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New to 3d printing and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, have had several failures like this and tried with a few different models. My printer is a QIDI shadow 5.5s and I'm using lychee to make the print files and the resin I'm using is sunlu solid grey water wash and resin

>>96626821
The resin settings I put into lychee

I want to modify a head STL.
It is wearing a gas mask, but it has exposed ears. I want to deform the ears so that they register as "balaclava ear bumps."
What's the best way to go about accomplishing that in Blender?

>>96626832
Sculpting -> blob / smooth tools

>>96626832
I would get different ears and mix them in

>>96626825
For bottom layers, set the light off time to 30 and the exposure time to 10 (or whatever works reliably; I use 6), set the lift height to 10 and the lift speed to 60.
For normal layers, set the light off time to 6, exposure time to whatever you've calibrated (4 seems high, but I've no experience with water washable resin (which you shouldn't use)) and lift height to 8.

>>96626270 (OP)
Longtime FDM Printer here, occasional metal caster, looking for something to make statue parts with, I hear the metal casting resins work well.
Anyone here have recommendations for a moderately larger size printer, resolution can be on the lower side given I don't have vacuum casting equipment to make the most of it. Or at least models I should avoid on the used market would help.

>>96626270 (OP)
Just so the telegram fag stays mad.
>>96613567
>You know what's great about reddit, nothing.
>https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/rjm2qp/comment/hp4ucxe/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

>>96627904
>>96628280
Thanks guys. I wish I could report back on whether this was successful, but when I tried to do some Blender sculpting the whole PC crashed. I think something is wrong with my video card so I won't be doing much STL modification.

Thanks anyways.

>>96629652
just upload the head and give a link

>>96629652
Use meshmixer

>>96629595
Kill yourself baneblade schizo

>>96629895
The thing is that I don't want to take the risk of the owner finding out that I'm distributing files he doesn't want distributed elsewhere. So I have to respect his wishes. That's why I've only been able to go with vague descriptions of the model itself.

>>96630314
>use meshmixer
The way my Blender crashed was in a way that brought the PC down. Something is wrong with my PC. But thanks for the suggestion anyways.

>>96629595
>Just so the baneblade schizo looks even more like a dumbfuck and the stays biggest joke on /3dpg/ right now
fix'd

>>96629595
You know what? Yeah everything on telegram is in fact from a 4 year old reddit torrent, nothing new on telegram, just 4 year old reposts. Go ahead and use the high quality video game model rips from reddit.

>>96632386
Let him go. He is completely right. There is nothing on telegram that cannot be found in that mega torrent and everyone needs to shut the fuck up and stop looking elsewhere.

>>96635050
Very nice

>>96635050
>a singular strike!
>blight resist
>blight resist

So I'm a /toy/ soldier in addition to a fa/tg/oblin; I'd initially gotten into printing for tabletop stuff as most of us did, but I've also been interested in printing toy parts, which spiralled into trying to make full action figures held together with Hobby Base joint sprues. Then I discovered Resione's Tough74 and TH-BJD resin (these Marines are the latter; they're the same stuff in different colours) and found it's actually possible to make poseable figures entirely out of the stuff with no non-printed parts at all. (It's also really tough and very well suited to tabletop minis, incidentally.)
To cut a long story short, I'm thinking of making some 1/18 scale 40K figures to go with the JoyToy range using the stuff. I wanna make some non-Primaris Marines for sure, but any other ideas? I'm thinking some Eldar (Craftworld and Dark) would be fun.

>>96635459
Necrons might be interesting, but will you try doing stuff like Dreadnoughts too?

