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ok. thinking halfway through.
this is just a list of things that sprung to mind, some are suited to your methods, some ain't.
5 sections each with a vauge theme, clearly parts can be combined between them, eg small hanging shop sign (cheap) + underground entrance hatch (industrial) = pub!
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Cathedral:
Gargoyles of various kinds. possibly also useful in demon lists.
buttress - check
Steps -
large Gothic pointed door
large Gothic pointed windows
add on spires
add on towers
ect.
Industrial:
Waste bins: rectangular, small cylindrical, open skips
Chimneys: gradual linear brick barrelled, twisted steel with external ladder, square section with chimney pots
Silos: riveted steel plate cylinder, concrete funnel type, extra wide (gas tower), flat top, slightly domed top, full hemisphere top, split hemisphere with telescope.
Pylons: T shape, A shape, doughnut on a stick shape,
National Grid transformers
turbines, boilers
Cooling towers
Assorted pipes
solar array
Cranes: T-jib crane, leaning jib crane, girder crane
Vents: all to fit the chimneys too, fan extractor, T-pipe, vent panel, U-shaped square section, tin can with holes in type.
Lorry size shutter doors
Serrated roof with windows and walkways
Cellar hatches varying in size from 3mm by 4mm up to full lorry size
loose girders, pipes, pallets empty and full.
Nice Area (enlightened planet or governor's palace)
Iron railings: Gothic, art Deco, corner pieces, some curved
Iron balconeys: to match railings
Ornate street lights
fountains: small, circular and large, ornate commerating a victory (I've got photo's of one in Vietnam that was a cast copy of an entire tank and stone obelisks behind it
Tall windows - gives the impression of higher ceilings and opulance
Oversized door with 2 steps up to it.
porches: with columns?
Cafes: large wide windows, street tables and chairs
Ornate underground entrances (like the Paris Metro)
Cheapside
Tower blocks: square, rectangular, cross shaped, ect.
fire escapes: preferably modular
Waste bins
Sewer lids
telecoms array for tower tops
Arbeites station (not sure how they advertise)
blocky, concrete balcony
rubbish piles: various sizes, dead tramp a bit distasteful?
Wall mounted Floodlights
Windows: small and low, broken, shuttered, bricked up
Signs of all sizes, some hanging, some wall mounted
Cinema, stadium
Kennels
Washing on lines and rooftop dryers
Sattelite dishes, aerials
gutters, downpipes and lightning rods
Pigeons
Cats: sitting and stalking
Transport Infrastructure.
Multi story car park?
Vehicles: Lorries, buses - converted rhinos?
Bridges: small concrete arches, large flyovers, overhead rail
Overhead signal gantries
Sea port stuff like jetties?
Rail cranes, containers, actual rails, wagons, freight canals, locks
babble:
ok, the thing with none cathedral type buildings is they're often not detailed enough to make bronzing worth it.
A selection of doors and windows would be good, but normally they're recessed into the wall, quite hard to achieve unless the entire wall is cast as one piece.
I'm not sure how suitable resin is for large scale thin flat things, but forgeworld seem to manage OK. Another approach to mass-production is to cut walls from flat sheet using a CAM driven machine. lining up two or more sheets creates the recessed areas like window frames with a third sheet for glass? to hold them together all three has half height slots from the bottom, your buttress piece extends to the wall and has a half height slot from the top, neatly pinning all three sheets tight together at various points along the wall.
as for my some what bizzare suggestions for bits: You cannot have a board of dense skyscrapers as moving infantry gets too difficult, wide streets are necessary to get your hand in. From a gamer's point of view, you mostly see the roofs and the roadway, so they're the bits to add the characterful details to (like the cat stalking across a roof).
The bridges are included to encourage people to raise some parts of the board - again, mostly for visual interest.
Windows: perspex is a bugger to paint and the reflections will destroy the illusion of size, and empty windows means some sort of interior work then needs doing. solid windows look like the best bet.
Finally: Most imperial cites seem to bleak industrial wastelands with intensive housing- if you want pictures of typical details like pipes, baloneys, tower shapes et al I can provide, living in the centre of Englands biggest industrial wasteland (Birmingham) may yet have a use.
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