July-August Monthly Round-Up (Season of Scenery)

Well, this one has certainly been a long time coming! My model Round-Up from July and August finally showing up at almost the end of September! Usually this would be two separate ones, but I’ve been busy – and posting to the blog isn’t always the top priority, so it’s constantly ebbs and flows – or perhaps more accurately: lull and catch-up!

So yeah, in the end I got quite a decent amount of stuff completed in those two months, despite the various distractions that life throws up and at you. Nothing on what turned out to be September’s distractions, though!

Over both of those months, and even still now, I’ve got a bunch of pieces that are waiting on a day that fits a bunch of specific criteria so I can get outside and just spray away for a few hours. This day needs the following 1. Not at work, 2. Not Raining, 3. Not overly-windy, 4. Not too sunny or hot. I’ve not had any luck. I can get two of those at the same time, but all four? Buckley’s even now that we’re almost a month into Spring here.

I figure I’ll now just throw a bunch of photos up so you (and I) can see what I got painted in this couple of months. As is plain to see, the primary focus was very much on terrain for the Season of Scenery, which Dave Stone runs each year. Dave has had some health issues recently and has now been MIA since his last update post at the end of July, which is quite concerning – so we’re all hoping/wishing/praying for the best for Dave and his family.

Frank the Tankfanboy was asking about a cityscape photo the other day. These are all a bit crowded, but they’re the best I can do for the moment. If we get that nice day for spraying I was mentioning earlier I might be able to do something a bit better shortly with a gaming layout or something crazy like that!

In all, I completed 1x Custom Zombicide survivor, 13x Zombicide Zombies of various kinds, 23x pieces of Cities of Death Terrain, 1x printed Guillotine for Zombicide, 8x Fabricator’s Lair Horton Spheres, 2x Wargame Forge Bunkers, 2x Simple MillerBro Buildings, 2x Corvus Shopfronts (shout-out Dave & Kuribo!), 2x Damaged FL buildings, 2x FL Nuclear Cooling Towers, 3x WF Octagonal buildings, 2x WF “Jetsons” buildings, 4x Shiac3D Battletech Buildings, 4x Hextech Fluid Storage Tanks, 9x FL ruins, 4x WF Generators, 6x FL Fountains, 5x FL Spires, 9x Tanks for FoW (Battlefront & printed), 3x printed Glaive tanks for Legions Imperialis and 4x Catalyst Battletech Battlemechs.

I hope I didn’t miss anything there! That list comes to 109 models completed in July & August. If we add that to the 229 painted up to the end of June, it gives me a running total of 338 completed so far for 2025, not counting the stuff I’ve finished so far in September that I’ll start posting in a couple of days. A few of these last couple of photos are pure “Season of Scenery” ones with the non-valid Zombicide models removed.

A lot of the stuff I finished over July and August were things I’d been chipping away at for awhile. I’ve usually got way too many things going on at once which both makes things seem to take forever to finish, but also results in little floods as a set of this or that can be finished off in quick succession when I have a bit of time to work on them.

With a bit of luck, September’s models will start being posted before the end of September. Crazy, I know!

Fabricator’s Lair 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Grimdark Ruined Buildings – Part One

Fabricator's Lair 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Grimdark Ruined Buildings

We’re now up to what (I think) are the final models from July-August, sans the round-up post due in a day or two. We have some more pieces by Fabricator’s Lair from the Epic Sector Sanctuary set. This time a bunch of oh-so-very-current-Warhammer 40k “L-shaped ruins”.

Fabricator's Lair 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Grimdark Ruined Buildings

Fabricator's Lair 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Grimdark Ruined Buildings

Fabricator's Lair 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Grimdark Ruined Buildings

“The Part 1” in the title is just future-proofing myself for eventually printing and painting some of the other variations of these in the future, but no plans for that right now. As you can see, I did the Mirror thing with the printer to create some extra variations on these. I got mixed up at some stage and actually did three of the one above (despite only two in that image).

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These went through a couple of iterations in the painting. Originally I just wanted to paint them grey, drybrush, weather a little with charring and be done. I did that but wasn’t happy with it, so I redid them in a style that imitated the look of the larger Damaged Buildings, which I felt a lot better about once I’d done them.

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Fabricator's Lair 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Grimdark Ruined Buildings

These little ones will simply add a bit of LOS-blocking for the smaller models in a LI game, I reckon.

Fabricator's Lair 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Grimdark Ruined Buildings

And a couple of pics alongside the damaged buildings and some scale-appropriate models.

Fabricator's Lair 3D Prints: Epic-Scale Grimdark Ruined Buildings

These make the final July-August models for the “official” time period of Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25.