I’m back working on some Age of Sigmar items but have some work ahead of me. I’ve been wanting a Chaos Warshrine for awhile but never picked one of for a variety of reasons. I found one cheap second-hand and snagged it. Unfortunately, it wasn’t complete and for some reason, I really wanted this missing item.
The piece in question (obviously) was the shrine’s spell/prayer book. I really liked the overall theme of this paintjob I found and wanted to duplicate it on my warshrine but the book was a pretty critical piece.
I could go try to find it from a bits seller on eBay but thought that the object is pretty simple. I’ve been getting better at CAD so why not give it a try.
I booted up Fusion360 and started out with some simple shapes. This is really nothing more than basic rectangles and triangles extruded to the full shape.
The pages were just spline lines duplicated and then extruded to the final shape in the book.
After that, I got a little “fancy” and added the main book spine and book stand. Even though it was really small, I wanted to try this on my FDM printer just to see if it could handle something like this.
I finished things off with an oversized Eightpoints bookmark and called it good.
Printing at the highest quality (0.1mm), I was a little too optimistic and tried printing with just a skirt, which promptly failed into spaghetti. Then I went with a brim which also failed so I finally turned to a full raft. The raft worked and a new chaos prayer book is ready for the masses to be blessed with.
As we can see, the priest has found a suitable convert and is showing them all the good things that can be learned from the Chaos gods.
There is no doubt this is an FDM print but it still has some details in there and it can definitely be called a book so I’m satisfied.
This is straight from the printer with the raft and supports cut away. I still have a bit of clean up I want to do as well as some post-processing. I’m going to try some liquid greenstuff and some fine sanding so see if I can polish the book up some more.
If I can smooth out the lines a bit, it should paint up pretty easy and I can use the painting to hide the low fidelity even more.
Russ Spears
Ah, some old fashioned pimpin’ via 3D printer. Well done on the model and the print!
I’m going to request pics on how the Liquid Green Stuff treatment goes. Plus I’ve got a question for you, partly fueled by FB posts. Is you LGS actually liquid? I’ve gotten 3 pots and they’re all solid – to the point of being more like pre-combined/rolled green stuff. I’ve seen videos where it’s liquid enough to be applied by brush. What I’ve got is usable, but I find it hard to believe I got 3 bad batches.
Christian
Thanks! The LGS I have is a little less viscous then peanut butter. I use a brush to put it on but it is not runny at all.