Brigade Models 2mm buildings

 Regular readers may recall that I picked up a couple of 2mm buildings from Brigade Models at Hammerhead earlier this year. I finally got around to painting them.

A Roman Temple and 'Fort St Antonio', which I assume is a real place but Google cant find it anywhere. 

The fort is rather more substantial than my 2mm Irregular 'Eighteenth Century Fort' with four well defined bastions, courtyard and buildings. Interestingly it only has gun embrasures on three sides, so I assume it was part of a larger fortified system.

On the rear side are just ramparts and the entrance. The Brigade buildings are printed with quite a rough texture, which is great for repeated layers of drybrushing. I did this in various sandy shades with the walkway and courtyard in khaki and brick tiled roofs. The whole thing was finished off with a very light drybrush of pale sand.

The Roman temple is different to my Langton Greek Temple as it has an enclosed area at one end (shown by the low depth of the recesses between the pillars).

I did this in desert ochre with various extra layers of drybrushing. The recesses between the pillars I just emphasised with black paint. Like the fort this was also cast with a fairly rough surface finish so the texture got picked out nicely.

You can see the contrast with my Langton greek temple, which is hilariously small in comparison (and is done in white marble, which the Greeks favoured).

So while it is still quite small, I can probably get away with using this as a side terrain piece with my 20mm Ancients, something I certainly cant with the Greek one.

The fort will work fine with both my 2mm and 6mm stuff, although normally I'd have it tucked away in a table corner for Almeida or something like that. Here it is with some 6mm H&R frenchmen.

I'm pleased with both of those and impressed with the quality of the Brigade stuff. They make some lovely buildings and I can see I'm going to be buying more of them.