September Monthly Round-Up (Season of Scenery: Extended Edition)

Another way overdue round-up here. I’ve actually had these photos sitting on my drive for months ready to go, but frankly I just wasn’t feeling up to posting. You know how it gets sometimes when posting on your blog feels more like work than hobby or fun? Yeah, that. I guess I finally got all the individual updates done and then burnout hit and I didn’t force myself to write this post when I “should” have. I mean, mid-October is when work becomes much more intense running through the rest of the year until the week before/of Christmas, and I do tend to disappear in November, so it tracks.

Anyway, it turns out I managed to paint a very decent amount of stuff in September before dropping off. The focus still largely being on Nu-Epic/Battletech scaled terrain, but with a bit of extra variation and finishing off of other things.

One thing I particularly like about a lot of these terrain pieces is their versatility. A lot of this stuff primarily aimed at the tiny-mans scale still works okay right up to heroic 32mm or even the 40mm Crisis Protocol/Shatterpoint scale. A while back, Frank the Tankfanboy asked to see a cityscape photo of my tiny buildings – I still haven’t gotten one and still have more work to do to get one I’m going to be happy with (more terrain to finish) but hopefully these shots will suffice in the meantime of a weird looking outpost surrounded by mesas and patches of broken ground!

The focus in September remained very much on terrain for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery (Extended Edition) which culminated in the return of the Prodigal Sun as Dave was absent for some time for personal reasons – returning from his blogging break pretty much just as I dropped out. As it happens, EVERYTHING I completed in September counted towards it!

So what did I manage to complete in September 2025?

In all, I completed:

Fabricator’s Lair’s: Botanicae building, 8x Generators, a “1×2 Medium A” building/segment, a 2×4 Medium Building and a 2x of 2x2x2 silos, Grimdark Industrial Promethium Reprocessing Factory and Grimdark Industrial Forge.

Wargame Forge’s Ruined Gothic Cathedral, nonPareil Institute’s Power Generator, and a family of 9x variously (re)shaped and (re)sized Propane Tanks by Syllogy.

9x Tinnut BattleTerrain Rough Terrain Tiles, 11x Thunderhead Studios Hextech Hills, a 20th Century Fox logo by Isekai Heavy Industries.

2x signs from AMG’s Marvel Crisis Protocol Cosmic Terrain Pack (I need to do a group shot once I figure out where the other elements have gone!), the Beastman Herdstone for AoS/ToW from Citadel and 6x GF9 Battlefield in a Box Sandstone Rock Outcrops.

57 total. Unless I’ve miscounted.

Oh, and there’s also a little subway entrance piece from Fabricator’s Lair that got missed. You can see it between the Botanicae, Industrial Forge and one of the Propane Tanks near the Fox Logo. So 58. Not too shabby for a single month’s work!

Not too bad a haul. Looking at it all together, one realisation does occur. There are no “miniatures” in there at all. No humans or humanoids, or even any vehicles. It’s all scenery and terrain.

Last time we did this, I’d counted a total of 338 models completed, so adding in this September haul the new total comes to 396, so that’s the “365” target well and truly broken in 2025.

I have also done some painting since I last posted, so once I’ve had a chance to take some new photos, I’ll start posting the October-November-December stuff and do a combined round-up for those models. It may or may not start before the New Year because we’re still in the Family Obligation Fortnight for a couple more days and then there’s other important things to get done once the period of seeing people is finished up – you know how that goes this time of year… I was crawling around on the roof fixing things this morning – not fun!

Fabricator’s Lair 3D Prints: Grimdark Industrial Forge

Fabricator's Lair 3D Prints: Grimdark Industrial Forge

The second of my two centrepiece “Mechanicum” prints from Fabricator’s Lair! Like the Promethium Reprocessing Factory from my last post, the Forge here can be found both in the Epic Scale Industrial Buildings set, or in the (recommended) Epic Sector: Industry campaign bundle.

Fabricator's Lair 3D Prints: Grimdark Industrial Forge

This one is another huge slab of a building – even moreso than the previous one if that’s possible. On one side it once again features a series of pipes of a size that would not look out of place in a 40k game, and on the other a long row of pretty “grimdark” looking smokestacks – which I’ve just realised I forgot to grunge up with soot stains on their tops.

Fabricator's Lair 3D Prints: Grimdark Industrial Forge

Once again, the paintwork followed the same structure and methods as the previous ones in this style, though I’d started to have some issues with the paint markers (I may have used all of the paint in a couple of them?) and bought a regular silver Sharpie which actually worked brilliantly under the circumstances.

Fabricator's Lair 3D Prints: Grimdark Industrial Forge

As you can see with our scale shot featuring the usual Epic-Scaled subjects, it’s a pretty chonky structure!

Fabricator's Lair 3D Prints: Grimdark Industrial Forge

And then over here with the 32-40mm boys – I think this one will once again fit into a Crisis Protocol or 40k table very easily.

Predictably, this model is another counting towards Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25 – Extended Edition. Only two more bits of terrain left now..