I was playing with my software trying to get some interesting pictures of Indians on the warpath using Macromedia software and began to wonder how to make buildings for the tabletop in this genre of warfare. I pulled out some of the new Linka molds I had and cast up a quick log cabin.

If you look at Grant's book, The War Game (and if you haven't why not!?!?!) you'll find this picture:

 The footprint of the buildings he has here are pretty small. The cabin I built looks like this:

The doors and windows on the cabin are low and small for the 25-8mm range. Initially I thought they were too small until I looked again at the Grant buildings. Those windows are lower and the doors even smaller!  A few other Old Schoolers have used different methods. Here's a few (pictures used with permission.)

Stokes Schwartz Duchy of Alzheim

Phil Olley Phil's War Cabinet

Phil Olley Phil's War Cabinet

These are super examples of OSW style buildings. I think that one factor all have in common is that the footprint on the table is small, limited to a company size element at most, but they are taller than the figures (note where the bottom of the roof is). I think that this is the secret to having a good looking OSW building, despite what scale it is.

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Buildings... Steve-the-Wargamer (192.128.254.228) 2007-11-05 05:33:56 See also these from "Fire At Will's" b;og - very inspiring... http://willwarweb.blogspot.com/2007/06/syw-town-completed.html He had a series of posts on how he built these, and if you go to http://willwarweb.blogspot.com/search/label/Terrain and scroll down past the other posts you'll find them just after the above post... Steve http://steve-the-wargamer.blogspot.com/ Reply | Quote 0   0

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