With the sad news that Black Site Studios is sunsetting the amazing MDF line for their ARK (Vault), I figured it was almost too late, but not completely too late, to add a quick Tutorial for anyone looking to make some T-junction corridors. They are taking orders through the end of the month, so if this helps at all, please enjoy. It’s quick and dirty, hopefully it is useful.
SHORT T-CORRIDORS: Requires the below, creates 2 Short T-Corridors
Ready to assemble.
Assembled. Nothing too difficult for these, just swap the corner pieces and you get T’s! Don’t have any great pictures of these finished (I can locate ATM), but you can see how they will approximately look below in the finalized Long T-Corridor images.
LONG T-CORRIDOR & 3-WAY ROOM: Requires the below, creates 1 Long T-Corridor & 1 3-Way Room
For the T-Corridor, build as follows build the ends and 1 of the 2 side walls as instructed. You may want to avoid gluing until after completing the 4th wall.
The 4th wall is one of the open walls from the 4-Way kit. I’ve circled below where you’ll need to trim back/off the Corridor piece floor tabs so it will fit. Pix of where the cuts need to be are below.
Such a modeling professional here…
Once assembled, the frrame will look like this. Any slot gaps on the wall due to having to trim floor tabs you can use the offcut tabs or plastic rod or just leave it open as the Master intended.
For the 3-Way Room, you will repeat the process as above, trimming tabs where needed. I thought I had good in progress images for this room, but couldn’t find on the fly. The back wall for this room is thick Evergreen plasticard. It’s ribbed horizontally. This room is for the cafeteria. The back wall will be for the stoves/refrigerator/etc. 3d prints to come here.
In all cases you may have a corner gap where the ‘wall features’ don’t align flush due to how they were cut to jigsaw together with the connecting corner. That’s fine, dig out some ‘wasteland flair’ and hide that contractor messup! (finished Long T-Corridor pic below)
That’s really it. It’s fairly simple align walls/cut tabs to fit/add flair to cover exposed corners. The last 2 pictures are of the finished Long T-Corridor. I used straws in the gapped wall corners to hide the space. Hot and cold running straws.
Enjoy!!!
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