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Zombicide: Prison Outbreak – Prison Tower (3D Print)

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Zombicide: Prison Outbreak - Prison Tower

Today I have another 3d Print – this time it’s a replacement for the simple “prison tower” tile from the standalone Prison Outbreak expansion.

Zombicide: Prison Outbreak - Prison Tower

As with the Black Plague Trapdoors from the other day, this one was a free STL that I found online – this time on Cults3D.

Zombicide: Prison Outbreak - Prison Tower

Painting was pretty straightforward. I wanted the whole thing to be an overall dull grey, no red brick or tiles, no warm wood for the rails – so I got various shades of grey and dull metal for the various components of the building, but then it seemed too dull, so the OH&S department came to the rescue with some safety yellow for the ladder, the guardrails, the door frame and the “stand clear” area on the platform floor – which then got dirtied up and chipped and worn.

Zombicide: Prison Outbreak - Prison Tower

Now the life-or-death struggle to survive against the undead horde can be done in a manner that’s properly OH&S compliant, as demonstrated here by Berkeley and friends wildly swinging their melee weapons while shotguns blast overhead.

Zombicide: Prison Outbreak - Prison Tower

It also turns out that this tower fits the “close enough” scale to be used in Marvel Crisis Protocol, which means that aside from Zombicide it’s got a use case for many modern game settings. It would probably work for WWII reasonably well with a different paintjob with more wood and less OH&S yellow!

Either way, I have another entry for Dave Stone’s Apocalypse Me painting challenge running throughout October!

Zombicide: Black Plague – Dungeon Trapdoors (3D Print)

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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…