The Last of Langton Miniatures - some very small buildings

 I've been vaguely looking for some Ancient buildings to use as scenery, camps etc and in particular some sections of wall as there are some CnC scenarios which require it. Having looked at my regular building suppliers (Hovels, Timecast etc) it was a pretty poor showing. Leven used to have some suitable candidates but since the range was sold, the full Ancient range aren't currently available.

Anyway, SWS regular Tim C mentioned that Langton Miniatures were shutting shop at the end of November last year, which prompted me to have a look at their building ranges.

And I ended up with these.

A nice selection of city walls of various configurations. Now, these are 1/1200th scale, but are so (relatively) huge that I can use them with my 20mm figures if needs be - perhaps they are based on the walls of Troy or something.

Anyway, I got a mix of wall sections, gates, towers etc. 

The towers and gates are just lovely, very crisp resin with excellent detail.

I rather messed up on the walls though. I was trying to visualise how they would look both on my Hexon and as DBA/HoTT camps and ended up making a mistake with the lengths. I got two very long sections and ended up discovering they were really, really long, so I attempted to cut one up into shorter bits and foiund that the resin really wasn't receptive to cutting. By scoring it with a razor saw I did manage to snap one bit off quite cleanly, but as the battlements came off with it, I gave up at that point.

I manage to glue the battlements back on, and you can see the big cut on the rear of one of the wall section where I gave up.

Despite my cack-handendess, these are also very nice mouldings with a well defined stone pattern on them.

I really, really wanted a temple to use as secenery or a camp and ended up with this. It is an exquisite model, but ridiculously small for what I wanted to use it for. Really I need a cartoon version with a small footprint but exaggerated high sides, perhaps I could make one out of wood or something.

I painted it up anyway, and did in very pale, almost white, marble as the Greeks favourited very light and unveined marble for their structures (they thought veins indicated weakness in the stone). The Acropolis is blindingly white in the sun, even after thousands of years coupled with decades of Athens traffic pollution.

The model itself is in two pieces (separate roof) so is hollow inside - you can just see through the pillars to the other side. You can also see how small it is. Against 20mm figures it would look like Spinal Taps subscale Stonehenge. 

I also got  a few Roman houses of various types. These are also exquisite models and absolutely tiny.

They were a joy to paint, just a shame they are so small!

As I was painting some tiny buildings, I also did a few of these forts. Mark donated me a large bag of them, I think they are surplus some sort of board game? Anyway, I thought they would do for marching forts, watch posts etc. 

I did everything in various shades of tan, sand, cream etc thinking sandstone, limestone, render etc I've still got  loads of the forts left so I might do some grey ones of those. The temple roof and house tiles were done in brick red.

The walls will certainly be useful but the buildings look pretty useless, although they would make useful scenery for naval games. Having made up all those Galley counters I've never actually used them, and they might also make useful scenery for WW1 naval games in the Med - the forts could be Turkish gun posts in the Dardanelles. So a bit of a mixed bag, and of course as they are now OOP, I cant correct my mistake with the walls by buying more sections the correct length. Lesson to self, don't rush to buy things just because they wont be available any longer!