Kobblestone Make Up a Dickensian Facade
June 27, 2012 by brennon
Kobblestone Miniatures are masters of terrain making, especially their buildings. Check out their latest product, a set of European Bookcase Buildings...
These buildings don't come with backs but are primarily for display purposes having all the detail reserved for the front. This means you can craft some interesting dioramas out of this terrain but also use it if this went flush against the board edge allowing you to fight within an area surrounded by these houses.
You can see a display using these houses above. If your talented enough with terrain you could always expand the back of these houses and make them into ruined structures allowing you to fight within them instead.
Something about them reminds me a lot of Discworld...
Would you pick up these houses?
These look fantastic and would be perfect for steampunk or fantasy gaming – you could even add skulls or cogs to the walls according to taste… 😉 That last pic may show a display setup but I think a gaming board that narrow would be interesting – blockades would need balancing but the idea of fighting in close quarters along a sort of ‘gauntlet’ like that with models barging past but taking free strikes really appeals. I wouldn’t say those buildings reminded me of Discworld however as if they were real Pratchettesque buildings one of them would randomly move around… Read more »
They look lovely all painted up.