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New printed terrain out!

So many moons ago Troublemaker Games did a Kickstarter campaign for 3D printable terrain. Now Vanguard Miniatures is stocking some of those items, selling them as printed items (no need to ask for STL's here).

Small Gas Tanks

Set of four different small gas tanks compatible with Troublemaker Games plastic terrain sets

Notes:

-Resin printed product
-8mm tall infantry figure show for size purposes only

https://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/small-gas-tanks/

Roof Top Vents

Set of four different roof top vents compatible with Troublemaker Games plastic terrain sets

Notes:

-Resin printed product
-8mm tall infantry figure show for size purposes only

https://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/roof-top-vents/

Found this, thought some of you might appreciate this: https://hardwarestudios.co/product/sprawl-under-siege-6mm-scatter-set-06-repair-bays/

My first building just got released!

Alpha Hab Tower

The Alpha Hab Tower is designed for 6mm/8mm gaming, but it could probably be upscaled for 10mm and 15mm scaled gaming as well. This makes the Alpha Hab Tower suitable for games such as Adeptus Titanicus, Dropzone Commander, or Battletech.

The kit consists of the following parts:
- 3 types of entrances (all windows, single row of balconies, double row of balconies)
- 3 types of back walls (all windows, single row of balconies, double row of balconies)
- 3 types of side walls (all windows, single row of balconies, double row of balconies)
- 2 types of roofs
- 7 types of balconies

Please do no share or sell these files (including prints and remixes) without my written permission.

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/alpha-hab-tower

Very approximate, but sorta rough idea for scale. Reaver is my buddy's tiger eyes SMM painting.

Yoinked!

Now I need to see how it prints in pla and resin.

 Albertorius wrote:
Yoinked!

Now I need to see how it prints in pla and resin.

Keep me posted on how that goes, very curious to see what you'll do with this design. Purely based on the wall and roof options you've got 162 different combinations to play with. That's without counting the different balconies you'd end up using.

Well, first things first I'll need to test them as-is, probably with the easiest to setup (windowed)

 Albertorius wrote:
Well, first things first I'll need to test them as-is, probably with the easiest to setup (windowed)

Any kinda scale shot would be great, photoshoped the reaver by eye but not sure how close it is.

Ok, let's see: printed one on the FDM one and another on the resin one. The FDM took about 13 hours >_>, and... well, it seems there were some issues with the models (I did actually need to repair the models when prepping them for resin, so it might be something about that). But FDM slicers tend to be very picky with files, so....

Anyways:



The resin building is proper chonky!. I think it would probably be better if we had the full building and the floor as two separate files (without the balconies) in various combinations: that way it would be easier to print, supports wise, and you could make the buiding thinner and save a lot of resin (you could probably make it half as heavy at least without losing any integrity). It would also allow you to print them directly from the plate with no or minimal supports needed.

It does look pretty cool, all told, and size wise it looks like so:



And the other sides:

So all four walls as a single piece and the roof still separate? Lemme see what I can do there.

As for the wall thickness, right now The walls are around 4mm (some parts thicker, some thinner) thick. Can I decrease it to an average of 2mm you think?

 Malika2 wrote:
So all four walls as a single piece and the roof still separate? Lemme see what I can do there.

As for the wall thickness, right now The walls are around 4mm (some parts thicker, some thinner) thick. Can I decrease it to an average of 2mm you think?

Yes, that was what I meant, that way you could even put it directly on the printing plate, and the floor separate would avoid the need of making anything complicated like holes to avoid straining the fep or the like.

As for thickness, I've printed full sized 40k tanks hollowed out with 1.2mm walls, so I'm pretty confident that 2mm is more than enough. Making the walls thinner would also make them easier to print vertical as a full building with supports, as each layer would be smaller. For a regular sized resin printer, I think you should be able to print 3, maybe four buildings without roofs on a single print (provided you print directly on the plate or put some thick base supports). Then you can print another plate with the floors and the balconies you need, and voilá.

I was thinking of perhaps selling the kit with thinner walls, but do give the instruction of first putting four walls together before printing. That way you’d print a single piece building and simply add the roof on top afterwards.

