Salute 2024 dungeon/arena

We received lots of requests for the rules that  Ben had drawn up for Adeptus Titanicus and the STL files for the Dungeon terrain. We are working on refining these with lessons learnt at Salute and will be putting them out there as soon as possible for free. When we know how this will be done I will announce it hear as well as on the “Ashford Gaming Club” Facebook page so watch this space.

A total of 8 teams of adventurers are planed for the big day and the first 4 are done. Each team has been put together using the rules for Space weirdos and all come to 75 points.

At the beginning of this project I said that this would be the test for this terrain system which has now been nicknamed 40K Lego in the club and it certainly has been. I have learned a number of things that I will use to improve the parts and I will soon be redesigning a MKII set. The first change will be to change the thickness of the base parts from 6mm to 7mm, this may not seem much but it will improve a number of things. Increasing robustness of parts, increasing surface area for gluing and allowing for a larger magnet hole (not that I have used magnets in this project but I want that option for the future). This also means that the corner spacers used in the columns will be 7mm thick and so 3 of them will make a column 21mm wide without the need for a second part of a different width which is what I have been doing. The second improvement will be to design several parts which are multiples of a smaller part. For example flor plates that are already 2×2 plates and 3×3 plates in one print. This will make it much easier to build larger sections. when this is all done I plan to make this available to the members of my club and see where it goes from there.

The final asembly comes together. All that remains is to paint it all and add the scatter and teams to fight in the dungeon. unfortunatly there is no more time before the close of the dungeonalia compatition but it will all be done by Salute 2024 there it will be one of the partisipation games run by the “Ashford Gaming Club”. I will still be posting to show the finished dungeon and the models that  will populate it and we look forward to seeing you all at salute.

The complicated stares are made with the first non printed bits (cocktail sticks as railings). The central generator is printed out of clear blue resin. although this is the only part that I haven’t designed my self (free file on cult 3d) I still needed to modify it with changing its proportions and hollowing out the core so lights could be added latter.

It quickly becomes clear that I have a problem of scale. in short the project will require many more building blocks than my little printer can churn out. This is where a good friend of mine at the club steps in to rescue me by printing out bulk blocks on  his FDM printer. This solved the first problem but created a second. Combining resin and filament parts creates distortions as they have different tolerances leading to gaps. I solved this with soaking the sub assembly’s in hot water and bending them back into shape as best I can. I could then produce multiple sub assembly’s.

Construction begins, the board is split into 9 sections for transport and the corner sections are built.

Now the base concept seems to work it is time to start designing the arena/dungeon. To create a 2 foot by 2 foot map out of 21 mm tiles I worked out I needed to make it 29 tiles by 29 tiles. The aim was to create a spacer that could serve 2 different uses, an arena stile area that could be used in skirmish games like Space weirdoes or an area with several entry points and a central point of interest so I can have Space Hulk or Alien type missions fending of waves of bugs entering from multipole entry points as they try to achieve whatever they are sent in to do.

It all started with a crazy idea after reading a book about Daleks. In the book was the schematics for a Dalek drop ship that looked like a strangely shaped egg box. I thought I might be able to use my new 3d printer to make it so I taught my self how to use Microsoft 3d builder with YouTube vids and started to play around. Before long I was developing a modular terrain system that could be used to make buildings and space hulk style tunnels. being a glutton for punishment I decided to put it to the test by making a full 2 by 2 foot Dungeon/Arena for my clubs table at Salute 2024.

I decided to make the base tile 21mm by 21mm so making a corridor 2 tiles wide would make the corridor 42mm. This would allowing a terminator on 40mm base to pass. 3 tiles wide would make a corridor 63mm wide and allow a monster/dreadnought etc. on a 60mm base to pass.

after designing several base parts I printed enough to make a test corner to prove it would work.