Mini-Terrain System
Welcome to the evolving project page for our Mini-Terrain System, a collection of 3D Printed hex blocks designed for use on the tabletop during role-playing games (or small scale skirmish miniatures battle games). Each of the pieces of the Mini-Terrain System collection are being designed for printing on FDM 3D Printers (in fact our text prints are made on an unmodified Ender 3 printer).
If you would like to get your hands on the STL files for the project, to print your own Mini-Terrain System set, or to discuss the project. You will need to become a Studio WyldFurr supporter over at Patreon. The project files are available for Dungeon Master tier supporters of the studio.
Photo Gallery
As the project progresses I will upload photos here with a little blurb about what element the photo is about.
Mini-Terrain System: New Rubble/Cliffs
New tiles added to the set, with rubble/cliff sections.
Mini-Terrain System: New Rubble/Cliffs
A photo to display the scale of the tiles compared to a 25mm RPG model.
Mini-Terrain System: New Rubble/Cliffs
A selection of brand new tiles with freshly glued on add-on hill elements.
Mini-Terrain System: Overview
Printed some more tiles that need to be undercoated and painted.
Mini-Terrain System: Adding the Grass
At this stage we are adding the patchy grass to the dirt layer. The static grass will be complemented with added longer grass features.
Mini-Terrain System: Alien Power Core
Here are the three Alien Power core tiles with the base coats of paint applied. The LED light up elements are yet to be printed at this stage.
Mini-Terrain System: Dirt Layer
A collection of tiles with the “dirt” layer added for the ground layer of each hex. This photo also displays how each hex fits together.
Mini-Terrain System: Alien Power Unit
Tailz is working on the design of an Alien power unit terrain piece.
Mini-Terrain System: Hex plus Add-on
Here is a basic hex tile with the Add-on Slope 0 element glued to it.
Mini-Terrain System: Alignment Pins
The holes in the basic hex tile and the add-on elements are for inserting alignment pins made from leftover filament.
Mini-Terrain System: Alignment Peg Holes
The holes in the basic hex tile and the add-on elements are for inserting alignment pins made from leftover filament.
Mini-Terrain System
An add-on with no sculpting and a basic sculpted add-on piece.
Mini-Terrain system: Basic Add-on
Here we see an add-on element with no sculpting. This was a proof of concept element.
Mini-Terrain System: Example Layout
This is a group of tiles laid down to display how the tiles fit together along with the edge elements.
Mini-Terrain System: Basic Hex Tile
The main element is the basic tile, onto which add-on element can be glued. 5mm ball magnets in each side help hold the set together.
Mini-Terrain System: Edge elements
There are half tiles to enable to creation of a straight edge to an assembled game board.
Mini-Terrain System: Underside
The under side of each basic hex tile consists of little support feet that also house the 5mm ball magnets. Small plugs seal the magnet sockets.
Set Elements
At this point in time the below are the elements we are working on for the set. More specialized elements are on the drawing board.
Basic Hex Tiles
The basic unit of the collection is the basic hex tile. Each of these tiles is 100mm wide and 10mm in height. This gives us plenty of space to sculpt in detail such as roads, river elements, etc, within the 10mm of the base section. Each of the basic hex tiles includes a socket in each long edge for installing a 5mm ball magnet, which is then capped off with a small plug to keep the magnet in place. The magnet sockets provide the locking force to keep the tiles in place when setup on the tabletop, while also meaning that there are no interlocking clips to worry about when assembling the terrain for a game.
Each of the basic hex tiles includes a series of 2mm pin holes in the top surface for aligning add-on elements. Use 10mm lengths of surplus 1.7mm 3D printer filament as pins.
These hex tiles also come in half tile pieces to give assembled game boards a straight edge once assembled.
Feature Elements
The main aim of the set is to create ground surface environments for miniature tabletop gaming. The aim of the Feature Elements is to create the entrances to dungeons, such as small building, cave opening, mine shafts, etc.
Add-on Elements
The slope or hill add-on elements are being designed as pieces that will be glued to the top of a basic hex tile. Each element has pin holes in the bottom to align the element with the correct orientation of the basic hex it attaches too.
More complex elements will be combined with specially sculpted basic hex tiles. This is to facilitate features being sculpted into both the add-on and the basic hex.
Basic Add-on Elements (eg: Hills and Slopes) are designed to raise the height of the “ground level” to 30mm, with each add-on being 20mm in height.
Riser/Platform Hex Tiles
These Hex tiles are designed to have a “ground level” of 30mm and fulfill the same role as Basic Hex Tiles but as the upper ground level for the tops of hills.
These hex tiles also come in half tile pieces to give assembled game boards a straight edge once assembled. If for example a hill is on the edge of the game board area.
3D Printing Settings & Machine
We have been printing each element at a print quality of 0.1mm resolution. Each basic hex tile is printed upside-down on the hot bed, while the addon elements are printed right side up.