Super easy way to make a ruin from a 3D-printed building. Warhammer, DnD, mordheim, frostgrave.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- How do you make a cool ruin from a 3D-printed model? With a hot wire cutter of course! Super easy way to make ruins for roleplaying and wargaming.
That was pretty neat! Always good to see those people who give 110% to tabletop games. Over here I just use a plastic bag filled with army men for figurines, and books and tissue boxes become scenery integral to the D&D setting. :P
Thank you! Well the important part is to have fun and to actually play some games. The rest is just icing on the cake!
Well played! 😎
That is a great video :)
Thank you
I love the effect you ended up with, I was thinking that maybe if you wanted a little bit more detail to fill in sliced away areas you could cut up some of the cut off floor bits and use them as rafters in the roof or timber sticking out of the walls to give a kind of exposed skeleton effect.
Yeah thats a good idea!!!
Thankyou very much for this video the building looked very good
Thank you!!!
What kind of printer i would need from Elegoo to print such nice large buildings on this vide?
I have Mars 2 Pro but that is for troops only i think
I think most standard printers have the 220x220mm print bed needed. Its usually inte the specs ont the sales site. Just dig in!
Hot Knife is what i use for my distressing etc. i'd hazard to say you get more control with it, though your method with the hotwire is certainly faster.
Cool. I might try that some day
You would save yourself a lot of PLA and print time by learning a little Meshmixer or Blender and cutting and deleting the parts you do not want to print in the first place.
Yes i know. I actually did learn a little bit and did this with another model. Thanks
Why not a soldering iron with an xacto attachment?
Thats a really good idea!!!
Personally I would have ct the building up in blender and then printed It in parts that I could add a bit more damage to later.
Yeah thats a better idea. But i suck royally at blender unfortunately. 😂
Really enjoyed your video! Came here from the photo your brother put on reddit, that Mordheim style board looks incredible! Can I just ask which 3D printer do you use? These buildings look amazing so Im starting to think about getting one myself!
Thanks! I have 3 Anycubic I3 Megas. Good luck with the project
I tried to find the kickstarter you mentioned, i cannot, please list the name of the kickstarter :) Thanks
The KS is over, but if its stormguard you mean you can get the files here.
www.rmprintableterrain.com/collections/stormguard-a-city-in-ruins
Ill be honest Ive normally just messed up the model before printing. Looking fwd to seeing your idea.
Have to say your results are great. But man thats a lot of wasted PLA😞
MrBizteck yeah its better to do it on failed prints or to modify them in meshmixer before cutting them up.
@@Lybbansminiatures a failed print ! Of course .... never thought of that.
Yes !
I appreciate all your work but i have to ask, why did you do that when there are numerous ruined buildings from either pay sites like printable scenery or free sites like thinigiverse. Also next time i would highly suggest modifying the file in mesh mixer. You can create the ruins in there and save on PLA and time printing. You did do a great job and i would of never of thought of using a hot wire tool. One last question did you modify the wire in the hot wire cutter. It just looks like a beefier gauge than normal.
Thanks. Yeah meshmixer would be great if i wasnt so bad at it. Also its usually not allowed to modify stl-files digitally, bit who would know. The ruins available are not at all as playable and with as many floors that i need for mordheim, thats why i do this. I do however have every ruin from printable scenery and will use them for my board. Thanks for the tips and thoughts. Appreciate it.
The wire is indeed beefier than the one on the tabletop cutter, but it is the one that comes with the cutter
Thanks for the information and example. Do you think a PLA printer is worth the investment?
You are liable to end up with more unpainted gray (or whichever color filament you buy) plastic because a printer does not need sleep, it can print all day and night if you just feed it, i think that and the fact that minis themselves dont print good enough (IMO) are the only negatives of having a filament printer.
For printing terrain they are brilliant, either go for full prints like in the vid or print detailing to punch up scratch builds, you can find, design or remix stuff to fit foam board, like building corners to join and hide the open ends of the material with stonework, bricks or beams, windows/doors that just slot into holes, strips of roof shingles or full roofs to go on top, super quick compared to making the detailing by hand.
They can also be useful outside of the hobby, this happened two weeks ago: my mom has a 3000 dollar massage chair which is a couple of years old and one of the connector bits for the right side of the back massage inside it broke, finding parts turned out to be impossible but i grabbed the old part, figured out how to match it within the limitations of printed parts (mostly tensile strength, printed layers can separate if pulled away from each other), designed and printed the part in a couple of hours, tested, found an issue with my design, modified it, printed the new version and got the chair working again.
@@zid_just_zid Thanks
Its a seperate hobby in its self. So be aware of that!
@@MrBizteck Thanks.
Just saw that i downvoted this comment by mistake! Sorry about that, I must have seem like the biggest douche. Thanks for the comment!