>>96635559
I certainly could! I want to start off with infantry-scaled stuff to begin with as this is still quite uncharted territory, but it's certainly not outside the realms of possibility. In terms of bigger things I have a few ideas:
>Castraferrum Dreadnought (Mk. V and Mk. IV)
>Wraithlord
>Carnifex
>Deff Dredd/Killa Kan
I'd probably stick to "fits on a 60mm base" for big guys, though if I ever get an FDM machine or if I find myself feeling extremely daring (or find a good way of breaking down the hull into smaller parts without obvious hard to fill seams) I might try my hand at making a Rhino chassis.
Just out of interest, what would be the limit for non-printed parts necessary to complete a really big figure (like a Dreadnought)? My current test models have been 99% printed, with 1mm wire pins for joint reinforcement, though I've been trying to phase those out, but those have been "regular" size. I'd like to avoid requiring any components that can't be very easily sourced (simple machine screws, wire, magnets etc).

How's Anvil Digital Forge's STL quality?
Is Multi-shell a meme or is it actually a good feature to look for?

And what other modular humanoid STL makers are there?

>>96636788
>s Multi-shell a meme or is it actually a good feature
Do you want to take pieces off the file to bash onto another? that makes it easier.
But if you're just printing as-is, it makes no difference.

Is Warhammer 40K 28mm or 32mm in scale? I need to know this if I'm going to be scaling my minis for print.

I keep getting conflicting answers, and some answers just don't feel acceptable to me, like "either!"

>>96637661
You get answers like "either" because neither is really true. It used to be about 28mm, but things have steadily been increasing in size, and not just the marines as they went primaris. I think current catachan are ca 30mm to the eye. So if you have scans of uncertain scaling that you want to get right then you basically have to get measurement of those specific minis to use.

>>96638005
>current catachan
Cadians, I meant cadians.

Did anyone get the guard leman russ tank?

>>96637314
I never thought of it from that angle. Thank you. Is multi-shell becoming standard for stl producers worth their salt?

>>96639631
Shells is not officially supported in .stl, but people use professional modelling software where you can group things together as an object (or shell). When those programs export the mini as an .stl its formatted by the software to keep the shells so another person can open up the file press a few buttons in their software and the shells are back. If you have software that deals exclusively with .stl they probably wont be able to access the shells. Slicers like lychee and simply3d can find the shells.

>>96639665
Thanks anon!
There's a lot of stuff I need to learn about STLs and 3D software.

>>96639675
No problem. If you can find what your want as an .obj file they will already have the shells there ready to go

>>96639675
Unironically use Microsoft 3d builder to fix files. It's arguably one of the best tools to fix files. It's kind of crazy considering that it's the 3d version of mspaint, but both are amazing

>>96639760
Sadly you cant get 3dbuilder anymore without being a wizard.

I wish I got the Saturn instead of the Mars
Right now I can print at most 48 figures per plate but with a Saturn I could print at least 100 per plate

>>96641231
Also I never predicted just how much I'd hate the whole 3D printing process
That's something that people never mention when choosing between a saturn or a mars, printing as few plates as possible is better

>>96641294
Just remember how a few threads ago there was an autist who didn't consider the 3D printing itself to be "that difficult", and he argued you shouldn't charge for it

>>96641410
Are you me? I too like making up things that never happened to sound cool on the internet.

>>96641545
Why are you acting so defensive little bro? Have you bought a 3D printer yet, or did mommy not give you permission

>>96641564
Not defensive, just stating facts. I've been here the last 2 threads. How about you show us this:
>autist who didn't consider the 3D printing itself to be "that difficult", and he argued you shouldn't charge for it

>>96628448
Same result

>>96641653
have you got a uv lamp? try curing a drop of resin on a bit of paper a bit of paper just to rule out its not shit resin.

>>96626825
60 seconds is too high
I'd go with 25-30
Also is your resin hot enough? If it's not 30 degrees Celsius it could fuck up the resin
Imo with 60 seconds you're probably getting layer compression which can cause that problem
Try slicing with chitubox
Also are the screws for the vat screwed in enough? That might be a dumb question but idk how your printer works
Try raising lift distance to 6 mm

>>96641672
>If it's not 30 degrees Celsius it could fuck up the resin

Bullshit

>>96641709
They say 20 is fine but I try for at least 25+

>>96641662
The base of the models is printing to the platform and the rest is printing on the fep sheet so the resin is curing
>>96641672
I'll give it a try

>>96641774
Yes, but that is still far away from 30.
Obviously, if his resin is too cold he will run into problems, but 19-25°C resin temperature (i.e. normal room temperature) is fine.

