Press to make corrugated metal siding

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I'm working on a coal mine for my HO scale railroad and I'm thinking of making it look like corrugated metal siding. The way I'm laying out the walls, I need to print them face down so no texturing of the outer walls will be possible. I decided to try a press pattern set to form aluminum foil into corrugated sheet metal. The patterns in HO scale result in corrugations just under 3.5 inches - a bit oversized for the scale, but the results look pretty good. I've uploaded 0.7mm and 0.5mm patterns also, but with a 0.4mm nozzle, I might be getting close to my limit. If I can get it to slice and print well, I will upload pictures of the resulting aluminum foil imprints. I've also added a large version of the 1mm pattern if you were going to want sheets for O Scale. I printed in ABS (all I have been printing in lately!) and sliced using Cura 3.6 with 0.2mm resolution but using the experimental feature adaptive layers to use a finer resolution in the corrugations (max variation 0.15mm, variation step size 0.05mm, threshold 20). With an FDM printer, I'd be interested to see if someone can print the small pattern (I'm sure to try!) Other settings: 15% infill, top layers 3, bottom layers 2, sides 3 I printed two and sandwich cut pieces of heavy duty aluminum foil between them. I plan on gluing them one by one to the walls of the mine (I will upload the mine design once it is all complete and I have tested the build)