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. [...]
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. [...]
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
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Submitted by Chris ( closeorderdesigns@cox.net ). Chris does commission work so if you want some buildings finished contact him.
…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 [...]
Today we are releasing the 285MEV045 Gas Station. This gas station is a very generic design so that it can be used in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and even the Americas and other regions. It’s plain, clean design suggests it’s a modern structure and is suitable for the Cold War period and onward. [...]