ISLAND CABIN — FROM-SCRATCH MODELING RECIPE
Online 3D Editor / homepage editor

Values are X, Y, Z. In this editor Y is vertical. These are scene units, not
millimetres for printing. Start with the default 1.8-unit cube.

PREPARE
Delete Camera. Keep Key Light. In Light, turn off Cast Shadow.
In Object > Visibility, turn off Selectable for the light.
Use Material Preview. Rename the default Cube to Cabin.

CABIN
Location: 0, 0, 0. Scale: 1, 1, 1.
Base Color #E5BA87, Metallic 0, Roughness 0.65.
View > Frame Selected; View > Front.
Edit Mode; Face selection; click the front face.
Face > Inset Faces. The default operation creates an 18% inset.
S, 0.55, Enter. Face > Extrude Faces; Z, -0.22, Enter.
Keep the inset face selected. Material > Add Slot.
Base Color #EFBB5D. Assign Faces. Return to Object Mode.

ROOF
Add Cube; rename Roof.
Location: 0, 0.96, 0. Scale: 1.25, 0.08, 1.2.
Object > Apply Scale. Base Color #217B80, Metallic 0, Roughness 0.5.
Frame Selected; View > Top. Edit Mode; Face selection; click the top face.
Face > Extrude Faces; Y, 1.1, Enter.
S, X, 0.035, Enter. Return to Object Mode.

CHIMNEY
Add Cube; rename Chimney.
Location: 0.62, 1.6, -0.5. Scale: 0.16, 0.5, 0.17.
Base Color #AE6550, Metallic 0.1, Roughness 0.4.
Apply Scale. Frame Selected; View > Top.
Edit Mode; select top face. Face > Inset Faces.
Face > Extrude Faces; Y, -0.3, Enter. Return to Object Mode.

ISLAND
Add UV Sphere; rename Island.
Location: 0, -1.42, 0. Scale: 3, 0.6, 2.6.
Apply Scale. Edit Mode; Face selection; Select > All; Mesh > Subdivide once.
Sculpt Mode; View > Top. Draw brush: Radius 80 px, Strength 0.015.
Turn off X/Y/Z symmetry. Make slow, light strokes beside the house.
Avoid the center foundation and the thin outside edge.
Smooth brush: Radius 80 px, Strength 0.25. Lightly relax the raised areas.
Brush radius is screen-space: match the framing or adjust for your screen.
Your sculpted hills need not be identical to the video.
Object Mode; Object > Shade Smooth.
Base Color #699978, Metallic 0, Roughness 0.9.

TREE
Add Cylinder; rename Tree trunk.
Location: -1.8, -0.6, -0.15. Scale: 0.14, 0.4, 0.14.
Base Color #805B43.
Add Cone; rename Tree crown.
Location: -1.8, 0.15, -0.15. Scale: 0.65, 1, 0.65.
Base Color #276E62. Both: Metallic 0.1, Roughness 0.4.

STEPPING STONES
Add Ico Sphere; rename Stone 1. Color #D8CDB4, Metallic 0.1, Roughness 0.4.
Stone 1: Location 0.05, -0.89, 1.28. Scale 0.3, 0.1, 0.25.
Duplicate Stone 1 into Stone 2, then duplicate Stone 2 into Stone 3.
Stone 2: Location 0.23, -0.965, 1.73. Scale 0.28, 0.09, 0.23.
Stone 3: Location 0.09, -1.05, 2.1. Scale 0.25, 0.085, 0.2.
Adjust their heights to meet your own sculpted surface.

SAVE AND CHECK
Select > All (nine meshes; the light remains unselectable).
View > Frame Selected. Orbit to inspect from all sides.
File > Save stores the project in the current browser.
File > Export: GLB binary, Scope Selected, Include animations off.
Keep the download as a separate backup.
Reopen it in a new scene and check geometry and colors.
GLB readers may split material sections into additional mesh objects.

This is a static, overlapping multi-mesh diorama, not a fused printable model.
License: MIT (see LICENSE.txt).