For my recent(ish) birthday I recieved partial use of a FDM (Filament) 3D printer. Specifically a Bambulab A1, which various YouTube videos describe as being closer to an appliance than a hobby – which is what I personally want from a 3d printer. I say partial use, because it’s been spending a lot of time when I thought it would be printing miniature scenery. boardgame components and related objects it has in fact been printing shiny bangles and earrings and the like. I’ll say more about all that later own down the road.

In the meantime while I get used to using it, and try to figure out how to get around various pitfalls (I dunno how people are printing great looking figures without horrible support scarring), I’ve been printing a lot of scenery and objects on the simpler side – these trapdoors for Zombicide Black Plague amongst them.

I used Sunlu PLA Meta using FDG’s presets. One set each for the purple and Yellow Trapdoors. I changed up the stone colour as well to provide more visual interest and distinction. One of the hinges on one of them broke clipping them in after painting so I superglued it back on and will play with fingers crossed! Turns out that I later found another version of the file with reinforced hinges. Ah well, hopefully these will last! I also added texture trying to subdue the print lines on the top surface using AK Interactive’s Easycast texture Medium.

Being pieces for Zombicide, I’ll assume that they also qualify for Dave Stone’s latest Apocalypse Me challenge as well…

Another real quick one today – it seems I forgot to post these back in April, though I did take the photo at the time. These are broken walls from the Zombicide Black Plague accessories pack (plastic tokens and whatnot).

I actually painted most of these last year sometime, and then (naturally) found two that had gotten missed. I don’t know how that sort of thing always manages to happen. (Those Shadows of Brimstone Tentacles had another bunch turn up recently, FFS!)

Anyway, they’re pretty simple. Too simple in fact, so I added some cat-litter-and-sand additional rubble. I left them all in grey to keep them nice and generic, and because adding weathering powders to this sort of glorified tokens would be a bit too far on the side of insane uses of my time. Here’s a photo to show the scale of these, in case I ever decide to use them in wargames, for which they’d be okay as movement-obstructing terrain or soft/light cover.