While on the quest for a more accurate Pylon (and greater credit card debt), I concocted this 'greater pylon'. Apocalypse seems to encode Necron ranks in terms of precious metals, so perhaps this is a 'Golden Pylon' compared to Forge World's 'Silver Pylon'.

Left as an exercise to the viewer are the 'Bronze' and 'Platinum' versions.

The idea is to make a single branch of the pylon, and plug them together using a central docking piece. But, I haven't designed that yet.

It seems too rounded.

Mind you, that would provide a much better focus for a beam that the existing Forge World model

Will a printer reproduce that sort of detail?

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Have you thought about adding the small Necron icons that are embossed on the 40k-scale pylon?

Not that that's related to this thread at all.

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As to rounded, each segment is 120 degrees. The attached picture, a side view of the existing Pylon, shows that 2 segments sweep out 240 degrees.

Regarding Necron symbology, I'll look into it. As long as they scale down to a size .33mm or greater, it's doable.

Next step: start making the ellipsoid docking thingy in the middle.

Looks cool !

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The other photos I have seen have had the Pylon at a much different angle making it difficult to see. I haven't actually seen that photo before.

Putting two sets of the rings together certainly accentuates the curve of each piece.

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Hm, I need to make the emitter tips larger.

What, like this? I guess it's conceivable to make a series of 'glyph plates' for different tomb worlds to stick onto stuff. That is, if the decals don't float one's boat.

Fun with fillet and chamfer!

Yep, exactly like that.

There are Necron icons/symbols scattered all over the 40k-sized piece, which are shown well on this picture:



Mostly they seem to be on the inner side of the ring.

The only big thing I think is missing from your Pylon so far is that the 40k pylon has a sort of groove running along each side of the curved bits of the pylon... this allows the pylon to rotate up and down a bit in 40k.

The groove can be seen on the picture above too.

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Yeah, I've got to do something about that groove. Fortunately, a simple bool-difference command should take care of that.

Regarding the symbology on the inner surface, there's just not enough room. I shrunk a symbol to fit within the 1.8mm width and did some measurements. At that scale, the 'strokes' of the symbol are not quite .2mm, and we've seen that isn't plausible with the affordable 3D printers.

I recommend decals for the inner strip. Need to measure those things again...

I used Decals on my Pylon ...

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Meager progress, but an idea that could use some feedback.

The hardest part of the first incarnation of the ZERS was the curvey part. The mold was large, unwieldy, and balky. It was also the most expensive part to print.

So, breaking it into multiple parts would reduce print cost and mold size.

Pegs and holes (of the right size and proportion) are always handy for assembling things. The annoying summoning core taught me that.

Customization is great!

Combining those observations, I chopped apart my in-progress new ZERS and made this: