3D Print: Propane Tank Terrain Piece by Syllogy

3D Print: Propane Tank Terrain Piece by Syllogy

Today we have my final pieces completed for September and Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25 – Extended Edition. l found this model on Thingiverse some time ago, while looking for models that would be broadly “Zombicide Compatable” and found this rather spiffy LPG (or Propane) Tank which I decided to print in a variety of scales. I shrunk a few down to essentially 15mm scale for use in Team Yankee (but they’ll also work decently for Legions Imperialis/Adeptus Titanicus/Battletech), one now quite as small for Gaslands (though the smaller ones would still work), one extended/stretched slightly for the long-and-low ones you see here and there, especially at Servos (Gas Stations) and one great big bloody huge one for the 40mm “overscaled” Marvel Crisis Protocol.

3D Print: Propane Tank Terrain Piece by Syllogy

3D Print: Propane Tank Terrain Piece by Syllogy

Ultimately, these things come in all sizes in real life, so while there’s a reasonable limit on which ones can be used for the smallest scale games like nu-Epic40k and Battletech and then 15mm Team Yankee, even the smallest of these work for 25-40mm scale games just as well – simply as smaller tanks like the ones you might see at a servo (or gas station). -Sorry, forgot to take a pic of the smallest ones with a normal-scaled miniature!

3D Print: Propane Tank Terrain Piece by Syllogy

This next one with the yellow signage isn’t a lot bigger than the six smaller ones – I actually sized it for Gaslands as I noted above, though I still haven’t gotten my Gaslands cars any further than having 3D printed some guns for the little box of Matchbox/Hot Wheels cars we picked up over time. Anyway, as you can see, it still fits in pretty fine with most scales.

3D Print: Propane Tank Terrain Piece by Syllogy

3D Print: Propane Tank Terrain Piece by Syllogy

Now we have a larger one again. This one is upsized a little more and also stretched to make it a bit of a proportionally longer tank. This is the sort of thing you can easily play around and experiment with when you have access to a printer. As you can see, it turned out fine. It’s also pretty much getting to the limit that works for these smaller scale models for this design. It also works perfectly with 28-32-40mm models.

3D Print: Propane Tank Terrain Piece by Syllogy

And to round them all out, this big bastard which is about as large as you really want to use even for standard sized models while being the sort of thing you could reasonably/comfortably have on a table. These were all painted by spraying with filler primer, and then an irresponsibly thick coat of Appliance White Gloss spray paint, which I (months later) added the weathering and custom-printed decals – getting around to making those and just deciding to ignore the recessed detail in the middle was the biggest time hurdle!

In a couple of days I’ll have my September Round-Up posted, featuring all of this stuff I managed to finish in that month. Interestingly, every single piece I finished in September was terrain and fit into Dave’s challenge. Hopefully I’ll get through October’s model posts much more quickly!

A̶g̶e̶ o̶f̶ S̶i̶g̶m̶a̶r̶ Warhammer The Old World: Beasts of Chaos Herdstone

Warhammer The Old World: Beasts of Chaos Herdstone, Chaos Beastmen, Age of Sigmar

What’s that? Something that wasn’t spawned from the unholy plastic-spitting machine known as Flippy?

An actual kit?

From Games Workshop?

Why yes. Yes it is.

Warhammer The Old World: Beasts of Chaos Herdstone, Chaos Beastmen, Age of Sigmar

Regular readers of the blog will know that I do really enjoy Games Workshop’s Beastmen, and while I’m anything but consistent, I do like to keep chipping away at my huge horde of unpainted goatboyz in little chunks. So when this model was released back in …uhh (checks) …2018, I immediately picked it up and even started working on it, adding a clear base from a CD-Rom spindle (anyone remember those?) and getting right to work!

Warhammer The Old World: Beasts of Chaos Herdstone, Chaos Beastmen, Age of Sigmar

Unfortunately, all those little runes inscribed on the stone, combined with all the bones hanging from it, and all the little bits of bullshit scattered on the base and the clear need to use OSL on the “fireplace” conspired to rob me of my enthusiasm resulting in me gassing out and having the piece sit on my painting desk for …well, I guess it’s been seven or so years, hasn’t it?

Warhammer The Old World: Beasts of Chaos Herdstone, Chaos Beastmen, Age of SigmarWarhammer The Old World: Beasts of Chaos Herdstone, Chaos Beastmen, Age of Sigmar

Every so often, I’d do a little bit here and there. I tried to finish it in at least one of the past two Seasons of Scenery, but never got it done. Until this year. I basically just knuckled down and got to work on it. White ink in the runes and then followed with thinned Contrast paint. A good dose of “good enough” on the remaining crap scattered around the base because who the fuck is really going to scrutinise that stuff outside of a painting comp?

Warhammer The Old World: Beasts of Chaos Herdstone, Chaos Beastmen, Age of Sigmar

And finally, a bit of the old “drybrushing actually works ok for a lot of OSL in a lot of cases” for the fireplace. With a bit of a thank you to the YouTube videos of Artis Opus for giving me the confidence to just fucking go for it.

And now I have a nice little piece of completed terrain for my Age of Sigmar Beasts of War army! What’s that you want to tell me? Oh, we’ll talk about it later, after I finish this blog post!

This is my penultimate post for for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25 – Extended Edition. I’ll see you in about 48 or so hours for the final post (aside from the round-up!)