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Just wanted to come back and say thanks for everyone’s input here. With your help, I was able to design and get printed a couple of test pieces to see if my thinking was along the right lines. I also stumbled across Treatstock, an online market place where you can upload designs and get prices for them to be printed. I didn’t think that the prices were too bad and much cheaper than buying my own printer 🙂

My first effort was a ‘flat pack’ building with floor and walls designed separately and then glued together. This seemed to work if albeit a little rough and ready looking

Thinking that taking this approach meant that I was not really utilising the benefits of 3d printing, I downloaded FreeCad and taught myself the basics and went for something a little more complex, again to test out how I could make this modular and how small I could realistically get detail to print. I ended up with this:

It has a couple of small issues. The linking slots are a little tight and need a file. The door detail didn’t quite work out and I need to leave some more space so that the detail is visible. And the chimney is probably a fraction too small to print correctly. But otherwise, I think this is going to be the solution to create a unique village from Tuscany for my Flames of War.

Here’s the two attempts and I’ll definitely be ditching the flat pack option.

I appreciate that you all work on far more detailed prints than this but to say thanks for your help, if you do want to print your own Italian buildings, I’m more than happy to share the STL files for this and the more detailed designs that I have planned. I’ll fire up a project to cover the progress!