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Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Free Gothic Building Test

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Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Free Gothic Building Test

Another pair of 3d prints for today’s post – we have a couple more free STLs, this time from Wargame Forge over on MyMiniFactory. This time we have the Gothic Building Test, which comes in quite a few variations. I initially printed and painted the damaged version without rubble skirt or either of the hex tile versions. It came up pretty well overall.

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Free Gothic Building Test

A few weeks later, I printed the undamaged version using the new Fat Dragon Games terrain settings for my printer and tried to match the paint to the first version. The print was a ton faster, but the layer lines came out much more obvious than the setting I’d used for the ruin. Since I’m not printing terrain for a store or to run a tournament, I’ll just take the extra time they take for a slightly better eventual outcome. Flippy never sleeps anyway!

I do like Wargame Forge’s building style and models as they’re simple and straightforward – they have a 40k look but not too extreme, so they would still work decently for other games such as Battletech, etc, but they’re a little pricey, especially given how quickly they add up for minor variations such as essentially the same model with an additional floor making for an addiitonal STL requiring an additional purchase. The bespoke buildings are a much better deal IMO as there’s a bit more to them. I may pick up a few of each when there’s a half-price Black Friday sale or something similar, but in the meantime I’ve got plenty more to print!

Thunderhead Studio Hextech 3D Prints: Trinity City Hab-Blocks and Slums

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Thunderhead Studio Hextech 3D Prints: Trinity City Hab-Blocks and Slums

Some more 3d printed terrain today. We have three different sculpts from the Hextech Free Sample Pack (Battletech Compatable) (also available in a number of other locations).

Thunderhead Studio Hextech 3D Prints: Trinity City Hab-Blocks

The larger and more impressive sculpts are the Condo and Condo V2, the latter of which is available as prepainted terrain from Gale Force Nine in their Battlefield in a Box range – I’ve bought a fair bit of their 15mm stuff in the past. If we hadn’t adopted Flippy the 3d printer last year, it might be an option I’d continue to go with if I needed terrain in a new scale.

Thunderhead Studio Hextech 3D Prints: Trinity City Hab-Blocks

That free sample set is really quite good, and comes with a lot of sculpts, and most if not all of them come with the option for hex bases or no hex bases. They do also have quite a lot of variety of buildings, and prepainted is always nice for that whole “open, drop on table, done – touch up later if/when you feel like” aspect.

Thunderhead Studio Hextech 3D Prints: Trinity City Slums

We also have the far smaller and less impressive “Slum” buildings. Still, they’re decently detailed and paint up pretty well, as did the two Condo models. I did actually paint some regular models at the start of the month – I’ve been putting off posting them in case I’m able to paint again properly (because posting 10 zombies instead of two posts of 5 for example is just more efficient) and while that’s looking less likely to happen before March ends, hopefully I can get painting properly before too far into April.

Thunderhead Studio Hextech 3D Prints: Trinity City Hab-Blocks and Slums

Oh! And here’s a view showing them from a higher angle to show off the roof details of these models.

Thunderhead Studio Hextech 3D Prints: Trinity City Hab-Blocks

And finally, a scale shot. Damn, I forgot to add in one of the “Slum” buildings to the shot. Well, you’re smart, you’ll be able to extrapolate from the other photos!