>Also is your resin hot enough?
Resin does not need to be "hot" at all.

>>96642029
What slicer? Creality slicer placed supports above the raft years ago when I got my halot resulting in same failure, air gap between raft and support, switching to lychee or chitubox is standard practice

>>96641581
>I've been here the last 2 threads.
Sure you've been.
>>>96599458

>>96642846
Plate fees are the equivalent of tooling and setup fees. The printer should be clear on fees and likely totals but things like setup, parts cleaning and other activities take time and money.

>>96642846
>No mention of difficulty
>Says to not add extra fees and charges just quote one price
When you're at school tomorrow, ask your teacher for some help with reading comprehension.

>>96642925
>>96643919
Jews.

>>96641774
>>96642050
These were printed overnight at 7 degrees Celsius.

>>96644344
>Jews.
Funny word for machinist or fabricator.
Setup takes time, and depending on the process, materials. I'm not eating the costs if it takes me three hours to set your mess up to cut. Same with any other aspect of the process.
If you want to get quoted a single price per item or batch, you are going to pay a lot more because all the potential extrinsic but somewhat unavoidable costs need to be accounted for. The only way to avoid this with a vendor is to have someone you trust, who trusts you, with a process between you. Or DIY.

>>96644591
If it takes you 3 hours to set up a print then you're not qualified to be charging for printing.

>>96644634
Depends on the complexity of the work, and note I wrote "cut" because much more of my experience is with lasers and vertical mills. Just getting back into 3D printing with refurbed Ender3.

>>96644591
>>96644948
Oh so you are LARPing at this point. No one is going to pay you unless they are retarded. And ripping off the retarded is a true jewish move.

>>96644362
Using what printer?

>>96645073
No, I bough it to finish a project and the client is delighted with the results. Not game related, though.

>Not game related
Fuck off back to /diy/ kike.

>>96645123
photon mono 4, 0.025mm layer height w/antialiasing.

>>96644362
>>96645627
Cant see much detail due to using clear resin and a shitty camera but I can 100% confirm you'd get better quality prints at a higher ambient temperature with less exposure time.

>>96626821
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUhc_F2-7YA

>>96642594
I'm using lychee

>>96645867
>I can't actually tell but I'm going to say you're wrong anyway

>>96646742
The complaint about clear resin is valid though, UV helps a bit with that.

Stupid question and I can't believe I'm asking this given how long I've been doing this, but does an object have to be completely unified into a single mesh if I want to print it? I always boolean parts together when I design stuff to print, which means if I want to make variants of one part I have to make copies of the base part and then boolean the extra bits onto those, which takes a long time; could I theoretically skip that and just export the parts I wanted (via "selection only") as one object assuming I didn't create any voids in the process? I use Blender for most of my design and Lychee for slicing. I'm wary ever since some of LoggyK's excellent LOOKING Marine helmets turned out to have resin-traps in them and exploded on me.

>>96647049
Use meshmixer and selet all the parts (fter positioning) then hit "combine" under the edit tab, super fast.
It too has a boolean union option but that takes a lot longer. using "Combine" keeps the shells separate as well.

>>96647070
Ah nice, will have to try that. And yes, that's the word, shells.
Can you hollow an STL prepared that way? I assume it can define the exterior of the model as a whole and determine a continuous cavity from that- it wouldn't try and hollow every single shell? Sorry if these are dumb questions- I've gotten pretty knowledgeable with the actual chemical and mechanical side of printing, and I can use 3D software pretty well but the way it actually works is a mystery to me and I might be missing a few tricks by "playing it safe" due to not understanding these things properly.

