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Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Buildings – Ruined Gothic Cathedral – GR029

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Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Buildings - Ruined Gothic Cathedral - GR029

The last time I had one of these Wargame Forge cathedrals on the blog, it was the undamaged one, and I stacked it with a bunch of other prints from the same source. This time, my photos are of the building solo (except for alongside that undamaged one), so it’s all about the Ruined Gothic Cathedral today.

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Buildings - Ruined Gothic Cathedral - GR029

As you can see, it’s not been a good day for the Cathedral today. For me, this did kinda drag out a bit – trying to match the colours I’d used the previous time caused some delay, as it was often just a lot easier to put it to the side and work on something else instead. It wasn’t until the second half of September when I had some time and just forced myself to start getting some models finished that I was able to really get to work, doing my best to match the colours and eventually even the “stained glass” windows – only with some black for the “shatter” effects. If this was more of a centrepiece model, and not an optional piece of terrain, I might have tried to add in fake edge highlights on the broken window edges, but as the meme says: “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Buildings - Ruined Gothic Cathedral - GR029

Here it is alongside the undamaged version. This will allow me to use either as I can’t see both being on the same table at the same time – they’re not generic buildings! – or to use the Undamaged one and offer it some “progression” if need be.

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Buildings - Ruined Gothic Cathedral - GR029

And here they are alongside some little army mans and toy robots. And so this cathedral counts towards my tally of models for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25 – Extended Edition.

Fabricator’s Lair Epic Sector Sanctuary 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Botanicae

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Fabricator's Lair Epic Sector Sanctuary 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Botanicae

Aaaaand, we’re back. And let’s GOOOOOO! into September’s models. We have another piece by Fabricator’s Lair from the Epic Sector Sanctuary set. This one is called “Botanicae”, which translates to “Botanical” which I assume means it’s either an enclosed Botanical Garden-type building for the planet’s elites to enjoy some greenery, or perhaps a food production facility making something higher-quality then corpse-starch.

Fabricator's Lair Epic Sector Sanctuary 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Botanicae

Either way, it’s a Greenhouse of some sort, so I painted it as such. How do you paint a “greenhouse” in Epic 40k’s design language? Well, I guess we paint all those windows in, and in this case, I went for green instead of blue/silvered windows, kept them metallic for the attractive shiny effect, and painted it in much the same manner otherwise than the other Fabricator’s Lair buildings. Oh, I also used AK’s paint markers for all those window frames to keep it a touch neater an an attempt to retain a small amount of my own sanity.

Fabricator's Lair Epic Sector Sanctuary 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Botanicae

Scale shot with the usual suspects!

When Dave Stone put up his his most recent post about his Season of Scenery ’25., lamenting that he might not have much time to do any terrain himself, I suggested thta he follow the Mel Brooks Rule of “It’s good to be The King” and just arbitrarily extend the challenge to cover September as well. And then I arbitrarily extended my personal Scenery challenge, and I know at least a couple of  others have also done the same. So the next run of terrain posts that go up for September will also have the little Dave Stone linky at the end.