Terrain Update-28mm

As mentioned a few posts back, I am trying to catch up on photographing some of the projects that I have been working on over the last year. My blog certainly got taken over by gaming, but I still do a lot of terrain and figure painting.

I have somehow or another got myself in 4 different gaming scales, aside from Chain of Command and yet another skirmish game that I will not mention yet, my skirmish wargaming is in 28 mm. This is as it should be. SAGA, SP2, and Muskets and Tomahawks are all games I play in 28mm. A local gamer (well in New England) Dave Valentine has recently written a set of rules called the Devil in The Wilderness. He had a kickstarter which featured figures for the game as well as the rules with cards and an online engine to play the game. I will always try to support local initiatives, so I bought into the kickstarter. I understand the game is set in a early historic New England and has some supernatural elements involved. You can read more about it on the website, but being a huge Lovecraft fan I was immediately attracted.

In the lead up to any new gaming adventure, I always focus on terrain. Some of my Muskets and Tomahawks terrain will certainly do but I knew I needed more town terrain. Since getting in 3D printing most of the terrain I use is printed by myself. The stuff is from the 3D-Print Terrain Americana sets. It has been slow going and I will need a bit more scatter and a couple of more buildings but I think I am now ready to give the game a try. I was forced to speed up my efforts as the figures for the game have finally arrived from the manufacturer and are about to be sent out.

Scatter terrain can be pumped out pretty quickly on the resin printer.

The house are done on the FDM printer, I use a lot of Citadel washes for buildings.

I find fences difficult to print but these seem OK.

Some forest creatures, yet to receive some matt.

I used Apothecary White Contrast paint for the exterior.

I suspect the houses may not be exactly accurate for the 17th century but they will do. Look forward to giving the game a go!

FIW Buildings

 

Next up in solo testing of new rulesets is Muskets and Tomahawks v2. Myself and my friend Iannick have played a number of games with our FIW figures, but always in summer or fall kit. My image of this war is small units trudging through the snow. I have quite a bit of winter terrain and a mat for my WWII gaming, the buildings I have are a 20th century and 1/72 scale. My figures for FIW are 28 mm so I felt I needed a couple of buildings.

These 2 buildings are actually from Najewitz Modellbau's ACW collection but they looked OK for FIW. I had to scale them up, and I used Wood PLA to print them. I find the Wood PLA gives a nice effect. Once printed these buildings were washed with GW contrast paints and then drybrushed with acrylics. It seems to work, they were then winterized. I am happy with the result. I would like to find a log building as well as some fencing to add to the collection.

Next on to a playtest of the rules.

WWII Terrain-AHPCX #3

Building up my terrain collection, although I am not really sure what to do with the bunker compound. The STL files are from 3D Print Terrain. They are good quality and the author responds almost immediately to any enquiries on facebook.

Destroyed Houses

 

  

 

Bunker Compound

 

 

Next up on the printer is the Saint-Mère Église!

3D Prints-Houses from 3D Print Terrain

Well it has been a busy month, but I have printed up quite a bit of terrain. You can of course print faster then you can paint so about a week ago, I told myself to stop printing. I like paint terrain more than figures so this was ok. 

As I noted in a previous post, I had sold some of my terrain for 1/72 WWII gaming because I felt the buildings were out of scale. I felt I needed to quickly get the available terrain elements back in stock quickly so off I went.

Almost all these prints are from Najewitz Modelling, and they are of excellent quality. I believe all these prints are from the Normandy and ACW sets. They are all nicely modelled and print well, I actually printed all these models at low resolution and they came out well aside from some of the windows. Early on I had problems with adhesion and stringing as you can see but with experience the prints improved.

WWII

A couple of in town buildings, there are 6 different residential buildings in the set plus some destroyed buildings. They come in 2 versions, one version gives you the ability to print each floor or you can print the whole building and use a floor insert. The one on the left is the 2 floor version. I would recommend the printing the whole building for wargaming. You can also print a dormered roof or not.

Here is the Farm set, with the main building a shed as well as a little outhouse and a attached piggery. An early print that gave me no end of trouble with adhesion  and the 2nd story came out with an uneven base which I had to build up with wood filler.

This is the rural Garage set. The windows especially on the 1st floor are messed up, I will probably just cut them out. The garage part comes in 2 pieces and the peice with the big door certainly can also be used on the farm.

I have not painted up the gas pumps yet, and I plan to but the whole complex on a base.

Also in the set are 3 different types of high walls as well as a gate piece. I was originally reluctant to use these but you can never have enough walls and I have found when setting up a game I always have need of one more piece. I have just got tired of buying more and walls. I have not measured their height but I suspect they are well over 30mm. The corner pieces are short pieces glued at right angles. I drilled tiny 3mm wholes in each end and glued in tiny rare earth magnets, getting the polarity right took some care but now I can assemble a very long wall without it coming apart. There is 10 feet of walls above and as you can see you can print a destroyed piece as well. Using the short 3" pieces it would be very easy to print up the 2 pieces and cut them at any angle as needed for a game. I have not finished painting these as I am unsure if I want to go brown-white or grey white for the last dry brush. I may also experiment with scaling them down for low stone walls. I should say that at this scale each 6" piece takes less then 2 hours to print at 0.26 with a 15% infill with about 20-25g of PLA needed. Very economical indeed.

I placed a Sarissa Precision 1/72 house in the middle, pretty well exact scale!

ACW

15mm buildings for ACW, the Dunker Church on the left

The funny house on the right was built of wood PLA. Amazing stuff.

That is it for now, very happy overall. Going to look at some AFV's now as well as some STL files for a completely new avenue of gaming that I am pursuing.