>>96647104
Don't know, I don't hollow things.

>>96647110
Oh. Fair enough! I usually don't either and the few things I've designed myself that warrant it I usually hollow out at the design level.

>>96647049
>but does an object have to be completely unified into a single mesh if I want to print it?
I've found that it tends to give less problems with certain slicers. I've had instances in which anycubic would say -this file may print wrong- and after auto-repairing, the junctions between volumes of different shells would be hollow, leaving air pockets in the print, creating spectacular failures.

Ever since then I always "make solid" anything that I print that has more than one shell to combine them.

>Marine helmets turned out to have resin-traps in them and exploded on me.
Use UVTOOLS for that. A quick pass on the sliced file will detect islands, resin traps, overhangs, you name it. It will also let you manually fill in pixels (a really useful feature) but only use it as a last ditch; since you won't be able to modify the files in the slicer without having to paint the pixels again.

>>96647070
>It too has a boolean union option
I have used it instead of "make solid" and it sometimes would leave small little gaps that would make junctions weaker. I'll have to play a bit more around it

>>96647104
>Can you hollow an STL prepared that way?
No, you can't hollow a multi-shelled STL. The program won't know where the outside is when the meshes collide. I don't know if the "boolean union" allows for hollowing. It probably does

Pic related. It's a mix of scans and parts that I combined and "made solid" before printing it whole.

Between the shoulders and the torso (the junction) I inserted spheres that would fill in the gaps to ensure no air trapped. Same thing with the neck.

The body is a scan of a comissar. The plasma arm is from the krieg kill team. The fist is from TinyLegends, and so is the helmet; and I had to autistically remove the hoses from it because it looked awful with a back filter.

aHR0cHM6Ly90Lm1lLyt6b3lkZkV4NGZpQTBORGxr

>>96649314
Thanks anon

>>96648875
>resin traps
Use clear resin and you can easily cure all interior voids without drilling.

>>96637661
Yeah it's just straight up inconsistent, and to make things complicated, most Necromunda models are straight up taller than newer Cadians and roughly match 30k Tactical Marines while being on smaller bases, and then people are still proclaiming one range or the other is 28mm or 32mm.

>>96651432
Gotta reduce layer height and turn on antialiasing

>>96651548
Do you think so?
I think it turned out pretty well, considering how small it is.

>>96651548
>>96651988
For you guys printing in resin, are there chemicals that you can apply to soften the outer layer of the print?

>>96652258
If you want to smooth post-print, sand it.
But don't do that, just print smoother to start >>96651548

Reprinted a few minis to fix scale issues and went with a different servo skull.

Tonight on Will It Print? We have a lovely contestant that will be augmenting a desolation squad seargant if it succeeds. Will it? Who the fuck knows, I'm forever throwing PLA at the wall that is resin STLs. Its way less ambitious than the servo arms were, though, so it should be fine.

>>96651432
spoiler that shit anon

>>96654629
it didn't fail, but I wouldn't really call this one a success either, a shame, really

>>96654629
>>96655029
FDMlets...

>>96641653
To me it looks like the print is failing when it transitions from bottom layers to normal layers. As for why, I don't know.
Try increasing your normal layer time to something silly like 10 and see if the print completes. Alternatively try a different resin.

>>96648875
This is the result

I've been saving up some fun money and within a few weeks I'll have $2000-2500 to blow. Should I buy a bambu lab H2D, a new PC, a new gun, or parts to (maybe) finish another project?

>>96656441
Or a VR headset

>>96656441
>bambu lab H2D
honestly, I'd wait (r) for bambu's bondtech indx version or actually get a prusa with the indx system

either way, get a new pc if your current one needs to be replaced

>>96656441
>>96656925
What you really need is to go out and buy some self-agency.

