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>Last Thread: >>95753153

okay, this one is probably my fault, for throwing a little bit of other resin in the mix hoping to see if I couls save it and that giant failure in the middle probably happen because of that.
...
So dont mix resins like a dumb as kids.

>>95936268
Most resins are fine with mixing, many people do that to enhance physical features of cheaper resins.
Your problem is that you need to adjust your settings for the mix.

just a retard passing by. tell me, o ye tech savvy nerds, why is there no such thing as a 3D resin printer for under 100 burger bucks with 8k resolution? something like tinymaker, but giga nigga quality. is it because printers like mars and saturn are so affordable that no one bothers with smaller ones? if not for sale, then why are there no DIY fags showing the world how to make a miniature proonter? I researced prometheus, but I can't even wrap my head around finding the parts to build it. 3D resin printing has been popular for years now and it just keep growing in popularity. all I wanna do is print bits n shits and individual minis instead of giant armies and titans. why hast god forsaken me?

>>95937172
Having a printer is the smallest problem, all the other shit around it (space, postprocessing, etc.) is the problem. And doing that you might aswell dosh out some dosh for a proppa one.

>>95937242
surely the size of printer solves the problem with space and postprocessing. like, instead of having a dedicated shed, garage or a nightstand next to my grandma's bed, I could instead have it on a small table in a grow tent that also has an air purifier.

>>95937297
Going to a weed store to buy a grow tent and filters to make minis feels like that one guy who bought two Sybian saddles to shake his silicon moulds while he cast resin.

>>95937172
Maybe /diy/ has better answers, but i dont see the point in having a printer that small, or any smaller than a Mars. What would you print there, hobby-wise? One Space Marine pauldron at a time?

>>95935300 (OP)
Anyone know of files for an android/servitor or servoskull vehicle pilot? I'm willing to buy quality STLs, just has to thematically fit in Necromunda. I'd rather not make my vehicle gang specific by chopping up one of my gangers so I can use this with other teams. He will be on one of those bayou fan boats for a Sump Sea campaign, so a torso is really all i need, i can use plasticard to hide the legs

Anybody know to find the Prince Vhordrai stl? I've seen someone use a perfect replica cant find it for shit

>>95937892
Going off a reddit post I found There is a very similar zombie dragon in Artisan Guild's "Morbithrax – the Fire Grave (Horrors of Rodburg Barrows)" and then take the rider from Archvillian games "Dreadwing". There are other "Vampire on zombie dragon" figures but those ones look pretty close.

>>95937242
Resin printer takes up about a square foot of space on a desk or a table and you can ut it away in a closet or whatever when not in use.
post-processing is a jar full of Iso, and an empty yogurt tub full of hot water+hobby knife to remove supports.
Oh and a windowsill for the sunlight to cure your minis on a piece of cardboard torn off a box flap or whatever.

guys do i have enough vertices

>>95936531
The print did not failed, but it got slightly deformed, which could be really bad in other stuff.

could this be solved if I slow down the print speed?

>>95945433
did not mean to answer that guy

>>95945433
the print deformed because your supports detatched
make the contact point bigger

>>95945433
Don't print bases on supports, print them flat on the plate.

>>95946931
Not that guy but I have tried that and experienced really awful elephants foot or the base peels off and bends in a dome

>>95947164
It's how I do all of mine, ~300+ bases with no issues.

>>95947168
do you put the proper-orientation bottom rim on the plate?

>>95936268
yummy cheese

>>95937172
There’s a chinese printer that sells for $99 that is just marginally smaller than a mars. It has a 4k screen iirc. Don’t remember what it’s called. And a mono 4 can be bought for like $140.

>>95936268
Making resin this color should be illegals It looks just like cheetos. Probably tastes the same with a bit of salt, too.

>>95947806
>And a mono 4 can be bought for like $140.
in the meantime I have indeed found some cheap anycubics locally in my shithole: mono 2 "outlet" for 150 burger bucks and mono 4 for 200. the price doesn't worry me due to resin costs over time, but do mono 2 and 4 have true anti aliasing for perfect smoothness? it baffles me. in fact what baffles me the most about both printers is how perfect the prints look like on jewtube despite resolution, pixel size, price, resin, etc. I just might bite the bullet with mono 2 (150 buckerinos), get DIY washing and DIY curing station and call it a day. can anyone talk me out of mono 2 without using "muh volume" as argument? and resin recommendations are welcome.

Am enjoying using my printer for Bolt Action reasons. The infantry are plastic kits, but their bases and everything else is printed. I know I could get better resolution for the tanks, but this is plenty

>>95948080
Was gonna ask, do most people use FDM or resin for their bases?

>>95948143
FDM is more popular for bases due to cheaper material, easier production, and tougher final product. Resin's advantages of resolution and undercuts don't really help basing

>>95948143
For plain bases, I don't even bother and order them in bulk from AliExpress. Base toppers with resin of course.

>>95948180
Having an FDM printer means bases are effectively free for me. I just load them up and press print, and fifteen minutes later I've got bases. I can understand how if you've got a resin printer it wouldn't be worth it to cure and clean them and all

>>95948080
>I know I could get better resolution for the tanks, but this is plenty
that texture could look great on kraut tanks cuz anti mine layer and all, and while I'm no bong expert I have to say that I hope to never see that poor m3 grant/lee irl unless that's exactly how it should look. nonetheless I'm glad that you are having gud tym, m8.

>>95948729
It's not how it should look but it's fine for me if the thing's a little scraggly

>>95948143
FDM easily. Resin is for details not toughness.

>>95937336
Please, Anon, can you elaborate further? Because that's fucking hilarious.

>>95935300 (OP)
Well, I think I will not work more on this, I know the skin is not sculpted, I did only one chest (unfinished), one buckle and one apron, the flail it is a bit big and it will be a pain the ass to print, the whip looks like shit and I didn't pose the arms for the weapon variations so it looks a bit weird.

Christ, why is telegram search so unbelievably shite when searching for new channels?

>>95949828
It kinda looks like he's about to do a goatse with those hand things coming off his thighs reaching for his arse.

>>95950465
the search is shit on a good day, but pajeets are mass striking files rn so expect the search to get even worse

>>95950592
What have striked files to do with his ability to find channels?

>>95950645
Some public groups are bound to go private out of fear of getting struck themselves if more new strikes are made
Same deal if the anon is searching for invite links to private groups instead (a much better option than just searching for public ones imo)

>>95948035
I'm personally pretty happy with my Mono 2 as my first printer, so I'd say go for it. As for resin, I use Elegoo ABS-like 3.0.

>>95949340
There was a screenshot of the story floating around ages ago. I can try and see if I still have it somewhere, but chances are low.

