Saturday, March 24, 2012

King & Kerr Buildings

One range of 15mm buildings I've been tempted to buy but until now have not done so is King & Kerr. I needed some huts/buildings for Eastern Front games, and also was on the look out for buildings for the club, so ordered one of their Eastern Front City sets and the Lignes North Western Europe one for the club.

They arrived a couple of days ago so last night I painted up the East Front buildings. One reason I decided to go with K&K is that I took one look at the new Battlefront prepainted and thought- yuck. They look like a 12 year old made them. I don't care if they are relatively cheap and prepainted, they look far too simplistic- and by the sounds of it the roofs are a bit fragile too.

Anyway here are the K&K EF buildings. My thoughts on them? I'm a bit unsure really- probably an 8 out of 10. I like the buildings, nice clean moulds with excellent detail, and they paint up well. The only thing I dislike is the size of 3 of them. I like my buildings to be able to hold at least 2 medium sized FoW bases and some of these can only hold one. So at 45pd for 5 (roughly $NZ90) I'm not covinced they are that good value for money- I do like the larger buildings but as you can only buy them individually then you don't get access to the discount for the city sets. A minor quibble I know but that is the only thing from holding me back from sayng I love them and giving the 10 out of 10.

I have not looked in detail at the Ligne set yet but again, and at a glance, did like the look of the bigger buildings, not so much the smaller ones.

 A note on the pictures:  bought an extra building- the one on the foreground of the first picture as I liked the look of it. I'd have given them 10 out of 10 if all buildings were about this size.









Craig

5 comments:

  1. I bought the K&K "Desert city in a box" and I have the same opinion of them as you have on your eastern front buildings. They are hands down the best looking buildings available, but they're a little too small to be useful for Flames of War gaming.

    Some of the buildings don't even have rooms large enough to fit a small base inside, nevermind a medium base!

    I paid about the same cost per building as Battlefront's desert buildings, so I feel they are good value, relatively speaking.

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  2. Agreed, W DF, if they were a little larger they'dd be perfect.

    Craig

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  3. I too have the Desert City in a Box. I think they're great, especially the walls and walled courtyards.

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  4. Craig C,did the free P&P have anything to do with you picking K&K ?
    LES

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  5. Yes, ddefineitely. That and I wanted to get the tram barricade :)

    I love Total Battle Miniatures but for the club they are a bit dear. I have looked at K&K numerous times over the years and so it was a good opportunity to finally get some. In future I'll probably just stick to the bigger buildings in their range

    The other ranges I have are TBM, landmark, JR Minis & Crescent Root (Desert & NW Europe ranges). TMB are by fare my favourite.

    Craig

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