Funland Ferris Wheel from Warcradle

My pulp/horror funland needed more scenery, and a Ferris Wheel would be a good candidate for imposing terrain.

The kit, from Warcradle Studios, is mostly great. It fits together real well but if assembled straight from the box you would get a static model that wouldn’t turn around.

So I modified it. The seats were easy, as I used plastic rods to anchor the seats to the wheel. Worked real well.

To get the wheel to rotate was a little bit tricky, but a sturdy wooden dowel, and some metal washers to keep everything in place, did the thing.

So, here it is. Wheel is turning and seats are swinging. Ready for some action in a game of Pulp Alley, 7TV or Hjärnor.

It is huge, as Soura Innocenza demonstrates.

In these times of isolation me and the gaming group have weekly painting challenges to help us get some motivation in the absence of our ordinary gaming sessions. We each present four different things/groups (each of at least two ordinary minis, a larger mini, terrain piece etc) to be finished in a weeks’ time. Sometimes with a common theme, sometimes without. The others vote which one to do. This was my first week challenge. A bit much to finish in seven days (which is probably why the others voted for it…), but I did it, just.

Church

I’m slowly printing and painting buildings for my Swedish small town, soon to be zombie-infested. I also want most stuff to be multi-purpose, so I can use it in more games.

This church fits that just fine, as it will look good in said zombie-apocalypse, WWII, pulp, modern, near future, medieval or anything between.

The walls are OpenLock, that is a snap-together system that works surprisingly well both assembling and disassembling.

I got the files for the church, walls and gates from Printable Scenery and they also have a ruined version of the church. You can get it all as a bundle at a very good price just now.

You can also extend the church, making it even bigger, but that was a bit of an overkill for me.

I’m very happy with this, as it turned out just great.

Disclamer – I’m affiliated with Printable Scenery, which means that if you go to their site via the links above and buy anything, then I will get a very modest kickback. Whatever I get will obviously be used for gaming stuff J Everything shown here is stuff I have bought at full price because I really like what they do.

Modular Tavern from Printable Scenery

Corehaven is a series of modular walls, floors, roofs etc. for building fantasy buildings, even though they could pass for historical ones also.

This is the Tavern, made from pieces from the following sets: Clorehaven Roofs, Rustic Stone Floors, Rustic Stone and Wood Stairs, Rustic Wooden Floors, Schist Walls, Tudor Walls and Wooden Balcony Walls.

It’s real easy to assemble and disassemble, using the OpenLock system. Great stuff when you have a D&D adventure, or anything like that, and want to build a specific building or two. There are lots of pieces to choose from in the Clorehaven series, and you are sure to be able to build most everything.

I’m letting the printer spit out different pieces now, so I can do just that.

Disclamer – I’m affiliated with Printable Scenery, which means that if you go to their site via the links above and buy anything, then I will get a very modest kickback. Whatever I get will obviously be used for gaming stuff J

Mosque

Another building, a mosque, from 3D-Print-Terrain and their Arabic Buildings kickstarter.

It’s printed with .15 mm layer height, and took something like 90 hours to print in total.

I think this one looks just great, and it will look even better on the table-top.

The only downside is the interior. I would really have liked to have a stair between the floors.

Two Arab shops

These two shops come from 3D-Print-Terrain’s Arabic Buildings kickstarter, now available as an add-on in Jens’ kickstarters, or from his shop.

They are made on my Prusa i3 Mk 3, with 0.1 mm layer thickness. Each took about 21 hours to print. The big door-ways are a bit of a hassle, as they are too broad to support the filament during printing, resulting in quite a lot of sagging filament that I had to cut away.  

These buildings will come in very handy in my upcoming Pulp Alley Tomb of the Serpent campaign, and I have an idea of painting one or two for my zombie-games set in Sweden. Just use more colours and put a suitable sign on them.

Arab houses

These are the first and second batches of 3D-printed Arab houses. These will see action in WWII North Africa, Pulp Alley and 7TV. Some of them have already served on a desert planet.

They come from 3D-Print-Terrain and different Thingiverse free files, and are painted with structure paints.

I’ve got some more houses nearly finished, and then I'll use them all in the next installment of my Pulp Alley campaign. Looking forward to that.

Then I will print a lot more Arabic houses for my solo Pulp Alley campaign, most of them from 3D-Print-Terrain.

If you like these you might have a look at 3D-Print-Terrain’s latest kickstarter, where you find lots of Arabic houses, and you can also pledge for his older campaigns (like this one for modern houses and this one for houses suitable for North Africa and WWII (where a lot of these come from)) But hurry, as it closes tomorrow!

3D-printed houses for Rangers of Shadow Deep and other games

It’s been awfully quiet here, as it’s been summer and I’ve had a bit of a blogging burn-out. I think I’m more or less back on track now, so there will be more posts coming soon.

Here are some buildings I printed during the last couple of weeks. I made them for the first scenario of Rangers of Shadow Deep, so now I will have an opportunity to try that game out.

This, the biggest house, is made by Printable Scenery, and is called Winterdale Small Cottage. You can buy that as it is, or as part of a fantasy building bundle. The latter seem to be on sale at the moment, so it might be a good idea to check that out if you’re interested. A couple more of those buildings are in the printing queue, so you might see more of that soon.

 

Anyway, this is really the nicest of the lot, with lots of details and lots of character. A great kit.

Next up is Small Medieval House from Thingiverse. A bit more basic, but a nice little kit. Can’t complain about the price, as free is hard to beat.

 

The Little Cottage is another Thingiverse model, also free. I really like it as it is well detailed, and it has the option of inserting a piece of transparent plastic sheet as window glass. Great model.

 

Finally we have a hut from 3D-print-terrain and their Age of Pirates set. It’s rather simple and crude, but prints very fast and will see use both in fantasy, pulp and other settings. A really useful model.

I’m really happy with how these turned out.

Next, there’s a bunch of desert style buildings that I’ve finished. But more on those in a future post.