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Post by BSGTony (lordzsezse) on Jul 6, 2015 23:44:42 GMT -9
We've very liked the fold-flat design that oldschooldm has made to our Elven Wall set, it made us thinking on a stronger concept. You can help us testing it if you would like  It includes only the 6" long wall with the Moon Style. Link to the download site: goo.gl/tvMsDv(links were wrong, I've updated them!) Cutter files are included! In our tests it was very massive and stronger than a simple fold flat design and you can barely notice that it is a fold-flat wall. What do you think? THX! |
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Post by oldschooldm on Jul 7, 2015 6:04:55 GMT -9
Thanks! That looks pretty cool. I look forward to trying it out.
BTW: The design I posted really only had one benefit: It will work on any existing wall 'boxy' wall design without modification. If you are doing "exterior" walls, copy-rotate-paste is the only mod needed to make the end look nice.
Your design looks much stronger, but looks like more work for the designer - adding yet-another-layer. I'm up for it if you are!
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 7, 2015 10:35:56 GMT -9
I think I will have to try this out tonight (once I get the water out of my basement). Looks like it should be a sound design
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Post by oldschooldm on Jul 17, 2015 22:05:44 GMT -9
OK. I finally got around to trying this and have a few comments for you BSGTony (lordzsezse)1) I must admit that this method (given the caveats below) produces the strongest-when-assembled fold-flat box wall I've seen. It (mostly) works well. 2) You really, really have to make this with a cutter, including using the perfect prefs/scores possible there. I tried hand scoring and *any* deviation causes problems with the ends (that normally get fixed/corrected for buy glueing in normal non-fold-flat boxy walls.) Hand cut/score + this fold flat design == frustration at assembly and a warped result. 3) Despite two tries, the cutfile - near the very end of the "cut" phase cut an unexpected segment when my cutter started to "grind" which says that it's going just out of the limits. I think flipping/rotating the whole model horizontally would help a lot (all the detailed cutting would be at the "close" end, not the far end- where the most cutting-sheet-alignment errors tend to happen. 4) Steps 1 and 3 in the instructions work as well as I expected. Step #2: The fold-over-slotted-tabs are just too flimsy, even with 110 lb paper. The slot-cuts are too deep. Can you shorten the notches or use some other method. None of the two I built survived a second dis-assembly for storage at at least one of these tabs. I look forward to trying the next version - maybe on the *dark* textures? |
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Post by oldschooldm on Jul 18, 2015 7:09:25 GMT -9
I have an idea for a hybrid approach... testings today.
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Post by oldschooldm on Jul 18, 2015 14:06:29 GMT -9
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It includes only the 6" long wall with the Moon Style.
