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Spanner wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 7:48 pm Also very impressive, Paul. Are they commercial buildings or home-made laser cuts?

Most are TT Combat or Sarissa some are heavily modified kits from the same.
It's roughly a third of what i've got ready to go now!

Paul wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 8:39 pm Most are TT Combat or Sarissa some are heavily modified kits from the same.
It's roughly a third of what i've got ready to go now!

Thank you! I'd stumbled across TT Combat before, but failed to bookmark it and couldn't remember the name. One third? So how big a house extension are you planning? Or are you going for an outbuilding instead?

Spanner wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:49 pm

Paul wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 8:39 pm Most are TT Combat or Sarissa some are heavily modified kits from the same.
It's roughly a third of what i've got ready to go now!

Thank you! I'd stumbled across TT Combat before, but failed to bookmark it and couldn't remember the name. One third? So how big a house extension are you planning? Or are you going for an outbuilding instead?

haha all the others are done and finished too these are just the last ten
I do, however, have another dozen or more left to do if i feel like I need more

I would comment that I found the newer "modular" TT Combat designs a pain to put together with some slots and tabs not matching up etc.... I bought the Sarissa ones as a Palette cleanser to build in between the TT Combat ones

Paul wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 11:20 pm I would comment that I found the newer "modular" TT Combat designs a pain to put together with some slots and tabs not matching up etc.... I bought the Sarissa ones as a Palette cleanser to build in between the TT Combat ones

That could happen if they haven't calibrated the cutter head (but then again, these days they may not need calibrating). Do you know whether it's a one-off, or is a design fart?

I like Sarissa (and Empires at War), so I give the missus me wallet when I feel like drooling on the piccies on their sites.

Those do look rather good. Pleasing combination of types.

Splendid efforts, Kerry and Paul; I would echo the call for some close-ups of those mediaeval walls, Dr VB. And there is something about a Venetian cityscape that appeals enormously, but I can't bring myself to assemble all that laser-cut MDF.....

They look very splendid Paul. There's a lot of work in that lot.

Incidentally, my roll of wall paper arrived yesterday. It's spot on. Many thanks for the heads up.

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Spanner wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 1:41 am That could happen if they haven't calibrated the cutter head (but then again, these days they may not need calibrating). Do you know whether it's a one-off, or is a design fart?

Jamie doesn't seem to have had as many issues, or maybe is more forgiving. Some could be the result of TT not allowing for expansion and contraction of MDF but one building had slots and tabs that were around 5mm out of whack in several places.
As it was a four or five "sheet" building it is possible that the issue was with one or two sheets being cut without calibration.
I haven't had the same issue with their older style buildings (the ones with the greyboard stonework) so my suspicion is that the new stuff doesn't have the tolerances built in to allow for minor cutting issues or changes in the MDF.
I actually used the Sarissa ones to prove to myself that the issue wasn't me

Those Venetian buildings have scrubbed up nicely, well done. So much MDF must have been a tad smelly I'd imagine? Seeing all you have done together would be welcomed.

Lovely stuff! Some of the lads in club have gone nuts with the Venetian silliness. I'll post some pics when I get home from Tenerife.