[SH] Ecorium terrain for 3d printing

[Islacrusez]

Most certainly the latter.

[Malika]

They made some very cool stuff indeed. Just such a shame it's all flat. I should however take a closer look at it and see what I can learn from it.

[Malika]

Ok, haven't spent any time on this for sooooo long, so here I am again!

Got back to the design and went for [ur=http://trollsforge.proboards.com/thread/2291/modular-floor-tile-mft]Philip Sibbering's modularity[/url].



However, if you look at the gaps between the tiles, they're quite noticeable, especially between the different wall components. I've got a solution for the wall gaps, I'll come up with something for between the floors in the coming days.

[Stormwind]

Always good to see project updates. =3

[Malika]

Thanks a lot!

I realized that the component I designed to fill the wall gaps, also make amazing pillars when combined with the long connector:



Ive quickly added some color to give you a better feel of what they would look like once painted.

[Stormwind]

I like the look of those pillars.  In 40k city terrain the one thing they are rubbish at is a lack of ladders and pillars in order to make Necromunda style sky bridges.

[Malika]

Hmm, what about regular stairs or elevators? Making a staircase component will also be a lot easier using this method of connecting the components!

By the way, just for you, a close up on the inner workings of the pillar:

[Malika]

Started working on a blast door:


As you can see the blast doors are as thick as a wall, with the mechanism around it being thicker, just to give the whole thing a more chunky feel.



This is a rather standard and thin door. I am planning on making some door variant parts, allowing you to make really wide doors.

[Islacrusez]

Humm. Looks like it's gonna be pretty... fiddly, no? Highly recommend getting a prototype sorted to play around with.

[Malika]

It's not that fiddly actually, unless you had a hard time with K'Nex or Lego Technic when you were younger. but I should do a test print to see if it all stays together. Just need to wait until I've got some money coming in...

[Malika]

Started working on some stairs, quite a tough nut to crack. I've built the frame for the stair case, which consists of more than 30 parts, but considering that a single floor tile in a frame also consists of 9 parts, it might not be that crazy. One option is to fuse some of the parts together, making it easier to put together, but at the cost of losing modularity.

[Malika]

Sadly enough I don't have a cool looking Sketchup Face-Me (human model used as a basis), used to have some Imperial Guard units in the past from the Anargo Sector Project, but I lost them. This means I found somebody else's Cadians, who seem to have more realistic proportions rather than the typical heroic scale stuff. I also armed them with my rifle design to see how they fit.



So this is what my terrain would look like with 32mm tall models (I know GW is officially 28mm scale, but most miniatures tend to be 30-32mm tall) running through it

[Stuart Bleything]

Looks really cool and well detailed .

Stuart

[Malika]

Thanks a lot! Actually it's not THAT detailed. I mean, the smaller details are about 0.5mm, which is bigger than the stuff I've done before. However, there's also stuff that's like 0.53874159145 (long numbers). So the more detailed the printer, the better those details can come through. Not that you'll really notice it though.

Here a little update:

[Malika]

Slightly bigger update:


As you can see, the slope isn't a staircase anymore. I thought this more fitting, in case tracked/wheeled units would need to move up and down. I am planning on making a stairs variant of the slope component eventually. First I need to finish the detailing of the sides.




At the moment I've got more than 30 different components, almost all of them (except one) have been used in the above pictures. I guess when this is 'done' (as if that'll ever happen!), I'd imagine you'd have hundreds of different components that allow you to go really crazy. It's like Lego almost, but then with actual cool looking terrain!


Sort of random backshot.

Next up would probably be another version of the rackfarm unit, some different wall panels and some door variants that will allow you to build wide hangar doors.