Name: Columns and Buttresses
Brand: Dungeons and Dragons
Availability: InStock

Description

The walls of the castle looked strong enough on their own to withstand any siege weapon in the kingdom, but the sturdy buttresses that tapered up their sides made the point crystal clear. There was no way these walls were falling any time soon.

Updates:

31 May 2017 (version 1.1) Includes a Y Column and a Y Buttress

5 July 2017 (version 1.2) Includes a X Column

20 February 2018 (version 1.3) Updated clip ports.

Notes for Columns and Buttresses:

Right-click on the image below and “Save As” to download the reference sheet for this pack.

Product measurements can be found in the image gallery.

Additional information

Recommended Printer

FDM or resin printer

Terrain Tinker

Available

Infill

100% for resin printing, 10% to 15% for most parts but increase to 20% for thin upright parts such as door frames for added strength

Supports

requires supports for resin printing, Prints without Supports

Layer Height

0.05 high quality on resin printers, .2 for Normal Quality .1 for High Quality (.2 Layer height is recommended)

Scale

32mm Heroic & OpenLOCK

Name

Millimeters mm

Ratio

Scale %

10mm Wargames & N Scale

1:159

31.3%

15mm Wargames

1:116

46.9%

HO Scale

1:87

62.5%

OO Scale

1:76

68.8%

28mm Wargames

1:62

87.5%

32mm Heroic & OpenLOCK

1:54

100.0%

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6 Comments

Comments

Alex Melzer (verified owner) – July 1, 2017

Hey Matt,

I wonder if there are X-columns? Haven’t found them yet. I’d like to build something like you showed on the “Rampage Round Castle Tessellation” help page and wanted to use the column in the middle which connects to four sides.

Matt Barker – July 1, 2017

Ill make some tomorow and upload them for you, no problme.

Alex Melzer (verified owner) – July 2, 2017

Thanks!

Jonas (verified owner) – September 16, 2018

Are there any T-columns?

Sam Campbell – September 17, 2018

T-Columns are not possible with 3 clips as the column can only fit internally 2 clips in any configuration.

snarlbuckle (verified owner) – February 19, 2019

I can’t for the life of me figure out a way to actually use the Y columns or Y floors that I assume go with them. If the current Y column is used as the tip of an isosceles triangle, there are no columns that function in any way for the other corners of the triangle. Please help me find a solution.

Sam Campbell – February 20, 2019

This was a customer request for a custom piece that was added in.

Brad Gust – July 20, 2019

Can ‘Column And Buttress’ be updated with stackable ZA. I would like to make 8 sided towers like the new dwarven stuff.

Sam Campbell – July 22, 2019

It’s something we could look at in the future with the RPG castle walls.

monheim (verified owner) – August 27, 2019

Is there a special clip for the x-column or something else I’m missing? I can only connect 2 walls, there isn’t any space for the other 2 clips.

Matt Barker – August 27, 2019

You can only attach two clips with the X Column.

monheim (verified owner) – August 28, 2019

I created a custom clip so that I can use the X-column as I intended to use it. Feel free to add it to the pack, as I can imagine other people want to add 4 walls to the X-column.
You can find it here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3832418

Sam Campbell – August 29, 2019

That looks great, I’ll run some test prints and check it myself.

Cratesbane (verified owner) – January 1, 2020

Any chance of getting some rectangular columns that would match the 1/2 step of the buttresses? Trying to flip the buttresses upside down and use them as ‘support’ for upper floors as improvised machicolations.

Sam Campbell – January 3, 2020

Thanks for the suggestion. It’s something we might be able to look into in the future.

mrebivens (verified owner) – August 24, 2021

Hello, would it be possible to make a T-Column, with intent to use with this open-lock double clip (created by monheim): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3832418

Or, alternatively a vertical clip cap we could use to close off 1 side of the x-column?

(trying to add some stability to a rather large castle layout :))

Thanks,