Supreme Littleness Design's 3mm scale buildings

The hunt for small scale buildings to use with my 3mm O8 Cold War armies and my Altar of Freedom home made troops has continued. Brigade Models stuff is lovely but slightly too small as is the Irregular Miniatures range. Both are more 2mm so are around a third too small for what I have in mind. I continued to search Google and recently came across Supreme Littleness Designs' offerings. The 3mm range is aimed at European Napoleonic gamers but a fair amount of it is generic enough to work in an ACW setting or a modern European one.

The range is inexpensive for the number of buildings in each set at around £1.50 - £2.50 with there being 2 - 4 buildings per set.  They are made in laser cut MDF which comes as a kit to be assembled (As an aside; am I weird in quite liking the smell of freshly lasered MDF?).  Now the idea of a kit for a 3mm building may seem to be a stretch but trust me it works and has some advantages.  For a start the method used to create the buildings creates great texture for the roofs, which as we look down from a playing vantage point is the main thing we see.  Secondly it allows some customisation of buildings.  Chimneys can be moved around and lean to sheds added or not as the whim takes the modeller.  This is possible due to the design of the models.  Think of the design as a sliced loaf of bread approach.  Each building consists of  vertical slices, mostly shaped like squat arrows.  The arrow point forms the peak of the roof, and the laser cutting creates lines along the edges of the vee of the arrow head that create lines of tiles when the slices are put together.

This how they arrive.  

The two gable ends have some detail laser etched in, windows. brickwork and similar things.  Each building has a number of these vertical slices and two side walls that go along the length of the 'sliced loaf' creating the long walls of the building.  Again these have etched details and they also hide the layers of the core of the building and tie the whole thing together.  It's really rather ingenious.

Examples of two of the completed kits. 

The downsides are that troops cannot be physically placed inside buildings, but that isn't really a thing at this scale anyway and that the fit of the parts does have some natural variation in thickness of the MDF sheet the parts are cut from.  This means that the slices of the building core and the sides may not be a 100% match.  This is easily rectified by either using paper of thin card shims between the slices to lengthen the core or filling the corners with a bit of modelling putty or Milliput.  Don't let this slight issue put you off the buildings are very, very nice indeed.  My only real criticism is that the building instructions are not always as helpful as I might have liked, but I have been able to work out what I was doing by dry fitting the parts and looking at the images of the completed buildings on the website.  The order is accompanied by an email with PDF instructions but these are often just an image and a description of the finished building.

The manufacturer also does buildings in other scales and covers some areas I haven't seen else where in the larger scales like the city walls and buildings of Troy!  Their website is here >>Supreme Littleness Designs Home