Merging and Negative Space

Having been off for the last week that has meant the printer has been working over time to add things onto my 'to be painted' pile. 

I decided to print up some terrain to use in HALO and Deadzone and wanted to modify the set I'd already printed off for Stu.

First of all I looked at the roofs to add a hole in for ladders to be attached on the inside of the building. This was very simply achieved by add a 30mm negative space cube to the roof model, a bit more tricky was adding the mounting point and I had to get my ruler out to measure the correct size and then work out the placement relative to the hole. Much to my surprise I got the dimension correct on the first try (even though I forgot to measure how wide the ladder was) and I printed a couple off.

I used the same technique to open some closed doors up and add windows to enclosed buildings.

I then realised that you could add a 'positive' cube and put a negative on inside to create a window sill / enclosure, making them look a bit more interesting.

The last thing I modified where the barriers for the roof tops by merging them together into L shapes for ground scatter. I now realise I could have gone a step further and used the Mesh Boolean 'Union' option to join all the individual items into one object, though this often throws up errors that cannot always be resolved in Bambu Lab studio

I've also knocked up something totally from scratch to use the cardboard spools that the filament comes wrapped around. I've got a few of these now so wanted something to use them up and hit on the idea of a simple kit that could be added to the spool to male an oil tank.

It's not very complicated but does the job and looks good enough with some paint on.

Everything here has been printed with:

Nozzle: 0.4mm

Layer Height: 0.20mm Standard pre-set

Material: Bambu Matt PLA

Supports: Auto Tree with outer Brim except buildings which had inner brim.

Home of the Future 2

Printing efforts this week have been focused on roofs, barriers, walkways and ladders to go along with the building walls produced in the previous weeks.

With the buildings I printed being blue I've gone with red for the roofs, walkways, and ladders to add some interest to the buildings and then grey for the barrels so they can be painted up a variety of colours.

I look forwards to seeing how they all look once they've been painted up.

Home of the Future

This week I've been rather under the weather so I've not been able to do any painting. However, having the printing as a side hobby has at least allowed me to feel like I'm getting something done.

The something in this case is some terrain for Stu over at Cirencester Wargames for a new game he's looking to get into, Five Parsecs from Home. This will be a project for solo gaming once he escapes from the daily drudgery of work next year.

All the bits are from the same terrain pack I purchased and I will probably end up printing some more out for myself at some point. 

So far I've printed out all the buildings and now I need to sort out the roofs and other accompanying parts. It's probably another couple of week worth of printing unless I take a brave pill and start printing over night / whilst I'm at work.