15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Small Desert Houses, Large Desert House, Ruined Desert Houses, Ruined Large Desert House – Weathered & Repainted (BB216, BB222, BB230, BB231)

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Small Desert Houses, Large Desert House, Ruined Desert Houses, Ruined Large Desert House - Weathered & Repainted (BB216, BB222, BB230, BB231)

Another post of weathered and repainted desert buildings today. As you can see from the title, I’ve stacked models from four different sets into the one post to save “space” and time – and to get through this stuff a little faster while leaving the reviews to their own posts. If this stuff isn’t your bag – completely understandable – just skip over and wait for the “normal” model stuff that’ll be coming along soon enough.

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Small Desert Houses, Ruined Desert Houses, - Weathered & Repainted (BB222, BB230)

First up, we’ve got the final small building of the Ruined Desert Houses set alongside the smaller of the buildings from the Small Desert Houses. A bit of lower-building dirt, some blackening around the damage and some rain streaking.

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Small Desert Houses, Ruined Desert Houses, - Weathered & Repainted (BB222, BB230)

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Small Desert Houses, Ruined Desert Houses, - Weathered & Repainted (BB222, BB230)

The insides upgraded from the usual plain black interiors that they ship with. Even though you won’t see these as much as the exteriors, doing this is also kind of the largest “upgrade” on a lot of these buildings…

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Small Desert Houses - Weathered & Repainted (BB222)

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Small Desert Houses - Weathered & Repainted (BB222)

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Small Desert Houses - Weathered & Repainted (BB222)

Next up we have the medium building, a twin building essentially. Again, upgrading the interior is where most of the work was here.

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Large Desert House - Weathered & Repainted (BB216)

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Large Desert House - Weathered & Repainted (BB216)

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Large Desert House - Weathered & Repainted (BB216)

Now we have the Large Desert House. I do want to pick up another one of these in the near future as one of the final parts of my little desert town. Same deal here, a little dirt around the base, dirt tracked on and up the stairs and then the interiors painted.

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Large Desert House - Weathered & Repainted (BB231)

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Large Desert House - Weathered & Repainted (BB231)

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Large Desert House - Weathered & Repainted (BB231)

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Large Desert House - Weathered & Repainted (BB231)

Another Ruined Large Desert House – yes, I bought a second one of these. I painted the blast damage a little differently just so the buildings won’t look like complete clones of one another (which they actually are, when you think about it!) and will just orient them differently on the table and not too closely alongside one another. With all of this done a couple of days ago, I’m well and truly on my way to having all of my currently-owned desert buildings weathered and repainted before the end of 2021…

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Large Desert House (Gale Force Nine BB216)

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Large Desert House (Gale Force Nine BB216) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

And we’re back after a brief Christmas pause with another Desert terrain unboxing/review. I may actually post these reviews with a higher frequency than my painted models since these posts are much more things I’m throwing out there for people who may be looking for info on these sets in the future rather than updates on my own personal hobbying for the regular readers in the little community that we have here – so they don’t need a couple of days to let people “digest” my wonderful work. 😛

As always, 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 - Large Desert House (Gale Force Nine BB216) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

Once again, we have a standard “cereal box” thickness outer box with a cardboard reinforcement around the inside of the box, and then the actual terrain piece taped inside some bubble wrap.

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Large Desert House (Gale Force Nine BB216) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

…aaaand unwrapped. The top floor roof section is inverted for protection and placed in the cavity.

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Large Desert House (Gale Force Nine BB216) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

“Properly” assembled. I’ve photographed it here alongside the Damaged Large Desert House on the right – they’re basically two variations of the same sculpt as you can clearly see here.

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Large Desert House (Gale Force Nine BB216) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

Here’s the exploded breakdown of the three sections that make the building. Once again the interior is simply painted a plain black, which is slightly disappointing. Not especially hard to resolve, but still not completely ideal.

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Large Desert House (Gale Force Nine BB216) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, Battlegroup

Showing the interior and rooftops with FoW infantry stands in place, so you can see how many fit. Three in the ground floor, 1 inside in the first floor and one on the landing, and one on the roof.

15mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Large Desert House (Gale Force Nine BB216) 1/100, 1:100 Wargaming Terrain, What a Tanker, 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 happy enough with this one, even despire the black interior. I’m going to grab a second one shortly, once the mail order place I’ve been buying them from comes back after their Christmas/New Year’s break.

As always with these things – with a small amount of effort this building could be made to look a fair bit better. I wonder if we’ll see a post on those lines soon?