New Thing: Mine for Scythe
I've been working on 3D models for all of the Scythe buildings and recently uploaded the Mine Entrance to Thingiverse. This was a challenging model for me to make, which meant that it ended up being a lot of fun. The first issue that I had was in figuring out just how to represent a mine entrance on the 19 mm x 10 mm footprint that I had to work in (so that it would still fit in the cutout on the board). I live in Northern California, so I've seen Gold Rush Era Mine Entrances all my life. So, I figured that my task was to take that kind of "large timbers holding up a cross-piece" common image and reimagine it in terms of diesel-punk Eastern-Europe, all while fitting within that little footprint. I started by taking the default Blender cube, and scaling it so that it would be 19 x 10 units (deciding that each unit in Blender would be 1 mm IRL), so that I could get a look at my footprint. Then, I figured that I was going to need a kind of rock surface on 3 f...