A Big Fan
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People have been suggesting / requesting this for a long time, and the upcoming SWARM campaign was the perfect excuse to make one - a wind turbine.
Before that - the SWARM campaign is in pre-launch. I would GREATLY appreciate if you all came and subscribed. I'm giving away a free file, so... sounds like a good deal for everyone!
https://www.myminifactory.com/frontier/full-spectrum-dominance-swarm-mode-5042
About Wind Turbines
They're big. Big big. Like 100-150 meters tall, more if you count the blades. The kind of big that even in scale would get half a meter above the table, or more.
So I went for the smallest size possible, which is still by far the tallest piece I've sculpted for the store.
Comparing in scale with a Detached Socrates, it's... well, big.
A Feat of Engineering
While the model itself was relatively easy to sculpt in Plasticity, it required a bit of modularity to be printed within recent time frames. Blades are individual parts, the front peg is separated from the dynamo/engine, and the tower is a three-parts as well. Lots of moving parts, and two magnetized pegs to allow rotation of the blades and of the top head. Yay, engineering!
Printing
Being relatively low in details (although I added a very much non-realistic elevator on the back to make it more interesting visually), the print went smoothly. All the parts are supported and easy to clean up.
Assembling required a bit of fixes, which are now applied to the file, and ...it works. The blades rotate (not by blowing air, unfortunately!) and the head can be directed in all directions.
And, surprisingly, the base is wide enough to prevent toppling. And it has space underneath for some lead or extra weight, just in case!
The Wastelands
This is gonna be one of the centerpieces for the Wasteland, together with the Broken Peak Ship, and surrounded by a range of rocky parts and scatter, still in the works.
As a last reminder - consider signing up for the upcoming SWARM campaign premarketing, get a free file, and help pushing the campaign on top of the charts - or at least near there!
That's all for today!
Jack