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[Coelacanth1938]

If Reaper can sell Medieval cottages, it can also sell buildings from other eras too if there's enough demand. So let's demand.
My wants:
1. I want a roadside restaurant that looks like a dog: LINK
2. A Tail o' the Pup would be nice too: 2nd LINK
3. Sleepboxes for my SF games: 3rd LINK
0 Scale model train hobbyists would probably be interested in these too.

[atomicker]

Buildings would be a great idea. :)

[sentinel]

Heck, contact Froggy and commission them. That dude can build anything!

[WizardOne]

Heck, contact Froggy and commission them. That dude can build anything!

He could at that. Those SleepBox[tm] things look like they could be carved from Foamular pretty easily. But if Reaper models up a roadside joint it's gotta be a drive-up stand where the car-hops would all have leathery wings...

What would be 10x more useful would be a building/structures accessories kit. The little details that need to be professionally sculpted to look right. An example would be the lamp post that came with one of the Sophie's a couple of years ago.

Other stuff: control panels (with knobs, lots of knobs, and BUTTONS), braking levers, manual water pumps, bulkhead doors, iris valves, submarine hatches (the big round kind with a wheel), diving bell windows, cash registers, park benches, street lamps, ship's wheels, binnacles, dynamos, range-finders, electric telephones, pay phones, torch-sconces, boat davits, gaslight sconces... ...optimally the first batch would be items available from no one else. That might leave out the ship fittings.

Does anyone make retro sci-fi equipment in 1/48th scale? Viewscreens, Tripod Stands, Rocket Launchers, Atomic Power Synthesizers, Electrostatic Discharge Regulators, Dish Antennae?

[atomicker]

I like that list, WizardOne. I've got the Chemical Plant and the Power Plant from Pegasus Hobbies, but that company seems to have moved away from sci-fi terrain and I'm not aware of anyone else jumping in. Too bad, I know a lot of minis players who would love easy access to this sort of thing.

[Froggy the Great]

Heck, contact Froggy and commission them. That dude can build anything!

Well thank you kindly!

[Coelacanth1938]

I like that list, WizardOne. I've got the Chemical Plant and the Power Plant from Pegasus Hobbies, but that company seems to have moved away from sci-fi terrain and I'm not aware of anyone else jumping in. Too bad, I know a lot of minis players who would love easy access to this sort of thing.

Easy access is the idea, it's a pain to order scenery from overseas and Armorcast has a full plate of it's own to deal with, so why not ask the miniatures company I've already bought $$$ of figures from to try scenery and terrain?
Right now I have two things I'm working on: A zombie town and a Metamorphosis Alpha meets Firefly kind of RPG campaign. I'd rather give my money to an American company I already trust than to a foreign company whose products have been in developmental Hell like forever.

[Gamingdog]

how about just make doors and windows to customise a foam core building

[Bruunwald]

Huh. I make modern terrain. Really good haunted town and industrial/
sci fi. I bring it to sell at cons. Where everybody tells me how great it is, but nobody
ever buys it.

I think there are a few people out there who want things like this, but not a
viable market for it.

Seems when faced with the prospect of actually paying for it (even cheaply), they bug out
and decide they can do it themselves. They never do, though, and then we all
lose out.

[kristof65]

I hear you Bruunwald. Everyone says they want cool terrain, but 9 out of 10 times when given a choice, most wargamers will spend their money on miniatures for a new or existing army instead of shelling out for a terrain piece.

I personally don't buy terrain because I like to build my own. So I'm with Wizard in wanting the detail pieces - however, the commercial prices of them usually keep me from investing in them. I've seen a few companies that offer those detail pieces come and go, which indicates to me that the market demand simply isn't enough.

I've been playing around with 3d software and 3d printing via a site called Shapeways to see if I can't design stuff to use for terrain. I started off designing vehicles, but that only looks viable for making masters, rather than end use items. Next up are some pieces for some foam core terrain I'm building.

[Ishil]

Heck, contact Froggy and commission them. That dude can build anything!

He could at that. Those SleepBox[tm] things look like they could be carved from Foamular pretty easily. But if Reaper models up a roadside joint it's gotta be a drive-up stand where the car-hops would all have leathery wings...

The next Sophie miniature: Sophie's Bikini Car-wash!

The SleepBoxes remind me of the 'coffin hotels' that were a staple of cyberpunk fiction in the Eighties.

Ishil

[Coelacanth1938]

The next Sophie miniature: Sophie's Bikini Car-wash!
The SleepBoxes remind me of the 'coffin hotels' that were a staple of cyberpunk fiction in the Eighties.

Ishil

Ditto on Sophie's Bikini Car-wash.
Besides computer terminals and not-bactra tanks, there really isn't anything that cyberpunk in the way of scenery out there. Sleep boxes are as logical as beds in Medieval inns.
I was playing this last night LINK and it came to me that anti-zombie obstacles like propane tanks and bear traps might be a popular item.

[Coelacanth1938]

Idea for cyberpunk scenery: The Walled City of Kowloon LINK

[Chrome]

Huh. I make modern terrain. Really good haunted town and industrial/
sci fi. I bring it to sell at cons. Where everybody tells me how great it is, but nobody
ever buys it.

I think there are a few people out there who want things like this, but not a
viable market for it.

Seems when faced with the prospect of actually paying for it (even cheaply), they bug out
and decide they can do it themselves. They never do, though, and then we all
lose out.

QFT - when CAV first came out, there was a guy (Quester) who made some really good N-Scale buildings, walls, bunkers, etc. The walls were especially awesome, but he stopped making them after a while. I talked to him about it later and he said that he never made a single sale. I felt especially bad about that b/c despite pushing his stuff all of the time on Mil-Net, I never bought anything from him either. As Kristof said I was always too eager to spend my gaming money on new minis instead.

BTW, while Reaper may sell those buildings, they don't make them. So if you want them to carry some other types of buildings, all you need to do is find a 3rd company who is already creating them, convince them to let Reaper sell them on their website, and then convince Reaper to stock them. Should be easy.