Ticket to Ride Europe Replacement Station

prusaprinters

The remix from onebitpixel (on Thingiverse) was an improvement on a .dae original, but...I wanted more. (I was making this for a friend's set, and didn't want to be annoyed with some of issues - correct size, matching components, finer details. Remade almost the whole entire mesh, but didn't do it all at once.)The picture shows two stations (red is an original station, black is the model as printed).Added shingles on the various roof areas, added vertical cuts in the side roof, remade the dormers, made the 2nd story windows look more like windows, added a door split opening for each door, rounded the tunnel, and set the time on both sides of the clocktower to match at 3:30. (A call out to the old 3:30pm choo-choo times with coworkers.)The station in the photo was printed with a .1mm layer height, using .25mm nozzle (.25 SL Micro toolhead, for Lulzbot types).How I Designed ThisThis was done in Blender 2.8, which was current version when I designed this. I used the 'mirror' modifier often, so I wouldn't have to duplicate the work for the other side. A little annoying sometimes, having to set the object's origin to the world origin, and set rotation/scaling. (If you're having a problem with using mirror, do those two things.) The shingles were the last part - an array of an array of a single shingle, except for the bottom row, which had to be curved to match the roof. I probably could have made the shingles even smaller, but I was concerned that even the current level of detail was too much. I basically took a larger-than-roof pattern of shingles, dragged them into the roof at a proper angle, and then Boolean>Intersect to get a set of shingles that would just be the size of the roof. Bringing it back out of the roof, you can boolean union it - but because the edge of the shingles and the roof edge share the same x-axis coordinates, it destroys faces. (The solution: shrink the shingles by 1% on the x-axis.) If you want to play around with the Blender 2.8 file, send me a direct message.