Tuscany Hill Village Terrain Build

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Project Entry by redvers

The Big One

July 12, 2022

Tutoring 9

Skill 10

Idea 9

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I can’t put it off any longer, with all of the other buildings printed out, I only have the church left. Here’s the FreeCad design

This is too big to fit on the build plate of my printer, so I have constructed it as a flat pack church. Only the tower is printed as complete sections. Here’s all of the elements of the base level of the church and the tower

Ikea flat pack church

The modular tower. You can print as many layers as you like to get the desired height

This has created problems. Each element is slightly warped from the printing as such large ‘plates’ are thin and get pulled out of line during the printing. With a little bit of warm water and some sanding, I managed to glue most of it together reasonably well. This gave me this

In the above pictures, you can see some gaps areas that just don’t line up. This is frustrating as I digitally built this model in FreeCad to make sure it would work but I must have over estimated either my printers accuracy or my ability to 3d print. But I’m hoping that the gaps can be filled and the end result isn’t too bad.

However, the flat pack roof was a disaster. It was very out of alignment and when placed on the church, just looks dreadful. You can see this in the pictures below.

I’m going to have to re-print the roof. I think that if I construct the parts together in FreeCad and then arrange them carefully on the build plate, I might be able to print them in one complete unit. That’s my next job.