Category Archives: 15mm/1:100 Wargaming Scenery

3D Print: BattleTerrain: Rough Terrain tiles for Battletech Alpha Strike by Tinnut

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3D Print: BattleTerrain: Rough Terrain tiles for Battletech Alpha Strike by Tinnut

Today we have something that’s about as plain and unglamourous as can be in terms of terrain – some “tiles” to designate rough terrain in battletech Alpha strike from Tinnut – available as freebies on both MyMiniFactory and Cults3D. So I certainly can’t complain as they’re completely fit for purpose! These did sit for months until I used the Season of Scenery as motivation to get them painted and done.

3D Print: BattleTerrain: Rough Terrain tiles for Battletech Alpha Strike by Tinnut

While they’re unglamorous for sure, wargamers do know and understand that this sort of marker is still very useful in a lot of scenarios, across a lot of games. These shapes, especially once given some texture paste and drybrushing (in this case, performed in large part by Marouda under my direction and following my example) are a lot more aesthetically pleasing than bits of felt, so with access to Flippy the 3D printer, I thought “why not?” This light box photo shows the actual colours better than the desert table shot.

3D Print: BattleTerrain: Rough Terrain tiles for Battletech Alpha Strike by Tinnut

Because “Battletech”, I didn’t think to take some shots of these with 28mm figures, but here are some Mechs and some Afrika Korps WWII tanks demonstrating their use in a couple of different scales, with the BIAB rocks acting as background. On reflection, these would work in a huge number of games and genres and scales. These nine extremely simple bits of terrain count as nine more pieces towards Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25 – Extended Edition.

Battlefield in a Box – Rock Outcrops: Sandstone -Weathered and Repainted (BB641)

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Battlefield in a Box - Rock Outcrops: Sandstone -Weathered and Repainted (BB641)

So here’s the predictable part 2 from my previous post, reviewing the BIAB Rock(y) Outcrops. As noted, they’re fine out of the box, but I wasn’t happy enough to leave them as they were and ended up just touching them up which turned into a complete repaint which people would probably barely notice even when I point it out (as I am here).

Battlefield in a Box - Rock Outcrops: Sandstone -Weathered and Repainted (BB641)

Basically, as they were out of the box the whole things were one colour drybrushed a second colour – as depicted on the box art. I repainted the bases closer to how my 15mm desert models are based, and repainted the rocks with a mix of greys and ochre tones, drybrushing with more light grey and eventually white. I used weathering powder to bring the bases and the rocks closer together, since, I guess big rocks in the desert might get some sand on them?

Battlefield in a Box - Rock Outcrops: Sandstone -Weathered and Repainted (BB641)

I considered adding some small tufts to them to make them look a little more interesting, even some “dry grass” ones, but decided against it based on the fact that I want to be able to use them not only across scales, but also across genres. Like a completely barren wasteland in 1:300 scale as well as North Africa in 15mm, and wherever 40k/WH Fantasy/AoS force might clash or where Marvel Characters could have a mild disagreement.

Battlefield in a Box - Rock Outcrops: Sandstone -Weathered and Repainted (BB641)

Ultimately, they do look better (to me at least) with the repaint, it only took an afternoon to get all six done, they’ll work nicely across genres and scales, and we have 6 more pieces towards Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25 – Extended Edition. – And a huge welcome back as well, Dave! We all missed you!