{"id":6774,"date":"2018-11-26T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=6774"},"modified":"2018-11-25T12:02:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T19:02:27","slug":"squaring-those-dropzone-paper-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=6774","title":{"rendered":"Squaring Those Dropzone Paper Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost a year ago, while participating in our local Winter Campaign<\/a> of Dropzone Commander, the campaign manager came in with some nifty templates.\u00a0 These templates are made to act like a base for the buildings to keep them square, which is an issue because the buildings usually fold flat for storage and don’t easily spring back into shape. I was able to use them in a game and I loved them but not owning a 3D printer, I could only look on.\u00a0 I even tried my own hand at it<\/a> with my CNC machine but it didn’t work out too well.<\/p>\n

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Thingiverse user Scooper4711<\/a> had the files up<\/a> and with my friend’s 3D printer going strong, he was gracious enough to crank some out for testing.<\/p>\n

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The way Stephen set up these models were great as you could vary some of the tolerance before you printed.\u00a0 We went with a 2mm wide trough and a 5mm tall wall.\u00a0 This seemed to work well for all the buildings and the test prints came out great.<\/p>\n

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These square-shaped buildings are usually the worst offenders at coming out crooked.<\/p>\n

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You can squeeze them back to try to get them to stay square but it usually doesn’t help that much.<\/p>\n

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With them not being square, they also tend to teeter back and forth which is not the greatest thing when you have your painted infantry models balanced up top.<\/p>\n

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The other nice thing for me was my ruined buildings from Empires at War already have an extending base from the building edge so they both fit in well.<\/p>\n

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Turning the base into a sidewalk works very well to keep the piece in theme with the surroundings.<\/p>\n

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And finally, the bases printed in a grey PLA blend well enough for me that I don’t feel the need to paint them.\u00a0 This is nice in that they are instantly table ready from the printer bed.<\/p>\n

A big thanks to my friend, Reese, for printing these out and to Stephen for putting the models up on Thingiverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost a year ago, while participating in our local Winter Campaign of Dropzone Commander, the campaign manager came in with some nifty templates.\u00a0 These templates are made to act like a base for the buildings to keep them square, which is an issue because the buildings usually fold flat for storage and don’t easily spring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,2],"tags":[229,68,591,706],"class_list":["post-6774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dropzone-commander","category-general","tag-3d-printing","tag-dropzone-commander","tag-terrain","tag-thingiverse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}