15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Train Yard Switching Tower (BB186)

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Train Yard Switching Tower (BB186), 15mm, 1/100, 1:100, Team Yankee, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

Today there’s another terrain review. I know that a lof of the readers here prefer painted minis (naturally!) I still have a lot of terrain to review here, especially given that when I was looking at purchasing these items myself there was little to nothing out there on many (most!) of them besides the box pics and official glamour shots. So it’s like a public service.

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Train Yard Switching Tower (BB186), 15mm, 1/100, 1:100, Team Yankee, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

Inside the retail box, we once again have a fitted polystyrene tray for the three main of this set.Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Train Yard Switching Tower (BB186), 15mm, 1/100, 1:100, Team Yankee, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

…and when removed and opened up, we also have the two buffer stops hidden neatly away inside the building sections.

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Train Yard Switching Tower (BB186), 15mm, 1/100, 1:100, Team Yankee, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

Once “assembled” we have the switching tower – which I know Kuribo will love based on his own posting history – and the two stops.

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Train Yard Switching Tower (BB186), 15mm, 1/100, 1:100, Team Yankee, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

Reverse shot for completeness. I don’t have any 1:100 scale rail at this point, so I’ll just use the buffer stops as general storage of coal/rocks/etc – probably butted up against a building.

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Train Yard Switching Tower (BB186), 15mm, 1/100, 1:100, Team Yankee, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

Inside, we can fit a standard medium-sized infantry stand in each of the floors. No surprise there!

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Train Yard Switching Tower (BB186), 15mm, 1/100, 1:100, Team Yankee, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

And finally the scale shot with some armour. As mentioned, I don’t own any railway stuff to scale, but I figure this building can also work well as a pretty generic one aside a factory, or a square of whatever type with an industrial-ish looking building next to it.

As always, I purchased this set from a retailer with my own moneys and have no incentive to say anything good, bad or ugly about them. I quite like this one – it has a nice inherent variety to it with the two floors being different colours and a different outer construction but still feels cohesive. Likewise, I also like the appearance of the roofing, which has a feel of both sheetmetal and asbestos(!) to it, again complimenting the industrial feel and the variety in the one piece. Like all of these sets, it could/would benefit from some easy weathering and some (more tedious) painting of the interior’s featureless black walls. It’s another one I can see getting done in the short-to-medium term, but even without it, this set was relatively inexpensive and while possibly not your first purchase, it’s still one I can recommend if you’re looking to add to an existing collection of 15mm/1:100 buildings.

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Team Yankee Battlefield in a Box – European Farm (BB204)

Team Yankee Battlefield in a Box - European Farm (BB204)

I’d planned to have some mini photos up today, but I didn’t get the chance to take any new photos, so instead, we have the next item of scenery on the Battlefield in a Box review train – European Farm, once again under the Team Yankee (now World War III) product range.

Team Yankee Battlefield in a Box - European Farm (BB204)

This time we have the building encased in polystyrene foam within the outer box.

Team Yankee Battlefield in a Box - European Farm (BB204)

And inside, the two halves of the building, securely held for shipping, like so.

Team Yankee Battlefield in a Box - European Farm (BB204)

It’s a single-storey (the loft is just decorative and is part of the roof piece), T-shaped building, with a garage-looking extension bolted onto where the back door might otherwise be.

Team Yankee Battlefield in a Box - European Farm (BB204)

It’s quite different to the very cut & paste style of the other Battlefront/GF9 “town” houses I’ve looked at before now, and I think that’s a good thing. I like having some more variety.

Team Yankee Battlefield in a Box - European Farm (BB204)

Inside, we have the standard lazy style of interior with the floor painted but the walls all painted black. I’ll have to fix that in the near future!

Team Yankee Battlefield in a Box - European Farm (BB204)

It does at least have a decent footprint, fitting three medium-sized infantry bases inside.

Team Yankee Battlefield in a Box - European Farm (BB204)

And here we are with some WWII armour for scale. It’s a decent size.

As always, I purchased this set from a retailer with my own moneys and have no incentive to say anything good, bad or ugly about it. It’s a pretty decent building that I intend to use for both modern and WWII settings/games. I’m not at all unhappy with the purchase of this one, especially given that it’s got quite a different look to the cloned houses elsewhere in the BFIAB range, and indeed – I think the range could have done with more options. I’m sure I’ll eventually go down the 3d-printed route, but not quite yet… As usual, the painting on it is fine. It’s fit for purpose and as always, the biggest benefit of these sets is “Open box, put on table. Done!” In that, I really see zero problems. Adding a little weathering/drybrushing will really make a difference on these, which I will do at some stage – I should really try to do it soon for the Season of Scenery challenge that Dave is running.

Overall, I give this one a thumbs-up!