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  giorgis 8:47 pm on November 1, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Terrain pt18 – Sci Fi Outpost 

  Another of Sablebadger’s terrain sets. This is the Sci Fi Outpost. Once more it is scaled down to 60% for 15mm scale. The buildings are a bit on the smaller side, but they’re bunkers/hubs so it’s to be expected. I did the red painting with an airbrush and red acrylic ink, masking away the parts to be painted different colours. Using ink instead of diluted paint in the airbrush, was a blast as coverage was immensely easier to achieve. Removing the masking tape or white tack was a pain, and perhaps the whole process would take the same amount of time had I used stipple drybrushing (didn’t have my acrylic markers back then), but it wouldn’t look as good. I gave the whole outpost a blood angels look, inspired from the days when I was playing Dawn of War on the PC.

  

  

  

  

   

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  giorgis 8:29 pm on October 30, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Terrain pt17 – Tech Gothic Ruins 

  What begun as a simple paint job got more and more detailed as time went by. I really love how these tech gothic ruins from Sablebadger turned out. Again printed at 60% scale, in black PLA. Spray primed dark grey and airbrushed zenithal and various grey ones. Washed with a brown black wash mix, drybrushed tan. I went above and beyong and did some window glass panels using PVA glue undiluted into the window panels. Followed with some spot washes for grime and sealed with a matt spray sealer, which gave a foggy effect to the windows. I am thrilled with how they turned out. I have enough to fill out a 2×2 table in 15mm.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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    Onibaba 9:21 am on October 31, 2025 Permalink | Reply

    Wait, wait, wait, explain further the PVA “glass”, just simply glue and wait to dry? Noice

    As always amazing job, i’m tempted to scale down ^_^ but i must be strong

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      giorgis 12:27 pm on October 31, 2025 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks!

      Yes, you just need thick enough PVA so that it stays in place and doesn’t flow down. The size of the small panes matters as it can’t grab a really big gap.

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  giorgis 1:23 pm on October 28, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Terrain pt16 – Sci-Fi Ruins 

  Grid city sci-fi ruins I had gotten as sampler from Saucermen studios. Printed in black PLA, and painted in grey tones with metallic details and added rust effects.

  I mixed and matched to create different builds but I failed to also Mirror the clones, and break the uniformity even more.

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 9:05 pm on October 26, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Terrain pt15 – Barricades 

  Something else that I needed for my games, and especially bug hunt is linear terrain in order to create funnels of routes, so in addition to the prior geonosis terrain, I went with the sandbag and modular trench barricades from Sablebadger. Also printed the trench barricade tower, so that I can make an outpost quickly a la starship troopers style. The sandbags were printed in beige PLA and painted in a similar way to the geonosis terrain. The trench barricades were printed in black PLA and painted in gray tones, but because they ended up too monochrome I added rust effects, which ended up contrasting a lot with the monochrome look.

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 7:34 pm on October 24, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Terrain pt14 – Geonosis 

  I needed some rocky terrain, and especially for sci-fi look (can also work for desert fantasy) I found the Geonosis style terrain from Sablebadger. I got them from his patreon at the 2nd level which includes access to his back catalogue. Printed at 60% scale, in Beige PLA. Washed in a red-brown wash (Burnt Umber + Yellow Ochre + PVA + Floor Polish) and drybrushed Tan. The idea is if they get knocked around too much and chip, the lighter beige color will show throw and it will be like a highlight. Though with the softness of PLA, floor polish seal, and lack of knocking around (I am a solo player after all) I doubt this extra precaution is necessary.

  I have not taken single pictures of every single item, rather, filled a table with them and took pictures. When combined with different terrain I think they will look even better, but there’s enough of them to fill a 2×2 in 60% scale, or 3×3 in full scale.

