Some more 3D printed terrain today, just for something different. Multiple prints of a single sculpt from the Hextech Free Sample Pack (Battletech Compatable) (also available in a number of other locations). We last visited this free sample pack awhile back with the Trinity City Hab-Blocks and Slums set.

These are pretty straightforward – as the name (and appearance) implies they’re a form of sci-fi industrial liquid storage container, probably containing fuel or milk or lube. Industrial lubricant of course. I don’t know why your mind went elsewhere…

These are nicely detailed with the kind of intertesting panel work and indents and greeblies and whatnot that may not make the most sense from a real-world engineering perspective, but look good and read “sci-fi”. Similarly, I’m not sure what those “caps” are actually supposed to be, but they really stand out, so I painted them a darker grey to lean into it. I still had a bit of an issue with how they looked as they were a bit boring in mostly-white-with-grey before I settled on orange as a spot colour. Why orange? Obviously it draws the eye and stands out from the white/grey/black/metallic that the rest of the models are, and as we all know, it’s also established as an OH&S-related colour and works well with whites and greys in the more generic sci-fi sense.

Early on, I considered adding some decals of some sort but decided against it – mostly because I didn’t have anything appropriate at the time and their shape would make placement a bit awkward to just use one on each instead of like, four per model. Later on when they were fully painted, they got oil washed in the big Oil Wash Weekend, and ended up with a bit of a heavier amount remaining. They actually got “lost” on the table until I found them last night and was able to spray varnish them – sealing in the oil wash and “completing” them properly – and then photographing them about an hour ago.

As I noted last time with the buildings, this free sample set is really quite good, and comes with a lot of sculpts, and most if not all of them come with the option for hex bases or no hex bases. Hextech also sell a variety of buildings and terrain in a collab with Gale Force 9/Battlefield in a Box – and as we all know – prepainted is always nice for that whole “open, drop on table, done – touch up later if/when you feel like” aspect.

As we can see from the preceding few shots, these prints work well in a variety of scales, which is always nice. I really need to get some modern 15mm stuff painted to use with some of these pieces as the WWII stuff looks a bit incongruous at times. Once again, these models are another drop for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25. Getting stuff photographed has been a bit tricky of late, since the big table has remained covered in printing and the Oil Wash station, so the only things I’ve been able to show are smaller sets like these.