Another pair of 3d printed terrain pieces today – another print from nonPareil Institute who we last visited with their Hab-Blocks a little while ago. This time we’re looking at their Cooling Tower piece, another free file I picked up early in my 6mm/8mm/1:285 scale journey. These are small, fast prints that were painted in a quick and dirty manner. They’re rough and a bit messy, but their job is to be background objects on the tabletop and these finished pieces will do just that.
They have a bit of a “Nuclear Cooling Tower” vibe to them, but they seem pretty tiny for that, even at this scale. I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be a door at the front of the smallest, central structure, as it’s not only too small top be a door for the current Legions Imperialis models, but also way too small for the previous Epic scale infantry (I have a few old AT and SM models somewhere – I’ll dig them out sometime). Oh. and that structure is also a hollow cooling tower as well.
Here’s a scale shot of them. They’ll still work fine as pretty generic smokestacks or cooling towers, though they don’t really convey the intimidating size that Nuclear cooling towers would have in my opinion. They’re still pretty cool little pieces of terrain for this scale. I didn’t think of taking any pics with 28mm models, but I’m sure they’ll also work just fine as small-scale scatter in that scale.
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Excellent work mate, they will certainly add interest to your boards, agree they are small for Nuclear towers, but being sci-fi they could be some other form of energy we don’t know of yet.
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Yeah, at this point it no longer matters now that they’re painted and table-ready! 😀
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They look spot on! 🙂 Would probably work as cooling vents in larger scales as well!
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Very true – they’d make a good “detail piece” to place on top of larger terrain pieces in bigger scales. Drop it on the roof!
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They don’t look rough at all to me mate. Nice work
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Too kind mate, but appreciated nonetheless! 🙂
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Totally agree with IRO mate not looking too rough😉.
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Cheers Pat! They’ll work fine as table pieces for sure.
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I can’t imagine how much pollution those things can spew out! I can also see why you feel the way you do about the sculpt. The important thing is that they’re done and they’ll look great in-game!
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I’m sure it’s just environmentally-friendly steam that comes out. No problem at all – nothing to see here! But yeah, on the table they’ll be totally fine.
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Nice one- useful terrain.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Cheers Pete! 🙂
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