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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ACW: Divisional Stand - General Buford with Standard Bearer

Another addition for my Union force - the man himself: General Buford!

While his standard bearer with the flag of his First Cavalry Division is a standard Perry plastic cavalry, Buford himself is heavily scratchbuilded.

The base is a Perry ACW cavalry officer with parts from Perry plastic DAK (goggle), Desert Rats (small parts like the bag for maps), the pointing arm is from Warlord Games Fallschirmjäger, all connected together with greenstuff for belts and so on.

And the smaller versions for the German Forum Sweetwater:

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ACW: 1st PA Light Artillery, Battery B, attached to the I. Corps of the "Army of the Potomac"

And another (and last for the moment) battery for the Union; 1st PA Light Artillery, Battery B, that belonged to the I. Corps at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg.

10pounder Parrot and the crew are all Perry Miniatures again.

And now my for the time being complete force of Union artillery, ready to repell the Confederates:

Smaller versions of the above pictures:

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ACW: 4th US Artillery, Battery B, attached to the I. Corps of the "Army of the Potomac"

The next battery for my Union forces: 4th US Artillery, Battery B, attached to the I. Corps of the "Army of the Potomac"

It´s a 12pounder Napoleonic 6-gun battery and this time, the model itself and the complete crew are from Wargames Foundry, the miniatures were a joy to paint and I like their poses very much ;-)

And as always, the smaller versions of the above pictures for the Sweetwater-Forum:

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