Tabletop Workshop Buildings

Some newly painted buildings. I bought these buildings a couple of years ago from Tabletop Workshop. They are plastic kitsets that assemble very quickly (floor, 4 walls, roof in two pieces). They are simple in design, lightweight but strong, and nicely textured.

Sadly Tabletop Workshop is now defunct for unknown reasons. I believe the rights for these now resides with Warlord Games. Warlord games is selling the old Tabletop Workshop Castle, but the these buildings are not currently available from them (despite some of them being listed as "in stock", they are not if you actually try to order them at the time of this post). EDIT: I believe these are now available again as helpful commenters have noted!

This building range was labelled as 'medieval', but they are very similar to the look of many Napoleonic period buildings too, for example in Saxony.  Here's some Duchy of Warsaw troops passing by.

There were six buildings available in the range, and I bought one of each and two each of the Cottage and Townhouse. The different buildings share many of the same components between kits. For example the Cottage Barn, and Stable are identical except for one of the walls being different for each kit.

Here's a look at the range.

Merchant House and Townhouse.

Front.

Back.

Chapel (actually already painted and shown on this blog previously, but repeated here for completeness), and the Cottage.

Back of them.

Barn and Stable.

Back.

The inside of the buildings is also textured and so can be painted up, keeping the roof removable. I haven't bothered painting the insides, but may at some future point.

The two storey buildings also have a second floor that slots into place.

Here it is in place.

Hopefully these buildings see a re-release soon. They are a great product in my opinion if you just want some simple but characterful buildings for medieval through horse and musket period and even fantasy games. The inside detail also makes them great for skirmish gaming for those so inclined.


As to painting I used a stupidly broad range of paints I had lying around to do these. Listed in order of coats:

• Walls: (GW) Zandri dust, (CdA) bleached bone, (Vallejo) white.
• Tiled Roof Red:(CdA) Brick Red, (Vallejo) Bloody Red
• Tiled Roof Grey: (CdA) Dark Grey, (Army Painter) Uniform Grey.
• Thatch: (Vallejo) Bestial Brown, (GW) XV88, Dark Sun, (CdA) Bleached bone.
• Stone work: Two greys from hardware store....