Cheap Housing... for a Low-Altitude Air Combat

The first problem: how to have cheap miniatures to represent a house and to have a lot of them? I have used, as in other cases ([1]), Aliexpress: ”Hotel Game Replacement Pieces Game Hotels Houses Set Plastic for Home” and ”44 Pcs Chess House Early Education Adult Children Board Game Booster Packs Game Monopoly Game Accessories Board Game House” (I name the exact products because the search bar of Aliexpress is not that good and believe me, is very frustrating to search in vain for something with what you think it is a reasonable wording). The miniatures are the ones used for board games like Monopoly. Of course, another option is to do-it yourself ([2]).

The second problem: how to improve the way they look? For what you are paying the quality of the cast of the plastic miniatures is actually very good. But painting the miniatures is really the best thing to improve the way the miniatures look, including adding details. This was done quite fast, by painting windows and doors as additional details, and two painting schemes, white and yellow for the body of the house and different shades of red for roofs. Later I will correct the (many) mistakes and maybe add some other details, not all of them just recreated by painting them, but thinking here of adding some elements from plastic and some other accessories to make an annex, garage and so on.

For now, what  resulted is to be used for air combat at low-altitude (because the houses are in between scales in my opinion, between 1:300 and 1:600 and to detract a little from how the miniatures look we need to keep a distance from thee miniatures) and of course for other things (to represent a small town, city or other kind of settlement in a modern or science fiction environment, or who knows for what exactly? You may have a lot more good ideas than I.

Results? Here they are:

I have used two starships from Ground Zero Games to represent an air combat between a civilian transport and a pirate gang above a small town from an agri-world from Centima System (a little starter, in terms of fluff, for a science fiction scenario).