GameCraft Miniatures Create A Middle-Eastern Terrainscape
August 15, 2018 by brennon
GameCraft Miniatures has released a new array of terrain onto their webstore for those looking to create the Middle-East on the tabletop.
You can find all of the buildings HERE on their webstore. Each of them has been scaled to work with 28mm miniatures as you'll see by the Bolt Action chaps running around in these images. They are very simple in design but could be made to pop with the right colour scheme.
Whilst all of the designs are nice I thought I'd pick out two of my favourites with this One Story Building here that just looked that little bit fancier thanks to the way the walls on the roof have been constructed.
This was however blown out of the water when I saw the Ruined Temple which is just begging to be a focal point for a scenario or two.
This piece is a little more detailed however still falls into that 'cheap and cheerful' category for me. I think with a generous undercoat and some weathering you'd get these sorted very easily for the tabletop and then it's up to you how much extra work you put into them.
The Middle-East also doesn't exactly change much architecturally across the ages so you could probably find yourself using these for games set as far back as the Medieval period and as far-reaching as the modern day and of course the far future too.
What do you think of these kits?
"I think with a generous undercoat and some weathering you'd get these sorted very easily for the tabletop..."
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great looking buildings for desert tables.
“The Middle-East also doesn’t exactly change much architecturally across the ages” I won’t say this statement annoys me exactly, as I it’s a common view, and one perpetuated by many gamers and game companies, but it’s not really true. The architecture of Morocco looks very different to that of Syria, which is different to that of Turkey, which is different to Yemen, etc. And things have changed a lot over the years. Sometimes we gamers have to compromise, and go with miniatures and/or terrain which looks roughly right because we don’t have any other options, but that doesn’t mean that… Read more »
They ought to start making window frames and other decorative features you could glue along the walls to give the buildings a little more personality and charm. A few extra touches would make them look less basic and blocky.