A group of adventurers approached nicely looking cottage. It looked safe and homely. If only there was a way to see its interior and get inside.
Wait – there is a way!
Here is my cottage from Mini Monsters. Normally it has no interior – the set contains only walls and roof. It can be used for dioramas or wargames as a background for your minis, but I wanted to have someting more. From plastic card I made floor and basic interior (window and door frames). The wood texture and planks on the floor are made by scratching with sharp scalpel and then by rubing with rough sandpaper. I had to cut triangular parts of the wall pieces to have them glued to the roof, which was to be removable. I made pins from thick wire to help fixing the roof in right position on the walls.
The paintjob is also quite simple. After spraying basic colors with airbrush (very helpful!), I applied wash and drybrush. Then with sharp pointed brush I made corrections and painted details.
The cottage from Mini Monsters is really nice diorama piece (with affordable price too). It has lots of details and cool fantasy/medieval look. After my alterations I think that now it’s even better 🙂
A lot of wood
Here is the first batch of painted stuff from minimonsters.eu. These are small and big barrels accompanied by outhouse. A lot of wood with steel elements. As for the wood color I airbrushed elements with flesh tone and when it dried I applied dark brown wash followed by drybrush of light flesh color. Then I emphasized highlights with precise brush. When necessary I applied wood grain texture with thin dark lines, like on small barrels that had no sculpted wood texture.
Here is picture of painted items with 28mm miniature (RedBox Games as usually) to give you idea of scale.
Something from minimonsters.eu
Recently I purchased few resin diorama items from Polish manufacturer minimonsters.eu. I would like to share with you my impression about them. Here is what I bought:
– Cottage
– Outhouse
– Wooden barrels
– Big wooden barrels
– Vases
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The items are made in 28 mm scale. Each set is packed in a small bag with label. The casts made of light grey resin are really good and I didn’t notice any bigger air bubbles or substancial mould lines. Let’s look closer at each set.
Cottage
The set contains 13 pieces that allow to assemble one building with following dimensions: 105 mm (height), 14 mm (lenght), 100 mm (width). The pieces are not bent and there should be no problems with the assembly. The doors are cast as one piece with the walls, so if anyone wants to make them openable, it should require some work. There are no details on the inside parts of the house (there in no floor either), so if you want an interior, you should do it yourself. This a different approach than for example in Tabletop World buildings (which have interior), although they are about 30% more expensive than those from minimonsters.eu. You should decide yourself whether you will use house interiors durring wargaming sessions or no.
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Outhouse
This little building has dimensions: 50 mm (height), 35 mm (lenght), 35 mm (width). The set contains 5 parts (4 walls and roof). Again – the parts are straight and fit together well. There is no interior either, but I will not complain this time. I’m not going to put any figure inside, although technically speaking there is room for one 28-32mm miniature 🙂
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Wooden barrels
Set contains 6 resin barrels 19 mm high, cast as one piece each.
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Big wooden barrels
Set contains 5 resin barrels 23 mm high, cast as two pieces each (barrel and cover).
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Vases
Set contains 6 unique resin vases 18-24 mm high, cast as one piece each.
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Overall I think that the items from minimonsters.eu are worth their price and should make nice diorama or battlefield addition. Soon I will paint them and show you finished pieces, so stay tuned.