Air Freight Shipping Crates Wargame Scatter Terrain 3D Printer Model
The file 'Air Freight Shipping Crates Wargame Scatter Terrain 3D Printer Model' is (stl) file type, size is 2.9MB.
The file 'Air Freight Shipping Crates Wargame Scatter Terrain 3D Printer Model' is (stl) file type, size is 2.9MB.
Years ago when I was building up my University Gaming Society’s collection of wargaming terrain I found these excellent Papercraft Air Freight Shipping containers that came in loads of designs in full colour from a user named TommyGun. When printed on 300GSM card and fully assembled they made fantastic line of sight blocking terrain for Infinity tables and were a lot more robust than similar square containers due to their asymmetrical shape.
I’ve included an image of one of the papercraft files here for reference but I’m sure its possible to track down the original files online somewhere.
While learning Fusion 360 I tried to recreate these Air Freight Containers as 3D models using a modular construction method, essentially building each one from individual sections and then patterning them together to make the different crate sizes.
I printed off a few test crates using a resin printer which were great but ate up a lot of resin even when hollow. I then modified the designs for FDM printing which required me to remove the rivets from the designs since my FDM couldn't resolve them properly and split the design in two so that all sides of the crates could print properly.
Lastly I started working on modifying the prints to make hollow resin casting blanks so that I could churn out crates quickly with cheaper casting resin. I’ve paused this process for the time being as I couldn't come up with an effective way to cast the crates without using so much resin it became more expensive than just 3D printing them!
So for now I’m uploading all the designs both with and without the rivets and with some of the 2 part hollow print files.
I recommend printing the designs at ⅔ scale of these STL files which I inadvertently made too big when I was making the original plans.
| Large_Standard_Crate.stl | 1.8MB | |
| Large_Standard_Crate_Hollow_base.stl | 772.5KB | |
| Large_Standard_Crate_Hollow_Core.stl | 1.7MB | |
| Large_Standard_Crate_Rivitless_Hollow_Core.stl | 378.3KB | |
| Large_Standard_Crate_Rivitless_Hollow_Core_Base.stl | 37.4KB | |
| Medium_Standard_Crate.stl | 1.3MB | |
| Medium_Standard_Crate_Hollow_Core.stl | 1.2MB | |
| Medium_Standard_Crate_Hollow_Core_Base.stl | 240.6KB | |
| Medium_Standard_Crate_Rivitless_Hollow_Core.stl | 215.3KB | |
| Medium_Standard_Crate_Rivitless_Hollow_Core_Base.stl | 27.8KB | |
| Small_Crate_Hollow_Base.stl | 1.3MB | |
| Small_Crate_Hollow_Core.stl | 627.2KB | |
| Small_Standard_Crate.stl | 952.0KB | |
| Small_Standard_Crate_Rivitless_Hollow_Base.stl | 19.4KB | |
| Small_Standard_Crate_Rivitless_Hollow_Core.stl | 371.9KB | |
| XL_Large_Crate.stl | 2.1MB |
