Today I have another 3d Print – this time it’s a replacement for the simple “prison tower” tile from the standalone Prison Outbreak expansion.
As with the Black Plague Trapdoors from the other day, this one was a free STL that I found online – this time on Cults3D.
Painting was pretty straightforward. I wanted the whole thing to be an overall dull grey, no red brick or tiles, no warm wood for the rails – so I got various shades of grey and dull metal for the various components of the building, but then it seemed too dull, so the OH&S department came to the rescue with some safety yellow for the ladder, the guardrails, the door frame and the “stand clear” area on the platform floor – which then got dirtied up and chipped and worn.
Now the life-or-death struggle to survive against the undead horde can be done in a manner that’s properly OH&S compliant, as demonstrated here by Berkeley and friends wildly swinging their melee weapons while shotguns blast overhead.
It also turns out that this tower fits the “close enough” scale to be used in Marvel Crisis Protocol, which means that aside from Zombicide it’s got a use case for many modern game settings. It would probably work for WWII reasonably well with a different paintjob with more wood and less OH&S yellow!
Either way, I have another entry for Dave Stone’s Apocalypse Me painting challenge running throughout October!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Now that looks exactly how I’d imagine it should look! It’s come out really well and a good call with the yellow and weathering! 🙂
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Thanks John – it was looking a bit *too* dull and boring for a tabletop game before I added the yellow. More realistic for sure, but also overly drab.
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Excellent job mate, and shows a good height above all those nasty zombies, much more than a card template.
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Yeah, some of the printable upgrades to cardstock templates work well. I’ve seen a bloke make an entire city which looks amazing, but more work and storage than I’m willing to do myself! 😀
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Looks great.
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Thanks mate. I like the flexibility of it to work in different games.
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That’s always a plus. I’m currently looking at my bolt action terrain and wondering what I could use for zombie tabletop wargaming.
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With Bolt Action terrain, it would be most of it, I’d think aside from anything with blatantly 1940’s military hardware (and even then, there’s still some use cases like Jeeps)
Just depends on where individual games are set as to whether hardened bunkers fit in or not. In the wilds of Montana, maybe they’d work!
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Not only is it well-painted but its a handy piece of terrain too. Honestly, it looks like it could be made out of MDF which is a compliment to the sculptor in my eyes.
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Thanks Kuribo! It’s a pretty simple sculpt overall, but it’s certainly fit for purpose. I could imagine something not too different to this sitting around randomly in the wasteland of Fallout 3 or 4 as well!
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I would have to agree with that sentiment! Go ahead and throw me one in the mail 😉
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Mate, if they were flat then I’d have no problem doing so right away. Unfortunately, there’s 4 pieces, 3 of which are quite large (ladder/roof/balcony+platform/tower on base so the international postage would be a bit prohibitive unless we were loading it up with more pieces…
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A nice little model. Haven’t yet started my “Prison Break”……….one day!
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