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I did this project as kind of a test pilot, but I think it came out pretty well. I've tried a couple of different versions of this but this is the one I think worked the best.

The original is available on Thingiverse. I made some minor edits to run the electronics through it.

Here it is in the modelling app:



I don't think I took any other work in progress pictures (whoops)

Here is the finished model from a few angles:



I'm wanting to continue with a Massacre at Sanctuary 101 theme. At my current rate, a board with this terrain should be done in approximately 70 years.

Here is is with the LED lights on:



And a gif showing the pulse:



Here are the workings:




Very nearly 100% of the project was 3D printed: the generator and SOB helped\bolter\hand are printed in Anycubic Grey resin, the lighted cylinder is Anycubic Green resin, the base is PLA. The only parts that are not 3D printed are the sand glued to the base, the skulls (from the Citadel Skull kit) and the crystals, which are necron green sprue shaped with a dremel tool.

Kinda fun, and now that I wondered the design elements out, I can make these pretty fast, not accounting for my glacially slow painting.

That is super cool, I like terrain with Light features like that. My FLGS has smoke wrapped around tea lights to simulate burning, always fun to put those on the table

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That came out great! Really nice piece of scatter terrain or objective marker or whatever. Did you buy the LED thing as a kit or wire it yourself using parts? (I wouldn't mind a list maybe? Sometimes I struggle with my own LED work in vehicles because of the power requirement/resistor need for multiple lights on a string)
And thanks for sharing. Cool inspiration here! Have you thought about selling it as a kit?

 JBSchroeds wrote:
Out of curiosity, why is your Rhino model so...messy? I whipped up a quick facsimile to show what I mean

I know exactly what you mean and I'm glad this came up because I forgot to speak to it in a way that probably crosses into plagiarism.

I didn't design the original model this was based on - you can find it on Thingiverse as epic-scale scenery.

I sized it up, but I also wanted to cut some holes in it for the lighted cylinder part, and to run electronics through it (I also experimented with a cross-shaped insert that didn't work super well). I don't know how to add or subtract solids as cutting objects for an STL, so I did MeshToNurb on the original stl, and then edited the Nurbs object. Probably not the best way to have done it, but it sure was super fast. I wanted to use the original mesh as a cutting part for that aforementioned cross shaped insert, and I don't think you can cut a nurbs object with a mesh - that was the original reason I converted it.

 JBSchroeds wrote:
Solid Tools> _MergeFace and _MergeAllFaces are really helpful commands.

Thanks for the commands. I don't have a proper foundation for Rhino, just some stuff I picked up so I do a lot of things weirdly and inefficiently. I bought a training DVD but have not managed to make myself run through it because I am very lazy and can usually get what I want done now, albeit in weird, bad ways. For example I just learned the other day about how to array stuff, previously I had been doing it... manually.






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edwardmyst wrote:
That came out great! Really nice piece of scatter terrain or objective marker or whatever. Did you buy the LED thing as a kit or wire it yourself using parts?

Little of both.

There was a website that sells that little board with a FAN5646 chip on it, but I bought them in 2012 and I don't think he has them anymore. The chip is about 22 cents and I think I paid about 4 bucks per kit, which was a pinky-nail size bit of breadboard, the chip, a capacitor, and a resistor. The chip was already soldered on the board IIRC.



I added the battery holder, the battery, and the LED and soldered all those parts with the other components onto the board.

Regardless of how available that specific kit is, there are lots of similar kits out there. The trick was finding one as small as those - you can fit them inside Necron Destroyers or other stuff.

edwardmyst wrote:
Have you thought about selling it as a kit?

The original license allows for it, so I have to think about it. I probably won't though, I have too many other projects to work on. But I am going to try doing one more piece of terrain like this but with multiples of the power generator - this was basically a test part.

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Thanks for the offer - I will definitely take you up on it!

Very nice, I love the way it pulses!