Today’s 3D printed buildings are a few Epic Scale pieces from Fabricator’s Lair on MyMiniFactory. They can be found in the Epic Sector: Sanctuary bundle which is basically the bundle from their Kickstarter held some time ago.
Unlike a lot of other Epic-style terrain models I’ve been printing, this is one huge bundle of modular goodness. That comes with both positives and negatives – you can build a lot of cool stuff, but it’s also not quite as straightforward as choosing a building and pressing “print”. For example, I nicked these designs from Fabricator’s Lair’s promo pic and just copied them because it’s easier to follow the Lego Instructions sometimes. The “gazebo-pillar tower” piece just above is made from three separate elements, and then when slotted into the buttressed building we have a four-piece building.
Like so. Now just imagine what a creative madman like IRO could do with a kit like this!
I’ve really got to get some more mechs painted differently now so we can have some more contrast with these ochre-ish buildings, don’t I? A drawback to these is that they’re still far from perfect – if you look closely you can see the layer lines, even though they’re printed at the highest resolution with the 0.4 nozzle. I could have gone to the 0.2 nozzle and gone even finer, but this is the compromise between speed and detail that I’m happiest with for terrain pieces which are our background elements – especially at table-eye distance.
I also printed and painted up a bunch of little fountains in a separate run, but they present well with these buildings with their teal, pseudo-verdigris rooftops. They were simple to print, though I did use the 0.2 nozzle. I considered adding realistic water but just giving them a rough paintjob to repsent uneven water and gloss varnish to finish did the job just as well for the scale.
These again count for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25.
On that note, we haven’t heard from Dave at all in a month now. He did say he was having some renovations done to make life easier at home so I’m hoping that being busy getting better is what’s caused the lack of updates and mentioned that he might not have a chance to do much this year because of the renos. We all know builders often go over time.
While I’d still be working on buildings and tanks regardless, I’m personally going to press on and give the Season of Scenery theme a third month this year and keep giving Dave these shout-outs through September as well to encourage Dave to feel he has the space to still do some hobbying for the challenge if he’s so inclined. If anyone else doing SoS(!) this year also chooses to press on during September and keep giving Dave the shout-outs I think that would be pretty cool.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 