That way I would still keep the very modular nature of the kit, without having to sell 81 different buildings! :p

 Malika2 wrote:
I was thinking of perhaps selling the kit with thinner walls, but do give the instruction of first putting four walls together before printing. That way you’d print a single piece building and simply add the roof on top afterwards.

That way I would still keep the very modular nature of the kit, without having to sell 81 different buildings! :p

That should certainly work for resin, yes, and even for FDM too (although for FDM it would probably be better to have fully solid buildings and let the slicer calculate tie filler). After all, it's easy to just put them all together in window's 3d builder or whatever, but thinning them down will certainly help, and if they're meant to be printed that way, the backs of the front and back tiles of the building wouldn't need the extra recesses that they have now, so they could be completely flat as the sides.

You'd just need to add them to the current ones as options, probably stating what's the expected working method.

Nice pics, looks awesome

So, turns out I could fit three on the Mars 3's bed:

Quick question, is the bit underneath the entrance staircase still hollowed out or have you now made it solid in order to print it like that?

 Malika2 wrote:
Quick question, is the bit underneath the entrance staircase still hollowed out or have you now made it solid in order to print it like that?

Still hollowed out, there is no actual need to make it solid, I think, as it would mostly support by itself.

I haven't actually checked anything yet, just positioning and how long would it take to assemble the four pieces.

Did you have any difficulties with printing the eagle heads on the roof?

 Malika2 wrote:
Did you have any difficulties with printing the eagle heads on the roof?

Not really, no, they came out no problem both with the pdf and the resin print.

I've updated the building in my store, so adjusted front/back walls and an extra instruction advising people to first put the walls together and printing those as a single piece.

 Malika2 wrote:
I've updated the building in my store, so adjusted front/back walls and an extra instruction advising people to first put the walls together and printing those as a single piece.

Nice, thanks

I'll try to prep some to print next weekend, see how it goes.

I'm envisioning and upgrade pack with even more balconies and possibly a small landing pad that could fit into the single/double slots for the balconies. Maybe even a rooftop landing pad could be cool to shake things up. I showed my buddy all the different little dues on balconies and he immediately said "he's gotta do some strippers" lol could do a red light district expansion set

@Malika perhaps with Albertorius's permission you could post some of the pics on the fb page and relevant AT groups, the shot with the knight is great for scale. Also nice to see it in plastic and resin.

 Crablezworth wrote:
I'm envisioning and upgrade pack with even more balconies and possibly a small landing pad that could fit into the single/double slots for the balconies. Maybe even a rooftop landing pad could be cool to shake things up. I showed my buddy all the different little dues on balconies and he immediately said "he's gotta do some strippers" lol could do a red light district expansion set

@Malika perhaps with Albertorius's permission you could post some of the pics on the fb page and relevant AT groups, the shot with the knight is great for scale. Also nice to see it in plastic and resin.

If it's of any help I'd be glad to. I'll also try and post the print on Cults, for show.

 Crablezworth wrote:
I'm envisioning and upgrade pack with even more balconies and possibly a small landing pad that could fit into the single/double slots for the balconies. Maybe even a rooftop landing pad could be cool to shake things up. I showed my buddy all the different little dues on balconies and he immediately said "he's gotta do some strippers" lol could do a red light district expansion set

I am very tempted to do some other variant bits that fit into the building. Including a type of roof that will allow you to make the building twice as tall. Different balconies (including ones with plant pots hanging on them) are also planned. Haven't really thought of strippers yet

@Malika perhaps with Albertorius's permission you could post some of the pics on the fb page and relevant AT groups, the shot with the knight is great for scale. Also nice to see it in plastic and resin.

I was kinda waiting for Albertorius to paint these up, but I could also show the ones he's already shared.

 Malika2 wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:
I'm envisioning and upgrade pack with even more balconies and possibly a small landing pad that could fit into the single/double slots for the balconies. Maybe even a rooftop landing pad could be cool to shake things up. I showed my buddy all the different little dues on balconies and he immediately said "he's gotta do some strippers" lol could do a red light district expansion set

I am very tempted to do some other variant bits that fit into the building. Including a type of roof that will allow you to make the building twice as tall. Different balconies (including ones with plant pots hanging on them) are also planned. Haven't really thought of strippers yet

@Malika perhaps with Albertorius's permission you could post some of the pics on the fb page and relevant AT groups, the shot with the knight is great for scale. Also nice to see it in plastic and resin.

