Wargame Scenery | Azazel's Bitz Box.

Another pair of 3d printed terrain pieces today – another print from nonPareil Institute who we last visited with their Hab-Blocks a little while ago. This time we’re looking at their Cooling Tower piece, another free file I picked up early in my 6mm/8mm/1:285 scale journey. These are small, fast prints that were painted in a quick and dirty manner. They’re rough and a bit messy, but their job is to be background objects on the tabletop and these finished pieces will do just that.

They have a bit of a “Nuclear Cooling Tower” vibe to them, but they seem pretty tiny for that, even at this scale. I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be a door at the front of the smallest, central structure, as it’s not only too small top be a door for the current Legions Imperialis models, but also way too small for the previous Epic scale infantry (I have a few old AT and SM models somewhere – I’ll dig them out sometime). Oh. and that structure is also a hollow cooling tower as well.

Here’s a scale shot of them. They’ll still work fine as pretty generic smokestacks or cooling towers, though they don’t really convey the intimidating size that Nuclear cooling towers would have in my opinion. They’re still pretty cool little pieces of terrain for this scale. I didn’t think of taking any pics with 28mm models, but I’m sure they’ll also work just fine as small-scale scatter in that scale.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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Category Archives: Wargame Scenery

nonPareil Institute 3D Prints: Battletech Buildings and Bases – Cooling Tower

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