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. 
Can you swap those two tower pieces? They look the same base width. I love the fountains, even that “rough paintjob” looks good for the water.
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Yeah none of these components are actually glued. Just held together by friction and paint. Neither of the towers are glued in, though and either could sit on top of any of the three bases.
The roughness of the water paint in the fountains is what makes them work I think!
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I really like these, nice job painting them! I’ll take a look at the pack, I do have some legions imperialis to build at some stage and not table to play it on!
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Cheers mate. Although I like a lot of the individual buildings from others such ad Wargame Forge, my top recommendation would be the two Fabricators Lair full sets. I’ll have some of their Mechanicum models to share soon as well!
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Cool to hear, I checked them out and they’re pretty much perfect aren’t they.
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Yeah I have them and the standalone buildings are great – and that’s before even the “Lego” element comes into play. 👍
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Oooh, I like these! 🙂 Really nice! I’ve always got scenery to do, so I might try and get some more done in September to give Dave something to chortle at! 🙂
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Thanks John – I’ve finished very little so far this month but I’m still way behind in posting stuff from the last two months regardless!
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Those roofs in particular look great, they’re really going to catch the eye nicely on the table. Good thinking re keeping the Season of Scenery rolling on into September, as it happens I’ve still got a fair old heap of terrain to be working on and had decided to stick with it for another month anyway (keep the momentum up and all that). Hadn’t thought to give Dave a shout out for it but I’ll certainly join you, and hopefully others will too – after all it was him and this challenge that inspired me to attack this part of the backlog at the moment.
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Thanks mate, I’m hoping they mix in to the more drab buildings as some little “bright spots” without being too distracting visually. I’ve not had nearly as much time as I’d hoped to paint this month, but I’m hoping to actually get some things finished for September myself – I feel like it might be a bit of a run of finishing things off all at once in the second half of the month. We haven’t heard from Dave in quite awhile now, so I’m hoping that he’s doing ok.
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I’m impressed, these look really nice. You are my absolute reference for this scale scenery!
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Thanks mate – I’m having a bit of fun with them working out the right ratio of paint detail to give them – pieces like this get a bit extra! 🙂
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Excellent work mate, these look fab! That teal really pops 👍
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Thanks Alex – it did come out a little brighter than I’d originally planned (and even moreso in the photos!) but i’m still happy with it. 🙂
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I like these buildings a lot and I think they could work in a fantasy or Sci-Fi setting. The color scheme is very nice and appealing too. I like your idea of continuing to do terrain in September. I certainly have more to do so there’s a good chance that I can get some more done this month.
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That’s true – if I were playing Warmaster or one of the other epic-scaled fantasy games I could use these. Not that I need even more systems to not paint and not play(!) I hope you can get some more done this month as well – always great to see what you come up with!
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