I was kinda waiting for Albertorius to paint these up, but I could also show the ones he's already shared.

Different balconies sounds cool, plants sounds cool. Was thinking you could try and see what some of the AC units look like if they fit into the balcony slots. Also maybe little signs too that can slot in where the balconies go. I like the height just fine myself, in fact the wider one you preview on fb look cool too. Guess that bigger one is gonna be called beta tower hab?


As for Albertorius's awesome pics, it goes over better in the groups cuz it's more tailored to AT, and the scale is pretty informative. I know I was stoked to see the pics for scale, double stoked to see it in resin and fdm. Def agree it will be cool to see them painted, the wip progress shots help get people invested. Always cool to see a project come together.

Different balconies sounds cool, plants sounds cool.

I feel that those little details really make the terrain feel more 'real', sort of like how this scene gives it a more 'alive' feeling.

Was thinking you could try and see what some of the AC units look like if they fit into the balcony slots. Also maybe little signs too that can slot in where the balconies go.

I haven't considered different stuff in the balcony slots yet, I'll have to look into that.

I like the height just fine myself, in fact the wider one you preview on fb look cool too. Guess that bigger one is gonna be called beta tower hab?

I was thinking of doing a few different building shapes using the wall components I've designed. The roofs would then kinda determine the shape of the building, but users can then decide which wall components they'd use. Was even thinking of trying out the roof shapes sort of similar to the old AT88 buildings.

As for Albertorius's awesome pics, it goes over better in the groups cuz it's more tailored to AT, and the scale is pretty informative. I know I was stoked to see the pics for scale, double stoked to see it in resin and fdm. Def agree it will be cool to see them painted, the wip progress shots help get people invested. Always cool to see a project come together.

Sounds cool!

@Albertonius, would you be cool if I'd feature your pics on my channels? Also, are you on Instagram? If so, I can then tag you as well.

 Malika2 wrote:

Different balconies sounds cool, plants sounds cool.

I feel that those little details really make the terrain feel more 'real', sort of like how this scene gives it a more 'alive' feeling.

Was thinking you could try and see what some of the AC units look like if they fit into the balcony slots. Also maybe little signs too that can slot in where the balconies go.

I haven't considered different stuff in the balcony slots yet, I'll have to look into that.

I feel that you could really go all hog with those, now you have the slots: you could add multi-level details, for example, that would slot with the balcoly holes, like for example bridges to other buildings, or landing pads, defense turrets, new building faces for specific levels (for example, you could convert one level into something else fronting it on th balconies, like, dunno, a techier front), or big old signs and the like... there's lots of possibilitles just adding to what's already there.

@Albertonius, would you be cool if I'd feature your pics on my channels? Also, are you on Instagram? If so, I can then tag you as well.

Sure, of course, no problem , happy to help. I do not have Instagram, though, I'm kind of low key ^^. Mostly I have the printing and painting thread here and sometimes I post something on twitter.

Also, I did a bit of a hack job with the FDM one, adding some grass to try and hide some of the misprints (lower your expectations accordingly ^^):





The other one I've only drybrushed it so far, but I think the aswesome detail is now much more visible, so here it is:







And lastly, scale Warhound:

Wow...just wow...

Here is one that has been printed and primed by Wolfkeeper over on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CWS0f9Mqq8z/

Looking very nice! Hopefully they'll also post painted pics afterwards.

If anyone is looking for good AT terrain files, the lazy forger has a black friday sale today, 30% off with the code LAZYFRIDAY30. They also released the long awaited second shanty set today and it looks awesome, reminds me of half life 2 a bit.

https://www.myminifactory.com/users/TheLazyForger?fbclid=IwAR1BtWwGi6sK_RlobGeHQMCgHTYFu3573w3jdofws7pxhfC2eYx70s15mmY