15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Desert Administration Building (Gale Force Nine BB224)

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Desert Administration Building (Gale Force Nine BB224) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Team Yankee WWIII, Battlegroup

Time for another Desert terrain unboxing/review. I’ve got a couple of painted things I need to photograph but I’ve been under the weather for a couple of days, so it’s a review since I have the photos already taken until I can get going again.

Once again, it very much follows the same format as the others, and even includes some copypasted text (including this sentence!), since the point is really to give people a good solid look at what you get in the boxes as there’s not a lot out there aside from the glamour shots on the box and GF9 website when you’re looking around to see what you get and how it all looks.

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Desert Administration Building (Gale Force Nine BB224) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Team Yankee WWIII, Battlegroup

As seems to be usual, there’s a cardboard reinforcement around the inside of the box with the actual terrain piece taped inside some bubble wrap.

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Desert Administration Building (Gale Force Nine BB224) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Team Yankee WWIII, Battlegroup

Bubble-wrapped building….

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Desert Administration Building (Gale Force Nine BB224) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Team Yankee WWIII, Battlegroup

…aaaand unwrapped. We have two roof sections inverted for protection with bubble wrap underneath between the painted sections –  as was the fashion of the time.

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Desert Administration Building (Gale Force Nine BB224) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Team Yankee WWIII, Battlegroup

And “assembled”! It’s a pretty nice looking building, honestly.

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Desert Administration Building (Gale Force Nine BB224) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Team Yankee WWIII, Battlegroup

And the reverse shot. I’m not sure which of the sides are supposed to be the “front” or back”, but I guess it depends on you and how you lay out the table at the time.

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Desert Administration Building (Gale Force Nine BB224) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Team Yankee WWIII, Battlegroup

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Desert Administration Building (Gale Force Nine BB224) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Team Yankee WWIII, Battlegroup

Showing the interior – empty and with infantry stands in place, so you can see how many fit.

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Desert Administration Building (Gale Force Nine BB224) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Team Yankee WWIII, Battlegroup

There are a few internal details – just doors and windows – but they’ve been left blank and not painted in. At least the building interior isn’t just painted black this time, though!

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Desert Administration Building (Gale Force Nine BB224) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Team Yankee WWIII, Battlegroup

And to finish, another scale shot alongside some vehicle and infantry models.

Given the intent of this review, which is to provide some images and simple thoughts on a set that I was unable to find any information on online aside from box pics, I’m not going to “score” the set. I purchased it myself from an online retailer and while it wasn’t exactly cheap, even compared to GW’s plastic offerings, I’m pretty happy with this one. It’ll provide a centrepiece or an objective when needed, and stands out nicely from the smaller, much more plain Desert Buildings in the range.

Once again – with a small amount of effort this building could be made to look a fair bit better, and by now you’ll know that since this review is going up now that I’ve been working on that very thing – though it’s not quite ready yet.

November 2021 – Personal Painting Round-Up

Today we have November’s monthly Round-Up. If the fact that it’s being posted a week out from Christmas seems odd, then you must be new here.

Again, my main focus has been on my 15mm World War Two stuff, though with some repainted and tarted-up terrain pieces added to the usual collection of armoured vehicles. I even finished a couple of bearded & moustachioed 28mm fantasy models for Roger’s Mo’Vember painting challenge. I did work on several other models for the challenge, but we won’t talk about them here as they failed to make it…

Tally Time! 35 models completed in November, so I hit my monthly target. Add those to the 403 I’d painted up until the end of October and I’m at 438 for 2021 and counting.

Looking at what I’ve finished in December so far, it’s pretty safe to say I won’t be cracking the 500 mark for the year, but I think it should be safe that I achieve more than 450…