My recent order to Shapeways was the occasion to try something I whipped up a while ago: parametric ork missiles! For a long time, I’ve wanted to convert stantard shooty boyz to tankbustas simply by adding a missile to the front of their shoota. The reasoning being that firing a bullet in a missile was a very good way to launch it.

I was just needing some propa’ orky missiles, so I went to OpenScad. And of course, the beauty of OpenScad is that your 3D models can be parametric. So, if you have a parametric missile model and some random values, you can generate any number of different missiles. The parameters I choose were:

• radius of the missile
• length of the warhead
• length of the body
• size of the fins
• number of fins

Source code is on Github. Feel free to reuse/modify it! I’ll post the result as I receive I have received my order from Shapeways, and it’s great!

I set up a store on Shapeways if you want to order this directly. (I added a 3€ markup to the Shapeways price, if I sell a few of these I will be able to fund some new project).