Product Review - GameCraft Miniatures (and Sixmillopolis Update)

Still being in lockdown I managed to make some decent progress over the weekend, including adding road markings (which involved a lot of masking tape and touching up) plus added the curbsides to a couple more tiles.

On Monday an order of additional buildings arrived from GameCraft Miniatures. This is a company I will certainly recommend. They have a great selection of model buildings and scenery in a range of scales. They use a range of materials, including laser-cut MDF, acrylic, resin, and mat-board. This is my second time ordering from GameCraft, with the first being some 15mm MDF buildings for use in Team Yankee.

In this order I had;

• 1 x Best Buy Electronics Store
• 1 x Airport Control Tower
• 2 x 7-11 Convenience Stores
• Various 1/285 GHQ moderns (for a future project I will likely blog about at a later date)

The Best Buy model was in two main sections. The main body of the store is an acrylic box. It comes in five pieces (4 wall sections plus the roof), all nicely tabbed so it can be easily glued together in seconds. The second section is the front facade. This is a single piece of solid resin, which just attaches to the body of the store. The raised detailing made it easy to paint up and get a good result. In the kit I received the resin front was slightly bowed, but I suspect once in place the glue will have enough strength to hold it flat against the store body.

Next we have two 7-11 convenience stores. These are single piece resin models, and just as with the Best Buy the store logo is cast into the front of the model. I'm going to paint one up as a 7-11, but the other I'm not sure yet. It's definitely going to have some gas pumps out front, and may end up being painted as a BP, Shell or something.

The last building I ordered was an Airport Control Tower. Like the Best Buy, this was a combination acrylic and resin kit. The acrylic pieces were all tabbed and fit together well, making it quick and easy to assemble. The top of the control tower itself is resin, but I'm probably not going to put this on the model. After placing this order I decided to hold off on adding an airport to the city. However without the top the model could fit in well as a number of other buildings - it would make a good city hall or courthouse, and I'm going to paint mine up as a high school.

So, steady progress being made. There is another batch of buildings on order from another company, mainly a whole bunch of single-story individual houses to create some suburbs. But once those arrive I'll start running out of space, so I'll need to get some more tiles. Home Depot is open for curbside pickup orders, so I'll have to give them a call and see if they can do some cut to size MDF for me.