Archiminima Structura Blocks Build Castles For 15mm Gaming
January 13, 2015 by brennon
If you're looking for some simple but effective looking Towers & Castles for your 15mm wargaming and indeed model railway use then see what you think of Archiminima Strutura's Kickstarter...
This is how it starts out. These small blocks have been made to stay together thanks to gravity alone and with a little help from the small studs on the blocks. If you wish to glue the pieces together then you can but the blocks are also waterproof meaning you can always take them apart again if you like if you used starch glue to put them together.
The blocks then form together to create these structures above which include stand alone sets like these Towers and Castles (see below). You can also use the blocks to make the connector structures that help you build bigger modular terrain pieces.
Here's an example of one of the more intricate buildings made using the building blocks. As it stands the sets are made as small 'sets' which can be joined together although they are hoping to create single blocks in the future allowing you to be a bit more crazy with your designs and create individual complete pieces.
For example this is one of the big castle structures that they mocked up using the various smaller sets connected together to create a large complex. I think this looks like a nifty little piece of kit that could be very useful for people designing their tables as it allows them a lot of flexibility in how things look game after game.
What I find neat as well is that they've added lots of real structural detail including keystones for arches and even lots of interiors like stairways and such. I could see a very cool siege being played out atop the walls of these castles!
Check out the Kickstarter and let us know what you think!
Lego castles? I’m listening…
i would be tempted to shave off those pins and lay down magnets in there place.
Hm. You’d need to varnish the hell out of it once every piece is painted separately, if you want to keep it modular… And of course, it’s 15mm, so nit doesn’t fit a lot of games. But it looks nice !
Reminds me of the plaster casting kits for bricks and arches and such that we used back in the day to make dungeons…
Hirst Arts is the company you may be referring to : http://www.hirstarts.com/
These 15mm pieces are interesting though I am a WW2 gamer do maybe more houses/ruined building pieces would appeal more to me.
interesting.
Yep LEGO
Not a scale I really play anything in, but they look great – I hope the Kickstarter does well.
Also, on a tangent, it’s really exciting to see what was once (or felt like, to me) a very British and then British/US hobby really expanding around the world. Not just in terms of gamers and painters, but the whole range of the hobby, from games design, to miniatures, to art, to terrain.
Good idea, and I hope it works for them, though I echo the sentiment of whats already been stated. On first appearances it reminds me of Hirst Arts, but I’m sure that’s just because it’s white blocks being used. I’d also prefer to see each block with detailing, brick stone, etc. These look awfully big for 15mm, they’re bigger than the human sized figs in the mock up (I am aware of the sizes of stones used on Pyramids in real life before anyone mentions it) and these may be a little large for castle type structures, even fantasy ones.… Read more »
Looks like Betta Bilda from Airfix (showing my age) which was like Lego but with more refined pieces
http://www.historia.com.pt/legos/clones/texts/bettabilda.htm
A better link
http://pws.prserv.net/gbinet.dbjames/betta.htm
ps I missed that the components are scaled for OO/HO scale ie 1/76 so it would be compatible with train sets
Will let someone else work out the metric equivalent but roughly 20mm?
Well, it looks cute, but going solely for the 15 mm. scale is a miss, IMHO. This building blocks can easily be made to fit, say, 28 mm. terrain, if they had the right “dressing” (arches, stairs etc.).