>>95947719
>>95947814
friends call it butter resin, to me it looks like cheese

>>95947164
Do an exposure test to dial in your settings. It's a vary a bit if you change your resin brand, so try to stay consistent or keep notes/presets. You're going to get huge elephants foot if you set your first few layers on blast. Technically not needed. I usually run a few different exposure test models. For the XP2, there are holes in part of the model. You can dial in the settings so it's a clean hole all the way through, but also there's a way to level the plate a little more accurately to reduce the foot (Not sure if it's an issue these days, but if they're still recommending the paper method, there's a decent chance this method will work better for you)

https://blog.honzamrazek.cz/2022/06/short-prints-and-squished-layers-on-chitu-powered-resin-printers-solution/

>>95951192
Surprised the russian behind it hasn't allowed groups to geoblock who gets access to them desu.

any of you guys cracked lychee pro?

>>95950592
> but pajeets are mass striking files rn
Is there a tangible reason why?
Or are they doing it for free.

>>95947213
Yes, the bottom of the base goes on the plate, that's the only part meant to be perfectly flat.

>>95949828
It looks great but... tactical rock? Really?

>>95953795
https://vaclive.party/software/lychee-slicer

>>95949828
can you do this without the flaming turd/skillpile

>>95953803
Doing it for their masters yea

>>95953899
I can't believe how much shit Lychee has paywalled these days. The base version can now slice and that's pretty much it. Absolute rubbish. The pro version is 100% the best slicer on the market but expecting people to fork out an extra subscription for it is actually insane. It's a shame that their software team is so good but the business/execs are the greediest fuckheads imaginable.

>>95954221
I had to put up a firewall on CHITUBOX because the pop-up ads in the newer version got so fucking annoying
I don't care about offers and shit I just wanna slice and print my minis goddamn it

>>95954221
I'd even pay for it if it was a 1 time fee but they're just greedy cunts
fuck em

>>95953899
NTA but thank you so much, not having to wait 20 seconds for ads just to slice is going to be great!

>>95948035
>but do mono 2 and 4 have true anti aliasing for perfect smoothness?
No. But if you pick the mono 4 with the 8k screen and use the minimum layer size, you probably won’t need antialiasing. I have a mars 5 ultra and never felt the need to turn it on. The lines are so tiny, nothing like the 3d prints I used to buy.
>it baffles me. in fact what baffles me the most about both printers is how perfect the prints look like on jewtube despite resolution, pixel size, price, resin, etc.
They are very good. Not as sharp as the higher end products due to a simpler light but the details themselves are pretty much perfect.
>can anyone talk me out of mono 2 without using "muh volume" as argument?
No wireless functionality, small build plate, ACF release film (I think?)bad consumer support from anycubic, limited availability of replacement parts. The last two are one of the main reasons for going with Elegoo. Every printer will eventually need replacement parts and anycubic kinda sucks at this.

>>95952461
I can haz pics of prints if you have any by hand?
>>95955030
many thanks, I'm still not 100% certain if I should go for mono 2 or for a more high end printer, but for now I think I should go for mono 2 as a starter and see how long it lasts before I get a proper one.

>>95953899
should I download it and run it? I currently support using the anycubic software, slice using the standard anycubic software and then check the voids and stuff with UVtools...

does lychee implement all of that? does it do better auto-supports?

>>95956098
I use both, lychee to support and anycubic to slice, have found that works best for me

>>95956222
do you use UVtools to fill the voids and check for printing errors or..?

>>95956619
nah i'll just run the lychee island detector on the highest detail then look at it from the build plate angle and personally identify islands then support those

>>95956098
Once In A Six Side recommended downloading Blueprint Stuido (the HeyGears slicer) for autosupports and re-exporting the supported STLs. I was very pleased with the results, give it a try.
https://youtu.be/fb2CmHd1wv8?si=vUkTGdaC0StSSyUM

>>95955030
NTA but I bought a mono4 about a month ago and it's already having UV laser failure.

>>95957217
Had the same issue with a Mono X. Failed very early on.
I repaired it and now there's no issue but dealing anycubic support made me actually rage-buy an Elegoo so now the Mono only gets plugged in to print large amount of prints.

Anyone know any good 15mm fantasy sculpts?
Otherwise I guess i'm stuck resizing 28mm ones and bulking up the weapon bits.

>>95957662
>I repaired it
Did you have to replace the laser or just open it up and repair the existing part somehow?
I'm dealing with support now, they got back to me the morning after I sent an email asking for video of the exposure test that show how the laser is fucked, so I haven't had issue with that end of things yet.

>>95948143
If i want base that is pre textured or has scenery I will Resin print but for most smaller will do resin.

Mostly use the FDM for blank or larger bases like the 30k / 40k knights oval 170mm bases need.

basically stick to fdm for blank bases mostly for lowering cost and resin for detail bases

>>95958386
Had to open it up and replace the entire uv lamps which was just a full thing to get out and put in. Also messed up while connecting it and had to replace the motherboard while I was at it.

>>95950465

Best way I've found is to ask for links to specific groups in the channels your already in most will give out links to others , best files can be found in the russain and ukraine will have to do some translation some times however.

>>95955492
>I can haz pics of prints if you have any by hand?
Sorry, the only pics I have are the of the very first miniatures I printed and those look a bit crummy since I was still figuring out the process.

Trannygram is showing "This message couldn't be displayed on your device due to copyright infringement." for my favourite scan server, does that mean it's been deleted or can I get around it with a VPN somehow

>>95960501
Nope. That particular index is deleted. I'm sure they are backed up on another channel.

>>95960501
It means they're deleted yea
"this message violates our terms" means GW jannies got to it

>>95958939
Is there some sort of screen between the UV lamp and the resin vat that is responsible for aiming the UV? Because the UV itself seems fine, I'm getting a solid bar of cured resin going across the build plate about a centimeter wide and just off-center.

>>95958939
Also the whole reason I bought the mono4 was because the UV lamp on my halot one died, is the UV lamp itself a generic type of bulb or special to each printer? If I could fix my halot with an easy part swap that'd be great, just couldn't find any available replacement UV part for it through creality.

>>95960925
You do know all these resin printers have LCD screens right?

>>95960960
I know that the resin is cured by ultraviolet, I've not opened the thing up in 3 years of using it to see exactly what goes on inside.
If I can figure out exactly what the name of the busted part is and find a place to order it from then I am confident in being able to replace it, I do mechanical work on the farm and I've built my own PC a half dozen times in my life.

>>95960501
>>95960890
Try it on your phone if you see it on your pc.

Can you do the wireless file sharing with lychee yet? That the main reason I’m still with Chitubox.

>>95960939
It tends to be different between printers. You might be able to find a replacement part through some sellers on ebay that sell return units. You'll need to message them and ask. I did so when I was experimenting with a Mars 2 a couple of years or so ago, and was able to get some spare parts.

I'm not sure what the current trend is with the light collimation. A couple of years ago, some units started moving back to a single but powerful LED that used a lens. Before that, most units were using an array of lower powered LEDs with a bunch of lenses, but there were some QC problems with that design. I think more recently, units started using fresnel lenses to collimate.

Anyway, you might be able to find some vids or an online review that opens up the printer in question. Anyway, the failure is usually either the LCD or the LED.

