Finish it! - Big Fat Silo x2 by recycling a Faller H0 kit

 Date started: somewhere early 2025 I think.

Built, based and that was it. Primed these last week and did most of the paint job at our hobby nights. 

Kept it basic and generic so it works for multiple periods and scales.

With 15mm (though the drone is technically also used for 15 and 28mm), stairs to the front.

With 28mm with the marking. Though to be honest, the slim stairs side will also work for it, God knows I've had to scale some for work that only had space for one steel toeed boot at a time. 

In case you are wondering about getting these for yourself......don't!

This is a H0 kit from Faller, 130474 of which I bought a box of 8 or 10 at a tenner each years ago. Well, inflation hit hard cause these up in price by 500%. 

Then again the kit has a ton of parts for scratchbuilding, so....

Finish it! -15/28mm Sci-Fi Cargo made from toy car wheels

 Date started: Around September 2024 I think.

Built, based and partialled painted and then dumped in a box after a cleaning run. These are 4 wheels I ripped off of small car toy cause they are a nice hard plastic and look container-y.

Now finished. May many more follow. Incidentally this also another 50 Cent Challenge finished!

Compared with 15mm

Compared to 28mm

Generic Mossy Rocks finished!

I made these ages ago for Gorka Morka out of foam blocks, MDF bases and cheap filler, primed them and then....nothing for years. Painted them grey a few weeks ago, got them out this afternoon while the girls were doing homework and wanted to get them done today.

 

 And finish them I did. Completely knackered now. The moss green turned out to be brighter than expected, but it's good like this. Yes, I could spend more hours in making stuff "better" but stuff unfinished is not hitting my table, now is it? 

I've kept it as generic as possible, so it wil work for basically any of the 28mm periods I have stuff for. Just the way we like it, ey?

Leaves same as always with my die punch, but this time added a drop of colour and wash instead of just wash. 

It will work fine for Zona Alfa

Or any kind of Fantasy setting, like Verrotwood

And somethimes it just doesn't work.

Multi part in 15mm and 28mm are coming out fine, the 15mm with a loss of detail but nothing terrible.

Starship engine printed at 15mm and ready for cleanup.

Scifi trams at 28mm and 15mm, ready for cleanup

Scifi train reay for assembly and cleanup, for the Stargrave scenario the Heist. Might add a passengercar to the list, the flatcars end up too thin on the sides to print safely so I will need to mod those a bit. 

But then I try one of the WoW files again and it fails (again) at the 2nd layer. 

Oh well, such is life 
 

Pinetrees drying and ready for base primer and flocking

 Getting there.

Pining for the trees WIP

 Picked up a joblot of tufts last week and in it was a big bag of H0 scale pine trees. Use it or lose it, so started basing them up this weekend.

Will work fine as young ones for STALKER and regular pines for 15-20mm. And yes, my dinnertable is a right mess atm.

Pain is finally receding again though my skin is still FUBAR, but at least I have an interest in doing stuff again instead lying in bed doped up. Jay. 

2nd set of graves

More graves for the graveyard. Again all Renedra Ltd but the fence around the double grave is from Noch. 

 

Quite a bit of room left in the box so I better keep this up.

 

 

Verrotwood: Vicious Terrain - Sacraficial Altar

 "Something awful happend here and now the ground itself is tainted with hatred"

If you do a melee attack within 3 inches of this terrain piece, you gain 1D10 attack dice.

Examples: Sacraficial rock, pile of bodies, etc.

 

I found this free STL ....somewhere?* I can't for the life find who made it, even when using the file name. I'm sure someone will someday tell me. Printed it off, used a saw to remove the badly printed goat skull that was there as sacrifice, sanded it smooth, coverd the gaping hole with some flatterend crumped paper and glued 4 Games Workshop skulls on top. To represent another team of 4 Cultists that had met a untimely end. Or timely, depending on your view.

*Edit: Apparently it is a Forest Shrine from this range Temple or Arba ....but I picked it up as a free STL, I think? It's not in my online receipts at any of the STL places. So I'm now showing off a pirated STL.....FML. I'll send a message to the creator. 

