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slowly building /mydudes/

>>96197049
they need more tacticool attachments

>>96197386
this fine lad has a sheath and 2 more nades on his belt, 4 on the chest and a pistol pouch
What else would you recommend?

>>96197675
I'd recommend using meshmixer for building 3D models using parts. I'd also recommend to check the fittings: you want there to be no air between arm and body, so that it prints as the same piece.

As for aesthetics: I would ditch the falcon gloves and would try to add the golden eagle to their chestpieces.

Anybody got files for Wilph's MK 2? I have all of his marks except for this one

>>96197049
>>96197675
>the infinite freedom of a printer
>choosing primarishit
Absolutely disgusting.

longshot but are there any members of the pipermakes patreon here that have his shadowsun files? I'm subscribed to his patreon but its a timed reward and it won't unlock for me in time for an event I'd like to play at.

So any guesses what causes these sorts of 'gashes' or gaps? I'm talking about the long vertical cut, the holes are supposed to be there. It is by far the most common printing error I get, to the point I usually have one model with it per print, although sometimes it's so thin as to be unnoticeable, and most of the time there isn't more than one. It happening to single mansized models is tolerable since it isn't wasting that much resin, but it's making me hesitate on printing anything big.

>>96200930
Have you checked Tele?

>>96201216
Yes. Found a bunch of his other stuff but not the shadowsun model.

>>96201177
Is there a raised line on the other side?

>>96197675
i was being sarcastic. ask yourself why would a marine need all that shit on his gun when to model you posted already has it built into his head. its retarded because matt ward is a legit retard. primattis wardines are the equivalent of laser power he-man action figure.

>>96201239
>his
how dare you misgender them. they have used a lot of the money from model sales to transition and you need to recognize their preferred gender.

>>96201477
Is this true at all? I don’t want to knowingly fund something someone might gravely regret.

>>96201527
yes its true. pipermakes is transgender like 99% of the tau player base.

>>96201527
You should pirates all their models and actively distribute them as much as you can to stop Pipermakes from any further self harm.

>>96201465
hey man it's a scan I've done some work on, I'm just putting together the marksman carbine for my infilitrators

>>96201742
you cant polish a turd anon

>>96201758
>>96201753
lol
what do you think about pic related?
old mate sliced off the scope

>>96201790
he needs to slice off the aerials and what i am assuming is some sort of medical device off the arm too. its pointless greebles that were added to make players update their armies (ie spend more money) and its gay.

>>96201853
it's a helix adept
do you even play 40k or do you just kvetch about new thing bad all day?

Howdy lads. Bought a new printer and once I dialed in the settings (or so I thought), I printed off a Goblin Bloodbowl team I’ve had for a while.
What’s with the powdery stuff around the chain/hand on this print? Resin didn’t cure? Overcure? Scratched it somehow? All of the prints outside of the tests have a few small areas where this occurs.
I used Siraya Fast Tough Navy Grey resin. Cleaned for 3 minutes in the washing station and then cured for 3 minutes.
If it matters, the current cleaning solution has been filtered once. Maybe some particles left over from putting the alcohol in the sun?

>96201898
i play 40k, you play age of sigmar in space.

>>96201982
did you use a toothbrush to make sure all excess resin was removed, or did you just think spending a $100 a wash and cure station will just do everything for you?

>>96202049
Yeah, Fucko, I did think the wash and cure station would handle most of that considering this never happened with any of the prints from my old Saturn. You seem a little salty about my purchasing and using a wash and cure station. You one of those broke bitches I’ve heard about on the internet?

>>96202169
You need to get into the crevices and scrub to physically remove the resin, think of it as thick oily substances on your plastic dishes, you can bang it in the dishwasher but unless it's on a heat so high you will melt it the oily stuff isn't coming off unless you scrub

>>96201982
Don't cure your prints right after washing.

That's what happens when you cure prints that still might have your cleaner on them.
I just let my prints sit for a day and letting them dry completely before I cure them. Yeah it's lame to wait a day but I haven't had that issue since I've been doing this method.

>>96202169
sounds like you're the one with anger issues anon. i'd be angry too if i was retarded.

>>96201465
Why does ward still resides for free in your head? He had nothing to do with Primaris.

>>96202804
>Matt Ward, a former Games Workshop designer, is associated with the introduction of Primaris Space Marines in Warhammer 40,000. He was involved in writing the lore and rules for the new units
why do you ride matt wards micropenis for free?

I usually print at 50um, thinking of doing 30um for my next project, but is it worth going down to 20?

>>96202822
>Involved
Not responsible you idiot. Not everything bad happening at GW is his doing

If I were to sculpt Norse inspired dwarfs who used axes and heavy armour, some of the elites had long beards, they had artillery and runes, etc what are the chances of me getting sued for selling them?

