I get inundated with questions on what scenic building ranges are best with 15mm figures. Actually I have never once been asked that, but if your reading this far you must be at least mildly curious. I have just finished a Warbases 10mm Mini Hammer building. I dropped down to 10mm for the buildings as the 15mm seemed to just dwarf the figures. After visiting the Harry Potter studios and seeing how they shrunk the Dursley’s home and Hogwarts, I thought if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me. So I tried it out and liked the look. I felt the clusters of building better represented the small towns and hamlets of the Napoleonic battlefield, but I understand some people will always prefer a more in scale building.
The building I finished is the 10mm Raleigh house. It was pretty easy to build, but some care should be taken with the windows, they are very finely detailed and do not enjoy rigorous dry brushing. The building is actually from the mini hammer fantasy range so I was worried it would look too fantastical, but I think the look fitted. The overhang was pretty big but this can be softened with the use of a few chopped matchsticks as beams. I also added a wood store and some handrails on the steps. I also use wooden flat toothpicks as they are a good size and easy to cut (you have to find ones with really bad product reviews, they are better when they come in differing sizes with little point on them. Bamboo ones are hard to cut and regular for my purposes). Then a chopped up skewer for logs. Finally I added tiles from the Warbases tile sheets. They are a special request and I was very happy they obliged to make them in 15mm scale. The roof that comes with the building does not have too much texture to it so might be a struggle to make it ‘pop’.
