28mm Scale Log Canoe

The next thing in my series of Bronze Age boats ! This is a log canoe scaled to work with 28mm figures.

I designed this to work with our current D&D adventure, where the party are exploring along a river inhabited by savage tribes and lizardmen. It is very loosely based on the incredible bronze age canoes found at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire, which were of a type where the occupants knelt on the floor rather than sitting at benches. I have taken some liberties with scaling (particularly the width) to enable them to be useful for tabletop gaming and to fit onto most 3D printer print beds.

If you'd like to see photos of the originals, http://www.mustfarm.com/bronze-age-river/discoveries/ is the place to look.

This thing has four files

• A small waterline canoe, which will work with figures with 20mm bases.
• A small full-hull version, useful for dioramas where the canoe is drawn up onto a river bank etc.
• A larger waterline version, which will work with figures with bases up to about 25mm.
• A large full-hull version

I've tried to keep the file names short enough that they make sense in the small screen an Ender 3 has.

I haven't included a file for a paddle, because that's most likely to be included on crew figures (a future project...).

Best printed with a brim and supports to the baseplate. I printed my test ones at 0.1mm resolution, but you could probably get away with 0.2mm if you want a quicker print. When I printed my test ones, my printer had a slight over-extrusion problem, but actually that seems to have made for a more realistic appearance !

The largest canoe will take around 4 hours to print at 0.1 layer height.