Mayan Town 1:400 Scale

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<p>What I've got for you this time is a collection of various brick buildings. Well mostly pyramids to be frank, it's the Mayans after all.</p><p>The structures are these:</p><ul><li>Temple of the Great Jaguar / Tikal I</li><li>Small 4-level variant of the El Castillo (remixed from the Aztec Temple Plant Pot to add brick walls and pillars), as it seemed to me that it would serve as an interesting water collector / water tower structure for a village, and if a fire were to be lit on top it would even be able to heat water</li><li>Ruined watch tower</li><li>Raised base, a good fit for the watch tower</li><li>Platform with 360 stairs, an empty one and one with a stargate (because why not)</li><li>Flat top pyramid, more akin to the Aztec ones that I used to house a <a href="http://www.lyonscomputer.com.au/Electronic-Devices/PSUs/USB-Power-Supplies/Quad-USB-KIM-055L/images/front.jpg">KIM-055l USB step down power module</a>, but a non-hollow version with the wall patched up is there as well</li><li>Small house</li><li>2 variants of ruined walls</li><li>6 large trees</li><li>2 medium sized trees</li></ul><p>Both the Castillo and the Tikal 1 have hollow bases, so it's possible to drill through the top part and add a small LED into the enclosed parts. I've added flickering yellow ones that look vaguely like lit campfires.</p><p>Other uploads I've remixed in this upload:</p><ul><li>I've used the <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:279864">customizable trees</a> as the base for the tree trunks, scaling them to the right size and added more branches and thickened them</li><li>I've gotten the stargate from <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:87691">here</a> and the DHD was <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1708274">this one</a> I think</li></ul><p>I hope someone finds at least some of this useful for whichever build they're making :)</p><h3>Print Settings</h3><p><strong>Rafts:</strong></p><p>No</p><p><strong>Supports:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>No</p><p><strong>Resolution:</strong></p><p>0.12</p><p><strong>Infill:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>12</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>I strongly suggest printing with ironing if you're printing with FDM, as it'll make the top level stones much nicer on some of the buildings.</p><p>The DHD may need some supports, and I found that it's ideally printed in a slanted orientation, with the dial part paralel to the print surface.</p><h3>Post-Printing</h3><p>For painting the buildings I'd suggest printing in black and then slowly dry brushing them with white acrylic dye to get a gray stone-like finish. Then just add a little brown and green on spots that would likely to foster growth.</p><p>As far as the water tower pyramid goes, I've mixed wood glue with blue dye and poured it into the parts that would gather water, which gives it a shiny water-like appearance.</p><p>Most Mayan structures seem to have <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/3100.jpg">dark grayish stains running from the top of them</a>, so I'd suggest adding that in the very end with some actual dark gray paint.</p><figure class="image"><img src="https://media.prusaprinters.org/media/prints/141875/rich_content/746d3e24-88a0-438f-aed8-25c8ddeb15cd/20210606_154625.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%22249ed2b5-7a95-4db9-8d16-b140c7fd6f62%22%2C%22w%22%3A1000%2C%22h%22%3A830%7D"></figure><p><strong>Trees</strong></p><p>I've explored a new method of making trees in this project, and it goes roughly like so:</p><ul><li>print the trunks out in black</li><li>use a (preferably jet) lighter to clean up stringing and melt the outside slightly to anneal it somewhat and make the trunks more resistant</li><li>dry brush brown with acrylic dye</li><li>to make the leaves take a piece of foam and a very rough file (or a grater I suppose) and reduce it to a pile of foam particles (usually called flocking); you'll need a fair bit of it</li><li>add the flocking to a plastic container and add a fair bit of green acrylic paint (and a bit of yellow and brown), then mix with a stick until the foam is evenly coloured</li><li>let the flocking dry on a tray</li><li>take the painted trunks, add glue to the top branches and dunk them into the flocking (I've used hot glue, but I hear hairspray works well), repeat if there are still visible glue spots</li><li>mix wood glue with water and add it to the leaves with a brush (or even better: spray it on) to reduce crumbling once the tree is deemed complete</li></ul><figure class="image"><img src="https://media.prusaprinters.org/media/prints/141875/rich_content/1a377e92-1848-4cf8-99a3-dda17910b7a4/20210807_134419.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%2265c63aaa-98c4-49e9-9615-d2fdee2fcc0a%22%2C%22w%22%3A1000%2C%22h%22%3A641%7D"></figure><figure class="image"><img src="https://media.prusaprinters.org/media/prints/141875/rich_content/92e2a494-1e67-49b0-88c3-6e1c06eda679/20210615_114030.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%2268ce5188-c185-48c9-89d7-cf9e8d7fd30a%22%2C%22w%22%3A1000%2C%22h%22%3A616%7D"></figure><p><strong>Terrain</strong></p><p>I've made the terrain out of foam, using an box cutter to roughen up the top parts to make it look more like rocks (which surprisingly worked quite well). The wires run under the foam.</p><p>The general process:</p><ul><li>take the rough foam pieces and glue them on using hot glue, scar the parts that are intended to become roads to give them some texture</li><li>add other stuff like small rocks, sawdust, etc.</li><li>mix wood glue with brown dye and paint over the entire surface to fill in gaps and make it less obvious that it's just foam</li><li>use thick acrylic paint to paint rock faces silver, grass parts green and lime, and add some dark brown to the road parts</li><li>glue on the buildings, walls and other props</li><li>run the led and other power wiring under the foam</li><li>mix wood glue with green dye and fill in any gaps between the buildings and the base as there'll inevitably be some</li><li>go over the rock faces with a dark wash</li><li>add wood glue over the grass parts and add fake grass</li><li>drill holes into the base, fill them with wood glue and glue in the trees</li></ul><figure class="image"><img src="https://media.prusaprinters.org/media/prints/141875/rich_content/f939e86a-9126-4f2a-86c6-f11e46b43fbd/20210711_121555.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%222bfcb5e0-7b72-4d55-80c5-feeff76ca4a6%22%2C%22w%22%3A1600%2C%22h%22%3A474%7D"></figure>