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Printing & assembling the Garden
This is the last blog about assembling the Lord's House set, because today we are taking a very quick look at the final element - the garden!
▲ More specifically, we're looking at how to p ...
2024-03-09
Printing & assembling the House
It's taken quite a while, but we've finally reached the end of this massive project! The last building from the upcoming Samurai Lord's House has now been completed.
So let's ...
2024-03-05
Printing & assembling the Kitchen
Today we'll be looking at how to assemble the penultimate building of the new Samurai Lord's House set, the big two-storey kitchen building!
▲ Once again, I'll start by saying th ...
2024-02-20
Printing & assembling the Residence
There are only 3 more buildings to be completed before the new Samurai Lord's House set is released, so let's take a look at how to assemble the biggest building so far - the Residence!
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2024-02-09
Printing & assembling the Guesthouses
Today we're showing you how to print and assemble the two guesthouses from the new Samurai Lord's House set. Both of these models can be printed without slicer-created print supports, and are ...
2024-01-25
Printing & assembling the Storehouses
Last time we looked at how to assemble the outer and inner walls and gates, and this time we're moving on to some of the ancillary structures around the grounds of the new Samurai Lord's House ...
2024-01-17
Printing and assembling the House walls
The next big project for the samurai collection, the Samurai Lord's House, is moving closer to completion. The outer and inner walls, and the 3 gates to go with them, are all completed and have be ...
2023-12-31
Designing and printing the samurai street fish ponds
Research trips are great fun, and great sources of inspiration! I recently took a trip to a historical samurai town to take plenty of reference photos for the new [...TOP SECRET PROJECT!!...] design I ...
2023-11-28
Wiring the LED shop lantern
The Samurai Shop Set contains a new version of the LED lantern, which is in fact the 4th version we've produced. The first Wooden Lantern used a 20mm coin battery, as did the second lantern - the ...
2023-05-06
Printing and assembling the shops PART 1 : Buildings
The new Samurai Shop set has so many possible model combinations, we're going to split the assembly blog into 2 parts.
So today's blog will focus on constructing the shop buildings, a ...
2023-02-23
Printing & assembling the Ruined Hut
Printing the new Ruined Hut model was super easy, and assembly is almost as easy, too!
Let's take a look....
▲ Here are the contents of the Ruined Hut model files. The ...
2022-11-30
Printing & assembling the Shrine Set
We have lots of great photos of the printed Shrine Set models to show you today, but first we're going to show you how to assemble the main shrine building.
Ready? Here we go....▲ The ba ...
2022-08-14
Wiring the shrine lantern LED
We've already had a couple of LED lanterns for the samurai range; the first was the streetside wooden lantern, and then the second was a rock lantern in the teahouse set.
Today we're ...
2022-08-13
Printed pics of the Samurai Dojo
The new Samurai Dojo is fully assembled, so here are some pics of the whole building and all the accessories!
* First, a quick apology for the strange look of the photos. I was running out of ...
2022-06-27
Assembling the Samurai Dojo
We have some great photos of the new Samurai Dojo building to show off very soon, but today we're going to be working through the assembly process, with some handy tips for you!
▲ This dojo has ...
2022-06-26
Printing the market stalls
At long last we have some printed previews to show you, for our new Samurai Market Stalls set!
This is a modular set of market stalls (called yatai in Japanese) and accessories, which were of ...
2022-03-13
Printing and assembling the samurai temple bell
Another week, another samurai terrain piece to show off! This week we've been test printing the upcoming Samurai Temple Bell, and here's a quick and easy assembly guide for you to take a look ...
2021-10-11
Printing and assembling the samurai dice tower
While the Sumo Ring is being painted, we have a second design to show off today - the new Dice Tower Pagoda!
Printing this awesome dice tower takes a little time (there are some big roof piec ...
2021-10-05
Printing the sumo ring
Ooh, we have a new shiny thing to show off today - the first of 3 terrain pieces for our ever-growing samurai collection, all coming out in October. Today's print is the new Sumo Ring, due to be r ...
2021-10-02
How to use the rooftile panels
With two new 3D printers sitting in their new custom-built enclosure, it's time to get printing on some of the new designs we've been previewing over the last few weeks!