>>96203029
Zero

>>96203008
>matt ward sucks dick and takes it up the ass but he's not a faggot
this is basically your argument. he wrote the lore and the rules, not sure how much more someone can be involved

>>96202853
there's no point going lower than your pixel size unless you're a turbospurg

>>96201333
Nope, the other side printed flawlessly.

>>96197049
and so it begins
trying out these bases, heard they were great to print in resin

>>96203124
Rent fucking free. Ward really broke you, didn't he?

>Phobos armour/gun looks silly
>Matt Ward is the bad guy
>He wrote lore and rules

He did not design the models you fucking retard.

>>96203285
he was part of the design team and had a say in the look, but keep moving those goalposts faggot. i'm sure your crush will reward you with an upvote on your plebbit account.

>>96203310
He is not a model designer, and he never was. Keep trying to make him the big bad boogie man, you only make yourself sound like a buckbroken idiot. Ward here, Ward there.. next you tell us he himself decided to axe WHFB and also is responsible for their prices?

check out this nigger who thinks sculptors just make models with no guidance from the people who write the fluff and the crunch

>>96203962
don't know about sculptors, but it's well established fact that people who write fluff and people who make the rules strictly do not communicate with each other

>>96203991
>as per >>96202822
>He was involved in writing the lore and rules for the new units
he did both, which is probably why he is so loathed

>>96204000
Funny because Ward was not even part of GW when they came up with the idea of Primaris marines. He left GW in 2014, and only returned in 2016.
And in mid 2017 they announced Primaris stuff.

This gives us a few options:
>He wasn't involved in the concept of Primaris marines at all, because GW does plan things years in advance.
>He prepared the Primaris drop (kinda like a RL version of Cawl) before he quit GW in 2014, and they enacted his Masterplan once he returned.
>He returned in 2016, and convinced GW to start with lore, books, and miniatures for the biggest change of space marine history asap, and somehow they managed to pull it off in like 5-6 month.
>He never left GW in 2014.. and secretly pulled this strings behind everyone's backs all along.

check out this nigger who has inside knowledge of how gw operates

>>96204027
Enhanced marines were hinted as far back as 2015 so Wards involvement is entirely possible.

>>96203991
>well established fact that people who write fluff and people who make the rules strictly do not communicate with each other
>Rick Priestley
>Jervis Johnson
>Gav Thorpe
>Andy Chambers
>Graham McNeill
>Phil Kelly
>Matt Ward
>Jeremy Vetock
>Robin Cruddace
>Andy Hoare
>Nick Kyme
>Alan Bligh
its well established you are fucking retard who doesn't know shit

>>96204076
Unlikely tho, because he was not working for them when those very first rumours started.

>>96204218
Do you think they just had the idea and immediately started hinting about it without some development and planning first? Just take the L friend and move on. This is /3dpg/ not /40kg/.

>>96204484
You might be on the path to unveil Matt Wards biggest crime against 40k. You should continue with your investigations.

>>96204690
Being Matt Ward is Matt Wards biggest crime against 40k.

post some prints!
You guys do own a printer, right?

This thread is looking like /40kg/.

>>96205471
A problem with any generic miniatures topic, if 40k isn't explicitly forbidden, their sheer consumer numbers will overwhelm everything else.

>>96205111
I had a good time with this elysian venator tauros

Are there any iron hand eye of vigilence pauldrons? I have looked but can't seem to find any and I don't want to fuck around with decals

>>96206330
I'll make you one give me a few minutes

>>96206330
https://files.catbox.moe/bgzn6b.stl

>>96209081
2ND EDITION
this time with applique
https://files.catbox.moe/q94s6j.stl
https://files.catbox.moe/rp2f4r.stl

Just hoping back into 3Dprinnting since I've been out of it for a while, still in a bunch of trannygram channels. Any good Death Guard channels, the one I was in got nuked. Also glad to see that fa/tg/guys channel is going strong

>>96209081
>>96209254
Fantastic work anon, thank you so much

Friends BIL got an FDM printer and made some hexenguarde ruins. Between some texture sprinkled over the floor and some gloss varnish over the walls I managed to hide most of the print lines

Printing a bunch of 5e grave guard. I don't love any of the schemes I've tried on them. (Purple/nmm gold, or red/nmm silver). Very new to using an airbrush and every time it doesnt work exactly how I think it should I want to bash my face in with a rock.
I have some 6e tomb banshees to print but I want to do them clear and my tank still has grey resin in.
Been painting some 6mm vehicles but no commitment to finishing an army of them.

Anyone have experience with PAF10?
It's giving me a lot of failures. Specifically seems to be supports failing in the same spots. Adhesion to the plate seems fine, but it seems to need thicker/more supports for general miniatures usage.

