Terrain: More trees and the first 3D printed buildings

After I had seen more and more terrain from the 3D printer at various wargames events, I was tempted to test it once and so when the Anycubic Mega-S, which is considered particularly beginner friendly, was on offer I took the chance ;-)

For the first tests, I downloaded some files from Thingiverse, as they are all available for free.
However, after that I wanted to use profesionally created files afterwards and there is nothing better in my opinion than the different projects of Jens Najewitz - considering the many files contained in each project, they are also extremely cheap.
Above all, the beauty is that the individual floors and roofs can be removed from the buildings and they can also be designed and played in the interior, so they are perfect for wargames!

Here are the first two buildings from the Dark Age project.
The half-timbered house is just printed and cleaned up, as I wanted to see how it looks then painted.
For the 2nd house, I plastered the walls with a sand-glue mixture.

And since you can never have enough trees as a wargamer, I built more trees * gg *

The trunks are armatures from Woodland and a few  really ancient HEKI kits that were designed to be flocked with Iceland moss - after modelling the trunks with Miliput they even look quite good now!
All the treetops are made with foliage from Woodland again and the flocked with different leafs.

HEKI before and after ;-)

Smaller versions:

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Western: Sheriff Jimjohn

No ACW this time, but not far away, both in terms of time and location - a sheriff of a small provincial town named Dingstown.

I bought this miniature at the CONflict Rheinland from Axel at his Dingstown table.
It represents Sheriff Jimjohn, who guides the reader through Axels Dingstown rules, intended for Western (and more, we even used them for Colonial and Colonial-Horror setups) skirmish games, like Ragnar through SAGA.
The miniature is cast very cleanly, so it hardly needs time to clean it and is really nicely modeled.

My Jimjohn was not supposed to get the usual leather cloak, instead I opted for one made of Indian wool, and he's supposed to be a Civil War veteran still wearing his blue cavalry blouse - so a little bit it stays close to the ACW; -)

Small versions:

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