Welcome to the World of I Built It Miniatures!
MADE BY US, BUILT BY YOU.
Here at I Built It, we design intricately detailed architecture model kits and manufacture them with the function of gaming terrain. Being avid gamers with a passion for history having a background in architecture and engineering had us distill our practical expertise in creating I Built It range of model kits. Using our perspectives to create beautiful, precise and functional buildings with a buff of history to capture the everyday lives of those who lived then has been our aim.
It’s been a journey of 5 years with painstaking research, exhaustive experimentation, and painful failures that ultimately led to success. The assiduity for every minute detail throughout the stage of a kit’s design with rigorous test for optimized user-friendly built until manufacture has been our fundamental goal.
PRODUCT CATEGORIES
FEATURES
Friction Fit
Our model kits do not need tools, glue or paint to be completed.
All the parts snap together using a unique friction fit system that allows you to assemble and disassemble each kit as you please. Our kits come pre-painted using only non-toxic paints. This pre-painted layer also acts as a primer should you wish to paint or whether your model.
Interchangeable Facades
Every façade piece provided with our kits is engineered to be modular allowing you to interchange facades from one building to another.
Stackable
All our sets are made up of individual modular blocks that can be stacked vertically as well as horizontally. These modular blocks come in a variety of sizes and materials, allowing you to model buildings of different sizes and material finishes which can be interchanged with ease. For example, brick, stone, wood, and plaster facades can be combined and swapped with each other to create multiple material combinations.
Super Modular
Our sets have multiple levels of modularity and are designed to maximize your ability to customize your model as well as expand your collection to build entire villages, towns, and castles.
Functional Elements
Our models feature working components and mechanisms varying from doors and windows that really open, to drawbridges that lower, and siege engines that launch projectiles!
Weathering Options
Unpainted
Unpainted sets gives you advantage of having your own choice of color for stone, wood, chimney and roof.
Standard Texture
The standard texture represents masonry by means of "vector" lines that basically scores the material .
Pro Texture
The Pro-Texture is made by converting a high resolution photo of real stone masonry for use on our machines. The machine then engraves the material into a 3d texture that feels like stone. If you touch it, you can feel the undulations and roughness that is characteristic of real stone. It results in a very convincing stone texture by look and feel. I believe there is no one else doing this at the moment. This 3d texture looks very convincing on its own, but just a tiny bit of weathering using oil washes and pigment powders will really make the detail pop (as shown below in Picassawi's picture). All this realism comes at a significant expense in terms of machine hours as it take more than double the time to produce the Pro-texture.
Weathering & Detailing
Add washes, foliage and dry brushing to enhance the already realistic looking texture.