Category Archives: 15mm 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.

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!