Back to 3D printed terrain for the next few posts – this print is of a free sample (where I predictably started my 6-8mm journey) from a maker called Shiaic3D. This one is their free sample/Example Building from their Game Box Storage Terrain line. I believe the concept of the non-sample pieces is that they’re mostly box shaped hollow pieces with slots so you can “slot in” your based Battletech models. Even this non-hollow model is pretty easy to store as it’s basically just a detailed cube.

These were some of the first terrain pieces I printed at this scale, way back at the start of the year. I got started on painting them a few months ago, but got hung up on the best way to bring out the details of the subtle ins and outs of the building(s) – the raised portions and the ring of indented squares just below the roof which I elected to paint as an architectural feature rather than even more windows!

I finally achieved success with the Oil Wash Weekend at the start of July, where Marouda and I spent a couple of days making a mess on the War Room table using oil paints and leaving them and then coming back later for a big wipe session. These may not have come out “perfectly” but they ended up a lot better than they were before, and I think they work for weathered and somewhat gritty buildings in what’s going to be an endless series of warzones.

The windows on these give me the “feeling” of some kind of clinical series of research labs. Just a bit vaguely dystopian/cyberpunk-ish feel I get. As with pretty much everything I’ve been posting lately, these terrain prints work for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25.