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I'm pretty much all things car in my life. I work at an offroad shop. I work on most of my own 1:1 stuff. I like mostly car/truck RC, and I love diecast of most scales.
One of my side projects has been this garage. The original design is one I got from Thiniverse and printed just to play around with. It was originally just the 4 walls, roof, floor, and the entrance ramp. I didn't care for the size as it was smaller than it should be as a "commercial shop" type building so I started playing with it. First thing I did was just upscale it to 130%. I printed the garage door face and a couple of walls in that size and it looked more correct.
Next was to make it a more modular unit that is also expandable. The original design had provisions built into it for pinning it together. I went a little further with that then designed some couplers so I could extend its length or width easily to make different shaped and sized shops.
From there I have started making a couple of different faces so it can be a shop or a storefront, still working on those but not unhappy with the first try. I've also done most of my original modification and test prints in the original scale to conserve filament and time printing after making sure I didn't have any fitment issues after upscaling it. I of course did find something that at the smaller scale was snug but the tolerance had to be adjusted in the rescale.
Original garage. The original design is just the front part of the "L" shape on the left side. Trucks for scale.
As you can see when they are side by side there is a bit of a difference.
The white panels on top are pieces I printed that go over the skylights to make it look like there is frosted glass when I'm shooting interior photos. The ones sitting on top of the smaller building are actually friction fit inserts that go inside the skylights on the larger model so from the outside they look like they have glass in them.
And playing around with some interior shots to see if the fit is what I was looking for.
Thanks for looking, this is kind of my project I go back to when I need to step away from other projects for a while so it's a slow process.
One of my side projects has been this garage. The original design is one I got from Thiniverse and printed just to play around with. It was originally just the 4 walls, roof, floor, and the entrance ramp. I didn't care for the size as it was smaller than it should be as a "commercial shop" type building so I started playing with it. First thing I did was just upscale it to 130%. I printed the garage door face and a couple of walls in that size and it looked more correct.
Next was to make it a more modular unit that is also expandable. The original design had provisions built into it for pinning it together. I went a little further with that then designed some couplers so I could extend its length or width easily to make different shaped and sized shops.
From there I have started making a couple of different faces so it can be a shop or a storefront, still working on those but not unhappy with the first try. I've also done most of my original modification and test prints in the original scale to conserve filament and time printing after making sure I didn't have any fitment issues after upscaling it. I of course did find something that at the smaller scale was snug but the tolerance had to be adjusted in the rescale.
Original garage. The original design is just the front part of the "L" shape on the left side. Trucks for scale.
As you can see when they are side by side there is a bit of a difference.
The white panels on top are pieces I printed that go over the skylights to make it look like there is frosted glass when I'm shooting interior photos. The ones sitting on top of the smaller building are actually friction fit inserts that go inside the skylights on the larger model so from the outside they look like they have glass in them.
And playing around with some interior shots to see if the fit is what I was looking for.
Thanks for looking, this is kind of my project I go back to when I need to step away from other projects for a while so it's a slow process.