Category Archives: Historical Gaming

Legions Imperialis Alpha Legion Glaive (Fellglaive) Squadron 3D Print

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Legions Imperialis Alpha Legion Glaive (Fellglaive) Squadron 3D Print

Something slightly different today – yes, it’s more 3D printed tanks, but this time they’re for 40k & Horus Heresy’s tiny cousin, Legions Imperialis. Alpha Legion was chosen by Marouda, as she’s a fan of all the turquoises and teals, and that works for me as I also enjoy painting in these colours.

Legions Imperialis Alpha Legion Glaive (Fellglaive) Squadron 3D Print

I’ve had these files on a hard drive for a few years now, so I’m not sure if they’re still out there, and since James can be a bit litigious and agressive with the old takedowns, I’m not going to point out where I got them from. If you know how to look for these things, then you know.

Legions Imperialis Alpha Legion Glaive (Fellglaive) Squadron 3D Print

Anyway, earlier this year, right around the time that Battletech was tempting me again, I picked up a bunch of LI and AT for a “you’d have to be insane to refuse this deal” price, dropping me into a new scale – especially since I can easily proxy the 40k-ish tanks and infantry into the Mech game and Flippy can pick up a lot of the slack in various ways. For example, these tanks don’t currently “exist” or have rules in Legions Imperialis, but I figure in friendly games here we can just call them Baneblades or Shadowswords or something and have fun.

Legions Imperialis Alpha Legion Glaive (Fellglaive) Squadron 3D Print

By this time you’ve already seen a fair few buildings and now you know why the drop into 6/8mm scale happened. Here’s a couple of the still-unpainted LI models I’ve been using for scale with those buildings – yeah the Glaive is a superheavy in the 30k/40k setting, so it be a big ol’ tank.

Legions Imperialis Alpha Legion Glaive (Fellglaive) Squadron 3D Print

Three more tanks for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25. We haven’t heard from Dave in a couple of weeks now, so here’s hoping that treatment is going well, his general health is improving and he’s starting to feel a touch better.

SISU! BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War Mid-to-Late War Finnish Forces in 15mm/1:100 (TigerAce1945 Printed Turrets with Bergman(?) Hull)

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BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War, TigerAce1945 STL file 3D print

I bet some of you thought this one was an error when you saw the title – didn’t we just have this post? Well, kinda but also, no. As I explained in the previous BT-42 post recently, I had some issues with some Battlefront models and ended up looking for some replacement turrets and found a BT-42 STL turret model by a sculptor called TigerAce1945. As well as printing out the extra turrets, I thought I may as well also print out a trio of the full models, as TigerAce’s file also had a hull packed in – which may or may not be Bergman’s BT-7 hull. So here they are!

BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War, TigerAce1945 STL file 3D print

As I also mentioned before, I decided to paint these fully printed BT-42 with their slightly less detailed hulls in a camo scheme to help hide the lower level of detail on these when compared to the Battlefront hulls(!) The Battlefront models also had “normal” tracks, with visible grousers (the sticky-out bits of the tracks) while the printed hull has detail-less strips.

BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War, TigerAce1945 STL file 3D print

Thanks to John from justneedsvarnish once again for the Ps.numbers (Ps.511.). This time I did them on the lower front and rear glacis, as space on the front armour next to the driver’s viewslit is a bit smaller on these printed hulls than on the BF ones, as you can see above.

BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War, TigerAce1945 STL file 3D print

Speaking of the BF models, you get to see a couple of comparison photos showing the differences between the BF hulls with their sharper detail and also the 3-colour Finnish camo vs the Field Grey. In a lot of ways I think I actually prefer the field grey! You can also see here the Dark Earth texcture paste I applied to the tracks to hide their lack of detail.

BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War, TigerAce1945 STL file 3D print

Here’s a comparison with the camo I painted on the Landsverk L-62s. The main difference is the yellowish ochre I painted the third colour in – described as varying from different tones of grey into sandy colours. This time I used Vallejo “Stone Grey”/AK 3rd Gen “Rock Grey” and I do personally prefer this tone to the one on the Landsverks.

Finnish tanks for Flames of War, TigerAce1945 STL file 3D print

Finally, a shot my small but growing Finnish Motor Pool. No two sets of vehicles in the same colour scheme! From Soviet 4BO to field grey to 2 versions of “the same” camo. I guess these are the choices I have for the next armoured units to come for this force – T-28s, T-34s (both 76 & 85) and Sturmis. We may even see more than one of these schemes making a comeback across that spread!

This second batch of BT-42s guns are also more fodder for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25.