A 3D printed wooden house

 Time to do some in between painting project, before we start the rush of fresh Chaos Dwarf units for the tournaments near the end of the year.

 

And this time, it was a 3D printed house.

 

A building with wooden walls and tatched straw roof, which I glued to the model as it is for mass battles anyways, this is one of those generic style houses that fit about every fantasy setting unless you are running games in the desert.  

 

The detail on the house is nice, with the trunk making the roof centre, some shields and patched up planks on it to make it look not to slick, just a solid, good little house for the tabletop.

 

And now, it's time to use a lot of blue and golds, as I have a bunch to paint still! 

Halle 2025 Warhammer Underworlds stagger tokens

 So, I finally painted up the stagger tokens we received for joining the Halle tournament back in march.

 

Each participant received two of them, and that made a fun little item to use on the gameboards.

 

 

I decided to paint them up in two totally different styles, one was painted as being "clean" with blue water, nice white marbleish rocks and vibrant green lettering.

 

The other one however, I went for a dark look, with grey rocks, a filthy brown water and brooding red lettering.

 

That way it nicely diverges the balance between good and evil,in my opinion, and made painting both of them nice in between things to do.

 

Now to get some more games in to put them actually onto the board...

Ruined 3D printed chapel

 Chapel church, house... who will tell, as it lies in ruins.

I obtained this nifty little building from Vinted near the end of last year, and finally gotten round to give it some colour.

The benefit of those 3D printed houses is that you can tackle them with craft paints, and scenery loves drybrushing.  I went for three tones of grey, going to a warm finish for the brickworks, while going with a colder finish for the windows as often seen in old churches.

Putting them together, they cover a nice little patch of space, and will be usuable from fantasy to sci-fi, even for world war 2 games as it is pretty regular looking without being to distinctly linked to an era or genre.

 

 

Now onwards to the next project...

Warhammer Underworlds Beastgrave terrain

 This year, I cheaply got my hands on the Warhammer Underworlds Beastgrave terrain, thanks to the Age of Sigmar magazine.

And so I have been painting these up in and between other projects, slowly rounding them out to make the boards look a bit more "sexy" during games.

 

As such, I went to assemble the 6 pieces, painting them on and off between other projects when I had like those quick 15 minutes to spare or the likes.  I also opted to vary the greys of the rockwork amongst them, as in nature rockwork isn't monotone the same either.

 

 

The first one I painted up was the poison cloud one, going for a sickly greenish colour for the smoke. 

Secondly, the small bubbly pool was painted, with which I went for some muddy coloured water inside.

 

 

The next one is a bit of a personal favorite in sculpt for me, the one with the large crystals in the centre, so I went for a purple effect.  Slaanesh and all that you know...

 

 

I then went for the piece with the large skull on it, going for a bit of a dark grey effect on the horns. 

Next, the maw with the tentacles was on the to paint list.

The final terrain piece to be painted was the large skeleton on the rocks, the biggest of the pieces.

 

And so the whole set has been painted up and ready to... become scatter terrain in solo games and such, as the new edition Underworlds has smaller hexes, no longer fitting for these pieces.

 

Never the less, it was a fun in between project to do, adding some distraction from regular paint projects.

 

 

Some 3D printed Pillars

 A bit of an inbetween project has been completed today, in the form of some scatter terrain.

Now, I had these pillars already for a long time, but never really gotten round to painting them.

So, with the plans decently in motion for some serious solo gaming next year, I opted to finally do them to serve, well, as scatter terrain but also instead of trees very often.  To that end I based them on grassy underground, to litter them around the tabletop in games of Rangers and the likes.

 

 

And as such, I took my Amsterdam acrylics and my drybrushes, and painted away on them, resulting in 14 nice pillars to be spotted in future games!

 

 

Now to actually work out some scenario's, I can already lift a little tip of the veil, and the first game these will be seen in will be the start of my new Shadow Deep campaign, called "Slavers of Shadow Deep"!

 

On which more info will follow soonishly!

AHPC11: The Tomb: Mausoleum

 For the entry of the next room in this epic quest through the Chambers of Challenge, I literally went for what the quest says: a tomb.

A perfect chamber to get some scenery piece done, I printed up a small mausoleum and accompanying graves to build a piece of CD terrain (am I a year late here?).

The model has been scaled to fit the Shire games I`m planning, because unfortunatly Hobbits don`t live for ever either, even though they have long lifespans.

And now onwards to the third level!

A whole lot of walls

 Well, this certainly was a good printing and painting project...

In order to play the next scenario of Rangers of Shadow Deep, I'd need to make 3 rooms of 18 by 18 inch each, which would take a long time printing all those tiles.

