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Corrugated metal texture roller

Corrugated roofing sheets with overlapping seams, nail heads and a few dents. Shacks, sheds, barns and post-apocalyptic scrap terrain.

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3D render of the printed corrugated metal texture roller in its dark fork handle, resting on a slab of clay it has pressed with corrugated sheet metal
Clay ~69 g

Wavy corrugated sheets with a 4 mm pitch, overlapped at two seams per repeat with a row of nail heads along each, and a few shallow dents where something hit them, the tin roof of a shed, a shanty or a wasteland bunker. Roll it into air-dry clay, foam or polymer clay for shed and barn roofs, shanty walls, fences and scrap barricades on post-apocalyptic, western and modern wargaming tables, or for model railway goods sheds.

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Made with our free texture roller tool, not modelled by hand: we drew the pattern in code as a seamless picture, uploaded it, and set a roller 30 mm across and 80 mm long with an 8 mm bore, the pattern raised 1.5 mm and repeated twice round and twice along. The zip holds the roller and the tool's own fork handle with its two retaining pins, as two STL files, plus the pattern picture, so you can remake the roller at another size or depth.

Every roller in this set is the same size and fits the same 131 mm handle, so you print the handle once and after that only rollers: pull the two pins, swap the roller, push the pins back in.

Shown as a 3D render of the printed roller in its handle on the clay it has pressed, not a photo.

Corrugated metal texture roller at a glance: every printed part with its size, print time, filament, print settings and the three steps to use it

What you need

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  • About 69 g of PLA or PETG for the roller, the handle and its pins (about 32 g for a roller alone)
  • Something to texture: air-dry or polymer clay, or EVA foam warmed with a heat gun
  • A smooth work surface, and a rolling pin or two guide strips to roll the clay to an even thickness
  • A little cornstarch, or a water spray for ceramic clay, if it starts to stick

How to use it

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  1. Print the roller standing on its end and the handle and pins lying flat, all as exported, no supports.

  2. Set the roller between the arms of the fork and push one pin through each arm into its bore, hex head outwards; the roller turns on the pins.

  3. Roll the clay to an even thickness first: 4 to 6 mm for terrain and slabs, 2 to 3 mm for jewellery and ornaments.

  4. Roll across once, in one direction, with steady, even pressure, and lift off at the end. Going back and forth doubles the pattern.

  5. Pull the pins to swap to another roller from the set, and wash the roller in warm soapy water after use.

Print details

2 h 50 minPrint time
~69 gFilament
4Printed parts
32 × 32 × 80 mmSize (W x D x H)
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Print details
Works withClay
Printed parts4
Size (W x D x H)32 x 32 x 80 mm
Print bed needed151 x 131 mm, 81 mm tall
Filament~69 g
Layer height0.2 mm
Infill20%
SupportsNot needed
DownloadZIP: roller + fork handle and 2 pins (2 STL) + pattern picture (PNG) + print sheet + README
Added2026-10-01
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Questions about this design

What scale is the corrugation on the corrugated metal texture roller?

The ridges are 4 mm apart, which reads as heavy corrugated iron next to 28 and 32 mm miniatures and as ordinary roofing at 1:35 and on larger model railways. For finer corrugation, upload the pattern picture from the zip to the texture roller tool and raise the repeats along.

How do I make rusty sheets with the corrugated metal texture roller?

Roll polymer or air-dry clay thin, about 2 mm, texture it and cut ragged sheets. Once dry or baked, prime black, paint a dark metal, then sponge on browns and orange in patches and drybrush the ridges silver so the rust sits in the troughs.

Does the corrugated metal texture roller fit the same handle as the other rollers?

Yes. Every roller in this set is 80 mm long and 30 mm across at the base, with an 8 mm bore, and every zip carries the same fork handle and pins, so you print the handle once and swap rollers by pulling the two pins.

How long does the corrugated metal texture roller take to print?

About 2 h 50 min for everything on a current printer at 0.2 mm layers: about 1 h 15 min for the roller and 1 h 30 min for the handle and pins. Once you have the handle, each new roller is only the first part. The times are estimated from the parts' volume, not sliced.

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