Small Engine Shed

After some playing around with a pringles pipe as a shed i decided to upgrade to a 3d printed one.

Research

Ok, calling it a research might be total overkill, but I googled for some pictures and found some nice modern sheds as a baseline.

walkway

Design

  1. Started with some flat walls that soon got upgraded corrugated iron look and some windows
  2. adding a flat roof that got extended by some roof openings
  3. printed the parts and noticed putting them together is hard if you don’t have a base to put them on
  4. created a base with some guidelines for the walls cared out of it
  5. added some doors (with just some tape acting as a hinge and spring at the same time)
  6. placed a locomotive on a track and drove in : party ;)

indoor

Get some details

  1. Added a walkway to place later on some figures inside
  2. designed some window frames and glued some transparent plastic waste behind it.
  3. oh - its dark inside …
  4. googled for some light ideas and came up with 3 LEDs from a LED Strip
  5. created a cabelcanal and used it to hide the wire and upside down to have a enclosure for the LEDs

outdoor

Refactoring

  1. as i used code to build all the stuff in openSCAD, it was time to clean up the code
  2. added a small and ugly ps script to generate a website with preview images

Last touch for now

  1. used the refactored code to recreate the doors and designed them as 2 peaces to have color without painting it

Conclusion

Was a lot of fun to create, learned a lot about openSCAD and i have a small engine shed now.

build

openSCAD code: https://github.com/eXpire163/openSCAD -> Lokschuppen thingiverse: todo