Under Falling Skies: Excavator

This is an excavator token for the board game Under Falling Skies. I wanted a vehicle that looked heavy-duty, and then found m_bergman's amazing collection of military vehicles. I chose the BTR-60P and used MeshMixer to convert it from a four-wheel to a three-wheel vehicle. I thought BigBadBison's reversing spiral cone decoration would make an excellent excavation blade.

Wife did the detail painting on the vehicles.

Printer Brand:

Creality

Printer:

Ender 5

Rafts:

No

Supports:

Yes

Resolution:

0.2 mm

Infill:

35%

Filament:
eSun; Ender; Amolen PLA+, PLA
Orange, gray, black; red; and silver

Notes:

The top of the main vehicle has an Under Falling Skies energy icon added to the top, and I did a filament swap to black for printing that portion. The main vehicle was printed with supports. The spiral blade was printed separately, with no support, and then glued onto the front of the main vehicle.

How I Designed This
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The BTR-60P vehicle by m_bergman was cut into two separate shells in MeshMixer and then merged together to overlap the two middle wheels. The front of the vehicle was modified to make a space for the spiral blade. An energy icon for the game was added to the top of the vehicle. To make that, a photo of the icon was converted to black and white with Gimp and then transformed to a .SVG file using Inkscape. The .SVG file was then imported into Fusion 360 for extrusion and the 3D shape was exported as a .STL file using MeshMixer.

The spiral blade was resized in MeshMixer.

Category: Games