Schneerim Scenery: 3D printed Grindstone

[Hupp n at em]

Wow, that's incredible.  Nice job!

[qazbnm]

The additional greenery really pulls everything together, looks great! I tried Malebolgias method too after reading that thread, although I substituted the water effects with matte medium as it was the closest thing at hand. Your moss is better 

[Teardrop World]

Schneerim is a land of high Mountains, but unfortunately shops only sell flat tables. So I made some elevations before, but there's never enough of them as most are only one sheet thickness, and I stack them a lot. Currently building more mountains, with four layers each and a standard size of 30x40cm. The final result will be visually very "square", but will allow to place them side by side with nearly no gaps between. A hard and long work for a poor result. Not eye candy, but I post this to motivate my self.

Picture Below: Sheets cutted, some of the previously made "mountains" in the background



I used a special glue made for styropor, the "lotonthefloor-plentyonthehands-hardlywhereyouwant^TM" made for isolation. This glue need a good pressure to be efficient, a cheap bass amplifier is used for this purpose (guitar amplifier are lighter). Game snobs would surely argue that the glue will be more efficient with a handwired boutique amplifier and cause a stronger bond with the glue  .

[Mr. Peabody]

The quality of the bond varies according to the music you are playing. I strongly recommend by King Crimson.

[throwsFireball]

The quality of the bond varies according to the music you are playing. I strongly recommend by King Crimson.

Ugh, sure, if you just want bond strength. Everyone knows that in order to achieve a glue bond that steps across the fourth dimension you need to play Beethoven's Fifth to it.

Sometimes I don't know why I even come on this forum.

[Mr. Peabody]

Couldn't agree more. Beethoven is another frequent flyer on our audio play-lists.

Looking forward to more of this awesome, Schneerim terrain!

I really should start using that tube of Payne's Grey more often...

[Teardrop World]

Well,

It hurt me to admit that a cheap bass combo was not good enough to help. The sheet fell appart when I cut them a little. After some chirurgical operation with kebab sticks and a generous amount of five minutes PVA glue, I opted for a more Heavy solution. I found last year an old Marshall head in a trash bin  , and it seem to be the correct weight. Unfortunately, the reverb spring is very noisy and it's not a tube amp but an infamous Mosfet of the infamous 80's.
I hope it will not affect the glue this time.

The quality of the bond varies according to the music you are playing. I strongly recommend Elephant Talk by King Crimson. Grin

 

I'm more of kind of Still Life by Van der Graaf Generator, or the utterly comdemnation of this world of madness in Mekanik Destruktiv Kommando (in french and only the introduction: https://youtu.be/ENmCg70zBiM?t=1s Wonderful Bass line, shouted one night in 1980, still valid today and tomorrow). 

After this musical apparté (in french in the text), and while the glue was drying, the flatness of those mountains was so obvious that I needed to sculpt some decorative element. A few hours of sculpt and massive production of styrodust give birth to some ... err... arrrr.... things. Just need to coat them with PVA and paint. The three element made previously are on top of the picture, and at the time they was made I thinked it was enough. You never have enough scenery. Never.

Cheers

[Mr. Peabody]

Ouuaais! C'est excellent ça!

Sais pas pourquoi, mais cela me rappelle Vent du Mont Schärr. Genre différent, mais énergie sympa.

Also, the new rocks look sublime.

[Teardrop World]

Just made a trek in an old WH fantasy box, while the mountains paint was drying. Exhumed some dwarves undercoated some years ago. These were obviously not 28mm minis but statuesque sculpts expressly made for 15mm.

The first prototype was good enough, and a second stair with a different style began to come out of life (well, more a kind of out of styropor)

First stairs before the base coat:



A boring block of styro, a chain and dwarves....



Basic shapes, stones engraving later... maybe with some kind of Dwarhmer (Dwarf in Schneerim) runes or decorations



Cheers

[dijit]

Nice work, and 28mm minis really do provide some great material to work with.

[Teardrop World]

Had the joy to play with a 3D printer and the misfortune of a CHEAP printer with a lot of fails.
I needed to work at a blacksmith scenery for Schneerim, and building a grindstone was a challenge for my clumsy hands. Easier to do trackball and 3D software than with cutter in fingers.

Overall length of the tool: 20mm. Not very detailed, a Shapeway print would be a little bit better but it's fun to see the little thing grow layer after layer.

Original design:



And the printed and painted result, with 15 and 28mm figures for the scale. A second grindstone is on the printing raft, ready to be painted.