This week, I are mostly been printing...
Gloom Card Box -https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4377287
If you haven't heard of Gloom it's
a very fun little story telling card game with a neat gimmick. The cards are made of transparent plastic. The idea is that you stack these cards on top of each other to increase your bonuses and create a winning tableau of cards. The only issue I have is that it comes in one of those god awful-side-by-side boxes which are no good to man nor beast. Fortunately there are a few designers on thingiverse who think as I do and have uploaded some alternative boxes.
Domestic 3D printing is still in its infancy and not quite at the Star Trek replicator phase of development. Sometimes you download a model and ahave to do a bit of work to get it to print satisfactorily. This was the case when I downloaded
MVB01s Gloom Card Box.
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| If it doesn't fit... don't just quit!! |
The model had been designed for a larger print bed than I own, the two parts were aligned on the long axis. Firing up Sketchup I imported the STL file, exploded the model and reoriented the parts along the short axis. Export the STL, slice it in Cura and load it into the printer.
It printed fine but was a smidge too small to fit the actual cards and there was no tolerance built in to accommodate the lid and the box sliding together. They were far too tight to be useable.
I guess you could say that this was my own stupid fault for not checking the dimensions of the print before I commited to 3 hours and a few gramms of plastic. However, I look upon this failure as an opportunity to upskill and so I went back to the model into Sketchup and redimensioned it to both fit the cards and to have a 1mm tolerance factor. Second time's a charm as they say.
I've uploaded this to Thingiverse as a remix of MVB01s original model.
3"x4" Dias -
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4376794
I am currently painting tiny plastic furniture as part of my
Reaper Bones Marathon and one of those pieces is getting the full LED treatment but I need something to hide the battery. When you have a 3d printer this is no problem, you just knock something together and hey presto a dias, the underside of which has a cavity just big enough to hide a CR2032 coin battery.
I've uploaded this to thingiverse so you can print one of yourself. Just remember to like share and tip the designer a few beans if you like the model.
