Tudor house box — half-timbered town house whose upper storey lifts off

A half-timbered Tudor town house, 184 × 214 × 150 mm, that is a box. The ground floor and its brick plinth are the storage; the jettied upper storey, the twin-gabled tile roof and the chimney lift off as one lid. The lid's skirt is the upper storey and drops over the plain top of the body, so the only seam is the shadow line under the jetty — where a real jettied house has one anyway.

Eleven STLs, two prints and a small fit coupon. No screws, no magnets, no glue, no supports. The cavity is 164 × 194 × 90 mm plus the roof void above it: a board game's worth of tokens, a deck box and dice, the remote controls, or the things that live on the hall table.

The detail

Everything is cut, not painted: 3 mm brick courses on the plinth and the chimney, 5 mm tile courses with a half-stagger on all four roof slopes, a planked door under a four-centred arch, diamond leading over recessed window panes, close studding with corner braces, king post, collar and raking struts in both gables, ridge tiles, bargeboards, a cornice with a 45° soffit, and two chimney pots. Nine colour solids: the body is plaster, timber, brick and glass; the lid is plaster, timber, roof tile, glass and chimney brick.

Print the coupon first

tudor_coupon_body.stl and tudor_coupon_lid.stl are one corner of the seam, about 26 g together. Push them together: the lid corner should slide freely for 25 mm, then take a firm push for the last 10 mm and lift the body piece with it. Too tight → fit 0.15 → 0.25 in the .scad and rebuild. Falls off → 0.10. Only the lid files change.

Print A — the body

Import tudor_body_wall.stl, tudor_body_wood.stl, tudor_body_brick.stl and tudor_body_window.stl together and answer Yes to "load these files as a single object with multiple parts". Assign cream, dark brown, brick red and pale blue. Stands on its floor. About 190 g as sliced plus roughly 115 g of purge for four colours.

Step 1 — the body. One print, nothing to do to it.

Print B — the lid

Same with tudor_lid_wall.stl, tudor_lid_wood.stl, tudor_lid_roof.stl, tudor_lid_window.stl and tudor_lid_chimney.stl: cream, dark brown, terracotta, pale blue, brick. Prints roof up on the flat bottom edge of the skirt, no supports — both pitches are 50°. On a four-slot AMS give the chimney the roof filament. About 220 g as sliced; five colours across the roof cost up to 400 g of purge at default flush volumes, so turn on Flush into objects' infill, lower the flush multiplier, or print the chimney in the roof colour and the panes in the plaster colour.

Step 2 — the lid. Drop it over the body, door under the left gable, chimney at the back. The skirt is loose for the first 25 mm and grips over the last 10 mm; the body rim lands on a ledge inside the lid at the eaves. It is possible to seat the lid precisely with an even shadow line, but aligning the long skirt takes some fiddling: lower it evenly, then work around the four corners with light pressure until the joint closes. A friction fit, not a latch: it lifts the box by its roof but comes off with two hands.

Never merge the files and use Split to Parts. It divides by connected component and ignores solid names, and the pane files are 9 and 14 separate islands.

One colour works too

Panes and the door are pockets recessed 1 mm, brick and tile joints are cut 0.5 mm, timbers stand 0.8 mm proud and the leading stands proud of the pane, so a single-filament print still reads as a Tudor house in relief.

Printing

Do not rotate either half. 0.2 mm layers, 3 walls, 15 % infill, no supports, no brim, no pause. Ironing off. Fuzzy Skin on the two _wall parts only, if you want daub. Body footprint 172 × 202 mm, 92 tall; lid 184 × 214 mm, 94 tall.

The .scad source is included: footprint, roof pitch, studding, the window schedule and the fit are all named variables, and build.sh regenerates every colour solid and gates the result.