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MillerBro’s 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: “100Barracks1”

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MillerBro's 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: "100Barracks1" MillerBro's 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: "100Barracks1"

Another set of 3d prints from the sculptor known as “MillerBro” from his collection of 1/100 scale (15mm) low detail Buildings.

MillerBro's 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: "100Barracks1" MillerBro's 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: "100Barracks1"

This one is a pretty nicely detailed building. I considered paiting them in a different scheme and then using a second colour for the window box-frames and the balconies and possibly even the building trim, but then I came to my senses. Just painting in all these windows was quite a trial and caused these buildings to take far longer to paint than I initially expected.

MillerBro's 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: "100Barracks1"

With Flippy in service, I’ll often print more than one of any buildings that seem to fit the “more than one” kind of look to them. Despite being called “barracks”, I thought this sculpt looked like any pretty generic apartment building – or as we’d call them here – “a block of flats”. So totally suitable for a pair of them to sit side by side on the tabletop – and you could very easily justify even more of them.

MillerBro's 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: "100Barracks1"

MillerBro's 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: "100Barracks1"

One of the reasons for April’s posts being so delayed was that I wanted to photograph them alongside some of my 15mm models for scale, and it took until this last weekend to clear the big table of all the 3d printing junk and sprayed models and then dig out the old Battlefront stuff.

MillerBro's 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: "100Barracks1"

I also printed them smaller, by shrinking them down and then doing a couple. I then mirrored them and printed some more, thinking of that style of “mirrored” apartment blocks you sometimes see. Through a series of mishaps, I then kept misplacing a coupleof them at a time and then printed more to “even out” the numbers and then found the missing ones so had to print out even more to “re-even-out” the numbers… and so on. Ending up with 6 of each.

MillerBro's 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: "100Barracks1"

MillerBro's 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: "100Barracks1"

These smaller ones were finished this past weekend, so are “May Models”, but given that they’re the same STL file as the larger ones and I’m so far behind, it makes sense to post them up together.

MillerBro's 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: "100Barracks1" MillerBro's 1/100 scale Low Detail Building 3D Prints: "100Barracks1"

And here’s the scale shots with approriate-sized models, along with a theoretical table layout that they could be a part of.

Grendel(?) 1:300 Resin Sci-Fi “Power Building” (Circa 1990’s)

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Another piece of “Epic” scale scenery today – we have a piece from Grendel that I picked up in the 1990’s which appears to be OOP these days – I can’t find it on the Scotia Grendel site, nor on the Lost Minis Wiki. As always with these sorts of things, anyone who can identify the name/code of this piece (or a link to where it may be sold today) will get a thank you edited into the post.

 

We can see the ladder and hatch on the side of this thing, as well as what looks like capacitors all around the perimeter of the piece, as well as inside the panels and on the roof. I can’t say I particularly enjoyed painting this one, so rough and ready is good enough for me, particularly as it’s just a bit of random terrain.

Here’s how it looks alongside some figures of the appropriate size. It’s okay as far as size goes, and completely “fine” aesthetically.

It’s also one of those pieces that kind of also works in a scale-agnostic manner, though in larger scales it’s more of a skirmish scatter piece good for LOS-blocking individual models.