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Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Free Gothic Building Test

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Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Free Gothic Building Test

Another pair of 3d prints for today’s post – we have a couple more free STLs, this time from Wargame Forge over on MyMiniFactory. This time we have the Gothic Building Test, which comes in quite a few variations. I initially printed and painted the damaged version without rubble skirt or either of the hex tile versions. It came up pretty well overall.

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Free Gothic Building Test

A few weeks later, I printed the undamaged version using the new Fat Dragon Games terrain settings for my printer and tried to match the paint to the first version. The print was a ton faster, but the layer lines came out much more obvious than the setting I’d used for the ruin. Since I’m not printing terrain for a store or to run a tournament, I’ll just take the extra time they take for a slightly better eventual outcome. Flippy never sleeps anyway!

I do like Wargame Forge’s building style and models as they’re simple and straightforward – they have a 40k look but not too extreme, so they would still work decently for other games such as Battletech, etc, but they’re a little pricey, especially given how quickly they add up for minor variations such as essentially the same model with an additional floor making for an addiitonal STL requiring an additional purchase. The bespoke buildings are a much better deal IMO as there’s a bit more to them. I may pick up a few of each when there’s a half-price Black Friday sale or something similar, but in the meantime I’ve got plenty more to print!

Axolote Gaming 3D Prints: Tyranid Terrain (Capillary Towers)

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Axolote Gaming 3D Prints: Tyranid Terrain (Capillary Towers)

Some more 3d printed terrain today. We have another trio of Tyranid Capillary Towers, though much smaller than the Forge World ones I completed recently. These ones are, as the post title states, 3d Prints from Axotle Gaming – free STLs from Thingiverse. Our Space Marine for scale shows how these ones are significantly smaller.

Axolote Gaming 3D Prints: Tyranid Terrain (Capillary Towers)

These were one of the earliest prints that I erm, printed, and as such suffered pretty badly from print lines as you can see in the pictures here, which resulted in me just leaving them to sit for months. After finishing the above-noted Capilary Towers, I decided it was time to either paint these or just give them away, so I decided to paint them and then give them away if I wasn’t happy with the result. Several thick coats of filler primer helped the print lines quite a lot, and while they still look pretty awful when viewed “flat” as in the picture above, they kind of look almost naturalistic when viewed from above – similar to the “growth lines” you see on some animals’ horns.

Axolote Gaming 3D Prints: Tyranid Terrain (Capillary Towers)

The print lines were disguised a little better on the “meaty” section of the prints, as you can see here. I added some putty on the pointy tips to smooth them out a little more. It would probably have worked a little better if I’d done it before starting to paint them, but you live and learn.

Axolote Gaming 3D Prints: Tyranid Terrain (Capillary Towers)

Amusingly enough, these smaller towers are the right size to be properly Kaiju-sized when placed next to the Battletech/Epic scale sized terrain I’ve been working on as of late. Kind of amusing.

In the end, I decided to keep them. They’re not amazing, but they’re fine. I am tempted to go back and print another set of them and see how they turn out now that I know how to print a fair bit smoother, though even those will still have softer lines. On the other hand, there’s also lots of other designs out there of similar Tyranid terrain, including a 2.0 of these from the very same sculptor.