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I was recently commissioned to re-3d-print my Oahu design from a year and a half ago.  Since then I’ve built a bigger printer (the C-Bot), the terrain2stl software has been improved, I’ve gotten better at painting maps, and I built an X-Carve CNC.  I’m quite pleased with the end results:

Stats:

• 3D printed in Makergeeks ‘Nuclear Green’ and ‘Soulful Blue’ PLA.  I paused the print and swapped filament to change from water to land.
• From tip to tip, the 3d printed part is close to 14″ across.
• Sliced in Simpilfy3D:  At 200 micron and 90mm\sec with a .4mm nozzle, it took around 7 hours to print.
• Modeling for both the map and the blue acrylic was done in Autodesk Maya.
• Terrain was captured via terrain2stl.
• The blue acrylic was cut on my X-Carve CNC, toolpath generated by Easel, took maybe 10 minutes.
• After print, I sponged on dark green spray-paint, and after drying, light brown on the mountain tops.
• The models height is scaled up 2x to exaggerate the terrain.

Another angle:

And the raw print:

If this is something you’d like in your home (or any other map) let me know and we can work something out.