I think I finished my own first personal design project?

This one, has been a fun, but monotonous one.

For any of those that know me personally, you'll know I love warhammer.

For those of you who don't know what warhammer is, it's a table top wargame, kind of like chess, but involves dice as a random element.

So how does this relate to 3d printing? And your own first project Justin?

A game of warhammer where I'm about to be shot off the board

Well funnily enough, bit of back story before I go on too much of a tangent. I started 3d printing years ago, to print warhammer models (proxies (models that count as things in the game outside of their actual Games Workshop models)).

Some of the models I printed for games of Age of Sigmar (Warhammer)

But enough of getting distracted, what is this damn blog about?

Oh right! I designed something!

I've dabbled on and off with trying to make small things here and there through CAD programs, but I'm pretty fucking boomer when it comes to most tech, so it's a hard slog.

But warhammer uses tokens to help track things that make your characters better or worse and various rules that interact with the game, I don't really have a good way to do that. And considering I was going overseas to play with Team Australia to play in Thailand, I decided I needed to fix that.

So I started work on designing some token sets.

The token sets I designed for each team member on Team Aus and support staff.

This was the first set of tokens that I designed, but I ran into some issues when actually using them.

They're really hard to keep track of, and not lose, and have them not clutter up the board when you're actually using them or waiting to use them.

Queue, the project.

This one, is the one that I'm proud of, the modular token set.

The modular magnetic token set lets me have space for 18 tokens per tray, a custom lid, and I can add as many trays as I want!

The ideal set up for myself is to have one tray for generic tokens relevant to the game, and one set relevant to the army I'm playing.

That means I can have my sets ready to go, grabbing what I need for the game I've got, and then leaving the rest at home.

The case was designed to store the tokens in an easy to access and organised manner for when they're not on the table, and have the handy benefit of knowing if I've left anything on the table (because of the obvious gaping wound in the set of 18 slots).

All in all, I think I made 4 full redesigns, roughly 15 test prints of lids and cases, and what felt like a bajillion magnets (I have since been able to harvest some of them back, but not all unfortunately).

And as my first proper design project that I think I'm now happy to call done, it's been a useful learning experience, and I've now got a product that I can produce and sell!