Kinder Building

     I have done little with wargaming in the past few months.  I have been following Wargame  Miscellany's narrow gauge railroad build. It inspired me to get out my narrow gauge  trains and do some work with them. 

   That doesn't mean that I gave up completely on wargames. I have been leaning towards skirmish games as they take up less room. And while most rules use 3 feet by 3 feet areas, by using smaller figures smaller boards can be used.

  A while back I bought Kinder castles and cottages. I assembled and painted a couple of the castles, but that's  about all I have done with them.   Some of my model trains are American western style trains. I saw some Kinder western building and thought that perhaps they could be used on a railroad layout. While ordering some of the buildings I saw more of the castles, and other building that looked Spanish or Mediterranean that could be used in Penansula wargames.

   I placed my order and just received them. The western building are too small for the railroad, unless I use them for far background scenery. However, the building could be used in games using 10mm figures. The Mediterranean  building are also small, but I dug out some 10mm figures and they look decent with the building. I can see these building being used in 10mm skirmish games 

The Mediterranean buildings. I bought 2 sets of them.

A couple of 10mm stands of miniatures for scale. I have started painting a couple of the buildings.

The western town.

Once again, 10mm minis for scale. I bought three sets of these buildings.

Two painted castles and a painted tower. The other tower shows an unpainted copy. The castles came in colorful blue and yellow.