Comments on: Linka Dublo Brick Terraced Houses Complete http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/linka-dublo-brick-terraced-houses-complete/ War Gaming and Modeling for Pulp, Warhammer, Mordheim and Flames of War Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:43:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sid http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/linka-dublo-brick-terraced-houses-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-7189 Sid Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:29:05 +0000 http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/#comment-7189 My favourite part of the Museum was a literal cross section of a Centurion tank - cut in half lengthwise. Boy, talk about getting a difficult assignment at work: "Bob, see that tank? Guess what we want you to do to it." My favourite part of the Museum was a literal cross section of a Centurion tank – cut in half lengthwise. Boy, talk about getting a difficult assignment at work: “Bob, see that tank? Guess what we want you to do to it.”

]]> By: Stu http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/linka-dublo-brick-terraced-houses-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-7116 Stu Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:43:28 +0000 http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/#comment-7116 Sid, I'd love to visit Bovington, but it's been a while since I've been to England! Our local war memorial Museum has a couple of restored WWII era fighters (a Spitfire and a Zero) and I remember being surprised at how large these single seater fighters are when you're standing next to them. I guess we forget how much of a proving ground WWII was for new technologies and how quickly armor/engines/weaponry improved over those short and bloody years. It was WWII that essentially gave us modern rocketry and the jet engine for example... Sid, I’d love to visit Bovington, but it’s been a while since I’ve been to England! Our local war memorial Museum has a couple of restored WWII era fighters (a Spitfire and a Zero) and I remember being surprised at how large these single seater fighters are when you’re standing next to them.

I guess we forget how much of a proving ground WWII was for new technologies and how quickly armor/engines/weaponry improved over those short and bloody years. It was WWII that essentially gave us modern rocketry and the jet engine for example…

]]> By: Sid http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/linka-dublo-brick-terraced-houses-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-7106 Sid Tue, 01 Jan 2008 07:04:27 +0000 http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/#comment-7106 If memory serves, a Sherman is something like nine feet high - in fact, I think they're a bit higher than they are wide. On that basis, you're right, the FOW Sherman ought to be considerably higher than the top of the door to be in scale. Personally, I'm always surprised by how big the tanks are in person. I visited the Bovington Tank Museum a couple of years back and I was just floored by the substance and reality of the damn things. (If you're over there, I STRONGLY recommend a side trip to Bovington, although I do have to say that the information I was given was deceiving in that it's a substantial walk from the train stop to the museum.) If memory serves, a Sherman is something like nine feet high – in fact, I think they’re a bit higher than they are wide. On that basis, you’re right, the FOW Sherman ought to be considerably higher than the top of the door to be in scale. Personally, I’m always surprised by how big the tanks are in person. I visited the Bovington Tank Museum a couple of years back and I was just floored by the substance and reality of the damn things. (If you’re over there, I STRONGLY recommend a side trip to Bovington, although I do have to say that the information I was given was deceiving in that it’s a substantial walk from the train stop to the museum.)

]]> By: Peter Palmer http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/linka-dublo-brick-terraced-houses-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-7001 Peter Palmer Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:02:39 +0000 http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/#comment-7001 I see there's an actuall comparison shot of some FOW based infantry against a building - not too bad really. And British OO is actually 1/76th...it uses the same track as European/US HO whihc is 1/87th. And given the slight amount of scale creep with the FOW stuff :) you can get away with 1:87th stuff and the Linka looks good for solid Euro style buildings anyway I see there’s an actuall comparison shot of some FOW based infantry against a building – not too bad really. And British OO is actually 1/76th…it uses the same track as European/US HO whihc is 1/87th. And given the slight amount of scale creep with the FOW stuff :) you can get away with 1:87th stuff and the Linka looks good for solid Euro style buildings anyway

]]> By: Daniel http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/linka-dublo-brick-terraced-houses-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-6967 Daniel Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:54:47 +0000 http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/#comment-6967 To be honest it doesn't look so bad against the Sherman might have to invest in some of these in the new year. To be honest it doesn’t look so bad against the Sherman might have to invest in some of these in the new year.

]]> By: Dustan http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/linka-dublo-brick-terraced-houses-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-6934 Dustan Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:51:23 +0000 http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/#comment-6934 the plain brick walls wouls look good for the other 3 walls on your facades the plain brick walls wouls look good for the other 3 walls on your facades

]]> By: Stu http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/linka-dublo-brick-terraced-houses-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-6932 Stu Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:36:55 +0000 http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/#comment-6932 Yes I'm reasonably happy with them. I left it a bit late and didn't quite detail them as much as I wanted too (I have plastic 'U' pieces and rod that I intended to use for guttering). The seam is a little exaggerated in these photos because of the low angle and the strong overhead lighting. It doesn't look too bad when viewing the buildings from above. Yes, Linka molds are designed to be used with British OO scale which is 1:86th. That's basically why I resorted to creating my <a href="http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/02/15/743/" rel="nofollow">own facades</a> for Flames of War. Yes I’m reasonably happy with them. I left it a bit late and didn’t quite detail them as much as I wanted too (I have plastic ‘U’ pieces and rod that I intended to use for guttering). The seam is a little exaggerated in these photos because of the low angle and the strong overhead lighting. It doesn’t look too bad when viewing the buildings from above.

Yes, Linka molds are designed to be used with British OO scale which is 1:86th. That’s basically why I resorted to creating my own facades for Flames of War.

]]> By: Gerrie http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/linka-dublo-brick-terraced-houses-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-6928 Gerrie Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:55:44 +0000 http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2007/12/21/838/#comment-6928 Great job overall, this is a very nice Christmas gift for your father in law. To bad the seam between the lower and upper half of the house shows up so much. And of course the funky scale of the molds, but I guess this probably is some kind of standard railroad modeling scale? Great job overall, this is a very nice Christmas gift for your father in law.

To bad the seam between the lower and upper half of the house shows up so much. And of course the funky scale of the molds, but I guess this probably is some kind of standard railroad modeling scale?

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