Salute 2024 dungeon/arena

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.