Cyberpunk Urban Growth with 144artist
Brainstorming the Spools.
While I do not claim to engage in the hobby of 3D printing several of my friends do and they share their left over spools with me. I’ve got a nice size collection going as I have this long running plan to make more spools into terrain and my friends print a lot. I also own a fair number of wooden discs of various sizes as I want different diameter bases and tops for different spools to break things up visually. Looking at my choices I set aside the two cardboard spools and the clear plastic one to focus on the black ones. Of the six, four are identical and shorter while the other two match each other and are a little taller.
So with all these spools available to me, after a day of messing around I settled on using some of my 12 inch discs to make a spool shape from scratch. It’s just that I had a number of big pieces I really wanted to use but they wouldn’t really fit on the spools. This also gave me the opportunity to create terrain that miniatures could move through, not just around and over.
Lots of spools
Lots of stacked spools.
The workspace where the brainstorming happens as well as considerable mess.
Small box full of pipes and fittings
Medium box full of strange shapes, MDF offcuts, and scraps of plastic.
A huge bin full of big pieces and lots of air hose from my BPAP machine.
So this is where I started going with all my bits and pieces.
Leave it to me to ignore the actual spools and make my own.
I am liking the overall shape of things
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