{"id":4416,"date":"2016-05-20T00:22:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T04:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2016-05-23T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:11:49","slug":"medea-refinery-wip-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2016\/05\/medea-refinery-wip-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Medea Refinery, WIP Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing on my Medea Refinery\u00a0terrain build for our LibertyHammer<\/a> event, I’ve finished up Smelt Furnace #17 to go along with Primary Pump Station A1<\/a>. I’m pretty happy with it and think it will serve well as a big\u00a0LOS blocker with a good amount of detail. Hopefully the remaining pieces for this terrain set come together much\u00a0more\u00a0quickly. They currently\u00a0consist mostly of random interestingly\u00a0shaped trash and won’t be as detailed.<\/p>\n

\"Front<\/a>

Front side.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Back<\/a>

Back side.<\/p><\/div>\n

The\u00a0furnace was made by a combination of throwing rubbish together, traditional scratchbuilding, and 3D printing. The foundation\u00a0and major heat sink are just trash packaging foam. The big\u00a0smoke\/heat column is plastic trash from a broken pool\u00a0filter. I hope to make an insert for it with billowing smoke out of dyed cotton balls but have not started on that yet. The ladders were constructed as described in this tutorial<\/a>. The small antenna cluster<\/a>, tank stand<\/a>, and rooftop\u00a0mechanical box<\/a>\u00a0are 3D printed parts I designed, available as free downloads from those Thingiverse links.\u00a0The other printed parts are downloads I found. A walkthrough of designing and printing 3D\u00a0parts based on the antenna cluster is posted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Rooftop<\/a>

Rooftop orbital antenna.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rooftop<\/a>

Rooftop local antenna cluster, not glued down yet here.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Side<\/a>

Side louvers, constructed the old fashioned way…<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Side<\/a>

Side inlets\/outlets and machinery access.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Product<\/a>

Product and supplies ports and some ribbing on the structure.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Some<\/a>

Some kind of doodad on the roof.<\/p><\/div>\n

Getting into using 3D printed parts for this terrain was interesting, and somewhat bittersweet. Though not astounding,\u00a0I think I have above average scratchbuilding skills when I set my mind to it. But I can easily see them atrophying a bit as I drift into making more and more\u00a0elements on the printer. Still though, you do need good fundamentals to pull it all together, and especially to make big pieces. And certainly there are a lot of things I can model and print much faster and better than I can construct by hand, let alone downloaded pieces.<\/p>\n

More to come as I wrap up this set over the next week for a club terrain build\/paint workday\u00a0over Memorial Day weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing on my Medea Refinery\u00a0terrain build for our LibertyHammer event, I’ve finished up Smelt Furnace #17 to go along with Primary Pump Station A1. I’m pretty happy with it and think it will serve well as a big\u00a0LOS blocker with a good amount of detail. Hopefully the remaining pieces for this terrain set come together … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[272,320,323,274],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrain","tag-40k","tag-libertyhammer","tag-medea-refinery","tag-miniatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}