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

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!

nonPareil Institute 3D Prints: Battletech Hab-Block

nonPareil Institute 3D Prints: Battletech Hab-Block

Another 3d print today – and something from a slightly different genre. We have several of a print known as “Hab-Block” from a free set of STLs – the BattleTech Building Collection 01 by someone/a group called nonPareil Institute.

nonPareil Institute 3D Prints: Battletech Hab-Block nonPareil Institute 3D Prints: Battletech Hab-Block

I’ve printed (and then painted) two each of the ones with hex bases and also no bases. I don’t feel like these are particularly “Hab-Block” like in their aesthetic, but I’m sure they’ll be totally fine on a tabletop.

nonPareil Institute 3D Prints: Battletech Hab-Block

Speaking of “on a tabletop” – as it happens, they look pretty reasonable as “large scatter” –  essentially LOS-blockers for infantry-sized models as well as very throwable pieces of tech if you’re a Marvel Crisis Protocol figure. They kind of look like semi-futuristic servers or something like that in this scale.

 

nonPareil Institute 3D Prints: Battletech Hab-Block

They also look entirely appropriate with more “Epic” scaled models. Which is a good thing! Even if they do seem a little small. Or odd in some ways (no doors!)