Halo Array scaled one in sixty million

Before downloading anything, please read the instructions, the list of files is long.
These are the models of the ring megastructures of the videogames saga Halo. The models were made involving different techniques and I spent several days modeling; so if you make any of these models I would really appreciate any kind of contribution, like tiping or at least posting the makes here. I have not test all parts of every model so any feedback would be useful to me, I will try to correct any failture as fast as I could. Many parts may not be manifold, which means that you would have to repair them before printing; this is because there are so many parts that I couldn't check eveyone. Don't worry, many slicers have the capability of repairing non-manifold .stl, or you could use Meshlab, or Microsoft 3D builder to repair them instead. If so, please contact me and I will try to repack with the repaired parts.
The file's names explained: name_1_x_10_y.stl is 1 : x * 10y. So _1_6_10_7 is 1:600000000 or one in 60 million. If two rings are the same model, like Installation 04 and Installation 05, the numbers are stacked like this: installation_04_05_1_x_10_y.stl .
The structures were made mainly with SolidWorks, I used as references many artworks and images from the games. The topography of the installations was made using MATLAB R2016a with topographic maps made arbitrary by me, mixing several other maps, but not following any distibution from the games. Since the rings are flat, the topography may result too thin to be easily discernible, I recommend to paint the continents. Each ring has its own topography:
  • Installation 01 has a Martian terrain, desert like, lightly cratered, I cut a rectangle of the global topography of Mars.
  • Installation 02 has a water-ice terrain, I used parts of Charon topography.
  • Installation 03 has a Venus like relief.
  • Installation 04 is the classic Halo, its surface is Earth like. It is the same model for the Installation 05 and 07
  • Installation 06 has a Lunar landscape, I used the topography of Mercury instead.
  • Installation 08 is an under construction halo. The under-construction parts were made with Solidworks, the rest is Venusian terrain, so these parts are the same as Installation 03.
  • Installation 00 the gigantic star like structure, named also The Ark or Lesser Ark; it's the responsible of creating the other halos. Its topography is a mix of several parts of Earth combined with some of Charon
  • Strip Mining Moon, a planet sized object, called "moon" despite not being orbiting any planet, nor even a star. The topography of this planet was made "randomly" from scratch.

Assembly

Every model in this post is big and they must be made in various parts. The interface between parts is simply flat, and the only method recommended for join them is gluing with cyanoacrylate based cements or your favourite gluing method. There are various scales available for printing the models, and because of the large amount of files I decided to pack all of any scale in .rar packs. Every ring structure has its topography repeated every quarter, so you have to print four times every part to make the complete ring. Here is a guide on how to assemble each scale:

One in four million scale models

This is the biggest scale, the rings are 2.5 m diameter. The Installation 00 is too big for this scale. In this scale the rings can be compared with big asteroids and small moons. You can download the package of files in this scale here. The parts are numbered from 1 to 8, which makes a total of 32 parts:
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One in 4 million scale models assembly.

One in ten million scale models

In this scale the rings are 1 m diameter. The Installation 00 is not available in this scale. In this scale the rings can be compared with medium sized moons. You can download the package of files in this scale here. The parts are numbered from 1 to 4, which makes a total of 16 parts:
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One in 10 million scale models assembly.

One in twenty million scale models

In this scale the rings are 50 cm diameter. The Installation 00 is not available in this scale. In this scale the rings can be compared with big moons like Earth's one. You can download the package of files in this scale here. The parts are numbered from 1 to 2, which makes a total of 8 parts:
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One in 20 million scale models assembly.

Installation 08

The installation 08 has about a quarter of its circumference "unfinished". For any of the previous scales, the Installation 08 parts must be complemented with the Installation 03 parts, in the way it is shown in the image:
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Installation 08 assembly, it must be "filled" with the Installation 03 parts

One in sixty million scale models

In this scale the rings are 17 cm diameter and they have not relief on their surface. This is because of the narrowness of the model, just 5mm. On the other hand, the rings in this scale can be made in one piece. The Installation 00 and the Mining Moon must be made in pieces; the first is 2 meters wide, but 3mm thick in some parts, so an smaller scale is not possible. In this scale the installations can be compared with rocky planets like Earth, Mars, Mercury or Venus. I had the intention of making the model of the Installation 00 and the Mining Moon scaled down to one in 120 million (the model a half of its size of this one), which would result in a smaller faster printable model, but I resigned this idea because the thinnest parts would be too thin in this scale to be safely printed. However, if you want to try this 1:120M scale you just need to scale every part to 50% or 0.5. You can download the package of files in this scale here. The Installation 00 is splited into 32 parts:
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Installation 00 assembly.


