Is it worth it to 3D print terrain? 

Just so you know the pliers you used are called channel locks. A crescent wrench is an adjustable wrench 🛠️. Your prints look great though. You'll get the hang of it just keep tweaking and experimenting. Also use PETG or ASA filament and you won't have to worry about the sun or heat.

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing your mistakes, it is the sign of a real craftsman. As I always tell my students you don't learn anything from doing something perfectly the first time, you learn from mistakes.

A few suggestions. Use pliers on the support removal. Grip one of the walls of the support structure by jamming one side of the pliers up into the empty structure. Then we'll help you apply force to one side easier and peel it.

It is well worth your time to model in some alignment pins to aid you in assembly. It makes your part lines significantly easier to blend together later.

That is awesome and looks so darn cool! I print with PLA in black and prime in gray and go over it with a homemade black wash on my dungeon tiles.

I love using my Ender 3 for printing terrain, but I also like building as well. A good middle ground is to print bits and pieces to incorporate into builds. Or if you print something like a building just add onto it, like print everything but the roof and build a thatch roof. I see it as expanding what your capable of building. You no longer have to worry about if you have the right bits of in a bits box, or a bead that is shaped like what you want. Plan something and get out what you have to use and print the pieces you don't.

Those are channel-lock pliers, not a crescent wrench.

I recently got into 3D printing. Been printing a lot of terrain for Star War Legion, I love it! The details in the prints are great and you can work on other things while there printing.

loved it mate, very enjoyable to watch :)

Thanks for sharing your work!

Setbacks are always learning opportunities... is what I keep telling myself! 🤣 Great build! Turned out really nice. Thanks for being a river

For fixing areas you have marks on, a Woodburning pen works great. You can use it like a soldering iron with spare pla to fill in gaps. You can also easily draw in lines for brick work.

Where could I get the coding to print actual figures? I just ordered a 3D printer and idk exactly how it works but I’m pretty sure you can’t just input a picture and it’ll print, you have to have the dimensions correct?

Ur bridge came out great I prob would of clamped down a belt sander upside down or used a table top belt sander to sand flat the un evenness from the sun warping it

Nice video. I do a ton of 3d printed terrain for games. I would offer the suggestion that you don't really need to use that much infill. My standard amount is 5-8%. It will save you time and material long term. Your prints came out very clean which is great to see for someone new to the hobby. Keep up the good work.

1:30 try using a box opener type knife around the edges and then to can try to pry it out.

Great video.

You could maybe try using a polymer clay and make small land banks where the bridge supports dont reach all the way down?

Wow! Everyone mistakes, you just seem to make more than average ! It turned out great!

i learned alot from your video

Warping is a real issue with PLA. You could try printing PETG, it requires only a slightly higher printing temperature, but is way less susceptible to warping due to a higher temperature resistance. It's usually marketed as being somewhere between ABS and PLA in terms of advantages, really good stuff!

Well thank you for making my crafting week seem not quite so bad... lol It did turn out great! Also, if we never made mistakes we would never learn anything! That's my story and I'm sticking to it! lol great vid! P.S. my son just set up his first 3d printer. I can't wait until he is printing scatter for me!

All the good vendors make models that don't require supports. They aren't free, of course, but sometimes you get what you pay for (or don't pay for). I recommend Printable Scenery, RM Printable Terrain, Wonder Worlds, Infinite Dimensions, Mystic Realm, Dark Realms, Black Magic Pixels, 3DHexes, and Black Magic Pixels.

Looks good.

Awesome bridge.... But bro, where did you get that grid map? Looks really cool! lol

just curious, did you use the break in chunk option in support setting? maybe that will help you better :)

strength wise, no brain wise

Looks great, where did you get that gridded matt underneath it in the final shot?

Last suggestion is for reshaping large areas, use a heat gun. Does the same thing the sun would do but you have control.

What printer ?

5:25 I thought he was going to say flip it over to heat from other side to fix it. Edit:Just spat prettzle every where at 6:43... done that too, seems Veljo prime is infamous for that. Edit... I use to go to my brothers house to get grass, not the same type though. Thanks for sharing looked great. Just bought 3d printer so studying up on terrian, yours offered great advice and fixes to issues I would had made too.

I hate when you forget to turn off supports. The funny part is that the bridge probably came even better because of all those little ones but still not worth it imo.

Turned out great! How do you handle infill for such big models?

Great vid. Turned out great in the end, really cool you're trying new things. I'm personally avoiding 3D printing until the tech becomes far cheaper & they refine the process

You can use Windex for to create wash

Thx for the vid ! that helps :)

Thanks!

You seem to be a great guy and your bridge looks awesome! Loved the video But geeez you are cluuumsy

Wow that’s an awesome bridge

Looks great, yeh youll get used to the slicer settings. I use small needle nose pliers, tweezers and clippers to clean up prints, you can also use a jet lighter to burn away the whispy hairs. Personally I wouldnt have glued it together so i could store it easier. Wrt if 3d printing is worth it: it can be expensive for larger prints but not as expensive as buying a resin/plastic building. For small parts its definitely worth it, so cheap. Comparing it with crafting things from xps etc. Crafting is cheaper per piece for larger pieces but obviously much more time/work expensive. The tools and materials for crafting can easily add up to be more expensive than a fdm 3d printing setup. I have a problem where i can print much faster than i can paint so i get a large backlog of unpainted prints which becomes a problem and it can feel like a chore nedding to get all these prints painted when theres other things i want to work on. Crafting is more rewarding in terms of creativity.

Two things to note about drying paint on PLA outside. Prime it white or light gray, and leave it to dry on a flat surface and your fine. Color of primer and surface it dries on matters. I learned early on the same way you did.

Greenstuff in my experience is a two part epoxy. One yellow, and one blue. Mixed together you get the green. Is there new stuff out there. Where did your putty come from?