Collins Does Yavin IV Table Build

as we all know every board needs some scatter terrain to hide behind.

I’ve already made some larger bits like a shield generator and fuel tank but what about smaller bits?

well, my 3D printer has been built and I’ve been playing with it with (mostly) success.

now I mentioned mostly success. I have found a highly detailed X-Wing model and in my naivety tried to print the whole lot all in one go. It was going well until my wife looked at it and at that precise moment a part came away from the bed and the hot end started digging in. the safety features of the i3 Mk3 kicked in and stopped but sadly the print was ruined. one part was melted for a start 🙁

Ive since restarted it in bits. however it did highlight a problem I have with the auto bed levelling. There is a minor angle on the bed that means the first layer on one side isn’t compressed right down to the bed which can be seen in this image.

so I found a brilliant X-Wing model on thingiverse which was 1:64 scale and brilliantly detailed.

I did a bit of back of the napkin maths to up the scale of the model by about 33% to try and get a 1:48 scale model of it and print it out.

im still new to this 3D printing lark so don’t really know what I’m doing but im happy with the overall results.

the laser cannons will need doing again at some point as they wobbled during making which means that instead of accurate laser cannons I have an X-Wing armed with laser shotguns, good for duck hunting but not so good for hunting TIE/LN fighters.

either way, the first bit of large area blocking terrain on the landing pad is in existence! happy days!!

so without putting everything that’s painted together there’s no real way of knowing whether enough has been done. I still need to build a temple wall and the xwing etc but still, lets see!

I have been really working the 3D printer since I built it. I have had a few failures and have been trying to think how to cover it up and make a bit of terrain out of the cockups.

The bit I made is a grav sled that has been hit by some form of space mortar and spilled its load. The Gonk droid is there to try to clean it up, but sadly, he has no arms to sort it out so he’ll end up just going on his way and charge something else up.

even then I’ve still cocked it up. I put on grass tuffs before sealing with varnish. It turns out that when you varnish grass tuffs you end up with a semi pleasant early morning frost look. Happy accident!

So ive printed up some new terrain for the Yavin board.

I had originally decided to make the yavin hanger out of foam board. I could easily make it representative of it and as my test pieces showed, could look cool.

I then looked for more cool models on the internet and found imperialterrain.com who appear to be a partnership of 3d designers out of America. they have made a representation of the hanger with assorted ‘stuff’ with them. for the grand total of £3.80 I could buy the file and print it as many times as I liked. it would cost me more in foam board and glue to make it the traditional way so it almost became a no brainer.

I painted it using the already documented method. I am happy with it, but not the scale, needs to be bigger, much bigger. just can I be bothered to wait the 1000 hours it would take to print it in the size? we shall see (probably not lol)

Whilst I was there I also downloaded their temple ruins, they’re printing now!

So it’s finally done! It’s not all gone to plan and very not in time for the competition but that’s ok, I think it looks amazeballs!

it doesn’t have a Y-wing or U-wing yet and might never get them (it will I’m sure) but still!

enjoy the pictures whilst I enjoy the games!

Specifically a Y-wing and an A-wing along with some more temple ruins.