This piece is a stylized round grass tuft terrain base designed as a compact scenic patch for hobby dioramas, tabletop layouts, and display scenes. The sculpt emphasizes dense, upward-pointing blades clustered into a shallow, circular mat sitting on a low rim. Outer rim detail includes regularly spaced shallow perforations and a tapered skirt that helps the turf read clearly at small scales while providing a consistent mounting edge for glue or scenic adhesive.
Geometry notes: the sculpt is intentionally stylized rather than botanically literal—blades vary in height and angle to catch light and break up silhouette on a layout. The rim and skirt give the piece a clean footprint for placement on bases, plinths, or scenic board. The surface topology is dense with many short blade tips; maintain awareness of thin vertical elements when printing at very small scales and consider slight thickness adjustments or gentle chamfers if manually editing for specific printers.
Intended use: drop-in scenic scatter for HO/1:87 dioramas, additional greenery on tabletops, or as small display patches in model layouts. The round footprint makes it useful as a clump of groundcover at the base of a tree, next to a curb, or as scattered vegetation on an open field. Because the sculpt reads at small scales, it functions well as both foreground detail and background texture depending on placement and painting choices.
What’s included: a single 1:87 (HO) master file tuned to sit correctly at that scale and ready for hobby conversion. The master is supplied at 1:87 so you can print the piece at the intended hobby size; if you need a different scale, scale the master uniformly (conversion note included) and recheck thin blade tips for printability at the chosen scale.
Printing and finishing hints: orient the piece flat on the rim for the most reliable prints and minimal support contact across the grassy mat, or split the rim if your printer build volume requires. For resin prints, use moderate cure and gentle handling of blade tips; for filament printers, consider slightly thicker shell/wall settings and supports trimmed at the rim. The sculpt is designed to take paint washes and flocking—after priming, use a light drybrush to separate blade highlights and apply fine static grass or flock where you want soft texture.
Notes and provenance: this is a legacy-stubbed stylized sculpt; no maker brand or historical prototype is claimed. Real-world dimensions are not authoritative in the source data; see the dimension block below and the scale recommendation. If you require exact real-world prototype sizing or additional scaled masters, request a conversion or remaster service.
Miniature Reality Personal-Use License (No AI / No Resale)
- Allowed: personal printing for your own layouts, dioramas, tabletop games, and personal display.
- Not allowed: sharing or distributing the digital files (free or paid), re-uploading to any site, bundling, remix resale, or selling/redistributing printed outputs.
- Not allowed: using the files (or derivatives) to train, fine-tune, test, or feed any AI/ML system (including dataset creation).
- Not allowed: commercial use of any kind without a separate written commercial license from Miniature Reality.
- Note: digital files may include purchaser-linked identifiers / forensic watermarking to help investigate unauthorized distribution.