So instead, as it is a lower level of an abandoned tower, I decided to go for wall sections of 10cm each to "line out" the three rooms.  In my story, the tower is already so old the floors have long rotted away and grass has grown inside as a result.

 

Adding to that, these 40 wall sections (meaning I now have 50 printed and painted) will be exellent for use in other games as well, both fantasy as historical, as they are just that: simple, basic grey stone walls.  

Now to just print up and paint all the needed inside decorations and doors, and I can get my adventurers going in one of the coming weeks!!

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Project Far Side: update 5

 It has been a while since I did an update, but as I have been printing and painting mostly for Rangers of Sgadow Deep (and as such, Middle-earth gaming as well as DnD), 6mm has been a bit on the backburner for the Ender 3.

None the less, there have been some additions to the collection in the past weeks!

For the largest table I`m building, a cityscape for use with MechaTop and the likes, more skyscrapers and houses have been added.

But I also painted up some small pieces for the rural / fantasy table, in the form of some moorstone monoliths (how fitting in these times) and a barrow entrance.

So even while it might be a rather modest turn out this time, it does mean some nice filling up of squares for those two tables.  Normally, I have about a month or two of planned DnD tiles and furniture to go, but then I`ll be churning out more regularly again, so expect the next update around february.

Cheerios!

Crystal Core

Today another piece I got from 3D Hexes, the Crystal Core.

 

This nice little piece is available as part of the "Yellow Bundle", which is also a pay what you want bundle, so if you want, it is essentially free.

 

Printing it at my (slow) settings takes around 6 hours, but as I said before I got it a very slow travel speed and all to prevent less chance of misprints while the head moves.

 

 

The model itself is really nice, with the runes etched in the circular platform, while the crystal is well represented coming out of the brick work.

 

I went for a warm grey stonework like the Lion Walls I printed up from them earlier, and then a blue crystal for some good contrast.

 

So check out the 3D Hexes webstore and grab some of their excellent and characterfull terrain!

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Ruined House

The latest print I finished painting, this is a Ruined House by Mini Makers.

The files where free a while ago as an offer I found through a Facebook group, and I set out to build it.

The set contains three pieces: the largest has the door frame, then there is a straight wall with a window pane, and finally a corner with an oven.

The three pieces all have wooden floors, adding some nice contrast to the painting job instead of just greys.

A lovely little project, and a great model for sure, with the ease of being able to put the ruins apart a bit more or less on the table to suit the collection and the game.

The Lion Wall

I can recommend babies to anyone wanting to get their scenery painted up to a tabletop standard!

Recently, I bought a whole set of files from 3D Hexes his webstore, as those are excellent models and print support free!

And the first things I printed, are already 3 of the Lion Wall sections.  Now, with over 20 files (they each come in the set twice, once like this, and once overgrown with vines), I thought them excellent for an Osgiliath table as well as for Dungeons and Dragons or Rangers of Shadow Deep like gaming.

A five colour drybrush later, and they really look great for the table, even when printed on a near stock Ender-3 setting, and supportless makes a big difference in cleaning works for sure.

I have quite some more files of him, and I will definitly be printing those up over time!

Tabletop Scenics Enchanted Well

Hauling from their Frostgrave 2 official terrain line, I won this Enchanted Well earlier this year through a Facebook give away.

And in the past weeks, after Noshi enjoyed building it, I went about and gave the lovely MDF kit a lick of paint.

 

I went for a bit of a warmer grey though then one might expect for the Frozen city, as most of my terrain is always painted with the idea to use it in Middle-Earth suited tables, but still usuable in the original game is was intended for none the less.  Plus, not all of Felstad has to be frozen over after all.

A lovely kit to paint with the stonework detail nicely coming through, I`m looking forward to placing it on my table for a game...

A new stack of Dungeon Tiles

During orktober, I have been printing mostly movement trays and dungeon tiles, and now the tiles are painted up.

Part of the "Castle Range" from Printable Scenery, the 2x2 floor tile is what I`ll be churning out mostly as before.

 

And as such, another stack of 13 tiles have been finished, so the complete collection so far can start accomodating for medium and larger sized rooms, though i still want to print and paint up quite a bunch of various tiles.

And they can be used for Rangers of Shadow Deep, as I`m slowly preparing for the Tor Varden storyarc mission...

A 3D printed River

Printed with the next scenario of Rangers of Shadow Deep in mind, I went on and printed myself a river on the Ender 3.

The files themselves are from Thingiverse, and I went for the straight sections of 20cm each, and two smaller 10cm ones including one with a fording.

