With great help from Klunk, it’s taking shape. Done the test piece in aluminium as it’s what I had to hand. Just need to run the finishing path and do some engraving:

Nice. Great gift idea BTW.

What size is it? Will it fit in a camelback so you can use it as a 3D map, and are you going to paint it with roads, footpaths, bridleways etc. to make it more functional?

Obviously you won’t need contour lines.

(only joking, I like that. Can you give us a link to the original thread about producing it, I missed that one.)

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/profile/stevied – scroll down to threads started (I believe in teaching a man to fish)

Looking good

Currently 315mm x 63mm but can scale up or down easily now.
Original thread here: http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/turning-contours-into-a-3d-model

That is awesome, I shall forward the thread to the wife for christmas ideas.

I do miss home. 🙁

I’d like it a little wider, to put the hills in context with the east and west. But then I’d probably have two, one painted up with the landuses and one with solid geology.

I can see my house! No. Wait. It’s a bit of swarf….

Finish cut came out a bit like digital camo so need to have a play with settings.

What a neat idea 🙂 out of interest could you make it with other materials such as a block of seasoned Oak?

Thats cool!

Doubles up as lincolnshire on the reverse side 😆

Go on, mister. How much?

Ski, can do it out of most materials but think oak might be a bit too grainy to get a decent finish. Will be trying to get some decent plywood asap as I think that would look great..
Stoner, no idea yet. How much do you think they would be worth?

great project, could you vac form it and make some casts for the masses?

If you call yourself an artisan then you can easily add 50% on whatever price you decide!

If you call yourself an artisan then you can easily add 50% on whatever price you decide!

Gnartisan, surely?

Cool, i’d love to see one of Strouds five valleys.

Would be really nice in some sort of laminated material like ply but with thinner sections. I reckon it would emphasise the gradient a bit more.

Noice!

I had to draw the buggers once. In a semicircle to fit a beermat. There’re always more summits than you think. Yours is much cooler even if computeriserised!

*Edit. You must do May Hill, the outlier…

V impressed sir.

Surprised how small in height and volume British camp looks compared to W beacon (I think I’m looking at the right bit)

Still, with no trees, the conservators are happy 😉

Love it, great present idea.

That’s great! Please add me to the list of people who would like to know once you have decided on pricing. Spent much of my childhood in and around the Malvern Hills, special place in me heart

Looks awesome, how about a smaller on as a keyring?
(a mint idea I’m sure you’ll agree)

Id love to see it in ply wood, with 2x vertical scale and a thinner base below datum. About 500mm x 120mm.

I hate to bid up the price too much, but I reckon £25-50 wouldn’t be too far away in wood.

I have no idea what an aluminium blank costs.

In the right place, with the right presentation, though I reckon you could ask £100.

Further to my comment above about laminated materials. It would be doubly awesome if it were possible to match the thickness of the laminations to the actual height gain so each layer was the equivalent of 10m.

Very cool. Something like this but less extortionate and you could be on a winner!

http://duffylondon.com/product/tables/abyss-table/

very nice

Nice. Could be interested depending on materials and £s

I’m missing home too….
That would lovely somewhere in my house….

Not read the previous thread but would be great if people could send you a set of OS ‘squares’ that includes the area that they want rendered and you translate that into one of these 3D things.

Everyone (except the flat landers) gets to own their local/favourite topography.

Everyone (except the flat landers) gets to own their local/favourite topography.

you can always cheat with the vertical scale.

What an excellent idea. I’d be quickly setting up a small company and offer production of favorite areas and some special focus areas as a standard (Mendips/Chilterns/South Downs etc.) with a small premium on the special requirements.
Offer in a range of materials, not too many…

Enjoy making them

Enjoy selling them.

When you have this set up I’d like one of the Ironbridge Gorge and one of my bit of the South Downs.

Crack on Son.. 😀

North Downs please, in 3mm 3-ply, each mm=1m of gain?

That’s my thinking bb…

I live in Cambridgeshire. Just send me some ply, I’ll be fine.

Seriously nice work though, I like that a lot.

Just send me some ply, I’ll be fine

Do give it a good sand with some 1000grit first though.

you can always cheat with the vertical scale.

I remember doing something similar for GCSE geography with cardboard, to do the actual scale would have meant thin paper for each contour, to get it to look as steep as an actual hill required corrugated card. Even something steep like kinder scout, if you did it at the same 1km=2cm scale as 1:50k OS mapping it would be 4mm of height gain (200m) over 4cm.

If this becomes a thing, I’d so be up for one of the Malverns. Our house up here on the edge of Glasgow has lots of pictures of the malverns all over it. If I look out of my window and squint a bit, with the inversion carpeting the base of the Campsie Fells, I can almost feel like I’m home, almost.

Somehow Malvern has managed to become a very special part of my families lives. Our visits back home to hobbiton 😉

My daughter is only 15, but is planning on when she can move there to live.

Have a look at Map Sculpture. They do raised relief maps in various materials (wood, bronze, aluminium) and sizes.

That’s ace, love it. If you took that and dropped it somewhere in east anglia, it’d qualify as a descent.

I definitely want one in plywood! Don’t even really care where of but obvs. somewhere among
the Purbecks.