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I want to start first with where these Miniature Building Authority buildings
seem a little out of place, in a countryside context like this.
These flush sides on the buildings and the style of the steps leading up to a
second floor
are just not what I would expect to find in a village. So together or apart,
uh, if I moved them apart, I'd still only use them in my fantasy city setting
with my Hirst Arts streets.
But I have something like a dozen buildings myself right now
so
in a pinch, yeah, if you didn't have any buildings, sure, toss them out in a country side
setting and I think you'd be all set
to have
a farm or village to battle over for Warhammer Fantasy or Warmachine or another
fantasy game.
So what I have here in a city setting now,
is the Witt House,
this, uh, two story one with
with basically like a ground level entrance, like leading to a little cellar.
[There's a] little recessed archway here.
And then the Corner House with the Turret.
And what's so great about
these Miniature Building Authority buildings is they more or less
can adjoin like this.
Uh, sure, there's some slight gaps,
things like that,
but you can have a whole row
of these buildings put together,
and it can be quite interesting. Another obvious thing
you've maybe seen, may have seen in other videos
is there's real
windows.
So
for a game that would use
true line of site
or any kind of line of site
you could have, for example, here
I have a Cygnar Warcaster, Cain,
in the turret.
Pistol Wraith.
Can the Pistol Wraith see him?
Yes, you can see physically see the model
up in the turret
of this building.
Just some other things about these buildings:
I didn't really particularly care for these when I got them. These are, I think,
chimney pots.
They're painted reddish.
They're supposed to be clay. I had to research them a little on the internet.
And they're actually historically
pretty accurate, because
when I went to Germany and England this summer,
I did see some chimney pots on top of the buildings. This one, the color on this, is
particularly garish.
It's kind of this bright
orangish red.
Uh, it really sticks out. The other thing on this particular building, the
Corner Building with the Turret is inexplicably it's painted green on the
bottom,
despite the fact that
this is really best suited to be in a city.
It has that green base on the bottom so
I plan on fixing it. The other one has some hints of green,
but it also has some greys.
So together or apart,
these are pretty great buildings. They look
excellent in a city.
And another thing, I'm
just seeing right now...
So that pinkish stuff you just saw, which is right here on the turret,
there was more of that whenever it arrived. They do come
encased in their own specially-designed foam, so I don't understand quite
what the stuff is. I picked away with it
with a dental pick. This stuff is actually hard.
So whatever it is,
may be some kind of epoxy. I don't know if there was a crack or they fixed something. But,
again, I'll probably just touch that up.
The coolest, one of the coolest features,
about these buildings besides the fact that you can stick your finger
through the
the windows is
that they do have multiple stories. So this is the second story where i have
something like
eleven
Chaos Warriors crammed in here.
This should fit
about sixteen
of a lesser
race, such as Empire or Dwarves,
on the top, maybe even
more.
That's with this turret area
unfilled.
And then
what's nice
is they do have some stairs built-in
and you can place models at the very bottom of the floor and there is less room
down there.
And this is all accomplished
by the use of this
card-like material. It's thick, it's more than cardstock.
So that just slides in here. There's a little lip or groove
for it to rest on
on this side. I know it's dark and you can't see that.
So those
just plop in right like that.
And [it's]
easy to use. I don't think in an actual battle
like, for example over here,
I don't think your opponent's gonna really want to sit there, while you fiddle
around with your twenty Dwarf Warriors that you could potentially put
in the Witt House.
But, depending on
your different type of game, because you could use these for
a World War II
skirmish game, other types of games, Warmachine would be much easier and quicker
to move troops around inside the house.
Uh, but essentially
this did
have room for twenty Dwarf Warriors,
twenty Empire spearmen,
[and] so on.
That's ranked four by five.
And then,
on this one, there are no stairs on the interior.
And it just has a
straightforward
bit of...
wood, I think.
It seems to have the feel of wood to it.
So!
The ability to put your troops in,
to have them looking out the windows,
is a great feature.
All in all, I'm pretty satisfied
with these Miniature Building Authority buildings.
([You can] hide a figure
on a 20mm base.)