>>96657029
>I'd wait (r) for bambu's bondtech indx version
Damn, it's coming out q4 2025 too. I'll hold off for now then.

My pc doesn't *need* to be replaced, really. It's a gaming laptop from 2019 but I also don't do anything particularly performance intensive on it, beyond some indie games which it handles well enough. Although, maybe I would do more performance intensive things if I actually had the horsepower.

>>96657269
>maybe I would do more performance intensive things if I actually had the horsepower.
I do 3D kitbashing on a tablet, sometimes operations require me to leave it run overnight.
If you were going to do proccessing intense tasks you would already be pushing your machine to it's limit and beyond.

>>96657324
I'm not going to play flight or racing sims at sub 30 fps low settings without even using VR.

3d rendering performance is a nothingburger. I'm not a professional 3d artist and I don't care if it renders in 5 minutes or in 5 hours. That goes for almost anything where you can walk away from the PC and do something else while it loads. I almost never sit there waiting so it makes no real difference to me.

>>96657393
>AAA sim vidya
That's nice, GTFO /tg/ though.

>>96657395
>sims
>AAA
Lol. Maybe MS flight sim can be considered AAA but come the fuck on nigga.
>GTFO /tg/
Where do you think this is? The venn diagram of people who play simulator games and who 3d print miniatures for their tabletop games is a circle.

>>96657544
Only faggots play videogames.

so is xe making this up or is it real
https://youtu.be/Rt7tjc7mQbw

>>96658733
Someone else told me about this, but I hate youtube videos. Anyone else know about it?

>>96658840
The video states it was a curated collection of scans already available. Still would have been handy to have it all in one place though.

recomendation to transport the little figures? if not careful, they would tangle and break

>>96658733
would that have anything to do with that channel invite earlier?

Looking for epic basing stls or similar basing bits especially battlefield rubble/debris, and/or scifi stuff. Here's stuff I got from paper airplane app
aHR0cHM6Ly9nb2ZpbGUuaW8vZC9LMmZsbzE=

>>96658733
Nothing to see here. It's just a collection that has been floating around for quite some time.
>>96659611
Yes

I heard that a lot of 40k models got leaked as stl files? If true where can I find it? I want to print them in the future.

>>96660246
Indeed also looking for files

Does any have EmanGs Bad Rats files? His Skaven sculpts are really nice but I can't find them anywhere online

>>96660356
so apparently its huge, the few(8 zip files) i came across alone take up 40 gigs

>>96660494
That's it? I thought there'd be more. My fucking Blood Bowl collection takes up a few hundred GB.

>>96660356
same

>>96649314
neat

>>96660531
nah the person I came across was only able to upload a few of them.

Sooner or later someone looking for attention/upvotes will dump the lot somewheres.

>>96660531
>Blood Bowl
Based only reason I was looking for the leaks. Mind sharing? I got some Heresy stuff if you're interested.

>>96660861
It's all on the telegram channels.

>>96660908
which ones? I haven't seen anything

>>96660908
Figured as much. I'll do some digging thanks

yeah ive been looking for a few hours haven't seen any new uploads

>>96660986
You shouldn't believe retarded YouTube clickbait bullshit.

Does anyone have leads on Calamity’s Ashes on the paper airplane app?

>>96661206
It's there but way to big for me to just dl and reupload it.

>>96660908
can you hint which one without giving it away?

>>96661299
Certain words I should be looking for in the thesaurus?

I finally did a scan of some.dkok and honestly I'm pretty satisfied with the results the Open Scan Mini can accomplish

Hey, im sorry. I know im going to sound like a fag but ive been out of the game for a whole. If another one can be sent soon that would be great.

You know, if you overuse the word it has the complete opposite effect. You're the faggot who cried fag.

>>96661349
There's two and they both have all the same shit.

I have been looking for dem leak for about an hour now, and i have not been able to find anything, and im in a lot of warhammer stl groups can anyone give me a clue?