This was a experiment on how to paint printed stuff, as it is very different from the MDF I'm used to. Lot's of sponging too on this one to subdue the printlines a bit. Didn't quite work the way I wanted to, but done is done. Size wise it fits in nicely with some of my other shrines. 

So...the altar for He Who Ascends, The Allseeing Eye, or the Giant Spikey Boob*? Who knows, but it is done. 

*You may thank Modhail for this: "All hail the malignant mammary of magnificent magnitude!"

 

 

Stalker grave marker - proof of concept tester

 I grabbed a STL of a Orthodox cross yesterday and printed off at 2 sizes to see if it would print properly and if my idea would work for Stalker. The texture of my plate at the back gives that idea of really rough concrete, and the iron function on the front gives you the idea of exposed rebar, so yeah, this works.

Started and finished within 24 hours.....see, I can get shit done quick if I want to. (if only it was so easy but yeah....)

What lurks in the Jungle.... is finally bloody finished.

 Last post about these was Feb 2024, but now the lot is finished. The 2 busted ones are more overgrown, and the intact ones I want to be able to use in various surroundings, so I made sure not to go overboard. I think I succeeded.

As planned, these are for 15mm.....but a bit big now that they are done, so into my 28mm Pulp box they go. 

 

 And the tacky original as they came in tacky garish colours at 1 euro a piece back then (these days 1,50 euros each cause of course, inflation)

For 15mm I really need to find one half the size, or have 10 of em printed in resin at the proper size. And do it all over again.....

A dead scene

 First set of graves is done and tufted so they can go in the box, and I'll make a new batch in the near future. All Renadra in this one, with some minor mods by myself with card and chain. And a ton of tufts.

Stacking Game

 I saw a post last week from a fellow gamer that Uncle Alie had some nice pen box containers printed to look like shippin containers for roughly 2-ish euros a pop. I've been looking to replace the mish mash that is my resin, plastic and mdf collection of containers and find some good ones for Cyberpunk etc. 

So....

Some arrived damaged (jeez, packing these loose in a bag, how could they be damaged with such professional packaging <sarcasm off>) but it adds to their charm. Try finding a undamaged container in the yard, they might seem tough but they aren't that tough tbh. 

...takes me back to one of my first adult jobs, doing the Customs paperwork for containers full of cheese for export, checking the containers, seals, tags etc, and dirving back and forth between the Customs station for the plethora of stamps. So many stamps.....

Headstones galore!

 I grabbed a bag of Renedra tombstones and a old bag of flat plastic bases, bought ages ago for a long forgotten reason. A bit of cleanup, a bit of basing, and then a bit more focus on the 2 bigger graves, the last of those still needs a new coverstone from plasticcard that I want to smash up a bit. But that's for tomorrow. Also not a clue where the bag with resin tombstones from GSW ended up, but that will show up someday, I hope. I'll need loads eventually so working in batches like these suits me fine for now. 

Outdoor Shitcan - painted my first 3D homeprint

 This is what I bought this printer for. Printed this off in the morning, cleaned and based it in the afternoon and primed it in the evening. Painted it the next day while with my girls, then varnished, based etc.

I used this free file by Pietia Models: Village Toilet

Unlike a lot of other 3D files, this one really seems to work inside the strenth and weakeness of FDM. The way it is printed nicely hides the seam and the layers in the wooden planks. I did discard the roof as I like my normal method of using card more. Basically a 2 piece print at 0.2 layer height, and I did turn ironing on...that just looks better and doesn't cost that much extra time. 

I did the most basic of cleaning, a hard brush and a lighter to remove any thin fibres. Glued it to a base with Superglue, sanded it with my usual grit and some rocks. Cheapo primer and I let it dry and gas out over night. 

Quick paintjob in green, weathering, gloss varnish, matte varnish and various tufts and calling it done. Slides right in with my Stalker and Post Apoc scenery Hope you like!