Taui Landing Pad

Taui Landing Pad

Styled in distinctive rounded shapes, this landing pad is perfect for hi-tech and advanced sci-fi alien settings. This landing pad is designed with several unique features - a removable force shield can be swivelled around during play to provide protection against incoming fire, and the energy lift can be lowered to ground level or raised to the height of the landing pad surface.

The landing pad measures approximately 390mm x 335mm (16" x 13"), with a height of 50mm (2"), and can easily accommodate flying tanks and vehicles on its 250mm (10") diameter pad, such as the T'au Hammerhead common to the Warhammer 40,000 setting. The force field on top adds another 85mm (3½"), for a total height of 135mm (5½").

This large terrain piece has been designed with clear PLA filaments in mind. The outer shell and pad surface is approximately 2mm thick, and by printing in your choice of clear or colour-tinted 3D printer filament, you can easily add lighting effects with clusters of LED lights inside the building. Please see the photos of the painted model for examples.

A variety of different designs have been included for the energy lift and inset symbols (hexagons and geometric layouts), which can be arranged to suit your needs and to customise your terrain. No print supports are required for this model.

This downloadable ZIP file contains the following STL files :

Outer walls (full version and 6-part version)
Pad surface (full version and 4-part version, with central support)
Energy lift (various options)
Force field

* Tau fire warrior model not included.

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* Although various geometric shapes are included for motif elements, allowing you to customise your models as you wish in your chosen arrangement, we would, however, ask you not to arrange elements in designs that may be viewed as trademarked icons of third parties. Examples of the available product files are shown in the white background images. The photos/videos of painted terrain show customised pieces. Please feel free to get in touch if in any doubt.

This product will be delivered as a .ZIP file pack containing STL files for use on a home 3D Printer. The files are set to 28mm scale but can be rescaled before printing.

All of the parts of this file can be printed on a 3D printer build plate of 150mm x 150mm (125mmx125mm for models released ~2023).
All parts have manifold (3D-printable geometry) and have been test printed.
Models designed for 28mm (1:64 scale) wargaming, but can be resized for other scales on your printer.