>>96214085
I'm having the same issue with a high-clear non-yellowing transparent resin, have to crank exposure time and support size/density which makes support removal a bitch.

>>96200930
Give me a minute anon, once I'm done taking a crap, I'll post it.

>>96214316
Okay maybe not. I have the one from minigame miniatures, not the pipertroon. I'm sorry for giving you hope

>>96200930
>>96214339
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>>96214271
Yeah it's kind of a hassle desu. I like the flexibility when it comes to things like spears and swords, though. It printed a model with really thick supports no problem, and some very tiny detailed things with no supports just as well.

>>96200930
No filename, no release date. Sorry. Do you really think i know every file on my SSD from looking at a picture?

>>96214354
Is that for mega? gofile? telegram? session?

pls anon

>>96214561
You dont organize your shit? Looks like it was released Dec 24, 2021

https://themakerscult.com/shop/product/eclipsev2-patreonexclusivedec/

Squidbot

>>96214354
>>96216278
Oh nevermind, it's base64. I got it. Thanks anon. Do you happen to have the supported version as well? Otherwise I can probably support it myself but could save me some time. Appreciate it either way.

>>96216390
Great way to ruin it by spelling it out, for fucks sake the whole point is to gatekeep.

>>96216299
I can't tell if this is tau or necron.

>>96216390
You couldn't just say "nvm figured it out" you had to spell it out too huh?

For fucks sake.

prints up

Lads, do any of you know of any whips for/in space marine hands? Even if its not an stl and just a bits seller that I've overlooked, I'd be down. Need some for a homebrew.

>>96217472
you can probably get whip stls and blend them with space marine hands
let me give you a hand to get started
https://files.catbox.moe/ssi1fs.zip

>>96217583
Thanks anon. I'll pop back in here when I have something properly printed and assembled.

>>96217472
files.catbox.moe/bnrf26.stl
Here you go, sliced it off an escher stl.

>>96197049
>>96197675
2 prints are ready, with a million more well on the way

>>96216289
I do organise my shit, but as I said.. I certainly don't recall every file from looking at a picture, so if someone is begging for files, at least I expect to clearly say what it is and when it was released.

>>96217583
>>96217745
You lads rock. One day /tg/ will fail me, but it won't be today.

my warmaster skaven, all printed.

How do you guys mashup parts for stls? Do you use normal 3DCG stuff like Blender?

>>96218725
I use Blender

>>96216390
you fucking retard

>>96218427
Looks like shit desu.
Clean up your basing and throw some matte varnish on so your minis don't look like they came preprinted from aliexpress.

>>96218725
I use meshmixer, but admittedly it's not that great for the job. The tools are a bit obtuse to use.

I tried blender and I couldn't figure it out. I found it to be more of a tool for creating animations than anything.

I tried fusion 3D but it's way too complex and it's also not free, and autodesk is a bitch about it.

I tried microsoft's 3D builder. It's only use is for repairing corrupt/non-manifold stls. Not good for mashing.

I tried bamboo labs and it was shit. Just shit.

I tried Anycubic's photon software but it's mostly a slicer too.


So Meshmixer it is. I've grown fond of it's clunkyness. It kinda just works.

Remember to:

Not leave air gaps between joints
If joints seem too weak you can (and should) add a sphere of solid material
If the model is non-manifold use analyze - inspector to fix holes
When adding new files you'll be asked if you want meshmixer to automatically resize parts and/or to move them closer. I always say no to those.
Move and resize parts with T (transform)
Once the parts are joined, select all the stl's and combine them.
If you wanna save yourself headaches in the future, select the combined file and "make solid". Maximum accuracy.
After that, use the plane cut to check if there are any void gaps in the inside of the model. There should never.

After you're done slicing and are about to print, use UVTOOLS to scan the slice for errors. Mostly voids inside the model (called resin traps). Some cheap repairing software (like anycubic's) tends to create these voids when two combined stl's overlap. You can avoid this issue by either using 3Dbuilder's repairer / using the advanced repairer / using "make solid", or all three.

>>96218919
Jokes on you anon. Those prints from temu and AliExpress are surprisingly good.
But I agree that our skavenfriend above should put some more effort into his minis. Some Tufts or grass would help a lot too

>>96218725
>>96218748
I use Meshmixer

>>96220699
Seconding meshmixer.

>>96196911 (OP)
Well, I couldn't make all the others but this is done.

>>96203251
Where those bases from?

>>96214085
it looks like you came to this conclusion via other replies. but flexible resins need a TON more supports than others. like however many you think you need, put on more, seriously.

i auto-generate supports with high density in lychee, then throw a few extras on. if you're also using lychee i also suggest the pixelated raft. might be a placebo but i've found that helpful too.

