Massive rusted container towers. Armed checkpoints. Narrow alleyways lit by failing neon and burning oil drums.
Container City is a place built from scrap, desperation, and whatever people could weld together before somebody else tried to steal it.
Which raises an important question: Where does everyone actually go to the bathroom?
To celebrate Container City passing 250 Kickstarter followers, I decided to release a small free terrain piece for the community. Naturally, that meant designing a grimdark portaloo worthy of the wasteland.
The result is a compact scatter terrain piece designed to fit alongside the wider Container City range. It’s quick to print, support free, and adds just the right amount of questionable hygiene to your tabletop.
The Grimdark Toilet is a small scatter terrain piece designed to fit alongside the growing Container City terrain range. It’s quick to print, support free, and can be packed with enough grime and questionable engineering decisions to feel perfectly at home in the setting.
The file is available free through the Wargame Geeks Discord Server.
Why Small Terrain Pieces Matter
One thing I’ve always loved about great tabletop boards is that they feel lived in.
The best tables aren’t just walls and buildings. They’re filled with the small details that make the setting believable:
- warning signs bolted onto rusted walls
- abandoned vending machines
- overflowing scrap piles
- makeshift barricades
- generators held together with hope
- and yes… portable toilets sitting in the middle of a warzone
Those little pieces help turn a gaming table into an actual place.
They also create memorable moments during games. There’s something deeply entertaining about a brutal firefight breaking out around a filthy portaloo while two warbands fight over loot crates nearby.
Designed for Fast, Easy Printing
Like the rest of the Container City range, the Grimdark Toilet was designed with practical tabletop use in mind.
That means:
- FDM friendly
- support free printing
- durable enough for regular gaming
- easy to paint
- scaled for skirmish gaming tables
Whether you want a quick scatter piece or a ridiculous objective marker, it should fit straight onto your table with minimal effort.
Perfect for Painting & Weathering
Small terrain pieces like this are also a great excuse to experiment with weathering and environmental storytelling.
You could add:
- rust streaks
- graffiti
- hazard markings
- warning labels
- faction symbols
- leaking grime
- improvised repairs
- suspicious stains best left unexplained
Honestly, the more horrible it looks, the better.
Built to Expand Alongside Container City
The Grimdark Toilet might be a bit of a fun release, but it also reflects a big part of what I want Container City to become.
Not just a collection of containers and platforms, but a believable settlement filled with:
- checkpoints
- living spaces
- workshops
- scrap markets
- generators
- barricades
- vending machines
- industrial clutter
- and all the little details that make the world feel alive
Checkpoint Alpha was the first step. The full Container City Kickstarter will massively expand on that foundation with modular buildings, stacked container systems, walkways, defensive structures, scatter terrain, and much more.
Download the Free STL
The Grimdark Toilet STL is available free through the Wargame Geeks Discord Server as a thank-you for how well the preview is doing.
If you print one, we’d genuinely love to see your versions painted up and used on the tabletop.
You can also:
- Follow the Container City Kickstarter preview page
- Download the free Checkpoint Alpha terrain set
- Join the Discord community
- Share your builds and feedback
And who knows what strange little additions might appear next as the project grows…
