Diner Sign

Fairly recently I started looking at Last Days Zombie Apocalypse (by Ash Barker of Guerrilla Miniature Games). We played a couple of games, and it’s really good. The game plays nicely and the campaign system is almost as in-depth as a sci-fi Mordheim (almost).

So I wanted to build scenery, as usual, and I looked at my collection of TT Combat MDF buildings and decided I wanted to add a scratch built diner. A proper authentic looking US roadside diner type thing.

Before getting too far into the design, I thought I’d start with the rooftop diner sign, and of course it seemed like a perfect opportunity to try and 3D print something.

I started by sketching the image of what I wanted, a coffee cup with a 1950’s surf board style outline and a cursive Diner text. Nice and simple. And because this was a few weeks ago before I got to grips with blender, I recreated my image using Flash (my go to vector drawing tool), exported it to Sketchup, pratted about for hours tidying it before eventually getting an stl I could print.

This is my first attempt and I’m pretty happy. I printed it quickly so it’s low quality, but I’ll tidy it up with liquid greenstuff like I did with the Shadespire giant (that’ll get a post soon too). I think this 3D printing lark could work out ok!

Now just to build the diner. It’ll look a little something like this I think:

I’ve also been toying with the idea of led strip lighting around the top to get a retro looking red glow. We’ll see how that pans out.