Fen End Pit - Starting on the shed
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Thanks to various comments on and offline the curvy roofed option won!
I drew up the timber frame in TurboCAD and cut it out in 6mm ply on the laser-cutter this lunchtime. The resulting structure is 'quite large'.
One of the reasons I opted for the curved roof was that I'd solved the problem of how to make curved corrugated iron. With any products available as sheets, either corrugated copper from Ambis or plasticard it is almost impossible to bend in circumstances where you want to, such as for a curved roof. However I tried to produce some wiggly-tin on my 3D printer and amazingly it worked! The curves of the corrugations are such that the model prints without support and each scale 8x3 sheet takes about an hour print.
After a coat of primer and a little finishing the resulting surface is pretty smooth and I think works for my requirements in 16mm scale.
Because I've managed to CAD model and print my own I found it was easy to make the corrugated 2D sketch extrude to follow the line of a radius in the other direction. So I was able to print the curved section of iron for the roof of the building at the correct radius to make it fit. So I have viable way to make what I hope will be a suitably agricultural fenland shed.
Looks like the 3d printer will be working overtime.
David
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