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Expeditions Corrupted Mech Base scaled for plastic minis

Iain Stewart avatarIain Stewart

August 13, 2024

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I sliced this in Prusaslicer and added a few modifiers that you might find useful.

The main one is that I printed the base with external perimeters first. That's everything below the layer that the tentacles start on. I credit this for the complete lack of any elephants foot (still using the standard PS Elephant foot correction setting of 0.1) and the perfect dimensional accuracy of the internal socket for the playing piece. I asked it for 50mm and the digital callipers showed exactly 50.000mm on the finished piece. From the start of the tentacles to the finish of the print, I switched back to internal perimeters first because I find it gives a better result on overhangs.

I also set the top lay infil pattern to concentric using another modifier volume. It's not vital, but on a cosmetic level it makes the finished print look a lot nicer for less than a minute of extra print time.

The big hole through the centre of the base is just a negative volume cylinder to save unnecessary filament usage and make removal of the playing piece easier.

I autogenerated tree supports for the tentacles, but then used some blocking volumes to get rid of the bits I deemed unnecessary. You should probably make your own mind up about that and hot end and bed temps as that stuff is printer and filament specific. I used 3DTomorrow UKPLA printing at 210c hot end on a 50c bed with the fan on full. If you are in the UK (or can find it anywhere else) I can highly recommend 3DTomorrow PLA, I find it exceptional for finer detail stuff (although I can only speak for 4mm nozzle and 0.2mm layer height).

I'm supplying this remix as a 3mf file so you should get all of my modifier volumes and support settings if you load it into Prusaslicer. Change the filament and printer profiles to suit your particular spool and machine, but you should be good to leave the print settings and various modifier volumes alone unless you really want to tinker.

 

[EDIT - 13 August 24]
I've added a version as an .stl file. You won't get any of my print settings mentioned above, but it does bake in the physical changes to I made to the mesh. Happy printing.

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