Infinity Terrain
Designing and building Vending machines
What’s more Anime / Japanese than vending machines you can get anything in a vending machine in Japan.
I decided to start to try and come up with a cool design for this. I have seen some of the things available from the companies online and this is great chance to try and cut acrylic on my laser which I need to do on my next Ice Storm building (have not done this before).
I wanted this to be as simple as I could but have enough detail to have fun. In fact I wanted this to be a quick fun project to get a few more under my belt before I start something longer and more complex.
If you have read all of this so far, for one congratulations on reading, looking and watching all of this massive project log. for two this probably is not going to be so simple.
I designed this in an evening though this is the alpha i decided to remove the 3 pieces on each corner to simplify this.
Here is the flats that I made showing all the components. I decided to make 4 due to my A4 material constraints I did make too many of the back pieces as these sometimes distort the way i cut these. 
All the components cut out and ready for assembly.
This is showing the build process. I start from making the box and putting the prduct rails in theen add the sides and then the feet. I have not glued in the clear acylic or removed the protective film. to make painting easier.At this stage I was set but knowing me, I don’t like to have these kicking around aimlessly. I do like it and I may do this for a few others but do a bit more of a paint job on them.
I needed something more, something more fantastical and imaginative. So I took to the internet for inspiration…
And here it is. A cat shaped vending machine enclosure!
Drew this out. It should still be simple but there are a few things to work out. I will come to that at the end. 
Cut out and assembled with the vending machines in situ. I am so happy with this there are a few missing pieces in the lettering they belong to the carpet god.This provides line of sight blocking terrain on my tables and I think it’s fun.
What worked well.
- The vending machines look great and they don’t need any further work. I just cut and assemble no further work needing done on the drawings. I usually make ones to start then make changes but I think these will be finals.
- almost all the begs turned out so I did not need to mess around to much I did add two missing peg holes from the base.
- The vending machines can be removed from this. This means I can use them as scatter terrain or even tip one or two over to break up the terrain.
What I need to work on now…
- Find a way to clad the outside to fill in the massive hole on the sides. I want to be cheap. I could use plasticard but would rather use card. I have not stuck this down for this reason.
- I need to be able to cut out the text and not lose the bits. I think this is possible but will have to try and just out just the letters from scrap to get the bits.
- the back of this is very plain and requires some filling due to construction holes. I may do graffiti? Don’t know yet.
- What do I put in them. I want something quick and not have to make 48 28mm Twix and Packets of crisps.
Apart from all of the things to do this has been great fun and very fast, 3 nights work. This is the way to go on a project rather than months. Things are so much faster when you are just drawing and not caring about matching something exactly.
Let me know if you have any ideas for this or future side projects I can do!
Wow.
Very cool idea, I think would also fit great into a game of Relic Knights. Some way of doing something like neon lighting for advertising across the top or something would look very cool, imho.
Never played Relic Knights but from the week BOW done of it I think you may be right. I have other idea for advertising but i did change this up based on neon so thanks!
Glad I could help, look forward to seeing the results. Yeah, it’s pretty tough to get hold of Relic Knights stuff without going through a bunch of different suppliers for parts now. I think they are still working on fulfilling the KS for the 2nd edition at the moment. I hope they’ll get at least some bits into retail for the end of the year, but we’ll see.
Really interesting idea and love how you have put this all together and how it’s shaping up mate.
Now living in Japan, I haven’t had the fortune of seeing this Kitty vending machine, but will be in the look out for it.
There is a hell of lot of work gone into this project from looking through each entry. I though painting and assembling the antenocitis buildings were a lot of work, but this is ona new level altogether.
Great stuff!
Thanks! It is a labour of love, I don’t think many people would wish to spend the time on them. I am now at the stage where I want to get back to my own designs, much more creative freedom and fun to be had. Though real life is sometimes more interesting any fiction like in this case. Glad you have enjoyed it so far. Much more to come!