BSC2024 Daeothar's Frostgrave Warband Camp

[Lost Egg]

That's a great looking design...but it looks fiddly as... good luck!

[Daeothar]

Your remark about it being fiddly sort of rang true last night, and I had some genuine concerns about printing such tiny little objects in the first place.

Which is, when I was lying in bed still thinking about this, I had another, better idea. I will group a single section of the tiles together, on a very thin baseplate, and I will print multiples of this section. I will be able to tile them and get a consistent pattern, without having to worry about getting all of those tiny little squares upright and in the right position.

And that's what I will do next; make a single section like described (en outlined below) and then print a test version. Considering the very low profile, printing should be very fast indeed (unless I'm going to have to angle it).

So thanks Lost Egg; you set me on the right (or at least; less bad) path

[snitcythedog]

Which is, when I was lying in bed still thinking about this, I had another, better idea. I will group a single section of the tiles together, on a very thin baseplate, and I will print multiples of this section. I will be able to tile them and get a consistent pattern, without having to worry about getting all of those tiny little squares upright and in the right position.

You could also do larger groupings of four or eight main tiles with all of the smaller tiles base platted to make it even easier.   Still watching with interest.

[Daeothar]

That was one of the ideas I had last night too, yes

And I might still do that too, for the larger surfaces. And then have the single sections for the smaller corners etc 

[Thargor]

Just read your plan for the floor tiles and thought "printing them in larger groups might be easier", unless you want a very uneven or broken floor, in which case you need individual tiles.

You don't even need the fit to be perfect within the walls if you're going to have plenty of furniture and clutter around the walls to hide any small gaps.

[Daeothar]

Well, I certainly want broken tiles in there, but those can be broken or scribed by hand. As it stand now, I will be doing larger sets of tiles, to cover ground (sic) faster, but also some individual sets to fit the pattern into the available space.

But I reckon there will be copious amounts of debris in the corners anyway, so there will be ample opportunity to faff around if required

[Daeothar]

Quiet Friday afternoon at work, so snuck in a bit of CAD-tinkering. The advantages of a web based tool

This is a 4 tile piece. I might make a larger one too by simply copying and pasting, but this will be the standard. A single tile piece will probably also come in handy, so I will make one of those for sure.

Let's see how this prints during the weekend

[Lost Egg]

That looks great, should make it so much quicker to do.

[Daeothar]

So, that went smoothly, but I still need to adjust some things, most notably, the height of the tiles. Right now, they're way too subtle and one heavy coat of paint will completely obscure the detail.

So I'll thicken the tile layer by increasing it to 300% of the current thickness and see how that looks.

The current thickness took but 6 minutes to print by the way! 

[Burgundavia]

Distinct advantage to short prints. The bottom of the stand for my landing pad tower is almost done at a little under 4 hours...

[Daeothar]

I feel your pain; I've had prints last up to 10 hours to complete, so I'm pretty happy with these being so fast.

I had to thicken them up, so printing time is now 9 minutes, which is still very comfortably short. It helps I can print them flat on the build plate; no supports needed and the build is only a couple of mm thick/high.

Here you can see versions 1, 2 and 4 next to eachother. I think 4 has hit the sweet spot in terms of depth and width of the seams between the individual tiles.

I did some maths and I now know I will be needing another 4 printing sessions to complete what I need. One of those incorporates 1/2 sections, which I still have to digitally cup up and slice. But all in all, this will be just a couple of hours to complete. Then it's off to find my box of coffee stirrers for the wooden floor in the room

[Burgundavia]

Looks very good - nice print. I like the interlocking pieces.

[Lost Egg]

That last one looks great and like it'll be very satisfying building a floor from them. Are they designed to fit together exactly leaving the same gap between each cluster of tiles? Or will you need to do it by eye or use spacers?

[Thargor]

That last one looks great.  Looks like they'll slot in next to each other really well too. 

[Codsticker]

Looks very good - nice print. I like the interlocking pieces.

Seconded- brilliant work.