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September Monthly Round-Up (Season of Scenery: Extended Edition)

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Another way overdue round-up here. I’ve actually had these photos sitting on my drive for months ready to go, but frankly I just wasn’t feeling up to posting. You know how it gets sometimes when posting on your blog feels more like work than hobby or fun? Yeah, that. I guess I finally got all the individual updates done and then burnout hit and I didn’t force myself to write this post when I “should” have. I mean, mid-October is when work becomes much more intense running through the rest of the year until the week before/of Christmas, and I do tend to disappear in November, so it tracks.

Anyway, it turns out I managed to paint a very decent amount of stuff in September before dropping off. The focus still largely being on Nu-Epic/Battletech scaled terrain, but with a bit of extra variation and finishing off of other things.

One thing I particularly like about a lot of these terrain pieces is their versatility. A lot of this stuff primarily aimed at the tiny-mans scale still works okay right up to heroic 32mm or even the 40mm Crisis Protocol/Shatterpoint scale. A while back, Frank the Tankfanboy asked to see a cityscape photo of my tiny buildings – I still haven’t gotten one and still have more work to do to get one I’m going to be happy with (more terrain to finish) but hopefully these shots will suffice in the meantime of a weird looking outpost surrounded by mesas and patches of broken ground!

The focus in September remained very much on terrain for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery (Extended Edition) which culminated in the return of the Prodigal Sun as Dave was absent for some time for personal reasons – returning from his blogging break pretty much just as I dropped out. As it happens, EVERYTHING I completed in September counted towards it!

So what did I manage to complete in September 2025?

In all, I completed:

Fabricator’s Lair’s: Botanicae building, 8x Generators, a “1×2 Medium A” building/segment, a 2×4 Medium Building and a 2x of 2x2x2 silos, Grimdark Industrial Promethium Reprocessing Factory and Grimdark Industrial Forge.

Wargame Forge’s Ruined Gothic Cathedral, nonPareil Institute’s Power Generator, and a family of 9x variously (re)shaped and (re)sized Propane Tanks by Syllogy.

9x Tinnut BattleTerrain Rough Terrain Tiles, 11x Thunderhead Studios Hextech Hills, a 20th Century Fox logo by Isekai Heavy Industries.

2x signs from AMG’s Marvel Crisis Protocol Cosmic Terrain Pack (I need to do a group shot once I figure out where the other elements have gone!), the Beastman Herdstone for AoS/ToW from Citadel and 6x GF9 Battlefield in a Box Sandstone Rock Outcrops.

57 total. Unless I’ve miscounted.

Oh, and there’s also a little subway entrance piece from Fabricator’s Lair that got missed. You can see it between the Botanicae, Industrial Forge and one of the Propane Tanks near the Fox Logo. So 58. Not too shabby for a single month’s work!

Not too bad a haul. Looking at it all together, one realisation does occur. There are no “miniatures” in there at all. No humans or humanoids, or even any vehicles. It’s all scenery and terrain.

Last time we did this, I’d counted a total of 338 models completed, so adding in this September haul the new total comes to 396, so that’s the “365” target well and truly broken in 2025.

I have also done some painting since I last posted, so once I’ve had a chance to take some new photos, I’ll start posting the October-November-December stuff and do a combined round-up for those models. It may or may not start before the New Year because we’re still in the Family Obligation Fortnight for a couple more days and then there’s other important things to get done once the period of seeing people is finished up – you know how that goes this time of year… I was crawling around on the roof fixing things this morning – not fun!

3D Print: Propane Tank Terrain Piece by Syllogy

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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!