Appartmant Street 'Terrain Challenge'

Wanted to talk about the files I’m using to print and some of matireals I’m useing to create my buildings.

As i have said in a later post I’m using the Appartmant building files from Z1 Designs Precinct 187 Kickstarter range that i backed in 2016.

The files consist of individual parts such as floor tiles, wall tiles and pilers that have a simple clip together and fit very well without could almost say the hole think can be push fit.

Im using PLA filament to build the project, easy to use and produces more detail than ABS. I wanted to use white filament as i think it will take the primer better as well as this i want to try to avoid using a range of colour fillaments so when primed for example on to white and black plastic there wont be a colour different to the parts once primed.

I also intend to use other STL Files that i have collected form other Kickstarters but ill talk more about that when i get to the stage of printing them.

One more thing worth mentioning is the software I’m using to set up the STL Files for my Prusa i3 MK2s. I’m currently using Cura as it gives a full range of features to help the print to come out the best it can first time. Other software i have used is Prusa Control made specially for the Prusa prints, its good for a beginner to print there first prints but when you move to fill a print bed so you can live it all day you need a more in depth bit of softwear like Cura or Slic3r.

Hope to keep you all up to date on my progress in using the printer and softwear and any issues i may encounter.