Monthly Archives: September 2025

Fabricator’s Lair Epic Sector Sanctuary 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Botanicae

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Fabricator's Lair Epic Sector Sanctuary 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Botanicae

Aaaaand, we’re back. And let’s GOOOOOO! into September’s models. We have another piece by Fabricator’s Lair from the Epic Sector Sanctuary set. This one is called “Botanicae”, which translates to “Botanical” which I assume means it’s either an enclosed Botanical Garden-type building for the planet’s elites to enjoy some greenery, or perhaps a food production facility making something higher-quality then corpse-starch.

Fabricator's Lair Epic Sector Sanctuary 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Botanicae

Either way, it’s a Greenhouse of some sort, so I painted it as such. How do you paint a “greenhouse” in Epic 40k’s design language? Well, I guess we paint all those windows in, and in this case, I went for green instead of blue/silvered windows, kept them metallic for the attractive shiny effect, and painted it in much the same manner otherwise than the other Fabricator’s Lair buildings. Oh, I also used AK’s paint markers for all those window frames to keep it a touch neater an an attempt to retain a small amount of my own sanity.

Fabricator's Lair Epic Sector Sanctuary 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Botanicae

Scale shot with the usual suspects!

When Dave Stone put up his his most recent post about his Season of Scenery ’25., lamenting that he might not have much time to do any terrain himself, I suggested thta he follow the Mel Brooks Rule of “It’s good to be The King” and just arbitrarily extend the challenge to cover September as well. And then I arbitrarily extended my personal Scenery challenge, and I know at least a couple of  others have also done the same. So the next run of terrain posts that go up for September will also have the little Dave Stone linky at the end.

July-August Monthly Round-Up (Season of Scenery)

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Well, this one has certainly been a long time coming! My model Round-Up from July and August finally showing up at almost the end of September! Usually this would be two separate ones, but I’ve been busy – and posting to the blog isn’t always the top priority, so it’s constantly ebbs and flows – or perhaps more accurately: lull and catch-up!

So yeah, in the end I got quite a decent amount of stuff completed in those two months, despite the various distractions that life throws up and at you. Nothing on what turned out to be September’s distractions, though!

Over both of those months, and even still now, I’ve got a bunch of pieces that are waiting on a day that fits a bunch of specific criteria so I can get outside and just spray away for a few hours. This day needs the following 1. Not at work, 2. Not Raining, 3. Not overly-windy, 4. Not too sunny or hot. I’ve not had any luck. I can get two of those at the same time, but all four? Buckley’s even now that we’re almost a month into Spring here.

I figure I’ll now just throw a bunch of photos up so you (and I) can see what I got painted in this couple of months. As is plain to see, the primary focus was very much on terrain for the Season of Scenery, which Dave Stone runs each year. Dave has had some health issues recently and has now been MIA since his last update post at the end of July, which is quite concerning – so we’re all hoping/wishing/praying for the best for Dave and his family.

Frank the Tankfanboy was asking about a cityscape photo the other day. These are all a bit crowded, but they’re the best I can do for the moment. If we get that nice day for spraying I was mentioning earlier I might be able to do something a bit better shortly with a gaming layout or something crazy like that!

In all, I completed 1x Custom Zombicide survivor, 13x Zombicide Zombies of various kinds, 23x pieces of Cities of Death Terrain, 1x printed Guillotine for Zombicide, 8x Fabricator’s Lair Horton Spheres, 2x Wargame Forge Bunkers, 2x Simple MillerBro Buildings, 2x Corvus Shopfronts (shout-out Dave & Kuribo!), 2x Damaged FL buildings, 2x FL Nuclear Cooling Towers, 3x WF Octagonal buildings, 2x WF “Jetsons” buildings, 4x Shiac3D Battletech Buildings, 4x Hextech Fluid Storage Tanks, 9x FL ruins, 4x WF Generators, 6x FL Fountains, 5x FL Spires, 9x Tanks for FoW (Battlefront & printed), 3x printed Glaive tanks for Legions Imperialis and 4x Catalyst Battletech Battlemechs.

I hope I didn’t miss anything there! That list comes to 109 models completed in July & August. If we add that to the 229 painted up to the end of June, it gives me a running total of 338 completed so far for 2025, not counting the stuff I’ve finished so far in September that I’ll start posting in a couple of days. A few of these last couple of photos are pure “Season of Scenery” ones with the non-valid Zombicide models removed.

A lot of the stuff I finished over July and August were things I’d been chipping away at for awhile. I’ve usually got way too many things going on at once which both makes things seem to take forever to finish, but also results in little floods as a set of this or that can be finished off in quick succession when I have a bit of time to work on them.

With a bit of luck, September’s models will start being posted before the end of September. Crazy, I know!