Is the Mars 4 Ultra ok?
I read that it had problems with AA
t. missed the boat with the Mars 5 Ultra and now it's gone up 50% in price in my country

>>95962843
Wait for the prime days in July or for black Friday

>>95960925
>>95960939
I forget exactly I think it might have been the LCD screen beneath where you place the vat but the issue was the UV lights in it/underneath it being fucked.
It wasn't particularly hard to replace and came as a complete thing assembled, it was just a pain to deal with anycubic.

Looking for picrelated from OPR. Need to see if the models can be modified to look more "Votann" as i wanna make some Tarellian Dog Soldiers for my army.

>>95964036
Will trade for any of these if there's interest:

>>95964036
Not at home right now, but the full Starhost pack is in a public group. Its around 17gb. If you can find it, or someone uploads the warriors for you then please let me know. Otherwise i will download that stuff and upload them later this evening for you.

>>95963231
It looks to me like the issue with me Halot is the UV lights, and the issue with the Mono 4 is the LCD, the Halot was printing detail fine but the prints got cut off at like layer 400, then layer 150ish then stopped printing altogether with no UV being projected, like the bulbs were flickering off before they failed entirely, whereas the mono 4 is projecting UV fine but is losing control of where it shines into the vat.

Does anyone know of a seller that has good STLs for the commonly encountered DnD enemies and NPCs? Preferably with the aesthetics of the 2.0 era?

I would like to replace the foam squares our group uses with some models and thought I would start with the more common ones like wolves, goblins, orcs, etc....

>>95965047
For animals, check "lowl evel encounter" maybe?

>>95964036
Here you go
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3D printed a scylla light tank with missile pod.

Feel free to rate and roast my first ever tank.
Also I missed some supports and only noticed after the priming and airbrushing stage was completed.

Need advice with cleaning ipa, left the dirty ipa out in the sun and after a day it didn't really separate just turned into this white goo and it looked like the ipa mostly evaporated? Should I just be curing it inside the curing station? Or was it too dirty to be recycled

>>95966723
You need to let it settle anon, this looks like you tried making fluffy ghetto aerogel from it

>>95967274
Like before I put it out or I should just bring it inside for now?

>>95966723
From what I can tell, your best bet is to run your dirty IPA through a distiller and discard the sludge left behind. I'm going to be ordering a countertop electrical one soon. I used to shine a UV light into the container to cure the resin bits and let the bulk of the resin settle to the bottom, but I want a better solution because the resin eventually gets saturated with microparticles that won't settle, degrading the IPA's effectiveness

>>95968600
>because the resin eventually gets saturated with microparticles that won't settle, degrading the IPA's effectiveness

Whoops. I meant the IPA gets saturated with microparticles*

>>95935300 (OP)
in the resources pastebin:
>A. No. /3dpg/ is not the place for shilling. Try /3/ or /diy/.
Don't just send people to rule break on a different board. They either buy an ad or fuck off or eat a ban.

>>95966305
Not knowing where it's from, I think it looks very professional. Being a tracked combat vehicle lets clumsy supports not detract from the character as much as it would otherwise.

>>95965595
I had night shift, thanks anon, much appreciated!

>work for hours in blender and lychee
>hit a remesh after filling some voids after hours of building a thing
>pc crashes

should I invest 100 jewros into wash+cure station or DIY it? how important are UV curing settings anyway? and does the station last for years or does it waste away akin printers (LCD screens) do? DIYing is certainly ~50% less cost, but more work which adds up over time.

I am designing a mold box that I want to 3D print and use for blue stuff casting, and I have come up with this design. It's basically an inner box with unconnected walls that slot into the base, that are then enclosed by an outer box that keeps everything together. On the top there's a push block so I can clamp it down and apply pressure to the mold.

How would I go about formalizing this design? I started with Autocad but it has issues parametrizing 3D objects, I want to be able to set variables so I can alter sizes and tolerances without redoing the whole thing. Any tips on materials or how to go about tolerances?

>>95968167
its probs fucked now doesn't seem like it's liquid enough to settle
In the future let the mix really settle, start with a week then adjust as you go for your particular mix of whatever brand solvent and whatever brand resin.
Once there's a layer of shit at the bottom and the solvent is near crystal clear, get that out in the sun, tank closed. It'll cure the layer of resin at the bottom while preventing the loss of solvent to evaporation
Ideally you have 2 or more tanks that you rotate between.
As you go you'll learn where exactly the point is when you can sun blast it

>>95966723
>>95967274
>>95971342
Forgot to add, leave the container somewhere that's not completely shielded from UV it accelerates the rate at which the resin and solvent separates. smth to do with the resin bits curing

>>95971092
DIY is much less than 50% of the cost. You can get your station going for, like, $10. And they can be cheaper to maintain because you can use a small container to wash, saving on alcohol.
The bad part of DIYing is relying on the sun. You will usually overcure your shit.

>>95971460
>You can get your station going for, like, $10.
ultrasonic cleaner alone is more tha-
>The bad part of DIYing is relying on the sun. You will usually overcure your shit.
listen here you little shit

>>95971092
I don't use the wash feature too much with my minis. I find it safer to wash things by hand instead. The curing is great though. Curing something in like 3 minutes is much nicer than leaving it in the sun for hours.

>>95971542
So you could have just bought a rechargeable UV flashlight instead, eh?

>>95960985
>
There's basically a phone screen between the light source and the tank.

Start by checking the cable to it.

I wish the sites with model files on them could be split into normal and weirdo sections...

It's so annoying having to dig through several pages of anthropomorphic animals that look like deviant art furry fetish OC's just to find an ordinary version of that animal.

I swear <1% of the search results for wolf are an actual, normal looking wolf.

>>95971092
That's about what I spent on mine and I am glad to have it. No regrets in buying one for me.

>>95971701
I have one that I use for filling little support holes but I'm not waving it around for minutes to cure a whole model.

>>95972066
>waving it around
I use transparent resin, so I just prop it up pointing at the model and leave it sitting there for a few minutes.

Is it true that most if not all 3D printed resin can be paint stripped with 99 percent isopropyl alcohol without the actual 3D printed model being damaged?

I want to have custom bases and then test paint jobs over them and see how different colored paints look with a black wash over them. I don't want to have a huge pile of bases as big as my backlog.

is there any way to see files that were taken down from cults, looking for kabalite warrior torsos and the only results from yeggi have been taken without me being able to find them on trannygram.

binis binted?

>>95972869
Oh, neat. I use dark grey resin so I can see the details before priming. Definitely want to experiment with transparent some time though.

>>95973520
I refuse to use opaque resins, something in the back of my head says it's not good if internal layers never get fully cured, transparent resin has to cure better and more fully by the laws of physics.

>>95973698
I see what you're saying but you can just crack it open and see that it's cured.

>>95971092
I bought one for the convenience and haven't regretted. I actually bought what in your pic at it's pretty great. The actual process of making minis is already pretty annoying since I have to constantly take the mask and gloves on and off, so having to also bother with some DIY setup would be a nightmare.

