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Here is a preview of one style of building that I'm making up for use with Mongoose's Battlefield Evolution "neo-modern" combat game. I don't see any reason not to use it with sci-fi either, so I'll just replace the PLA flag with one for SICON (SST) maybe. Yes, this is made from plastic storage crates (!) and includes a LEGO brick main door and roof. I divided up the six-inch height of each of the two cubes by making foam-core floors supported by plastic cylinders. The photos are of a Chinese PLA HQ or perhaps embassy, with flagrant use of communications tech on the roof. The USMC is currently planning a raid on the HQ (or embassy) at a future time. Hey, it wouldn't be the first time the U.S. attacked a Chinese embassy... :wink:

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Nice one (as usual!)

Add a balcony halfway up and a helipad on top and you've got the middle-east TV station from BF2 :D

A few addon modules and removable parts and you've got the perfect multi-building there - It'd certainly be a waste to make something like that and not have it do at least double-duty :)
 
mthomason said:
Nice one (as usual!)

Add a balcony halfway up and a helipad on top and you've got the middle-east TV station from BF2 :D

A few addon modules and removable parts and you've got the perfect multi-building there - It'd certainly be a waste to make something like that and not have it do at least double-duty :)
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Oh, I've got plans for these babies, let me tell you. How about 40"-50" high skyscrapers with connecting skyscrapers? Yep. Already have helipads. I have flat-topped roofs with a small maintenance shack. I'll certainly take a look at adding balconies and that should help these not look too alike when nested together (thanks). I've got three multi-level full-up LEGO structures built, with more to do, so they will help vary the look of my eventual urban table. I've really had quite a few ideas lately with urban stuff, and they will come in quite handy with BFE heading our way. Maybe subconsciously my mind had images of BF2 in my head when I locked-on to these at the dollar store, lol. I'm just glad I had my epiphany a few weeks ago when I saw how these crates might be used for tabletop use.
 
Oh Matt, as far as a "multi-building", I've been planning to cluster these next to each other at varied heights. One shape even looks a bit like the US Capitol (built around a large box), but without the dome (it's there, but it's just square!). Since I've been playing with LEGO bricks, these are just larger bricks (heh).
 
Is the red thing at the bottom a soft-drink distributor? :D

As always an astounding sight.
Again you take the most out of anything you touch.

S
 
human_target said:
Is the red thing at the bottom a soft-drink distributor? :D

As always an astounding sight.
Again you take the most out of anything you touch.

S
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Very kind words there, and thanks! Well, the lower object is a door of sorts that I fitted for "virtual access" to the structure. When I made my very first test "cube", I cut away the plastic and recessed a LEGO door that just happened to fit the ribbed pattern in the plastic. After doing one like that, It hit me that I would be using these building units as both ground floor stand-alone shapes and also stacked high as tall buildings. Other than the occasional sky-bridge between towers (yes, I have one of those already!), cutting-in a door would look silly on upper levels unless the building was an apartment building for suicidal renters :lol: . I then just used a bit of poster tacky stuff and placed the door on the outside, covering one window hole. That way, I can do double-duty with each box and get more varied use with them. See? :) . The usage I plan is to be able to have these be able to simulate a small town with low height buildings. Then as if in a campaign, the structure height can be raised when fighting inward from suburbs and towards more urban areas until the invaders hit the city center (!). "Type-99's visit Taiwan" comes to mind as a scenario title, lol. Hmm, how about "Leopard II's in London" (yikes!, the EFTF is fighting England!) or "Challenger II's in China" perhaps. Endless ideas, lol. "Abrams in Aberdeen" (ouch!) -[not the proving grounds in the US, the brit one] heh, or "RPGs in Richmond" (sorry about that, Richmond) :wink: . That's one thing about a wargame. It's a game. Let's hope this stuff doesn't get real such as "Paratroops in Pyongyang" (I hope not)...

Below is a view of the door on another structure. I want some actual troops to test next to them, and I understand that the new stuff will be accurized to 28mm, not 30mm. I think the doors will look a little large, but then some buildings have large front doors! :wink:

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Thanks Col_stone and Lorcan Nagle. Col_stone, check out "Dollar Stores" or just hardware and building material stores. Even those smaller general stores that have a pharmacy might carry them. I've seen the same ones that I bought at an Ace Hardware location (in the U.S.), but snagged the ones I have from a Dollar Store for 1/3 less than Ace.

I posted my concept also on TMP (The Miniatures Page) forums and found that I am not the original author of the idea :( . At least I know for myself that I came to the concept without any other outside influence, so there's that at least (I'd love a patent though, heh). So by sharing "my" idea, you too can make nice looking urban terrain. I've got some skyscrapers that I'll show off in a future article. I could hide an entire army in them, heh.
 
I'll go to the dollar store tomorrow, it's a great idea, i've been thinking for a while how to build sturdy skyscrapers without them weighing a ton:/
 
Col_stone said:
I'll go to the dollar store tomorrow, it's a great idea, i've been thinking for a while how to build sturdy skyscrapers without them weighing a ton:/
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I've said this before, but remember they are still storage boxes and you can use them to store your figures and stuff in, lol.
 
Col_stone said:
Just the fact that i will be able to take them apart is good enough for me:D
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OK then, for breakdown (if they are empty) you can fit one box sideways into a second. Then if you flip a third over you can place it over the other two to save room. This is the way I saw them stocked on the shelf at the store. For the space or two, you can hide a third.
 
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