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.