Anyone uses a Saturn 8k with Elegoo ABS Like V2.0 Resin and could tell me what Exposure Time to use? I tried use the manufactory list, but it's bs

>>95971160
If you want free, you can try blender, but you'll probably need to tweak some settings to make it function a little more 3D printing friendly, not sure. For something with a bunch of simple shapes, which you have, you can also try meshmixer.

I've done casting using silicon rubber molds and just used lego blocks sealed with a little bit of clay and petroleum jelly.

How important is pixel size for detail?
As someone who looks at miniatures at a distance of 10 cm minimum and uses a jewelers loupe to check for imperfections, will I notice any difference between 18 × 18 μm and 35 x 35 μm?

>>95975884
Its the single most important factor. And it's not even the fine detail itself but the shiny print lines which are very visible.

>>95935300 (OP)
What happened to forest dragon? why are people saying gw is stoping them?

>>95975884
It's the only thing that matters
Layer thickness, speed volume whatever is either resin dependent or unimportant to quality

Bump

Has anyone tried replicating or scanning the 5th Edition Bretonnian horses?

>>95975884
I don't notice a meaningful difference between things printed on my old 2K printer or my new 10K printer.

>>95977583
Back rank is so elfaboo. Avelorn nigga next to guy with Alaitoc sword on his pennant

>>95965047
Maybe Monstrous Encounters?

>>95977888
>imba the 10k screen is far larger and the pixel sizes end up similar

>>95978657
Actually the print bed on the 10k is smaller than on my 2k.

>>95957662
>but dealing anycubic support made me actually rage-buy
I had no issues with that end, the responses were all very timely and now that the engineer on my case finished his weekend he has arranged shipping of a replacement LCD to me.

>>95978678
Machines?
>Can i request to see upclose samples for each

>>95979146
You'll have to wait until I get both fixed.

Looking to get my first resin printer.

Local shop has a Creality R6, which seems pretty small with its 6inch 4k screen. they also sell an enclosure for it which is the big selling point as I live in an apartment and have cats.

Is this good enough for mini/warhammer printing?
I'm probably not printing any monsters in this thing but apart from taking longer than bigger printers it should be fine for infantry/cavalry right?
https://www.creality.com/products/halot-r6?spm=..product_6278f77d-a5de-4b9e-a8fb-1239af54c281.header_1.1&spm_prev=..product_942d2244-166c-466f-8790-f990374d025e.nav_link_store_1.1

>>95983267
It is totally fine.

>>95983382

thanks anon

Encountering a problem I've never seen in Chitubox before and I don't know how to solve it. When I slice the current project I'm working on, Chitubox is adding 112 extra empty layers on to the top of the project. It's just 112 layers of nothing after the project should be complete. This is the first time I've encountered anything like this. And no, I haven't changed any settings. I've been using the same settings for the same printer and same resin that I've been using for a year. I even checked to make sure the settings were still the same and didn't get changed during an update or something and they are still the same.

Has anyone else encountered this with Chitubox before? I searched for a solution already and only found one other person so far that has encountered this, but no one gave them a satisfactory answer or solution.

>>95983468
Does it do it with every project? Have you tried a different model? Or do a repair on the models your currently slicing.

>>95983493
This is the only project it's done it on. And I run a repair on every model before slicing as a standard practice. I'll try a different model (one I know hasn't had any problems before) and see if it does it on that.

>>95983493
>>95983503
Just tested it with another model and Chitubox did not add the extra layers. So I guess it must be a problem with the model I was using.

Should I get anycubic mono 4 ultra?

Safety link isn't working for me.

Is a resin printer in a grow tent (plus hose out the window) suitable for a small apartment?

I would stick with water washable resins to avoid alcohol fumes.

>>95983468
>>95983526
I've had this happen before. I would open the model in Blender and see if you have a random vertices floating above your model. If you do, highlight and delete it and resave your model.

>>95983267
I used a creality halot one for years and really liked it, I want an r6 because I don't need a big printer but creality won't ship to canada and amazon won't list the r6 for some reason.

>>95984411
Thanks anon. That was the issue. Now those extra layers aren't showing up.

>>95935300 (OP)
Me thinks something is wrong with my new printer

What happened to trannygram? Did people move on from the bigger groups or something, nobody is sharing anything new, like the latest papsikel release i've found is from 2024, almsot the same story with titan forge.

>>95989442
a few big groups got struck down again so everythings gone into lockdown

Has anyone ever seen a scan or recreation of the GW stompa kit?
I want that specific silhouette of stompa in 8mm, so I want to resize it down. There's tons of sculpted stompas at 6mm scale, but I dont want those, I want the GW stompa for aesthetic reasons.

>>95985041
nice ghost ship

Is the Saturn 4 (ultra) worth the extra money or should I get the Saturn 3 Ultra of I just need a bigger printer?
Im sceptical about the tilt release...

>>95972889
Plenty of official resin and plastic models don't react well to IPA stripping either. I ruined a couple of X-Wing ships because I forgot about them for just an hour and when I tried to scrub off the paint it and the softened plastic merged into coloured goo and obliterated all the surface detail.

If you're in the US strip with LA's Totally Awesome, in the UK use Dettol or Biostrip, elsewhere look for local equivalents.

>>95990752
As long as you don't soak the stuff in IPA for hours, it won't affect it in a bad way.

>>95990773
There really isn't any reason to use IPA in the first place. It's not the best tool for the job. It's like recommending brake fluid for stripping; yeah, it works, shouldn't be your first go to.

>>95990857
But it is? It's faster than any of the products you mention.

>>95990906
Ehh, I've never been in a situation where I've had to have the paint off right that second; overnight is good enough. Plus IPA offgasses. Plus it's expensive (compared to something like LAs). Plus it doesn't play well with resin (already pointed out).

>>95991094
>Iso doesn't work well with resin
Iso is what you use to clean your resin prints in the first place, it's literally the best cleaning substance to use on resin.
Although I think stripping prints is a retarded idea, just print a new mini the resin is cheap.

>>95992020
We're talking about casting resin (admittedley not obvious).

I printed this little tank by Grim Prints.

>>95993024
In the thread specifically for 3d printing.

>>95950592
>>95953803
Quite a lot of it is actually one creator (bardinator) who is going scorched earth against multiple groups because someone once shared his mediocre designs in one of them which caused him to sperg out and he never calmed down after that. One of the groups admins suspected it was him so DM'd him the other day to call him out and he admitted to it right then and there.

>>95991094
>Plus it's expensive (compared to something like LAs).
I don't know what the Canadian equivalent of LAs is so that's why I use iso.
I don't want to have too many copies of the same tank in my room that's why I want to paint strip some.

>>95989536
Like I said like a week ago yea
and some dumbass really went "nothing happened bruh" when it fucking did
Shit is still in lockdown

Jumping into Konflikt '47 in anticipation of the new edition. Anyone know any good STLs for Weird War Two mechs, ideally 28mm scale or so?