I spend part of my time making these models, letting them available and free for everyone. If you want to support my work, you can contribute with me here:

Other astronomical objects

Object

Scale [1:x]

K = 103 (thousand)
M = 106 (million)
G = 109 (billion)

Image

Inner Solar System

Mercury 20M, 60M, 120M image
Venus 60M, 120M, 250M image
Earth 60M, 120M, 250M image
Luna 10M, 20M, 60M image
Mars 20M, 60M, 120M image
Phobos and Deimos 200K, 500K image

Man-made

Salyut 7 40, 48, 80, 160 image

Near Earth Asteroids

Moshup and Squannit 8K, 20K, 40K image
Ra-Shalom 20K, 40K image
Castalia 8K, 20K, 40K image
Bacchus 8K, 20K image
Bennu 3K, 8K image
Ryugu 3K, 8K, 20K image
Geographos 40K, 80K image
Phaethon 40K, 80K image
Itokawa 3K, 8K image
Eros 80K, 200K, 500K image
Nereus 3K, 8K image
Didymos and Dimorphos 8K, 20K image
Mithra 20K, 40K image
Golevka 8K image
Toutatis 40K, 80K image

Main Asteroid Belt

Gaspra 200K image
Annefrank 40K, 80K image
Braille 20K, 40K image
Vesta 2M, 4M, 10M image
Šteins 40K, 80K, 200K image
Iris 2M, 4M image
Hebe 1M, 2M, 4M image
Lutetia 500K, 1M, 2M image
Julia 1M, 2M, 4M image
Mathilde 500K, 1M image
Juno 2M, 4M image
Ceres 4M, 10M image
Pallas 4M, 10M image
Kleopatra 2M, 4M image
Ida 500K, 1M image
Psyche 2M, 4M image
Interamnia 2M, 4M image
Hygiea 2M, 4M, 10M image
Antiope 1M, 2M image

Jovian System

Jupiter 500M, 1G image
Amalthea 2M, 4M image
Thebe 1M, 2M image
Io 20M, 60M image
Europa 20M, 60M image
Ganymede 60M, 120M image
Callisto 60M, 120M image

Saturn System

Saturn 500M, 1G image
Pan, Daphnis and Atlas 80K, 200K, 500K, 1M image
Prometheus and Pandora 1M, 2M image
Janus and Epimetheus 2M, 4M image
Mimas 2M, 4M, 10M image
Methone, Anthe and Pallene 40K, 80K image
Enceladus 4M, 10M image
Tethys 4M, 10M, 20M image
Telesto and Calypso 200K, 500K image
Dione 4M, 10M, 20M image
Helene 500K, 1M image
Rhea 10M, 20M image
Titan 60M, 120M image
Hyperion 2M, 4M image
Iapetus 10M, 20M image
Phoebe 1M, 2M, 4M image

Uranian System

Uranus 250M, 500M, 1G image
Puck 1M, 2M, 4M image
Miranda 4M, 10M image
Ariel 10M, 20M image
Umbriel 10M, 20M image
Titania 10M, 20M image
Oberon 10M, 20M image

Neptunian System

Neptune 250M, 500M, 1G image
Larissa 2M, 4M image
Proteus 2M, 4M, 10M image
Triton 20M image

Comets

Tempel 1 40K, 80K, 200K image
Wild 2 40K, 80K image
Churyumov-Gerasimenko 20K, 40K, 80K image
Hartley 2 20K, 40K, 80K image
Borrelly 40K, 80K, 200K image
Halley 80K, 200K image

Centaurs and TNOs

Hidalgo 500K, 1M image
Chariklo 2M, 4M image
Pluto and Charon 10M, 20M image
Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra 500K, 1M image
Haumea, Namaka and Hiʻiaka 10M, 20M image
Arrokoth 200K, 500K, 1M image
Largest TNOs and their moons 10M, 20M image

Extrasolar

Exoplanets 120M, 250M, 500M image
Nearest white dwarfs 120M, 250M image
HD 189733 b 1G image
Pulsars 200K, 500K image
Cygnus X-1 accretion disk 10M, 20M image
M87* photon ring 1.5*1014 image

Sky maps

Heliosphere 7.5*1013, 1.5*1014 image
Constellations - image
CMBR 2*1028 image

Ancient

Earth (540 Mya to 20 Mya) 60M, 120M, 250M image
Luna (4 Gya) 20M, 60M image

Speculative

Planet Nine 250M, 500M image
Cube planet 60M, 120M, 250M image

Science Fiction

Ghroth 4M, 10M image
Arda 60M, 120M image
B612 10, 20, 32, 40 image
Mesklin 500M, 1G image
Arrakis 60M, 120M image
Borg cube 8K, 20K, 40K image
Pern 60M, 120M image
Europa Monolith 200K, 500K image
Leonora Christine 500, 600, 1K, 3K image
Rama 80K, 200K, 500K image
Death Star 500K, 1M, 2M image
Starkiller Base 2M, 4M, 10M image
Eternia 60M, 120M image
Visitors mothership 20K, 40K image
Wheel of Time Earth 60M, 120M, 250M image
Nirn, Secunda and Masser 20M, 60M, 120M image
ID mothership 2M, 4M, 10M image
ID troop transporter 200, 350, 500, 1K image
Heptapod spaceship 1K, 3K, 8K image
Gaijin flowership 3K image
Red Moon 60M, 120M image
Halo Array 4M, 10M, 20M, 60M image
Gem Homeworld 120M, 250M, 500M image
Citadel of Ricks 200K image
The Skeld 40, 80, 160, 350, 500 image

Misc

Mars (1962 reconstruction) 60M, 120M image
Flat Earth 250M image
Expanding Earth 60M, 120M image
Spaceship of Ezekiel 80, 160 image