Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Tech Cult Storage Tank – Intact/Ruined/Destroyed versions

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Tech Cult Storage Tank

More terrain today that had been waiting for the Oil Wash sessions at the end of last month for their completion. These are paid-for STLs from Wargame Forge over on MyMiniFactory.

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Ruined Tech Cult Storage Tank

Pretty straightforward painting method overall: Filler Primer, Primed Black, Sprayed with either Citadel’s Leadbelcher or Vallejo’s Gunmetal (I fogot which, preobably Vallejo). I then overpainted the red panels which I later stippled a subtle highlight onto. These will fit in very nicely with the other “Admech/Mechanicum” themed terrain I completed last year.

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Ruined Tech Cult Storage Tank

Then it was applying the Decals – which I took from some Admech and Mechanicum kits and a gloss varnish. (Much) later on it was time for oil wash part 1 (black/brown) and then aweek later part 2 (shades of orange/rust). Then a few days later, spray varnish to seal it all in and done.

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Destroyed Tech Cult Storage Tank

Something I do like about these is that they’re pretty scale-agnostic. Now obviously being STL files, they can be embiggened as much as you like (or can fit on a build plate) – but even printed at Battletech Gothic scale, they still work ok with a variety of other models, scales and genres, as you can see in these photos.

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Tech Cult Storage Tank

I only printed one of the intact version. Perhaps I should have done two so I could have a larger refinery area on the board? I was thinking it’s too late as these are all finished, but I guess it wouldn’t be hard to print another one of these and the painting process wasn’t horrible – the biggest issue being getting the desk cleared for Oil Washing (and later, photography!)

These models are also pretty scale-agnostic as well. I’ll get some scale shots with models next to them up in a forthcoming post. And yet again, these were completed during the timeframe of Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26 – so have another shoutout, Dave!

October-December 2025 Quarterly Round-Up

Well, it’s the end of January 2026, so I guess I may as well post the finale for 2025’s painting.

Basically, as often happens towards the end of the year – a combination of work ramping up, a bit of burnout, a bunch of “life happens” and an extended video game event being more appealing and less effort than hobbytime combine to drastically reduce what I get done in the final months of the year. Usually with a paint resurgence of sorts once work breaks up for Christmas and we get that recovery time.

So what did I get done? Seven Tiny Teal Tanks, Six Large Tiny Tanks, Fifteen bits of scatter terrain/barricades and Forty mixed Zombies. 68 various bits and pieces over three months. Not my best run, but it’s ok.

I was at 396 models at the end of September, so the extra 68 models from October-December gives me a 2026 total of 464 models.

Not too shabby. Not my best but not my worst, either. Also not anything near the number of models I’ve purchased and/or printed in the last year. That’s something to work on a bit more in 2026. I’m not going to lay out specific hobby goals for this year of 2026. They’d just be the same as the ones I’ve kept rolling over. Finish units, try to finish armies, finish complete boardgames worth of models, work on this and that sets of models, try to play more games. You know the drill from your own hobby experience.