If I found a specific print in a paid website, is there somewhere I can find it for free (like a proxy download website)?
The website in question has over the top prices and I feel like its the plataform cut that is too high and not the creator who putting the price up there.

>>95942131
MOAR. You know you have enough when it causes the slicer to lock up during the loading process

>>95937297
>I could instead have it on a small table in a grow tent that also has an air purifier
this is enough space for a regular printer though

>>95993922
Dollar Trees in Canada carry LA's totally awesome

>>96003091
I'll need to check my local Dollar store again then.
Here's hoping there are some.

>>96001231
How about you tell us what exactly you are talking about?

Progress on my doc_demidov "cronus" saturnine dread

>>95993025
Cute

>>96001231
Telegram channels

When printing bases for minis, is it stupid to print the ones modeled as solid discs without concave bottoms (like the ones game workshop sells)?

I’ve printed a few bases and I don’t know how much support they require so I have to sand them down a crap ton and it’s annoying doing that for a set of 10. Also messy. Can anyone link a video or pic of how a base should be supported minimally but without messing up the print? I am talking about flat plain bases btw

>>96009774
Print those flat on the plate, supporting them causes massive warping and is a waste of material for the supports.

>>96009790
Thank you. I’ll try it. Is there any potential of “puddling” on the build plate where they resin and play make contact? It happened with pic rel cause I forgot to add supports to Tom’s feet. I’m using a mars 4 ultra.

>>96009958
*where the resin and plate make contact

>>96009958
Not to that extreme, I usually have to run a file around my edges to clean up a sub-milimetre lip, but that's all and not even on every base.

>>96009958
>>96010037
Here, one I've got laying around that I didn't file yet

>>96010050
Another that didn't need it

>>96010062
>>96010050
>>96010037
Thanks a bunch

Where's a good place to find free 40k STL's? I'm wanting to print a thousand sons army but my usual russian discord server got destroyed

ngl i read the faq and didnt unedrstand a fucking hing yes im new

>>96010247
nice try james.
you're not getting the telegram channels that easily.

This month I'll try to do Daemon Princes, they are easy to customize because I can cannibalize other sculpts that I have to make them more unique depending on the Chaos God and things like that, first the scan and a fast blockout.

>>96013297
>moar tactical rawkz!!
Ick.

>>96013297
Drop a tut/learning path/guide, plant the seeds for some competition lol. Hell something like a time lapse would be sick.

>>96013297
do this with a dead dreadnought body or knight head or something

I need the warhammer alexandria link, I got back into this shit but everything I had saved is stalled

>>96017474
Why would you want a terabyte of ancient files, most of which were just free garbage from thingyverse?

>>96017514
i have some other magnets too, though it seems most of the stuff i want to download is stalled so yeah
do the new generations keep their stuff on telegram only?

>>96017526
>>96017526
No, you download what you like then you keep it saved in your own personal collection.
Why would you have gone through the trouble and bandwidth to get the whole thing and then not keep what you wanted?

>>95935300 (OP)
anyone has some 3d print files, for some minis?
was thinking about dipping my feet on the hobby but I dont want to spend money inicially

>>96019162
The internet is full of completely free models to use anon, both legal and illegal.

>>96019169
>illegal
Depends on which country you are in and which country they are sold in.

>>96019182
>All laws are country-dependent
Thanks, I had no idea.

>>95971092
I have one of those and I haven't touched it in ages. I know I'm gonna get an earful, but

>buy water-wash resin
>hang print plate over tank to let resin drip back into the tank
>wash the rest off with water in the kitchen sink

that water goes to a clarification plant anyway, not into a river, so..

Anybody used glass nano files on 3D printed resin?
Does it get a smooth glossy finish that gunpla users rave about?
Pic related but with a hobby tax.

>>96019193
That is what your prior statement implies, yes.

>>96019209
>>wash the rest off with water in the kitchen sink
I'd be afraid that some of the resin might splash onto plates, cutlery, food preparation areas, etc. and end up in my stomach. even without splashing some of it would remain on the bottom of the sink where I place said cutlery n shit.

>>96020910
Putting all your dirty dishes into the dishwater and leaving them there while you wash one at a time is already very unsanitary, the proper hygienic way to wash dishes is to run hot water and wash your dishes one at a time, loading the sponge with soap as needed.

>>96020910
>even without splashing some of it would remain on the bottom of the sink where

You know that the bottom of the sink has a hole, where water flows away? It will just take all the dirt with it.

any good stl makers popped up? like fleshcraft, taleskeeper, onepagerules

How expensive is it to get custom stl's made?

Recently bought the 6:siege boardgame but the operator expansions are locked to the pledge and also stupid expensive.

>>96023778
go to myminifactory and look around?

>>96024906
That won't work, zoomers need to be led around by the nose like a fucking dog, if some tiktok eceleb doesn't spoonfeed something to them, they'll never check it out.

I've been looking for a couple weeks and can't find this file anywhere, I've managed to track down all the other Ash Cats releases, mostly through russian sites, but this one evades me, anyone have it?
Also only one of them was on telegram, but when I tried sharing the others I found I couldn't find any groups for necromunda, 40k or just general STLs where file sharing was allowed right now.

>>96025291
aHR0cHM6Ly9nb2ZpbGUuaW8vZC9xWFkyYzk=

>>96025437
First of all, thank you.
But second, it's been a very long while since I requested files here and I have to assume the preferred fileshare site has changed because this doesn't work with any of the half dozen I know and just tried.
By all means throw me accusations of newfaggotry and retardation, but where do I use this?

>>96025291
aHR0cHM6Ly9nb2ZpbGUuaW8vZC9OVERQYVY=

>>96025437
>>96025534
Holy fuck, figured it out, took me awhile and some blind luck to figure out the secret.
Thanks again anons.

>>96013959
Sorrynotsorry
>>96014920
You have lots of channels to learn hard surface / sculpt, if you want to see something I can show you how I did it.
>>96015787
The Nurgle model will go more or less this way, I still have to do the armor, I'm not sure if I'll go with 4 or 6 wings or if I'll do that smoke thing with flies or I'll do the trophy rack in the back, I'm planning to customize the other 3 Chaos Gods and to copy the scans for the Undivided heads.

>>96026045
Tactical rocks are one of the most reviled aspects of GW modelling, why would you adopt them?!
Your modelling itself is excellent and enviable, I just can't understand the aesthetic faux pas of the rocks.

>>96026607
>why
it is used to create a more dynamic pose but really depends on the model, some of them can use other tricks, if I wanted to I could use the tail or the scythe as support instead of both legs there.

>>96026874
It conflicts with basing and it looks really silly when you have multile minis striking a pose on rocks, especially if you have (in this case) more than one demon prince, if they're all standing flat on the ground attention isn't focused on that, but if they're all one leg up on rocks it's harder to notice other details.

>>96027086
>It conflicts with basing
I'm not against scenery for central pieces, yes this isn't great and in models that big isn't needed usually, you can always remove it and to change the pose.

