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How do!

So I’ve dragged my lumpen, mangled form into the 21st Century and have Black Friday’d myself into the 3d Printing World. Also I’ve a dedicated hobby room and thus somewhere sensible to deploy expensive toys.

Now, by all means You Do You, but I’m not one to 3d Print what I can buy retail. And I won’t bore you with reasoning there. But I’m not looking for things to print for my army.

What I am interested in is terrain, scenery and other peripheral bits which enhance the gaming experience. Got plenty of GW’s terrain for LI, and whilst really nice kits with solid end products? Theres not exactly a huge amount of variety. Same with Necromunda. Got loads, but want more variety, Spesh as looks like there’s a campaign in the offing.

So I’m looking for recommendations for STLs and that.

Printer is resin, specifically an Anycubic Photon Mono M7 Pro, plus a wash and cure station as a bundle, with 3kg of Resin.

Bitsblitzdesigns on cults might be of interest as well as grimdark terrain.

For NM, I have a few scatter terrain thru my Madramdesigns on cults and Minihoarder.
Mostly smaller set dressing to make spaces more lived in, but I have some tank-sized bunker type buildings in the works (mostly for hiding behind and climbing over)

Def check out PrintMinis shop on myminifactory.
They have loads of stuff NM-terrain compatible addons, container structures and vehicles. And are working on some modular post-and-wall structures system of their own.

BitsBlitzDesigns on cults.

*edit links added

Print minis stuff on MMF

most of my stuff on MH and
https://cults3d.com/en/users/MadRamDesigns/3d-models
I should utilize collections feature

Got some links?


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Especially important as I’m keen to pay the originator of an STL, not someone that’s just copied/reshared a design.

Credits where Credit is due and that.

Congrats on the new family member, Doc

As you might have noticed by now, a 10" build plate isn't all that big when it comes to terrain. You will print LI buildings and individual zone mortalis walls no prob, but it's not great for stuff like hills (and it's natural terrain that LI is missing the most)

I'll second https://www.myminifactory.com/users/PrintMinis for Necro, their stuff is wild, if often pretty fiddly to build (they like cutting everything apart into 1" bits)

https://www.myminifactory.com/users/tesseracttomb also does great Necro stuff, albeit I'm not sure how much of it comes presupprted for resin

Some more zone mortalis variant bits
https://cults3d.com/en/users/aftermathhobbies/3d-models
https://cults3d.com/en/users/franky41517/3d-models
https://cults3d.com/en/users/Grimdark_Machineworks/3d-models
https://cults3d.com/en/users/lizzz3ard2/3d-models

For variant LI type buildings, my go to is https://www.myminifactory.com/users/FabricatorsLair He has trains!

On hills?

I’ve always felt traditional Epic Scale Hills have never really looked right. More pimples than proper geological features.

A tangent I know, and early even for one of my threads? But for Epic Scale game, I feel the sort of large, sweeping hills of the original GW plastic table tiles would suit better. Granted the rocks and that would need to be scaled appropriately. But having them an integral and significant proportion of the board just sits better in my mind.

If you want those sorts of hills (and I agree they can look much more realistic/natural) I'm looking at building a model railway board and it looks like the way to go is sheets of insulation foam, which you can layer and then 'sculpt' with a hot wire cutter.

Defo need to flock them, provide some grip for the bases and models so they don’t instantly toboggan down the bottom for a big punch up.