Infinity Terrain

So I am back at the drawing stage of a large model. Quite enjoying this one I have laser cutting in mind along with 3d printing and some hand skills as well.

The next project within a project is my landing pad I wanted to do. Always want one of these but never liked how they have been done. The standard is a circle or octagon on stilts.

I like stilts but why would you have them unless you were trying to protect the ground, surly this makes it harder to load cargo and it makes much more sense to have it on the ground…

Unless you have some sort of cargo system to load of offload cargo, this got my ideas flowing. So I decided to start to build my landing pad and have taken far to long and have 1000 components already to start to print and cut. I think I am going to start to print some components soon.

So far I have designed a column 😀 this has taken ages because it pretty much works. All the components have ball joins and material tolerances so they fit together when printed. The robot arms can move up and down etc. I wanted this for possibility. I also have numerous ports on the parts for power and cables (added later). This is going to be the well used first landing pad the enabled the rest of the buildings to be put up.

There will be an automated truck, a cargo container (which I done before) being raised up into the cargo slot of a drone flyer, along with some kind of control tower.  Quite involved and should be fun.

The only point for scale is the white sections. They are sections of  plastic lollipop sticks 4mm diameter.

Here is what I have so far.

So that’s this so far. Will continue to work and post as I progress. I will be working on the structure holding up the control tower. then will move onto the platform. And possibly start printing the arms and columns.

More to come but possibly just more drawings.