Microscope 3D model
Microscope from the Poly Haven Modern pack in TerrainTale's library. Scatter it to dress a scene or give the fight cover; it stands on whatever is under it.
- Folder
- Props and clutter
- Pack
- Poly Haven Modern
- Author
- Poly Haven
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
- Size
- 6 in by 1.5 ft, 1.5 ft tall (covers about 1 by 1 squares)
- Format
- GLB (binary glTF 2.0)
- File size
- 590 KB
About this model
A grey laboratory microscope with several eyepieces, focus knobs and a slide stage. It looks like a mid-century research instrument. It is about half a foot wide, 1.5 ft deep and 1.5 ft tall. The finish is grey enamel with chrome fittings. Leave a box of slides or a notebook beside it to show work in progress. It is a quiet object that becomes important once players realise what is being studied, and a target for anyone who wants that research gone.
Place it on lab benches, in hospital rooms and in a mad scientist's workshop. It is a clue prop, the instrument where a sample reveals what is going on. It marks where the research in a room is happening.
Ideas for the table
- A slide under the microscope shows cells that should not exist.
- The scientist is killed before she can finish looking down the microscope.
- Smashing the microscope is the only way to stop the experiment.
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