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Miniart Diorama buildings?
Posted by senojrn on Sunday, April 1, 2007 12:58 AM
Has anyone built or used any of the Miniart diorama buildings?  (Specifically, the Belgian Village House #35015 and the German Village House #35012.)  If so, what's the quality like?  Are the buildings injection molded plastic or resin or plaster?  Do they actually have detail on both sides of the walls, or are they like the old Testors/Italeri dio sets that have detail on one side and are hollow on the other?  Basically, are they worth the money?
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Posted by SteveM on Sunday, April 1, 2007 10:55 AM

The Miniart building is vacuformed (?) plastic. Hollow, pieces to be trimmed and glued. Something like that... probably not at all what you're thinking it is. Their accessories are cool, but I ended up tossing out the building parts. Was not at all impressed.

Steve 

Steve M.

On the workbench: ginormous Kharkov dio

 

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Posted by senojrn on Monday, April 2, 2007 9:28 AM
That's too bad....I was hoping that they would be good or at least fair quality and able to be used.  Oh well.  Thanks. 
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  • From: CANADA
Posted by Kelly_Zak on Monday, April 2, 2007 11:27 AM

Senojrn,

The buildings are actually pretty good, they do need a little tlc though, but are quite managable. They are coming out with alot of cool designs, have detail both in and out for the walls, etc. For value of money these are tops for what you get in the box. If you are unsure I would get one of their smaller building sets to give a go with, keep in mind the very first sets are a little hard to build as far as lining up stuff, but they have improved with newer releases.

"There you go with those negative waves again!"
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