First off the ...
2021-09-22
Printing the Pagoda PART 2
In yesterday's blog post, we showed how to print and assemble the first two levels of the new Temple Pagoda. Today we'll show you how the other three levels go together, and then show off some ...
2021-08-11
Printing the Pagoda PART 1
Wowee! The very, very, VERY tall pagoda is now fully printed, so it's time to share an assembly guide.
There are 5 levels to this building, so we're going to split this assembly guide ...
2021-08-10
Printing the ninja rooftop bases
An upcoming mini-release to show you today ... a set of rooftop bases, designed for ninja assassins!
Have you ever wanted to show just how awesome ninja warriors can be? Why base them ...
2021-07-15
Assembling the samurai temple outer gate (2nd level)
Well done on assembling the first level of the Temple Outer Gate building! Today we're going to crack on and finish the rest of this large model, and here are a few tips and tricks to help you.... ...
2021-06-09
Assembling the samurai temple outer gate (1st level)
The upcoming Temple Outer Gate building is quite a large model, so we're going to split the build instructions into 2 blog posts. Thankfully it's not quite as scary as assembling the 5-level c ...
2021-06-07
Printing the temple statues
One of the unique features of the new Temple Outer Gate is the pair of deity statues either side of the gateway.£ Both statues are quite large, standing about 80mm tall from base to top.
Th ...
2021-06-06
Printing and assembling the samurai jinmaku curtains
We have something new for our samurai range to show off to you today - the Jinmaku Curtains set!
Battlefield curtains, or jinmaku, were used by feudal-era samurai as temporary structures for ...
2021-05-14
Wooden Lantern version 2.0 released!
The samurai wooden lantern has been available now for quite a while, but it recently occurred to me that I could update it slightly to make it even easier to use!
Version 2.0 features a verti ...
2021-05-12
Printing and assembling the samurai temple walls
The new samurai temple walls have all been test printed, so it's time for an assembly guide and some photos!
£ We'll start with the straight wall section, which prints ups ...
2021-03-20
Printing and assembling the gun tower
Lots of pics to show you today for the new Taui Gun Tower. First of all, here's a quick assembly guide....
I plan to light up my model with LEDs, so almost all the parts were printed in c ...
2021-02-13
Printing and assembling the fusion reactor
Printing is now complete on the 3rd of our Tau-themed sci-fi terrain models - the Taui Fusion Reactor!
Assembly is pretty simple, but here are some tips and suggestions for getting the most o ...
2021-02-02
The castle is fully assembled!
It's finally finished!!!! Our biggest project yet, this MASSIVE Japanese samurai castle soars 5 levels up into the sky, and sits atop a mighty stone platform!
£ Here's the completed castle ...
2020-12-03
Assembling the castle : level 2
Photos of the fully assembled samurai castle are coming tomorrow, so here's a final guide to putting together the 2nd level of this huge model - the Throne Room level!£ This level prints in 9 pi ...
2020-12-02
Assembling the castle : level 3
We're almost there now! One more level (the 2nd level) is currently printing, so here's an assembly guide to the 3rd level of the castle.....£ Assembly starts like many of the other levels; ...
2020-11-25
Assembling the castle : level 4
Progress is finally flying ahead on the samurai castle! While the next level prints behind me, it's time for an assembly guide for the castle's 4th level.....
£ These are all the parts requ ...
2020-11-18
Assembling the castle : level 5
Here's a special sneak peek for those of you checking in to the blog regularly - an assembly guide for the fifth level of the samurai castle.
Half the levels are now fully printed and ass ...
2020-11-10
Assembly instruction PDFs now online!
We have quite a few print partner shops around the world now, so it seemed helpful to add a PDF section to the website, full of all the assembly PDFs for all our models!
You can find the sect ...
2020-09-02
Printing and assembling the Energy Monolith
We have a new and very large model coming your way soon for the Necrontyr range - the massive Energy Monolith!!!
Here's a little assembly diary, and a peek at the finished model. Wait unt ...
2020-07-20
Construction begins on the samurai castle!
This project is of course the ultimate goal of the samurai terrain range - to have a massive, fully detailed Japanese castle, that anybody can produce on their own 3D printer, and scare friends and fa ...
