that’s something to look out for. I see they also plan on doing 15mm as well.
I will be getting some.
Been back to check out their site and see they are planning on doing a two storey building as well as a watermill amongst others and producing other ranges. Thought I’d better sign up for their newsletter.
My only gripe is the way the base looks, especially on the cottage
It would be easy enough to blend in I guess but the threshold step still looks wrong
Alternatively modelling some boots on those lugs and have the buildings marching around the board might be fun
@hurlscarle surely would appreciate that in a game of SAGA! 😛
Overall though they do look well painted up.
@chibi I’m laughing like a fool. I have just seen your vision of an armoured battlehouse marching around the battlefield.
The houses of Westeros are fight each other lol
Thanks for your interest. The buildings clip together and do not have to be glued, the ‘lugs’ in the side wall are the clips that snap the four sides together. So yes, these are designed to be painted as panels to make things easy, and also the buildings then assemble in seconds, and can be taken down in seconds. The buildings are detailed inside and out. As for the base, this is a set thickness as it has the sides clipped into it – this means a common base size needs to be used. All I can say is the… Read more »
Hi ‘Boss I understand the standardisation of the base thickness. Was just thinking about the material that the base represents and the step, which a humble cottage might not have, With regard to the first point, could not the base have been moulded as per the wattle and daub rather than the regular stone block, so it ties in with the rest of the building? Not a big deal as I could always fill and sand. I just feel that the regular cut stone finish doesn’t tie in with the random stone floor of the interior. Secondly, a step would… Read more »
Yep, understood it wasn’t a criticism – was just trying to explain the methodology behind it. The base is the same base that goes on the Chapel – they have the same footprint. To produce a separate base would have been another set of dies and much more expense – adding to costs. We also are limited in what we can get out ‘in line of draw’ of the tool, so wood, or wattle and daub on the sides are not possible without extremely expensive tooling – a non starter really. We went with the stone footing as we have… Read more »
Are you running on schedule for the releases ?
yep, boxes due on wednesday, so should be good to go on thursday/friday
Save a chapel for me
The Chapel is fantastic (I have even seen some pics of a ruined version all painted up warhammer style), and a fabulous addition to any table, but now we have the cottages made, we are all drooling over those at the moment at tabletop HQ
Also I see you have Salute marked on your calender for next year. Will tabletop workshops be there and are you in the position yo do sny shows before ?
That is a place holder at the moment – we were going to Salute this year, but were not ready, so there was an empty table.
Once we have enough buldings in the range we will be aiming to get to as many shows as we can – probably from February onwards. Of course Salute would be top of the list
lovely! really liking the interiors 🙂 by the sounds of it you have an ambitious release schedule for the future, any chance of a few tidbits on whatever else you may have hidden up your sleeve?
you know what, scratch that. quick look on your site and I’ve got to admit, I’m impressed. The two-storey stuff sounds like an absolute must, and the rest? You could have an entire city by next Christmas haha If you were to put together a kickstarter to help out your near overwhelming ambition, be the first to sign
Thanks, We want to push the designs to the limit in terms of quality, without impacting on tooling cost – this is a very fine line to tread. But we don’t want to compromise on the price bracket of £20-25. However this does restrict us to some degree on what we can feasibly make – but we think we are more than managing with this as the moment. We are aiming to 8-10 different medieval style buildings, followed by the tower/walls/gatehouse modules. After that, probably WW2 buildings in 28mm, and/or the 15mm and 23/20mm versions of the medieval stuff. The… Read more »
We did think of a kickstarter, but decided against it due to the mathematics. We want retailer/wholesalers around the world to stock these but kickstarter is having an effect on the number that are willing to stock post kickstarter stuff.
Thursday it is and I see the shop is now showing stock. So I just ordered a Chapel.
Super, I hope you like it.
I’m sure I will. I’ll let you know.