>>96218725
Blender is the way to go yea

>>96222768
txarli factory

>>96222994
Thanks man. I have like four failed attempts on the same two models now.

Does anyone have any of Puppetswars files for the Knight Strikers? I wanna print and paint some of them

Was looking for an Skaven bloodbowl team and found these from Brutefun. Really nails the GW asthetic for me. Do you guys have any recommendations for sculptors putting out work that matches the look correctly like this?

>>96230542
Yeah, brutefun. None of the other bloodbowl sculptors even come close

>>96230559
That thrower model with the gun arm is a far more interesting take than the new Galveneer in my opinion. Is there a equivalent sculptor doing stuff for other GW games? A brutefun but for necromunda, aos, gorkamorka etc

>>96230718
>Is there a equivalent sculptor doing stuff for other GW games?
No, Blood Bowl has had independent sculptors since before 3D printing, the third party for Blood Bowl is far beyond anything for the other games.

>>96230718
It's just a gun, not a gun arm. Printminis is the best for necromunda, though not particularly great compared to brutefun. Highlands minis is the best for old world, though he just got a takedown notice for a couple models from GW so who knows how the vibes will change in the future.

Don't care about anything else.

>>96230542
>>96230559
way to let the black library lawyers know who to target next you pair of fuckwits

>>96231090
Blood Bowl makers aren't afraid of GW.

I need a decent Santa hat model I can splice onto some Intercessor head models. Wanna remake my Santa Marines from 20 years ago. Any ideas?

>>96230542
I like their style, but seriously? Charging more than a BB team box for a fan sculpt version?
Having trouble accessing their store too, so you might have got them banhammered

>>96231258
It is very easy to make a santa hat model in blender that you could just scale and put on your minis
https://youtu.be/--PhiKCqgO0?si=vxAA6XL8uuHb2gOt

>>96231258
I bet there are santa hats in cults3D

all you faggots trembling at the thought of a banhammer make me sick, with the amount of GW scans that are available on telegram these days its pretty clear resin printing isn't effecting their bottom line. you think even typing a sculptors full name on a mongolian basket weaving forum is like personally contacting the feds? cry more

Anybody here purchase 3D printing commissions?
400CAD for 3 accurate copies of 40k Artemia Pattern Hellhound tanks to be printed with supports removed.
Am I being grifted? Or is this normal when trying to buy Warhammer 40k and Warhammer adjacent stuff?

>>96234813
Yes, seems like a ripoff, because you can get the same vehicle on etsy for 35€

https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/4320643622/cerber-flammenwerfer-fahrzeug

Shipping from Poland might cost you some extra bucks, but probably still less than 400.

>>96235493
Thanks anon.
I appreciate it.
I fucking hate that my place doesn't have a good ventilated room for a 3D printer.

>>96235538
You fell for the fear propaganda peddled by GW and you're allowing it to keep you from saving money by doing your own production at home.

>>96236009
I’ll see if moving furniture around will help fix my lack of space problem.
Will carpeted floors by chance be a bad idea as a floor for 3d printing rooms?

>>96236813
Just get a growth tent, a fan and a hose to vent the air out of an open window. You can fit the entire setup on a single desk, you don't need an entire room for it.

>>96236828
Thanks anon!
Never heard of a growth tent and it looks promising.

>>96236813
Only if you spill, I used to have my printer in a carpeted room with no trouble.

Does anyone have the stl's for the bloodbound battlegears Sanguinary bits? Specifically the stuff that got discontinued, like the heads?

Should I get a Saturn 4 Ultra 12k if I want high quality prints and can afford the price jump?
I don't really need the extra space atm
I want to print 18mm and some 28mm miniatures
I don't want to print anything big
I don't paint that fast
That said if I'm spending money I might as well spend a bit extra

>>96238931
Mars is totally enough if all you want to print is normal sized minis.

The lads are coming along nicely

>>96240083
Newfag here. Is there a reason why you're not assembling the models in blender before printing?

>>96240185
I find that printing parts separately allows me to file and adjust things
My printer or resin currently has an issue where the surface facing towards the build plate gets slightly over exposed and blows out detail, so the underside of arms or guns or whatever would all be kind of bobby unless I print in sub-assemblies
It also let's me better support the model parts to reduce failures and support marks left over

>>96240185
Because parts of the model may be easier or better supported in an orientation different to the part it is to be attached to, it may be difficult to support or print the model as a single assembly, it may be easier to paint parts before they're glued to the model, it may require less resin or be easier to wash and cure a model in 2 halves rather than clean or a hollowed model with poor access to the inside.

SOH Dreadnought

SOH Dreadnought