2020-06-02
Printing and assembling the samurai teahouse
We have some great new printed items to show you today - the samurai Teahouse Set!!
£ Here's the entirety of the teahouse set. The main components are the love ...
2020-04-26
Wiring the stone lantern for LEDs
One of the accessories of the new Samurai Teahouse set is a brand new stone lantern, which can be easily wired with an LED if you want to! Well, I say "wired", which sounds a bit complicated perhaps, ...
2020-04-25
Cherry blossom trees : a How-To Guide
We have a new top-secret samurai terrain piece coming out soon, and I thought it would be a great time to finally model some cherry blossom trees to go with it. So here's a how-to guide, for which ...
2020-03-14
Printing the Taui Teleporter
After a couple of weeks' delay due to one of the step motors on the 3d printer jamming, I've finally managed to get it working enough (while waiting for a replacement motor) to crank out this ...
2020-03-11
Assembling the Samurai Watchtower : Part 3
We're completing the assembly of the new samurai watchtower today, with the top level and roof - see previous blogs for guides for the base level and mid-level.£ The top level of the watchtower ...
2020-02-14
Assembling the Samurai Watchtower : Part 2
We're continuing the assembly guide for the new samurai watchtower today - the base level was completed in PART 1 yesterday.£ The middle level is pretty similar to the base level, except that th ...
2020-02-14
Assembling the Samurai Watchtower : Part 1
The new samurai watchtower is quite a feat of engineering, and a true "kit" experience to assemble. In an effort to reduce the need for print supports (only the roof section needs them), the model has ...
2020-02-13
Assembling the Taui landing pad
Happy New Year to you all for 2020!! May your printers never run empty!
With the new year to celebrate, we have the first pictures of the printed Taui landing pad to share with you soon. But ...
2020-01-01
Assembling the castle gatetower
After several weeks of printing and re-printing, the entire Samurai Castle Gatetower is now fully assembled and ready for painting, so here is an assembly guide for you, with some (hopefully) handy ti ...
2019-12-14
Assembling the samurai castle corner tower
While we're waiting for the last roof piece to print for the new castle corner tower (they take a loooong time!), here are some notes on assembling the pieces with a couple of useful tips for you. ...
2019-09-22
Assembling the samurai farmhouse
Here's a how-to guide on assembling a typical farmhouse building using the new Samurai Modular Farmhouse set!For this demo farmhouse, we chose a 3 section layout with a thatched roof, giving a bui ...
2019-06-13
Wiring the lanterns with LEDs
This is the "how-to" guide for wiring the Samurai Lanterns with LEDs - a surprisingly easy job!You will need:
Small LED tealight from the dollar/pound store or Ikea.
CR2032 battery (3V bat ...
2019-01-19
Painting the samurai castle walls
Over the past few days the Japanese samurai castle walls have slowly been taking shape, and are now ready for release. But first, here's a quick guide to how mine were painted....
£ Some prep w ...
2018-12-24
Assembling the samurai stone walls
Our little Tevo Tornado has been busy this week, printing away lots of sections from the new Samurai Stone Walls Set! These will be hitting the paint desk shortly, and will be available for download v ...
2018-08-22
Adding green lenses to Necrontyr Objectives
Last little blog article before the official release of the Necrontyr Objectives - this time a quick "how to" guide about how to add lenses to your 3D prints.I wanted to diffuse the light from the LED ...
2018-06-30
How to add magnets to terrain
The new Necrontyr Pathway and Bridge Set is now 100% printed, and hitting the paint desk over the next few days. Teaser pics will be going up DAILY on our Facebook page over the next couple of weeks!
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2018-06-13
How to assemble the Pyramid dicetower
A customer asked for some pictures of exactly how the dicetower and tunnel are assembled for the modular Necrontyr Pyramid, so here's a quick guide....
Necrontyr Pyramid
P ...
2018-05-16
First Necrontyr terrain piece is almost ready for you!
Very excited to see the first piece of terrain for the Necrontyr range come together smoothly! The last part is printing as we speak!I'm keen to get this Landing Pad available for you guys to down ...
2018-04-23
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