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Made in gb
Been Around the Block





Hey guys,
I work for a small plastics company called Tabletop Workshop. Recently, we've used Dakka and a few more forums for feedback on upcoming 28mm model scenery designs. Anyway, we're ready to release our first building, The Medieval Chapel in the next couple of weeks. Following this is The Medieval Cottage, ready for release early October. They're both set to be on sale at around the £20 mark. We find this extremely competitive for the quality of the models and thought we'd show off the finished model. We're looking to follow these up with a Two-Storey House, A Merchant's House and A Medieval Inn. Hopefully, we'll be releasing a further edition to the range on a monthly basis.





We'd like to thank all of those that have provided feedback through the design stage. We will continue to post as much as we can on our Facebook and Twitter pages as we develop our products. Here is where you can provide your invaluable input and keep up to date with latest releases.

Cheers.

   
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Fresh-Faced New User






They look good. Perhaps a smaller "building" attached would improve their aesthetics.

They look a little too blocky for my tastes.

Would adding a porch be too troublesome?
   
Made in nz
Longtime Dakkanaut





New Zealand

They are a bit plain, but I'd be using them as a conversion base and adding extra details anyway. So long as the price is right, I think they'll do well, selling either for use as conversion bases, or as quick sturdy terrain for players not worried about super detail.
   
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Et In Arcadia Ego





Canterbury

http://www.tabletopworkshop.co.uk/


It is our pleasure to announce that our easy to assemble 28mm medieval chapel and cottage are now available to purchase from our online shop. The tooling for the merchants house/small inn will be in production very soon and the second 2 storey house should follow on soon after.
It is our aim to provide collectors, modellers, and gamers, with highly detailed hard plastic model buildings, and this initial medieval range is the first of many that we have planned.
All our kits are designed and manufactured in the UK by our own team of experienced designers, toolmakers, and moulders.
Many of you have been following us on facebook and twitter, and we will continue to post as much as we can, as we develop our products, so you can continue with your invaluable input.

What's coming next?
We are on with two 2 storey houses, both with removable first floor!
After these we have a selection of buldings from a Blacksmiths to a Watermill, hopefully providing a decent range of 28mm Medieval buildings to enable scenarios from a small village up to a full blown town to be created.
Of course every medieval town needs a wall, towers, and a gatehouse.....

We will shortly be adding PDF product sheets to the website, allowing you to download all the intimate details of each of our products. These should hopefully be up in the next couple of days.
We hope you like what we are producing and we look forward to bringing you more of our designs over the coming weeks and months.



Looking good IMO, prices seem reasonable too.

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Foxy Wildborne







Looks a bit plain considering GW level pricing.

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Made in us
Fixture of Dakka






Yeah, 31$ for a cottage which doesn't seem much larger than a Rhino...Something which would be flying off the shelves for 15$ may sit for 31$.

I need to see more scale shots and someone with a in-hand review for 30$ house.

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Are these pre-painted or do-it-yourself kits?

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Made in gb
Pious Warrior Priest




UK

Brutally honest feedback is the most helpful thing you can get right now as a new company. So, with that in mind, I'll try to help as much as possible.

Quite expensive for hard plastic, and the chapel looks a bit flat. Real chapels are a lot more interesting than that!

Where are the buttresses, transepts and tower? There isn't even a crucifix on it.

What you have there is a basilica, not a latin cross layout (and it isn't square enough to be central plan), I wouldn't call it a medieval chapel, it is earlier than that. Also, even with a basilica the door should be on the narrow face so as a historical piece it comes across as poorly researched, it looks more like you thought "lets put some stained glass windows on a regular house and call it a chapel" rather than putting some proper effort in. You could call it a shrine however, it is small enough.

Here's a standard latin cross medieval period chapel for reference, not only is it more historically accurate, it is also more interesting and less boxy as a model:



Your painting and presentation is terrible too, you've just drybrushed everything, even to the point of drybrushing the stained glass windows grey when you could have made those look lovely with a nice paint job.

The photography and backdrop on the chapel are excellent, so why go to all that effort and not bother with the painting?

There seems to be a tooling error on the chapel... the line of rectangular bricks going around the centre of the walls does not line up... the brick line on the narrow face is higher than it is on the long face.

Might as well pay a little more and get some lovely Tabletop World resins instead at that price point is my opinion.

Or pay a little less and buy the Perry miniatures kit which is priced lower and comes with a full set of fencing and an outhouse/stables.

You've entered a part of the terrain market that already has a lot of competition, with competitors making the exact same thing as you, and better and cheaper, it is an absolute no-brainer to buy the Perry medieval cottage for less instead of yours, or the tabletop world mausoleum instead of your chapel if you want a small shrine like building.

Anyway, best of luck, I'm all for any new company making hard plastics, but you need to have a think about your market and about upping your game if you want to compete with the Perrys and Tabletop World, who are basically two of the most top-notch companies in the entire wargames industry in terms of quality... especially at the price point you're wanting to charge.

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Most Glorious Grey Seer





Everett, WA

£20.00 for that cottage? Ouch. Why do UK/EU companies seem to go out of their way to make GW prices look reasonable?


 
   
 
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