by Warscape
This sequel to the original hit campaign Shardstone City focuses on adding dozens of low-rise corner ruins to the terrain set – these were a common request from backers and are a great way to fill a gaming table really quickly. The ruins fold together and are secured with a simple cornerstone clip to hold them in place.
Skirmish games set in ruined cities benefit from having a lot of scenery, so this kickstarter offers a new & unique approach to providing practical gaming terrain for your tabletop so you can print a whole tabletop of terrain quickly and store/ transport it with ease too. Print a whole gaming table with 1kg of PLA!
If you are new to Shardstone City and want to jump straight in and get a great value digital STL file bundle of 200 foldable ruins, select the “Shardstone City 1 & 2” reward level to get 80 corner ruins from this campaign, along with 120 larger ruins, an extensive modular gaming table and 5 Decoration Packs from the original campaign, and all unlocked stretch goals from this campaign (another 80 ruins are planned!)
If you’re a veteran from the first campaign or just want the ruins from this kickstarter I recommend the “Shattered Streets” reward level to get all 80 of the new ruins from this campaign, along with all unlocked “bonus ruins” stretch goals.
These are six great features of these printable ruins:
- Easy to store and transport – The ruins print flat and fold together, using simple clips or floor pieces to clip together. This means that the entire set can be disassembled and packed tightly for storage and transport, perfect for taking to a club or gaming store, minimizing the space it takes up in storage. If you’re organizing an event, tournament or campaign and need multiple terrain tables, Shardstone City is the way to go!
- High quality – Goodbye horizontal print lines! Printing flat on the print bed avoids the usual highly visible and uniform horizontal layer lines common with FDM printing. Enable ironing on top surfaces in your slicer settings for a smooth plaster finish on the walls, or add some thin modelling putty to replicate a plaster effect. On the underside, a textured build plate can be used to create a bumpy plaster texture on the interior walls, ideal for painting techniques such as ink washes and drybrushing.
- Easy to paint – The buildings are designed with 4 distinct parts – wood, stonework, plaster and metal. Printing the buildings flat means that they can also be painted flat, which makes them very easy to spraypaint with colour primer, pick out stone and wood in a different colour and then apply washes and highlights. Airbrushing is even easier!
- No supports are needed on any of the buildings, even overhangs which would need support on normal 3d printed pieces work fine with these, so balconies and intricate window panes print really well!
- Small format printers are supported! Everything in the Shattered Streets reward level can be printed on a Bambu A1 mini or similar (180mm print bed size), simply rotate the ruins by 45 degrees in the slicer to make them fit, you can even fit two at once. The original campaign also allows the 1 and 2 storey ruins to be printed on an A1 mini, but the 3 storey ruins require a larger printer.
- Quick to print, low material usage – Due to the unique flat-print & folding design, a modern FDM printer can print a ruin in a 1-2 hours and a full gaming table of terrain in the space of a weekend. Here is a slicer example using default settings (0.2mm standard profile) showing a basic ruin – only 20g of filament used and 1 hour to print!
The Shardstone Ruins reward level contains a selection of 20 small corner ruins featuring symbols of death, fate and ominous portents, such as skulls, hourglasses, playing cards, astrological symbols and other weird architectural quirks (window frames featuring fish or apple cores, for example).
Shardstone City is designed for dark fantasy skirmish games with a bizarre theme, and is perfect for creating a packed cityscape full of twisted streets for your minis to fight over!
The Shardstone Ruins reward level receives any unlocked stretch goal content appended with “added to the Shardstone Ruins reward level”. At current, the plan is to fund an extra 20 corner ruins when £5k of funding is reached, doubling the amount initially included.
Frostcrag City is also part of this kickstarter and the Frostcrag Ruins reward level contains an alternate set of 20 ruined buildings in a stone theme, carved with with arcane sigils as an alternative or supplement to the timber-framed medieval buildings of Shardstone City.
Frostcrag City is perfect for depicting ancient magical cityscapes filled with horrors and is perfect for games such as Frostgrave.
Frostcrag City works brilliantly as a quick-to-paint design, simply use grey spraypaint, a black ink wash and a drybrush and you can have a great looking result very quickly. For added detail, pick out the runes in white and add a blue ink wash, then paint the window frames with brass and verdigris effect paint.
The Frostcrag Ruins reward level receives any unlocked stretch goal content appended with “added to the Frostcrag Ruins reward level”. At current, the plan is to fund an extra 20 corner ruins when £5k of funding is reached, doubling the amount initially included.
Ruined Hamlet is formed of variant sculpts of both Shardstone City and Frostcrag City, with the fantasy elements (such as skulls, magical runes etc.) either removed or replaced with more basic designs suitable for historical settings or for a plainer fantasy style to mix into the other cities.
The Ruined Hamlet pledge contains 40 corner ruins, 20 timber-framed and 20 stone, a small selection of these are pictured here, but they are essentially identical to the Shardstone City and Frostcrag City with the fantasy elements removed or modified to suit a historical or generic fantasy setting. With no skulls, magical runes, or other details, Ruined Hamlet is a plain option perfect for historical gamers or anyone who wants a more adaptable terrain set which can be used for a variety of settings and games.