The river was painted up with Amsterdam acryllics, lovely stuff for terrain works.

Now, this all means I now have 1m80 of river sections, good enough for the scenario.  Over time I will be adding some bends and such to the collection, but that isn`t a priority at the moment at all.

Viking Hut

The latest piece of scenery I painted up, a Viking Hut, found on Thingiverse.

Now, I like this sort of scenery, it prints fast at 12 hours (I have low speed, high warmth settings on the Ender 3 for better adhesion to the glass bed), and it is multifunctional.

The intended use for me is to of course use it in Middle-earth games, as it looks suitable for either Rohan or Dunland settings, with the thatched roof and all, but it can just as well be placed in games of Rangers of Shadow Deep or even Frostgrave when I finally get round to that.

Nice little piece for sure, and I`m going to be printing a couple more of those in all likelyhood...

Project Far Side: Update 4

Here we are, with the 4th update on this insanity project of building 7 tables worth of 6mm terrain.

Now, it has been a while, as in the past two months printing and painting had been severly reduced due to work picking up again after the pandemic, a heatwave, 2 holidays (I'm on one actually now as I type this) and my nozzle getting a thorough clean-through.

But in the past weeks, I picked up the brush again (though at a more limited rate obviously) and while also painting up some other things, the terrain has received some good attention none the less.

For the Tatooine table, two rock formations and an observatory, as well as a turbo laser turret.

My alien jungle saw some plants

The demon world had some progress as well this update, with demonic cave entrances and hag trees 

 The Cyberpunk world saw no less then 20 new stores added.

While for the Naboo / fantasy table only a small belltower was painted up though, I decided to give it a "Santorini" feel to give some contrast on the table.

 

So that's the newly added scenery for this month.  October won't see any additions though, as I'm going to jump into "Orktober" and as such will be painting, well, only orcs for the next weeks... 

Rockworks

This month, I have been printing mostly aimed at starting the second Mission for Rangers of Shadow Deep, with a river and mostly rocks being needed.

And as such, I spend the past sunday painting up a lot of boulders, as it needs to cover a decent part of a 2.5 by 2.5 table according to the scenario.

While Orktober will make it so that not much will be added to the scenario requirements just now, I aim to actually play out the scenario during the few days off I have in november, in between babysitter duties.

The rocks are of a variety of shapes and sizes, and painted with Amsterdam paint for the first layer (Paynesgrey) with a Neutral Grey drybrush, then a light highlight drybrush of Vallejo Sky Grey.

And it gives me a serious boost in scatter terrain for Middle-earth as such as well...

Orb of Zhur

One of the final pieces I had lying around that I had printed for me in the pre-Ender days, this large tentacled orb is a good centerpiece for scenarios.

The model itself was a freebie found on Thingiverse (a real treasure trove for wargame scenery on the cheap), and looks both on place in fantasy as well as sci-fi tables.

Produced as such by the excellent Dutchmogul, a user on Thingiverse you really should check out for all his fantastic RPG material and more on there, it is a pillar topped by tentacles, holding some orb or egg like ball.

I went for a purplish colour, to have it contrast nicely with the grey of the pillar and green of the appendages, wgile the runes where topped with Enchanted Blue for a metallic like glow on the,.

A real lovely piece of you ask me, that will look good on any jungle or ruined style table, even as the object for some adventure.

Moisture Vaporator for Star Wars Legion

A little 3D printed scenery piece in this entry, with a Moisture Vaporator for placement on desert terrain.

These little machines where seen as far back as on the Skywalker farm in A New Hope, and when I found the files on Thingiverse I went round to printing them.

The large one is actually a file, while the three smaller ones are together in another, so a quick search overthere should yield you both.

The base was coloured the same as how I do my Legion units (Iraqi Sand washed over with Strong Tone), while the machines are painted a metallic grey, washed in armour wash first and then rust, and a final drybrush of Leadbelcher.

Simple but effective, they can add some theme to the board, so once Covid is over I hope to actually get some games in of the system...

China Trees: 25pc Dark Green Trees

And the next batch of trees arrived from China, bought through eBay as "25pcs scenery landscape train model trees scale 1/300 Dark Green" from the seller craft_mall.

And they cost a hefty 3.86 GBP with free shipping...

Just like the other ones I bought before (and reviewed here on the blog earlier), these are of the same material and very suited for the battlefield.

I for one don`t add flock to the canopies, though I do add some paint to the trunks as they look to plastic otherwise.

So they remain great little items to make mass forests with for 6mm gaming, easy to use and "touch up", and cheap as hell, always a welcome positive point!