Most of this week the printer has been busy churning out road sections for the desert war. I now have more than enough to provide some options for the normal table size of 48" square.
A blog dedicated to my 3D printing adventures. This is split from my Fishponds Wargaming blog in case it get's flooded with 3D printing posts.
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Making Tracks
I also have the sandbag emplacements I had printing out at 0.08mm layer height and they look really good, almost as good as the resin versions I already had. Once I have the painted up I suspect you won't be able to tell the difference.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
The Road to Success
One week into owning my 3D printer I've realised how much I still have to learn but I did manage to design and print my very first object.
In fairness it's not much but it did give me my first taste of design in Fusion 360 and you have to start somewhere :-)
What we have is a 6" radius scoring zone for Firefight, Kings of War uses a 12" radius scoring zone so I'd need to print that out as inner and outer sections for it to fit on my print bed. In any event this is my first published design, unfortunately no downloads yet.
Other than that I've mostly been printing off road sections this week. Again I've picked up a lesson in that even though all the files come from the same pack they aren't actually all on the same level. A good lesson to learn in checking the number of layers involved in making a print.
Most of them are of a very similar height so as I'm adding more sections I'll keep to the ones that are close in height and leave the others out of the production cycle.
Speaking of layers, today I've cranked up the detail to the smallest layer height and got some extra sandbag emplacements on the go. I will be interested to see how these compare to the resin ones I've already had printed.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Getting Started
So for my first post it feels like a good place to list to equipment and software I'm using, as this changes I will try to come back and update.
Hardware
Bambu Labs AMS Lite
Software
Fusion 360 - Free version
With this bits I plan to get to a stage where I can design and print (along with some purchased bits) a Stalingrad board for a game I'll be basing on the Deadzone rules. It feels like quite a big task to undertake but I anticipate this being a long term aim with lots of side tracking to print off bits for games I'm currently playing.
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