3D printed warehouse

I’m currently enthused with the Back of Beyond. In particular, 1920s China; the warlord era. I can recommend the Osprey book as a good and cheap introduction to the subject. 

I’ve printed and painted a few small pieces of suitable scatter terrain to help set the scene.

Browsing thingiverse for anything useful I came across several files for Victorian London buildings. I rather liked this warehouse and could picture it with Chinese features

I tried to add Chinese window grills to the 3D file but it wouldn’t have it. Think it was just too fine for the printer to handle it reduced to the size I wanted. So the model was printed without alterations 

It is a really nice model. As it’s digitally designed the pieces go together well. However I wasn’t happy with the wall texture

I can imagine perhaps applying glue and sprinkling sand on the walls. I’ve seen Adrian’s Walls doing that with mdf buildings. I applied a rough render of watered down Polyfilla

The build was straightforward. I added a base to the warehouse as I wanted a door ajar and a base just makes the model robust and you can add little bits of interesting groundwork to a base

I pinched some images from http://majorthomasfoolery.blogspot.com/?m=1

From which I created a suitable sign and window grills for the warehouse. Just printed on paper and backed with card. The finished model... 

Pretty pleased with that! The 3D printing adventure continues. I will post again when the armoured train is complete. It’s on a siding so to say whilst I decide what track to use. 

All the best

Chris