Egyptian Mythology Display - Spring Clean 2024
Starting the terrain
While watching the XLBS today I started assembling the terrain. I currently have it split into three parts, the left and right wings and the central section.
I started by dry fitting the right wing. It was a little bit of a puzzle as I can’t find any instructions online, but in the end wasn’t too bad. I quickly noticed that I’m going to have trouble with parts fitting together though. If you look closely at the picture you will see that almost every join doesn’t fit right. I put this down to print defects that aren’t obvious when you print a single part, but when you put two together it becomes apparent a surface is warped. I also have peg and hole joints that don’t fit or line up properly and column pairs where the heights don’t match. These problems look like they’re going to ruin a lot of the excellent hieroglyph detail which is a real shame.
Still… I’m going to stay positive and just chalk this up to another thing learned during this project. When 3D printing large terrain pieces like this (which to be fair is very rare) you have to be really careful with part distortion.
The right wing is about 18″ long so the entire display is going to be 4 to 5 foot long. I’m going to need a really big shelf to put it on.
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