Another set of 3d prints from the sculptor known as “MillerBro” from his collection of 1/100 scale (15mm) low detail Buildings.
This one is a pretty nicely detailed building. I considered paiting them in a different scheme and then using a second colour for the window box-frames and the balconies and possibly even the building trim, but then I came to my senses. Just painting in all these windows was quite a trial and caused these buildings to take far longer to paint than I initially expected.
With Flippy in service, I’ll often print more than one of any buildings that seem to fit the “more than one” kind of look to them. Despite being called “barracks”, I thought this sculpt looked like any pretty generic apartment building – or as we’d call them here – “a block of flats”. So totally suitable for a pair of them to sit side by side on the tabletop – and you could very easily justify even more of them.
One of the reasons for April’s posts being so delayed was that I wanted to photograph them alongside some of my 15mm models for scale, and it took until this last weekend to clear the big table of all the 3d printing junk and sprayed models and then dig out the old Battlefront stuff.
I also printed them smaller, by shrinking them down and then doing a couple. I then mirrored them and printed some more, thinking of that style of “mirrored” apartment blocks you sometimes see. Through a series of mishaps, I then kept misplacing a coupleof them at a time and then printed more to “even out” the numbers and then found the missing ones so had to print out even more to “re-even-out” the numbers… and so on. Ending up with 6 of each.
These smaller ones were finished this past weekend, so are “May Models”, but given that they’re the same STL file as the larger ones and I’m so far behind, it makes sense to post them up together.
And here’s the scale shots with approriate-sized models, along with a theoretical table layout that they could be a part of.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Great work matey 👍🏻👍🏻
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Thanks Pat! 🙂
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Very effective mate, and like the variation in color schemes, and they look great in both scales too.
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Cheers Dave. The larger ones will be closer to apartments in smaller town type situations (15mm gaming) while the rows of blocks of smaller ones just feel better as cold grey in those faceless numbers. 🙂
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They do feel very Mega City 1 in style, but fit with Japanese Kaiju as well.
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I wonder how large a Mega-City block would look in this scale. I’d imagine it’d still be like a 12″ x 12″ footprint just for a small “normal” block…
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I like these, particularly the colour of the larger scale ones! 🙂
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Cheers John. I can picture them in a nice pale cream or off-white with blue window boxes and balconies for that idyllic European look, but just painting in all those windows was so painful I can’t imagine taking the time to do all of those details. I guess Battlefield in a Box’ ready-to-go, prepainted product retains some very valid relevance even in an increasingly 3D print oriented world.
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Excellent color choice as others have said. I think these look more like apartment buildings than anything else too and that makes them perfect for urban and suburban settings I reckon. Keep the buildings coming as they’re interesting to see and they’re inspiring me to keep working on the diorama I’m starting too!
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Thanks mate. Quite a lot more coming on the terrain front as Flippy has a great work ethic. He works all day while I’m at work, he works weekends as well and he never sleeps when there’s printing to be done!
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