This project has slowed to a crawl as I figure out the best ways to handle the long walls. I've had to forgo tinkercad as these walls are much wider and have a lot more texture to them along with the curved sides. As mentioned in the last update, I finally figured out how to curve the Star texture. Not an easy task. Took me a few weeks to figure that out.
Once I felt I had that down, I rebuilt the entire long side wall to make sure the star texture is the same on all three sections. The mistake I made was the remesh the star texture when joining it on to the basic sidewall that I had created in tinkercad. This created star texture sections with an insane amount of 3d geometry... How big you might ask? Well just this one side wall clocks in at about 3.9 gigabytes and file size! That's insane.
So now I'm trying to work on reducing the amount of detail in order to bring that way down. But the problem is, there's so much detail now it's overloading blender, the 3D program I'm using, and making it crash. So I may have to start back over with the star textures. Ugh. I'm very ready for this project to be finished! It's been over a month that I've been working on just this sidewall.
Good news is when I lined it up with the shorter sidewalks I'd already created and printed, they match up perfectly.
Hopefully I can get this model reduced in size so I can start printing it!