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Airship Hangar in 285th Scale

Published on July 22, 2012 By Allen

This kit was inspired by the airship hangars at NAS Lakhurst NJ.Some artistic license had to be taken regarding accuracy of scale, if this was a true to scale model at 1/285th scale it would be approximately twice as large as it already is and we thought that was a little too big for gaming. [...]

New subcategories for 1/285th Middle East Buildings

Published on June 21, 2012 By Allen

The 1/285th scale Middle Eastern buildings category includes resin cast buildings, acrylic building kits and matboard building kits.  As the category grew to hundreds of items it started become difficult to tell which items were resin, which were acrylic and which were matboard … so we’ve added sub-categories for the three different types of kits. [...]

20mm Stone Wall with Wrought Iron Fence

Published on June 13, 2012 By Allen

Tonight we added a new wall 20mm wall section with a very detailed wrought iron fence.  This perfect for 20mm gaming as well as 1/72nd scale dioramas. Also available are optional gates toi go with the wall sections. To see this new item on the site please click here

Force on Force game at Orccon 2012

Published on February 18, 2012 By Allen

Reporting live from Orccon 2012… The guys at Strategicon and PlusTenToAwesome.com are running a few Force on Force Middle East games this weekend at Orccon in Los Angeles. GameCraft Miniatures worked with the guys at PlusTenToAwesome.com to get them the Middle East 20mm buildings they needed for their game. Based on the results of the [...]

Pierced Steel Planking, AKA Marsden Matting

Published on February 15, 2012 By Allen

Pierced Steel Planking, AKA Marsden Matting Tonight I’ve released some PSP panels in scales ranging from 1/144th scale through 1/35th scale. The pieces are laser engraved 1/8″ MDF with 3D details. In the larger scales the panels are available in individual pieces as well as groups of panels in one assembled piece, in the smaller [...]

More progress on the LCS-2 ship model

Published on February 4, 2012 By Allen

The first nose section out of the mold Main structure almost ready for molding First hulls out of the molds

Design and manufacturing of a 285th scale ship model

Published on January 29, 2012 By Allen

Recently I started working on a 1/285th scale (6mm) version of the US Navy LCS2 Independence. This project utilizes rapid prototyping (3D Printing), Laser Cutting, Laser Engraving, and good old fashioned scratchbuilding by hand. The following are some of the steps in the process. The first step is the research phase, this involves downloading every [...]

News for the week

Published on December 14, 2011 By Allen

Still Catching Up Our Thanksgiving Day Weekend sale and the simultaneous launch of our new 28mm Wild West series of buildings put us in a position where we found ourselves with a pile of orders to fill. We’ve been chipping away at the stack of orders over the last few weeks but as new orders [...]

Some nice customer submitted photos

Published on October 30, 2011 By Allen

Submitted by Chris ( closeorderdesigns@cox.net ). Chris does commission work so if you want some buildings finished contact him.

Loads of new structures added today…

Published on October 25, 2011 By Allen

…Almost too many to list. Tonight I added 10 new buildings to the site and over the last few days I’ve added some others as well. Most of the structures added are in the 15mm Middle East series, 20mm versions will be added in the next day or so as well and most of them [...]