How would you support this tank chassis so that it maintains the straight edges

Can a resin printer be safely kept and used in an unventilated storage area in an apartment complex basement?

Assuming I only go down there wearing a respirator.

>>96031482
Holy fucking paranoid, I keep the damn thing on a desk in the room next to my ktichen where it operates without a hood.
Do you ever get in a motor vehicle to drive or be driven around? Because that's worse for you. Do you eat western procesed foods full of microplastics? Do you eat western processed foods full of corn syrup? Do you cook with seed oils? Do you drink tap water full of flouride? I could go on.
I swear comments like this have to be from paid shills fear-mongering.

>>96031482
I have two of them literally next to my pc where I spend an awful lot of time at. get resin that doesn't smell and it doesn't smell AT ALL

>>96026607
>Tactical rocks are one of the most reviled aspects of GW modelling

I dont get it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a tactical rock, if used in sane measures. Its a super easy way to mark out a leader on a gaming table, and it allows for some interesting poses. Whats hated about them with GW is the fact they tend to use it on almost every miniature they release.

>>96030878
Why do you want to print it like this, without the track sections attached?

>>96031906
Because there would be internal meshes that I have been unable to remove. In fact I would have loved to be able to just attatch the tracks and "fill in" all of the interior, and after that I would just "make it hollow" again for 3D printing; so that I could have thicker walls and no internal meshes.

It is what it is.

>>96031801
>>96031826

I just want to be safe longterm, don't wanna find out in 20 years time that I gave myself cancer by filling my apartment with fumes at all times.

>>96031974
Go to the hardware store and find a solid wood broom handle, no metal collar on the threads.
Look at the tag and you will find a cancer warning.

>>96031974
>don't wanna find out in 20 years time that I gave myself cancer by filling my apartment with fumes at all times.

If you get cancer in 20 years with a printer, you might have gotten it in 22 years without a printer anyways.
Put your printer next to a window and/or get a grow tent.

>>96032003
>>96032123
>le VOC's don't cause cancer
sure thing

>>96032174
Everything causes cancer, cry wolf some more.

>>96032280
>Everything causes cancer therefore risk doesn't exist
>I am smart
Eat some uranium235 then, mister smart man

>>96032377
>resin is literally uranium
>being near resin is the same as drinking it
>say this and accuse others of being stupid

>>96031482
Please don't listen to the contrarians. To reference what the other retard said: yes, fumes from your car are bad for you. They are diluted into the outside air. If you leave a car running in your small enclosed apartment without ventilation, you die. There's not enough data available to say how safe these specific fumes are, but you can at least be certain they're not good for you. That means you're a dumbass if you leave it running in an apartment without ventilation, but in the basement with a respirator is obviously better than nothing. Ideally you want something circulating air outside.

>>96033551
>not enough data available
>respirator is better
You don't know that, the wrong grade of respirator could just be capturing fumes and now you're holding them on your face in the respirator

Wanna jump into 3D printing again. Have a Saturn.

Wanna try the Phrozen RPG resin. Is there a big difference between beige, grey, and white? Instinct tells me to get grey for the darkest pigmentation. I do not care what the unpainted print looks like.

>>96034174
You've gotta be one stupid motherfucker. How the fuck do you think a filter works? This is like saying a water filter is bad because the impurities get stuck in it, think about what you said.

If the fumes start smelling stronger wearing the respirator, go ahead and take that as a clue to take it off. This shit's not odorless.

>>96034174
There's not enough information about the specific molecules to know health effects, but we at least know that resins will be mostly non-polar organic molecules. Using filters based on pore size might be counterproductive, but activated carbon respirators should be fine. It fits within a broad category that we know how to filter based on chemical properties, but with health considerations even increasing the length of a carbon chain by 1 in a well-studied molecule can completely change its interactions in your body. It's also impossible to say for sure something is completely safe for your body, especially without long-term studies, which is why COVID vaccine shills are retarded monkeys.

>>96035630
Filters only work on particles larger than their screen gaps, filters that are not rated for a particular substance just give a nice little convection space to concentrate it in where you breathe.
>if the smell gets stronger
Ah yes because once the frog is boiled jumping out of the pot helps right? No you fucking nonce, at that point it's too late.
Good thing though resin printers aren't a poison hazard.

>>96035764
Have you 3D printed? There's no ramp from undetectable to detectable and deadly, you have the stink, then you have the stronger stink, then you know you bought a respirator that doesn't filter these particles and you take it off and accept that you're a fume-huffer today (or more sensibly close everything up and rethink your operation/wait for a new mask)

>>96035839
I have been 3D printing for years and I'm probably healthier than you because I live in the countryside.
Being in an urban area exposes you to more harmful fumes 24/7.

>>96035895
Who do you think you're talking to, I live in the fucking hills

>>96035939
>there are no hills in urban areas
?

>>96004509
holy shit that’s awesome. I just watched the “can we print it before it ships” video today.

Can any of you fine anons point me at the Heka ton stl? I’ve been scraping the web for hours and all the links are broken.

Or the votan kill team would be pretty spiffy. I want to try my hand at painting and don’t have $100 to drop on this because food.

>>96036056
>- Remember that this general is monitored by GWendolin and her lawyers

ah shit nm.. put the pricing in the book of grudges, Gwen

im getting pic related printed out at the local library. vicar amelia from bloodborn. love the relious werewolf vibe. hopefully will be done by the end of the week!

will do cleric beast next if it works out well

>>96039770
though maybe I should have done this one, looks easier…

>scraping off a failed print from the bottom of the vat FEP while its still sitting in the printer
>scraper pierces the FEP
>internals flooded with resin
>printer beyond fucked
I deserve it

>>96040423
You do deserve it, and should kill yourself. There's no reason to get a scraper anywhere near your FEP; you either run z clean cycle and peel or pop the stuck bit off by pressing up on the film from the bottom.

>>96040423
Anon they give you a dull plastic spatula with your printer for this exact job. What the fuck are you doing by placing a sharp metal scraper on a tiny piece of plastic?

>>96035895
This is probably true to some degree. 3d printing makes you aware of this kind of shit. Pretty sure my office is full of organic solvents from glue and wet paint from the renovations.

>>96019169
(lumposter here)
what do you mean by an ilegal model?

>>96040889
Pirated STLs and 3D scans of miniatures.

>>96041178
Pirated STLs for sure are illegal, but are 3D scans of old miniatures actually covered by any sort of copyright law in the west? I guess they would have to be since recasting is illegal, but I never really stopped to consider if the actual act of 3D scanning is illegal or if it only becomes a crime once you start producing or selling the models.

>>96041396
>recasting illegal
Really? That doesn't make sense.

>>95966723
If the IPA has evaporated then there's nothing more you can do about it, just throw it away. if you want to recover the IPA, get an actual UV lamp, expose the IPA, mix up the cured part, then re-expose. Keep doing this.
If you cure it out in the sun, it will slowly cure all the way through form a gel with the IPA held in suspension. You need to keep mixing it to stop that.