>>96663823
i've also been looking for it. can you give a bit more to work with? encoded, something.

>>96664123
meant for >>96661299

>>96647070
Every time I've tried using MeshMixer to bash files, the result looks like it's been chewed by a digital dog. I followed all the settings recommendations I could find, yet it always seems to radically decimate the mesh - how do I prevent it from serving me potatoes?

>>96656441
Don't support sheister companies like Bamboo. Unless I dunno, do you have a fetish for companies that might decide to brick your device on a whim unless you install a mandatory update that lets the CCP monitor your network?

>>96661299
Is there a nintendoland invite or clue to which group it’s in?

>>96661785
looks cool anon
there are already some scans of the DKOK running around telegram, I wonder if they are made using the same machine

>>96664438
Don't use the "Make Solid" tool unless it is absolutely required, if you must, then crank up both of the top sliders to 512

>>96664123
>encoded, something.
Sadly some asshole faggots in 3DPG spelled out explicitly over numerous recent threads how to crack the encode system that's been in use for the past couple years or so, so I can't in good conscience share links even in that manner as it is now known to GW lawyers.
Going to have to dig on your own or ask again when we've got a new method of gatekeeping while sharing.

im trying to find ucupumar's marine statue to print smaller as a silly dnd pirate captain and ive found her in archives here but I have to have a chinese phone number and some chinese browser to download her

does anyone happen to have her model?

>>96664759
That reply was meant for the calamity’s ashes not the fuckgw stuff

Here are the 40k files ive found

>>96665035
Interesting.
Too bad I've got basically no interest in GW sculpts because most of them are fuck ugly or primarishit or w/e.
I have 3 actual GW models, all for Blood Bowl.
The elf/dwarf refs and josef bugmann smoking a pipe sitting in front of a beer keg. In the past decade those are the only things I ever saw in GW's offerings that made me think "Yeah I actually do want that" and they aren't even actual game pieces, they're sideline fluff extras.

>>96665035
it is only giving me errors

>>96665035
Thanks a lot man, but those are not leaks, they are just proxies and even fewer scans. i recognized the name of some files.

>>96665545
>proxies
A standee or a token are proxies, a printed model fully painted is not a proxy, it is a not a temporary stand in (what a proxy is).

>>96656441
Build an AR in 6mm arc.

>>96657102
How ironic.

>>96665753
My bad, thanks for clarifying. Point still stands though, those are no leaked gw model archives.

>>96665999
I get you, I just find it childishly patronizing when people call anything non-GW a "proxy" like I intend to someday throw away all my prints and buy GW plastic.

>>96666019
You are right ofc.

>>96664759
if you post links in a >certain channel
i will get them

>>96658733
>>96658840
>>96660246

>>96666400
epic gatekeeping

>>96660246
>>96658880
>curated collection of scans already available
It was 100ish files, no leaks though, the youtuber made that up for clicks. 80% were good quality scans, the other 20% were 1:1 proxies from other creators (which I know because I'd already got them from the original sources), which the guy shared for free (bit of a dick move imo). And while there were indeed many scans, just to put it into context it was far from a curated collection - the files were a hodgepodge of different factions so you would have really struggled to make a full army from the 100ish uploads, and fwiw they were only a small fraction of the scans that are actually out there. I think the guy just uploaded whatever was at the top of his list on his hard drive or something. And as others have said, he was just reuploading stuff that can be found already, albeit under way more obscure names and fragmented across many uploaders.

The guy who made the video about them (what the fuck kind of grown man calls himself "mikey") is a thin-skinned cunt who gets embroiled in any internet drama he can and spergs out at people when they offer the slightest critique of something he said or did. I avoid his toxic bullshit like the plague. He's also making this video over a week late and sensationalizing the events for attention, which has confused a bunch of newbies into thinking GW's master STLs have been let loose in the wild when that's absolutely 100% not happened, ever. Absolutely useless waste of hobby community space.

but the real question if there was a baneblade scan or not among those files

>>96666872
Addendum: I didn't realise discourse had done as video on it too, but why am I not surprised. Everything I said about mikey applies to xer as well.

