Current Updates

April 12, 2008 -

New Pictures
We have a couple of terrific pictures from Emanuele Piscitello of Sicily.  It's a great example of applying a skim coat of plaster over the stone facing to achieve a weathered, aged effect:

Thank you Emanuele!

Next up, we have a couple of pictures submitted by Jessica Stewart (age 11) of a project she made for school (with a little help from her uncle Matthew Wooton):

We think the castle looks fantastic!  Many thanks to Ms. Stewart for her contribution.  Great job!

We had some computer difficulty over the holidays that prevented us from posting these great pictures from Russell Bance.  These photos show some buildings that were made by Mr. Bance and raffled off in a fund-rasier:

The buildings look warm and cozy, but it appears as though Santa may be having some difficulties:

Our heartiest thanks to Mr. Bance for sharing these great pictures with us.

New German Retailer

Welcome to our newest German retailer, Fantasy Laden.  They carry the complete line of Linka moulds as well as some other great table-top and fantasy scenery.  Check them out by clicking on their link above or on our Where to Buy page.

New Building Plans
Once again, our deepest thanks and appreciation to Mr. Robert Van De Velde for submitting more of the old Thomas Salter building plans for us.  He has even translated the plans into his native French, including the basic instruction sheets and mould number information (the instructions are included on our Using Linka page and will be absolutely necessary to use the old Thomas Salter plans, as these all reference the casting numbers in the instructions).  Here's the second installment of a very large batch of plans he sent us (note:  files are in Adobe Acrobat):

Mr. Van De Velde has put a tremendous amount of time and effort into scanning, cleaning, and translating these plans and we thank him very much for all his time and patience!

Our next update comes from Mr. Terry Driver.  He made this barn scaled to 28mm using only the S1 Stonework mould (the roof was made from cardstock).  It's a terrific example of how Linka can be used with larger scales:

That's all the updates for today - more to follow soon!

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Some more examples of what's possible with Linka (click on images to view larger picture):

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General Scale Information

In response to questions we received about the size of individual castings, we are posting this picture:

It gives a pretty good idea of the size of individual, standard castings.  Although this picture shows two stone castings, the standard panel size is the same as other types of Linka castings (brick, timber, and roofing).

Here's another photo that is a good reference for the basic scale of our unmodified products.  It shows a small stone church being attacked by Vikings.  The figures are 1/72 scale plastics and are approximately one inch (2.5 cm) tall.

(Picture courtesy of Yassine Amraoui)

Here are a few pictures that demonstrate the versatility of Linka.  The first two pictures show Linka structures with 28mm figures next to them.  These demonstrate how our product can be used with larger scales:

(Picture courtesy of Robert Sakaluk)

(Picture courtesy of Aidan Boustred)

And this picture shows Linka with smaller (15mm) Flames of War figures for scale:

(Picture courtesy of Duncan Colby)

To use Linka with other scales, simply trim a row or two from the bottom of each casting (for 15 mm) to "lower" the walls, doors, and windows, or add a cut row or two to the bottom of each piece (for 28 mm) to "raise" the castings to the proper height for larger figures.