Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Scifi buildings from Fantasy Forge

In 1992, on a trip to European Gencon in Camber Sands, England, I bought a new ruleset for Scifi skirmish games called Kryomek. It seemed like the next big thing to me, and so I eagerly bought a number of figures, and from the same company (Fantasy Forge) also a resin sci building - a dome with a heavy cannon.

Needless to say, we never played Kryomek, but the dome-shaped building featured frequently in many scifi games we played during the past 25 years. It was always my intention to buy more of these buildingsdue to their nice modular design, but that plan never materialized.

A few months ago, at the Bring&Buy at  CRISIS, there was a fellow wargamer selling a few more of these building modules. Of course, I needed to have them.

So, here they are. I tried to paint them in the same shade of green as I did the original 25 years ago, but that was more difficult than I thought. Probably also because the original colours have faded over the years.



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  1. BaldingNinja25 July 2017 at 21:25

    You know, I've looked high and low for these buildings that I bought on E-Bay...And here they are! Who knew they were from a 1992 game. :)

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    1. TamsinP25 July 2017 at 22:04

      They're still sold by Scotia Grendel (look in Scenics/28mm Sci Fi - they're a few pages in)

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    2. Phil Dutré26 July 2017 at 08:48

      Scotia Grendel is still active? Judging by their website, it doesn't seem they are still doing business?

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    3. Phil Dutré26 July 2017 at 08:50

      Scott, I don;t know whether they were made explicitly for Kryomek, but at the time they were sold by the same company (Fantasy Forge).

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    4. BaldingNinja26 July 2017 at 19:57

      Thanks for the info! Mine are 15mm scale, is that what these buildings are?

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    5. Phil Dutré27 July 2017 at 15:20

      No, these are 25mm scale. I now realize I didn't include a figure in the photograph to show the size, but if it helps, the hexes you see are 10cm from side to side.

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    6. Phil Dutré27 July 2017 at 15:22

      But I guess since scifi buildings are a bit scale-independent anyway (except for the doorways?) these can be used for 15mm as well ...

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    7. BaldingNinja30 July 2017 at 16:54

      Agreed, the doorways are a bit bigger but the rest work out really well for 15mm stuff. Thanks again for the info. :)

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  2. TamsinP25 July 2017 at 22:05

    Nice work on the modules :)

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  3. Katie21 October 2017 at 17:01

    "Scotia Grendel is still active?"

    I've bought stuff off them this year, so yes. Despite the models being from the 90s, the castings I got were lovely; they are currently being painted.

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    1. Phil Dutré22 October 2017 at 21:07

      Good to hear that. Their website doesn't seem to get updated much ...

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