It has been a few weeks since I've blogged. I've been busy on the homefront working on renovations and clean up at my home. Not much else going on. I did reconnect with one of my friends last night that I haven't spoken to in a while. Also last Sunday evening, I spent some time working on my stamp collection which I haven't done in about six months with all of the moving around of rooms and renovations at the house.
However, over the past couple of days, I've been tinkering around with a new project. I've created some of my first 3D designs in a free software program. I thought I would share some of those first images.
At the end of last year, I bought a Bambu Mini A1 3D printer. I haven't even opened the box or set it up just yet. I'm still brand new to 3D printing. I bought the 3D printer with the intentions of making my own game pieces for AXIS & ALLIES board game and perhaps a few custom action figures and/or other little trinkets that might be fun to make.
Two nights ago, I went over to Tinkercad.com and started playing around. I'm new to using 3D cad software, but hope my graphic design and computer knowledge skills would help me acclimate.
The sub pens are based on the size of the original Xeno Games sub pens from the late 1980s/early 1990s where you could place a submarine inside the pen. Xeno Games made one of the first third-party expansion sets for AXIS & ALLIES back in the day that I originally owned. I tried to mesh the Xeno Games design with two other different designs that I’ve purchased recently that didn’t quite work for me how I wanted. I added my own spin to it and wanted the AA guns on top that are built in. The over-the-top triple submarine pen I will reserve for a German Kriegsmarine Wulfpack of subs. Shock and awe to make my son Mitch have a laugh the next time we play.
A fourth submarine pen was created as a variant that is camouflaged under a rock formation for those secret sub pens hidden in places like hard-to-find Greek Islands, etc. This was inspired by the secret Nazi base from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
I also made myself major and minor factories from scratch by building on geometric shapes. The "regular" factory shown here isn't mine but was a download (courtesy/credit of TWEAV270 on Yeggi) based on the original A&A factory that I used for reference to design mine in scale.
I’m not selling anything here and I’m not ready to share anything just yet. I’m doing this for myself. I just wanted to make these my first 3D prints and see if they’ll work out for me.
Just all for fun and I thought some of you might get a kick out of it.
