Welcome, belatedly, to a New Year.
This was intended as my third post of the year. The first being intended as the second!
Ah! well. I'll catch up with the Frostgrave figures post after this one.
This post is all about a cardboard gatehouse I saw on eBay. It is part of a set of The Medieval Town by a company called UMBUM (no joke!). It includes towers, bridges, stables various dwellings, town walls section and a forge amongst other things medieval. There are also WW2 tanks, winter camouflage or not. Planes, helicopters, galleons, ships of various descriptions to name but other great items. The items snap together with tabs through slots. Not difficult and the instructions, in pictures, are easy to follow. Not only that, they are in full colour and, to my eye, look pretty good for the price and a cheap way to enter a period if the models and buildings fit
They are intended as a child's playset but at various prices from around £8 (the gate cost £6.47 plus postage from the Russian Federation) they are ideal for a cheap, colourful medieval town.
Looking through the companies history I saw an Ishtar Gate! Unfortunately not currently available. I saw this gate and decided to try it out.
The pack
The finished article
The figures are Frostgrave Soldiers from Northstar. Just the right size really.
Umbum is available from various sources eBay, Amazon (a bit pricier than other sources) 1001 hobbies including the U.S.
Happy hunting!
Wow! That looks terrific!
ReplyDeleteJust seen a similar system on Guerrilla Miniatures Games on YouTube by Corvus Belli. It's the Sálvora Scenery pack.
DeleteIn my opinion it is a cheap way to get reasonable scenery. Mind you, 10 buildings is still £60 or more!