Matakishi's Tea House

A simple little site...

Building Entebbe Airport


Making a centerpiece for an African scenario.

Generic, All-Purpose, Incredibly Useful, Modern Wargames Buildings ™


Making Modern Desert Buildings.

Industrial buildings


A Factory and ancillary buildings suitable for most post-industrial periods.

Modern African Buildings


Run down buildings for African settlements.

Making your own Technicals


Technicals for modern day conflicts by Patrick Sexton.

Making a 28mm scale copy of the Airfix Strongpoint


A nostalgic trip down memory lane...

Making a German Base


Instructions for making a WWII German base.

Building Fort Zinderneuf


Peter Helm constructs a Foreign Legion fort.

A French Foreign Legion fort


Walt Siko and William Schmitt build a 25mm FFL fort.

Making a Chinese House


Making a Chinese house from corkboard.

Constructing Simple WWII Buildings


Constructing simple WWII buildings.

Carentan


Building the WWII French town featured in Band of Brothers.

1/48 Tamiya Sherman


Superb Japanese video showing the building and painting of this kit.

1/35 Tamiya Tiger


Japanese video showing the building and painting of this kit.

Making Inner City Buildings from Corkboard


Making Inner City Buildings from corkboard.

Making a Waterfront section for your City


Making a Waterfront Section for your City.

Vietnam Buildings


Making simple jungle buildings for Vietnam or Burma.

Hutch's City


Some photos of Simon Hutchinson's City.

The City that Bob built


Some photos of Bob Hart's City and an explanation of how he built it.

Making Dungeon Components


Making simple items from balsa wood to enhance your dungeon adventures.

Making Fantasy/ Medieval Buildings


Robert Provan (Toaster) shows how he made his Medieval/Fantasy buildings.

Making Egyptian Tomb Components


Making simple Egyptian tomb components from balsa wood to enhance your Pulp adventures.

Making Hills


Making hard-wearing hills and rolling terrain from cork tiles.

Desert Hills


A simple set of desert hill sections.

Charon's Barge


Building Charon's Barge for Ars Magica.

Scouring pad Trees


Simple and effective, explained by Nathan 'Ironworker' Miller.

Nick Whittock's Rocket


From drinks cup to Rocketship...

Science Fiction City


A futuristic table for Infinity.

Silly Scenery


Simple little items, made in minutes...

Alien World


Making scenery for off-world battles.

Off-World Colony


Constructing an off-world colony for science fiction games.

Alien Hive


Making an entrance to a Xenomorph Hive.

Building a better Stargate


Revford shows how to make a Stargate for 28mm figures.

Davestown


Making a Wild West board on a budget.

Starguard


Dave Bezio produces a game board for Starguard on a budget.

Ethan's Eatz


Making a Cyberpunk Sushi bar.

Sam's Buildings


Robogear Buildings by Sam Thompson.


Miniature Metal Matakishi sculpted, cast and donated by Mike Broadbent to support this site.

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