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Hi,

another fine terrain company that deserves attention: Tabletop World: http://www.tabletop-world.com/
It's two folks from Croatia. They started with a tower, one guy cutting scale stones from ... stone, the other one building a tower from this and made a resin cast, because only stone looks like stone. Sadly, most of the old stuff isn't for sale anymore, as they just bought a new casting machine making the old moulds useless. But today they released a variant of said first tower, and I am sure more of the old stuff will be resurrected. Be aware that these buildings are truescale, so don't mix well with models of symbolic/reduced size. And they are not cheap, but have full interior.




http://www.tabletop-world.com/guardTower.php (height w/o hill 43cm, 113 €, add 20€ for hill)


As an example what you might have missed (not available currently):

That tower has a full interior. Wibble..

Nice find!

Yeah, that's some impressive stuff.

VERY cool. I want!

Yeah Im also a fan of these... I was browsing the previous stuff they did, not long ago, and they seem to have discontinued almost everything? Thats rather strange.

Their answer from July:

Unfortunately, most of our older buildings had to go. We acquired new vacuum casting mashine and our casting technique has changed, making our old molds useless.

Their prospect:

Our next project is under way and it goes by the working name "town house". It will be medium size highly detailed exterior/interior fantasy looking building. Hope you'll ike it!

Man that tower is awesome I think I have seen the destroyed inn somewhere but for the life of me I can't remember where I saw it.

If only they found a way to sell them cheaper. I really cant justify buying a watch tower for $150 USD when GW makes one for $30. Granted, its not as grand, but it does the job.

Right, I have no need for a fully sculpted interior to a building like that, even if it is really cool. I'm sure all that extra fanciness is what drives the price up.

That and the fact it is resin
Also produced by 2 guys without the benefits of economies of scale.

Hats off to the guys that make them

This one runs 50 pounds from forge world

the one in the op is worth $150 I would take that one over the closest rival

sonofruss wrote:This one runs 50 pounds from forge world

Yeah, but that's Forge World. I imagine Caboose was talking about this one.

Holy McJebus those are fantastic buildings. If I had the cash to spend stupid money on terrain (or indeed anything), I would fill my table with such terrain

Those are really incredible. Pity about the cost, but from the looks of things worth every penny. Proper luxury terrain.

It's the details that make the kit worth it, IMHO. It's got everything to make it look like people actually live there, right down to swords on the rack and a hitching post and spare wheel and bottles on the table. It's little touches like those that are so rare on most Warhammer tables I've seen and can really make the difference between stuff to block LOS and stuff to create a narrative campaign. I like the GW tower, but in comparison it just kinda looks like a box with stuff tacked on.

What I'd really love to see is a plastic kit (not resin, not metal) of detail bits like those that are not a part of any larger terrain piece. Kinda like GW's buckets and barrels pack, only not the insane price of $20 for 6 metal buckets. I'd also love to see something like that for 40K, only not military gear but civilian stuff that would be left behind a battlezone.

Kroothawk wrote:Their answer from July:

Unfortunately, most of our older buildings had to go. We acquired new vacuum casting mashine and our casting technique has changed, making our old molds useless.

Their prospect:

Our next project is under way and it goes by the working name "town house". It will be medium size highly detailed exterior/interior fantasy looking building. Hope you'll ike it!

That explains it, a shame really since those kits were quite special.

As for he price yeah its high but also is the quality and attention to the detail. The interior should also be very cool for small skirmish games or rpg. THis is really a outstanding product.

Is that FW tower really 50 notes?

Looks like it would fall over and break within 5 minutes of being on the table. Maybe that's why they decided not to bother with any detail.

The plastic GW one is miles better for third of the cost

My thoughts too Navarro

sonofruss wrote:I think I have seen the destroyed inn somewhere but for the life of me I can't remember where I saw it.

It won second place in the 2009 TGN Editor's choice awards in the category Best Terrain or Accessory.

Let's hope some of the old moulds are redone, as they still have the masters.

Impressive stuff but for that price tag I will have to pass, unless I win the lottery or rob a bank.

The Forgeworld tower came out years before the Warhammer one, and whilst the Warhammer one is better in every sense FW are not going to discontinue their version whilst the mould is still good and costing them nothing to sit on a shelf until some maniac does stump up 50 notes for one.

Some answers by Tabletop World, esp. on the question about a rerelease of the old models:

Next building will be in the spirit of old Merchant's House. Similar in size and based on this model. We haven't decided yet if it will go under the same name.
We are planing to recreate some of the stuff, just like we did with the guard tower. Of course, the old models are just a starting point from which we want to develop new and more complex buildings.
The old molds are not efficient enough. It takes too much time to cast a model with our old molds. They are not paying out as much as they should.
(...) A world-wide distribution is our next goal (currently we are in the process of designing art for our boxes intended for stores).

Tomorrow, Tabletop terrain will release their second kit after the restructuring of their model range.
It's the announced new version of the merchant house (old OOP version can be seen here http://www.tabletop-world.com/oldMerchantsHouse.html ):







More info including pics and price tomorrow on their website:
http://www.tabletop-world.com

The interiors are really nice.

I like the abandoned factory on their web site, it is very like a old Cornish tin mine head.

Nice pieces.

like
The ricketty chimbley is wonderful
so full of character and atmosphere even unpainted.

When I win the lottery on Friday, a lot of it will be blown with this company

May I present my begging letter for a share of the spoils please Silver.
Won't ask for much just a few buildings
This one and the factory would do nicely, and maybe a couple more please if you are feeling generous.

Thanks in anticipation of your kind generosity
Chibi Cupinhand

Brilliant as always! Love every bit of it.

Price is 60 € . More pics here: http://www.tabletop-world.com/merchantsHouse.php

1 x blanket hanging out of the window

love it

please someone lend me 60 odd euros

Here a small model released today for only 14 €: A water well:
http://www.tabletop-world.com/waterWell.php (dimensions: 10x5x5cm resp. 4x2x2inch)

Outstanding detail :O