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 8:38 pm on October 22, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Terrain pt13 – Sci Fi Buildings 

  There are tons of sci-fi stl buildings in the internet, so many that I got overwhelmed. I finally settled on some samplers from Corvus Game Terrain (Tycho Starport, Magna Fortuna, Compound) and a retro Bunker from Doctor Spork. I can’t recall where I got the alien monolith from. Again, spray primer, airbrush zenithal, airbrush basecoat, washes and drybrushing. I decided to give different colours to the Corvus Game Terrain buildings from Magna Fortuna series, but perhaps I overdid it, and I don’t think they look good if all of them are placed together on the table. On the other hand 1-2 of them are good to break the monotony of the uniform color I painted the Tycho starport line.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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    technoalchemist 9:21 pm on October 22, 2025 Permalink | Reply

    The alien monolith is from dutchmogul (Ill Gotten Games). I have too, but still haven’t printed it.

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      giorgis 12:05 am on October 23, 2025 Permalink | Reply

      Yes! That’s where it is from! Thanks

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    Onibaba 9:17 am on October 23, 2025 Permalink | Reply

    Very nice as usual, some of them remind me the deadzone one’s

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  giorgis 1:30 pm on October 12, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Terrain pt 12 – Sci Fi Scatter 

  Some more terrain items I have 3d printed for my sci fi battles. Mainly barrels, crates. Since I am scaling down for 15mm, single small barrels and crates are kinda pointless. They get knocked around easily, are hard to setup, and provide only minimal impact to the terrain. Therefore I chose grouped or larger containers.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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    Onibaba 9:11 am on October 13, 2025 Permalink | Reply

    They are beautiful, i’m jealous! Small scale and very detailed, what is your secret?

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      giorgis 12:54 pm on October 13, 2025 Permalink | Reply

      Thank you!
      It boils down to a few things: planning ahead, good models, and a good well calibrated printer.
      The Bambu Labs A1/mini have proven to give robust quality prints. These are mostly printed with default settings. The fact that I go low in scale means I can go as high in quality as I need without spending a lot of time in printing. A 60% scale is approximately 3 times faster to print, and it offsets the increase of going down to 0.08mm layer height.
      I spend a lot of time planning ahead. This includes looking at finding the right models for the job. If I can find terrain that prints well, paints nicely and works as intended, then that’s preferred. Also I plan ahead the paint job. A model might be printed and wait a long time before painting, not so much due to laziness (which is more a fact for miniatures models) but more so because I am trying to figure out the best series of steps to paint them quickly and have them look good enough.
      Hope this helps!

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  giorgis 12:19 pm on October 5, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Terrain pt11 – Alien Ground 

  Here some alien ground formations/fungi that serve as rough ground, LOS blockers or hills.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 7:59 pm on October 4, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Terrain pt10 – Alien Flora 

  For this set of alien flora I gathered many different models and scaled, cloned and rotated them to fill some area bases.

  Spray primed. Zenithal with airbrush, and primary colours set with airbrush. I then did a wash and drybrush before sealing with a floor polish wash.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 8:30 pm on October 3, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Terrain pt9 – Space Junkyard 

  I realised I had not posted the terrain I have been diligently working on since summer. An FDM printer is great for terrain, so much that I am having trouble finding storage space again.

  The showcase here is a space junkyard. 6 different piles of space junk, some may look familiar to fans a long time ago of a galaxy far far away.

  The paint job took a while. They were spray primed gray and zenithal primed with an airbrush. I painted them in different metallics: silver, bronze, copper, tin and graphite for variety. Followed up with my rust technique: heavy stipple brushing with a drybrush of random and successive colours: van dyke brown, burnt umber, raw umber, burnt sienna, raw sienna and vermillion. I added some rust texture by doing a pva-baking soda-vermillion mix and applying it thick on spots near painted rust. Sealed with a brown-black floor polish wash.

  

  

  

  

  

  

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    technoalchemist 1:50 am on October 5, 2025 Permalink | Reply

    Yeah, they say that 15mm allows you to store things easier. But because of that, then you want to have several things, so in the end you end up storing the same amount as in 28mm.

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      giorgis 11:12 am on October 5, 2025 Permalink | Reply

      It’s a trap!
      On the bright side, I get to have more terrain for the same amount of space.

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