>>96041396
Making a 3D scan of a miniature and selling/distributing it is not really any different from taking, say, a comic book, scanning it and distributing it. In most places you can do anything you want with your stuff. Get a miniature, scan it and then print as many as you want for yourself, but once you start distributing the minis or scans, it starts to become iffy.

>>96040423
>internals flooded
How? I had an FEP puncture before and it was just a matter of wiping the resin off the glass.

>>96025534
>>96025885
how do I view that link my niggers?!

>>96041396
>but are 3D scans of old miniatures actually covered by any sort of copyright law in the west?
Yes, the likenesses of those miniatures are intellectual property.

>>96023363
nah, I'm with anon. even trace amounts of resin are not shit you want to ingest. and if you know anything about chemical safety, you know that getting rid of those last few ppm is definitely not something that running water in your sink will accomplish.

>>95971460
>The bad part of DIYing is relying on the sun.
you definitely don't need to "rely on the sun". that's like day 1, first printer, don't have a setup shit. you can do a lot better and it's still cheap.

>wash setup
a couple of those little buckets for pickling onions will do you. the ones you want have a little cage you can pull out so you can easily extract the minis while leaving the alcohol in the bucket.

>cure setup
get one of those UV lamps used for drying nailpolish and shit. you can find them stupid cheap if you look. take a box with one side cut away and line it with aluminum foil so the light reflects. make sure you have an airgap so you don't start a fucking fire. you can turn the minis by hand, or get a little solar powered turntable like they use in jewelry display cases (which will conveniently be powered by the UV lamp). if you spend more than like $25 total you fucked up somewhere.

t. been DIYing it long before wash/cure stations became a thing

How do you go about curing the inside of a hollow print? Do I just shine a UV flashlight in the holes and hope the light reaches everywhere?

>>96042478
that's one way. if it's an issue you can use a translucent resin. it's more important that the insides of hollow prints get washed well than that they get cured well.

>>96042478
Throw it in a bowl or cup or something with water and cure it while submerged.
But >>96042512 is right just make sure you give it a good wash on the inside.

>>96042512
>>96042552
Thanks, frens. I'm looking at printing a greater daemon and it's body, arms, and legs are hollow and in one piece.

>>96042376
No.

>>96025291
>>96025437
>>96025534
anon looking for wyld runners reminds me ive been lacking phelynx in my gang
anyone happen to have picrelated file?

How are wargames Atlantic’s stls quality control and support wise?

>>96042104
Elegoo tilting mechanism, I presume.

>>96041396
You can copy everything at your home. As soon as you share it with others, even for free, it becomes a problem.

>>96043772
Shit

Thoughts on the new Elegoo app?

>>96044854
Shit

>>96039770
that teeny tiny chain is not going to print

Sorry for the incoming retarded question: I've just bought and am setting up my Mars 5 Ultra along with SUNLU ABS like dark grey resin for printing, and in CHITUBOX, Mars 5 Ultra doesn't have the option to select this resin, and conversely, on the Chitubox website, when I select the resin I am using, there's no option to select a Mars 5 ultra for me to find the settings to adjust my printer to. Saying all of this, should I just use the exposure time and layer settings that are on the SUNLU resin bottle? I fully expect to have to adjust this anyway, but it would be nice to get it right from the start

>>96045632
nevermind, I'm a bit of a dickhead, I think I have sorted it. Hopefully anyways

>>96039770
first attempt, think the struts were too thick, so going to thin them in a second print, but otherwise the body proper and horns came out pretty well!


>>96045574
thats fine, small chains are easy to find.

>>96046851
>he's doing this with fdm
It's not going to work, your library doesn't have their machine fine tuned to even attempt, don't waste the materials.

So I've bought and opened this file - supported version - and there's all these triangles over the model. Is this just a graphical bug or will this model print with all these triangles?

>>96047115
*shrug*
already started.

>>96047234
Most slicers can work through stuff like that, but its better to be sure. Just slice it and watch the layers. If it has voids inside or some areas suddenly switch between white and black that is a bad sign, else it should work.

Though keep an eye out if the automatic supports work ok, sometimes I think the slicer can ignore problem areas and supports right through them.

>>96045632
>and in CHITUBOX, Mars 5 Ultra doesn't have the option to select this resin
Yes it does? I know because I have the exact same setup and used it.
I mean, I tested multiple exposure settings for 0.03 layer height and I found the default value of 3s (same as the sunlu website) to be fairly good. Right now I’m experimenting with 2.9.

>>96047459
It was my blind ass not seeing things correctly. I appreciate the wisdom though, I'll keep it default for now and tinker around this week and next. It'll be nice and warm here in UK so I'll be printing a lot

>>96046851
>the body proper and horns came out pretty well!
nigga, an FDM printer is not gonna do the job here, you need resin. And a calibrated one at that

That looks like shit

>>96049682
>nigga
While I agree with the rest, this cringe shit right here makes you look worse than anons print and robs anything you have to say of all credibility.

>>96049929
double nigger

>>96049929
we're on 4chan, I have to play the part anon. Nigger.
and yes that fdm printer looks like shit

>>96050630
>>96050670
You know the difference, mockery vs emulation.
And even in the case of mockery, injecting it into everything even completely unrelated things where it was not brought up, is also cringe

>>96050709
Lol, it's a turn of phrase in this case you dumbass faggot. He said nigga as in "dude", he did not inject it randomly. Why are you getting your panties in a twist over casual use of the most common word on the website you're currently using?

>>96051813
>He said nigga as in "dude"
Yes which is emulation of blacks, which is almost unsurpassable in how cringeworthy it is.
It's disgusting and makes anon look like a drooling idiot.

>>96052088
Thanks for showing why we can't have nice things, because racists use casual jokes of others as cover for their real views and feel emboldened.

>>96046851
The most obvious thing that would improve it a lot is trying to reduce the stringing. Probably by going a bit colder or tuning the retraction setting.
But what you can do easily on your part and would improve the model quite a bit is change orientation. Cut away the base, you can print one separately, angle up the head at least 45°, better yet make that nose point straight up. That should also make support removal a easier.

Also, the fastest way to remove those strings is to use hot air or a lighter, just don't set it on fire.

>>96047459
First test print came out beautifully. Only issue I'm having now is how to streamline my printing set up, but that will come with time. The settings worked a dream

>>96053523
>why we can't have nice things
Using that sort of pseudo-language is not a "nice thing".

>>96053523
>Thanks for showing why we can't have nice things, because racists use casual jokes of others as cover for their real views and feel emboldened.
Found the faggot.

>>96053523
>we can't have nice things
pull out that stick outta your ass nigaa and chill. no one got hurt. get over it.

anyway

anybody know what happened to Ystlund stuff? did he paywalled it on patreon or got hit by copyrights?

Gentlemen, a question. With Wilph / DivergingRealm getting hit by GW IP cunts, has anyone saved his Horus Heresy related stuff? A friend of mine was in the process of building his army and was buying STLs when James Workshop went nuts. I'd appreciate any help.

