"Making movement trays for To The Strongest" Topic

I have decided to give the rules a try for some friendly family games. I have created two basic mats, one gridded for 150cm and the other for 200cm. The 150cm can accommodate 15mm and small 28mm units while the 200 will host the larger 28mm units. My 28s are based on 20mm squares for infantry and 25x50mm for cavalry. All my 15s are based per Field of Glory/DBx.

So to make life easier I am printing off movement trays on the 3d rinter I have access to. The small trays will be 130mm wide with the larger ones measuring 170mm. The chart below shows the various sizes along with the number of figures each should hold. For light infantry/cavalry I will replace a few figures with blank bases done up with terrain details. The 130mm trays are working out around $1 USD-1.50 each for material.

Silver tray has 3 40x30mm bases in it.

link my other photos.

It seems to be a waste of a 3D printer to produce movement trays when there are so many established methods already.

I like them. Simple. Effective. Pleasing to the eye.

Clean and effective, I like them.

JimDuncanUK,
I think you miss the point having got a printer and mastered CADDS is probably the quickest and cheapest method to make such things. Bases like that take a couple of minutes to draw and being hollow cost a minimal amount.

Looks great. I am really enjoying TtS. Easy to get into and not a bunch of fiddly measuring so prevalent with other sets.

@UshCha2

My point is that the printer should be getting used for the things that are not easy and more, ehm, three dimensional.

They look really good! How long do they each take to print?

One thing you might like to think about, is making the outer edges of the sabot bases irregular and slope them down to the table. This really helps them blend into the terrain cloths.

Don't worry JimDuncan, I have plenty of files to make better use of the printer. I went in on the kickstarters for the Winterfell castle, the star fort and the dragonlock tiles. These trays were part of trying to figure out the dynamics of a few free 3d modeling software packages and fill a need to experiment with the printer.

My original goal BigRedBat was to try to do a more "organic" try with irregular edges and slopes. I have found out however that I have a distinctly 2d mind. That will have to be a later goal. The individual bases take about 1-1.5 hours to print. Once I have doubled checked the specs on the finished product I have a design which prints 3-5 at once. According to the slicer software I am using the multiples will come in only a few minutes more per tray. Those will be ones I set to run overnight.

Thanks- that's very interesting. The print time isn't especially an issue as they can run in the background or overnight. I will follow your project with interest!

Best of luck anyway.

I would buy those irregular sloping bases, and especially if they were in resin, even without thinking.

Actually one of our clubmembers who has a 3D printer is now producing prototypes of those sloping, irregular moving trays.