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(Not-Hoth) Sci-Fi Laser Turret by ImperialTerrain 3D Prints

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Echo Base Hoth Rebel Defence Turrets, Sci-Fi Laser Turret by ImperialTerrain 3D Prints

Sorry about the delay in posting. I’ve been flat out for various reasons and the table I need to use to photograph larger models has been covered in random shit, so it wasn’t until this afternoon that Marouda kindly did some metaphorical shit-shovelling which allowed me to take a bunch of photos. So expect to see daily posts as I get the end of February posted and hopefully even some of March’s models if I manage to take more photos tomorrow…

Echo Base Hoth Rebel Defence Turrets, Sci-Fi Laser Turret by ImperialTerrain 3D Prints

I found and printed this trio of Turrets – from Thingiverse by ImperialTerrain – late last year when I was first getting enthused about getting my Legion stuff up and running. I got them prepped and assembled and filler-primered and regular-primered and base sprayed with light grey pretty quickly, but then when it came to finish them – largely with oil washes we ran into a bit of a huge problem – that same table that’s constantly covered with stuff for 3D printing and related stuff is the same one we use for gaming and the same one I use for these photos.

Echo Base Hoth Rebel Defence Turrets, Sci-Fi Laser Turret by ImperialTerrain 3D Prints

Aside from the main cannons being blackened with panzer grey and picking out some of the greeblies to add some interest, most of the heavy lifting was done by a couple of successive oil wash sessions. The first adding black/grey, and then the second the following weekend adding the brown & red rust/dirt streaking and discolouration.

They are pretty big, but I’m not sure if they’re terribly oversized. If you look at the size of the turret and hatch it seems pretty reasonable for a wargame, and it’ll also work just fine for Shatterpoint. Obviously with something like this there’s space for sizing variation, particularly as they’re also fictional.

Echo Base Hoth Rebel Defence Turrets, Sci-Fi Laser Turret by ImperialTerrain 3D Prints

They’d also work pretty well in quite a lot of other games. Sure, they still look a lot like Star Wars pieces because obviously, but unless you’re a recent-40k purist who thinks everything needs to be covered in arches and skulls, just like they weren’t for the first decade or two of 40k – and something like Marvel is an even bigger hodge-podge of stolen references than Warhammer!

Despite my long delay in getting these posted up, they’re still a part of Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26!

Star Wars Shatterpoint Terrain: Rocky Outcrops & Crates

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Star Wars Shatterpoint Terrain: Rocky Outcrops & Crates

A bit of terrain today – some more scatter-ish bits from the Star Wars Shatterpoint Core Set and Take Cover Terrain Pack add-on that I decided to get done quickly during early January. They’re not super exciting by any means, but they are now assembled and painted!

Star Wars Shatterpoint Terrain: Rocky Outcrops

There’s these rocky spire-things. I guess they work as movement/LOS blockers in Shatterpoint. My understanding is that Shatterpoint uses a lot of verticality and these don’t really have a lot to do with that, but then I’d rather have an interesting and attractive looking table than a tedious 40k 10th-edition collection of L-shaped ruins.

Star Wars Shatterpoint Terrain: Rocky Outcrops

I sprayed them with the same texture paint that I used on the 20th Century Fox logo that I printed and painted some time ago, as they were a bit too smooth. They’re actually pretty scale-agnostic overall. I don’t have any Shatterpoint figuresactually painted at this point, but (I think) they’re pretty similar to the Crisis Protocol stuff.

Star Wars Shatterpoint Terrain: Rocky Outcrops

They also work pretty well alongside the mechs…

Star Wars Shatterpoint Terrain: Rocky Outcrops

…snd also alongside both 1/100 (15mm) and Legions Imperialis tanks.

Star Wars Shatterpoint Terrain: Crates

The other half of this post are these crates. When stacked, they’re pretty tall, regardless of whether they’re next to the smaller Imperial Assault minis or oversized Crisis Protocollers. Now I painted a set of these things quite awhile ago, and so I wanted to do something else with these ones. After all, I’ve certainly painted enough generic looking individual paints to last me more than a lifetime. In fact, if I ever find where I put that first set, I’ll probably glue a few of them together as well to turn them into small barricades instead of bits of full-ignorable decoration.

Anyway, they’re a good example of “it is what it is” in hobby form, and they’re now assembled, painted and about to be shoved into some sort of storage container until I need them again. The spires are all January models, while these were completed yesterday, though all of this stuff was built in January. As such, they all count towards both Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26, and also Anne’s 2026 Miniature Assembly Challenge.