Good luck with which ever you choose.

Just make sure you don't get infected with Wizard's Tower Syndrome (WTS), or your average room might not provide enough room on top to land that spaceship

Good luck!

When I design, I always start with pen sketches. Let's me think through the spacing, the size and elements as they interact with each other.

I've been doodling up a few different concepts over the past few months for this. What I want are a pair of elements - a larger 9"x9" building that will be the main building and a large vertical tower with the spaceport landing pad on the top of it.

With that in mind, I started with one large base (12"x18") and a ramp wrapping around it for vehicles to climb to a higher level. The idea would be two big doors - one at the 7mm base layer for my tiles and the other at 3". There would then be a large 6" building on top of the 3" base.



Ultimately, I decided against this concept as it was very large and didn't really do what I wanted. Plus the legs for the large spaceport on top would interfere with using the piece.

So I moved onto concept 2 a few days ago, which I started mocking up in FreeCAD with large blocks. At this time, I was thinking a 12"x12" base, with both the spaceport, with the building being in the style of Tycho Starport by Corvus Games, with rounded corners




In the end, I didn't like this either, so I'm going to go with a pair of 9"x9" bases, one with a large building on it, this time done in concrete (with foam) that has Tycho Starport parts 3D printed as accessories - windows and doors - and will use the roof style so I can put my existing buildings on its roof. This is the first concept sketch of that building


For the landing pads, I haven't started sketching those out, but it will likely end up being a single large pillar (2" diameter) with a large landing pad on the top and smaller pads for containers, etc. up the pillar, plus an elevator

Started the mockup of the landing pad tonight - just massing blocks for now. I'm using a paper roll I got from somewhere as the main upright. I will cut it to 12" and then on top of it place a 12"x12" octagonal landing pad (3D printed). Up the sides of the tower I'm going to run magnets and then have some smaller platforms that stick to them (the smaller octagon), as well as places on the side of the big pad as well - solves the "how do I get people and things to the top of the pad" problem nicely

I like the orange detailing on the last pic, very distinctive.

And we have actual physical things!

I've been busy over the past few weeks first trying to get over some sort of a stomach issue but also doing lots of test printing of tubes to hold the cardboard tube upright. Here's what all those prints look like:


Each time I increases the radius by 0.25mm to see if it made it fit. The largest and tallest one is the successful applicant, but I haven't been able to yet print the full holder as I've designed.

I also just finished a round of vitamins and was left with this awesome large bottle. Well that had to be used! Fuel tank it is. A few test prints later, and I have the bottom of the tank done:


I'm going to design a top and then use my Silhouette Cameo 4 to cut some panels to make up the outsides, plus I want to incorporate some GW panels I bought from a bits bin. So more design work needed. i also want to make the top be capable of taking any of the Tycho Starport roofs I've already got printed, so will be pulling in one of those pieces into the top to make that work.

And then last night the last of the outside pieces for the building printed, so they are now done, and here is roughly what the various pieces will look like together.


This second photo shows roughly what the tube for the vertical element will look like.


Happy to be here, but OMG so much more work to do.

very nice