Category: 3d Printing

  • Watchtower, stage 1

    Watchtower, stage 1

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    Halfling13

    The first floor of the watchtower project is printed and temporarily assembled. Everything fits and lines up nicely, and the door swings well. Obviously still needs a coating of paint to bring out the details, but that will wait until the full assembly is done. Biggest issue this had (other than general printer problems) is…

  • Speed (or lack of)

    Speed (or lack of)

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    Halfling13

    Now that I am home from traveling again, I can give some focus to the printing, and the layer shifting it has been doing. Currently, my working theory is overheating in the y-axis motor – I believe I am just pushing it too hard and/or it is aging. So my current option is to slow…

  • Stair stepping

    Stair stepping

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    Halfling13

    New troubles, or returning troubles, with the 3d printer – my prints have started to shift again. This was a problem a few weeks ago, the prints would seemingly randomly shift in the y-axis, resulting in faulty or unusable prints. After my office remodel, I releveled the printer, and tried some other prints, and the…

  • Rainbow of colors

    Rainbow of colors

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    Halfling13

    Over the last couple of years, I have slowly collected a number of different 3d printing filaments, primarily in PLA. For the most part, those have been stored in various boxes, but that makes it difficult to remember what I have, and to (more importantly) actually use it. With the recent office remodel, I opted…

  • The Watch Tower

    The Watch Tower

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    Halfling13

    As my next big project, I am working thru a set of 3d printed terrain. The terrain set is produced by Printable Scenery, as is part of their Clorehaven collection. Specifically, I am tackling the Watch Tower to start with, though I intend to craft the majority of the buildings from the set eventually –…

  • True-Tiles & Terrain

    True-Tiles & Terrain

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    Halfling13

    As highlighted in our recent gaming videos, we use a collection of 3d printed True Tiles, based on models available from Hero’s Hoard. The basic model has been altered with some external designs, to include magnets in the base frame, while the surface is the same. The problem in the past has been that the…

  • 3d printer repairs

    3d printer repairs

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    Halfling13

    Been running into a number of problems with the 3d printer recently, while I have been trying to create new terrain pieces for our gaming. The most notable concern has been a layer shift – at mostly random heights, the print seems to shift in the Y-axis, sometime plus, and sometime negative. It isn’t consistent…

  • Painting the True Tiles

    Painting the True Tiles

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    Halfling13

    I didn’t end up taking any new pictures, so here is an old picture. Last Friday, I finally got motivated enough to paint up the rest of my True-Tiles collection, to match with the prior pieces. It was a nagging project, one which was front and center with our new campaign and the videos that…