Day of the Tentacle diorama
Creating my own .stl files
Everything so far in this little project came from Thingiverse – the characters, the little handbell on the counter, the doorknobs for the doors etc.
But there was one thing I was unlikely to find, and that was a stylised, cartoon grandfather clock (though I did spend quite a bit of time looking!). So I figured I’d have a go at making one myself.
It’s little more than a few basic primatives mashed together, then “edge-edited” – where I selected an edge of a cube or rectangle, and just nudged it away from vertical/horiztonal.
The result doesn’t exactly match the artwork in the game, but looks close enough as a “cartoon-style distorted perspective” grandfather clock to fit in the scene.
This cactus was my favourite find on Thingiverse. I simply added a cylinder, scaled the top face of it up a bit, then duplicated and squashed the cylinder to create a lip around the top of what had become a plantpot.
With the walls and floor now cut and assembled, and the “window dressing” printed and in place, it’s time to crack out the paints and bring this thing to life!
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