I got an FDM question.
I had a buddy print me some bases (large ones, like 50x100mm) they came out kinda warped. Is there anyway to get them fault and anything I can suggest to my friend to avoid the warping when he prints again?
Thanks for any help

Anyone got an STL for plasma like this boy's holding? Sorry, I don't have a clean pic of the bit, it's very hard to come by.

>>96055016
What I do is:
>big bucket with methylated spirits
>small bucket with warm water for support removal
>small jug with 92% methylated spirits and a scrub for final resin removal (frankly unnecessary, just dipping them in alcohol always removes all the resin)
>translucent tub filled with water for curing in the sun

>>96058453
Yes it's very easy to come by, all of the classic weapon sprues I know are public and easy to get on the gram

>>96058581
Guessing I just search for classic weapon sprues as you say?

I'm gonna get a printer soon. Looking at all the yummy free STLs alone has me drooling like a goblin, but am I getting ahead of myself? Do you guys really print shitloads of units and bitz all the time and rarely buy actual GW kits, or will I find myself filtered by print and washing time?

>>96058695
Print time is whatever, you can do it overnight or while at work. Washing is a pain, though.

>>96058739
I'm probably gonna splash out and get the wash and curing station bundle along with it since I can get the whole layout (including enclosure) for about 400 bongcoin so washing will probably be easier.

>>96058293
Bump

>>96058748
I think it’s worth it. A larger printer like a saturn is good as well if you can afford it.

>>96058293
let it cool for like 20 mins and it'll come out on its own. otherwise it warps if you take it out too soon
>>96058695
>Do you guys really print shitloads of units and bitz all the time and rarely buy actual GW kits
i got a curing station and a 3d printer gifted to me on christmas so the washing/curing time never bothered me. as for the gw stuff i cant be arsed to spend like 80 bucks + shipping for a kill team when i can comfortably print at home. issue is that if you have no self control then you just end up with a pile of resin that goes unpainted like me

>>96058773
I'm gonna be going for a Mars 4 to start with since it's in a much more affordable budget range; I'll upgrade to a Saturn eventually probably. Would a Mars 4 be capable of printing tanks in pieces?

>>96058797
Yeah it would, it’s just going to be more annoying. The news the printer, the more QoL stuff it has. You don’t need to worry about shit like failed prints piecing your FEP because the machine just detects everything on its own.

>>96058581
>easy to get on the gram
>This content has been removed for copyright infringement
That's about all you'll find for 40k stuff right now.

>>96058695
>Do you guys really print shitloads of units and bitz all the time and rarely buy actual GW kits
>rarely
More like never.
The whole point of the printer was to reduce my hobby expenditures while increasing my hobby time, having one means I no longer have an excuse to pay extortionate prices for plastic, I now pay the cost of the materials, as it should have always been.

Because no one seems able to grasp the essential simplicity of what we do there has always been the search for the Achilles heel, the
one thing that Kirby and his cronies have overlooked. These are legion. I run through the list from time to time when someone says that
computer games will be the death of us – they are so much more realistic now! – again. This year it is 3-D printing. Pretty soon
everyone will be printing their own miniatures and where will we be then, eh?
We know quite a lot about 3-D printers, having been at the forefront of the technology for many years. We know of what we speak. One
day 3-D printers will be affordable (agreed), they are now, they will be able to produce fantastic detail (the affordable ones won't) and
they will do it faster than one miniature per day (no, they won't, look it up). So we may get to the time when someone can make a poorly
detailed miniature at home and have enough for an army in less than a year. That pre-supposes that 3-D scanning technology will be
affordable and good enough (don't bet the mortgage on that one) and that everyone will be happy to have nothing but copies of old
miniatures.
All of our great new miniatures come from Citadel. It is possible that one day we will sell them direct via 3-D printers to grateful
hobbyists around the world. That will not happen in the next few years (or, in City-speak, 'forever') but if and when it does it will just
mean that we can cut yet more cost out of the supply chain and be making good margins selling Citadel 3-D printers.
At the heart of the delusion is the notion that designing and making miniatures is easy. It isn't.

>>96059538

>>96059538
Is part of this supposed to be a quote? or do you delusionally think these things for real? your formatting is atrocious.

Googling is hard.

http://investor.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Chairmans-Preamble-2014.pdf

>>96060423
If it's from 2014 yea, it aged like milk
>"affordable 3d printer made models won't look good"
Lol, lmao even
If only they knew

The funniest part to me is that he thought one miniature per day was out of reach.

>>96061918
Insanely poorly aged statement and views, I hope he's doing better in whatever retirement home that boomer was put in

>>96060759
>>96061918
>>96061972
It's the whole thing, every notion was wrong
> 1 mini per day
more like 30-50.
>very poor detail
detail exceeds the level of GW plastic and forgeworld resin.
>only old models and only via scanning
the offerings of 3D sculptors outnumber the lifetime of GW/Forgeworld sculpts, maybe multiple times over.
>3d scanners won't be in your home
they're still expensive but they're not so much that it's totally unrealistic.
>if i'm wrong we'll be there selling citadel printers
Clearly that's never going to happen as citadel has the same reaction to 3d printers that vampires have to garlic, crosses and running water.

>>96046851
>>96049682
>>96053523
Thanks for the info!

Yah, probably should use resin, but I wanted to see how the public use library machine worked out. Here is the second print. I dont think its too bad. ill try the hot air thing.

>>96064264
One thing the librarian did was increase the size. Which I think was necessary anyways, it was too small the first go around. Originally I down scaled it cause the raw stats showed that it was really long, but I forgot about the protruding cape/fur which makes the model seem bigger then it actually is.

Think ill first use it as a monster for oathmark

>>96064264
>>96064322
This is the level of printing that the chairmans preamble above thought we'd have.

>>96064155
>detail exceeds the level of GW plastic and forgeworld resin.

I went to a local wargaming group the other night and the boomer leading it seemingly wasn't aware of today's resin printers having far nicer results. Then again, he was mostly playing larger board games and perhaps not entirely in the loop, but I was a little surprised.

>>96065523
I think some of them are just willfully ignorant or they maintain the opinions they do hoping to gaslight people who don't print to stay away from printing.

Looking for BFG files. Everything obvious on telegram got nuked. Could anyone point me in the right direction?

>>96064155
30-50 is more for slow printers yea
If I really push mine and just make a bunch of small infantry I could probably make like 70+
Would have to stay up til like 4 am but yea, boomers btfo
Eternally incorrect and out of the loop

I have pulled my hair out searching for Steel Legion STLs for the past year, coming up with the same results, the same conclusion, and Imma say: DavikDesigns is good enough. Who cares if the coat tails are too short? Worst case ontario I will just stretch and chop some pieces to make them longer, or chop a chunk out of the boots to make them shorter, to give the illusion that the coattails are longer.
I wanna play Steel Legion and I wann aplay them NOW