>>96658733
The video creator talks about warhammer models being leaked while displaying pictures of warhammer models that were absolutely not 'leaked' (i.e. scans uploaded) by the account they're referencing. Disingenuous. They also say the files were available for 2 hours but they weren't, it was closer to 12. It's true that the account got about 200k downloads in that time though, I kept refreshing their profile and having a laugh at how quickly the number was going up. At one point the website's server overloaded lol, I've never seen that happen before in 3 years of use.

>>96664524
I'm really new into the 3d scanning scene any tips to find them?

>>96667615
There’s one posted in this thread

when gathering STL, should I get supported or unsupported files? How should I know which I will need?

>>96668324
Presupported are generally shit that work for the rig of whoever set them up. Just get the unsupported files and do them yourself. Plenty of tutorials online to help you with that.

>>96658733
So the TL;DW is:
>Mentally ill man tells lies to raise view count of their channel
?

>>96668339
Presupports are usually made with as many machines as possible in mind, and they will work perfectly fine on the majority of printers. If there is presupports, I don't bother with the unsupported files. Waste of time to support them myself.

I'm making my first resin printer setup anons. Is the saturn 4 ultra a decent option? I heard that the normal saturn 4 lacks anti-aliasing

new as a starry eyed seahorse to this. Got a A1 fdm printer made for stupid babies to make sure I could figure it out. Looking to crank out some legally distinct space marines to paint. What would be the best slicer software for a linux machine? I've got orca at the moment. Bonus points if they have solid auto-support as I am very lazy.

>>96669345
>FDM
you need to go back through some old threads and see fdm prints in action
>prepare by lowering your expectations

>>96669345
Orca is just generally the best all around, that said no one has good auto supports. None. All autosupports are far too heavy handed regardless of settings for what is actually needed for miniatures.
As for quality, eh, as long as you're not doing anything especially spindly you're typically fine. I still do really spindly stuff, but usually because its fun to see if it will work or not and post about it

Anyone here have the Valenir Designs ghost or riptide stls ?
I can provide greytide primal hounds bits stls if anyones interested

Anyone know where I could find the files for these helmets? Not begging for free files, would pay for them if needed.

>>96669133
still asking about recommendations since the OP pastebin looks like it hasn't been updated since August 2022. sorry if this is a stupid question.

>>96673476
The fuck are those?
>>96673150
Search for Grey Knight bits.

>>96661206
Just go to Cults3d and buy the files faggot.
If you can't afford them, then stop being a poorfag, rediscover STLexandria or find another hobby.

>>96673684
Block War
https://drive<dot>google.com/drive/folders/1ap4uMolIVNsdGgiS-d1CZnnux01Llett?usp=drive_link

Telegram scrubs finally got found out as being scammers who got their files from reddit? damn that's hilarious and sad.

>>96673476
I have a Saturn 4 Ultra and it is fantastic. Auto levels, very fast and more reliable (the tilting vat exerts less peel force on the parts meaning you're less likely to have desupporting issues), and has some really nice QOL features- the sensor that stops something being pressed into the screen is a really nice feature.

>>96674569
thanks anon

>>96664759
>Sadly some sane people in 3DPG pointed out that my dumb Super Sekrit Spyman LARP was pointless retardation, that security through obscurity is an oxymoron(while I am merely a moron, who also enjoys the flavour of penis), and that the best way to ensure stuff remains available is to see it shared as widely and freely as possible, and I am STILL bootyblasted about having absolutely zero coherent reply to that objective truth several years later
ftfy

>>96675096
Aww babby is too low IQ to figure it out like everyone else managed to!

>>96673807
Thanks for the hint faggot

>>96669345
>What would be the best slicer software for a linux machine?
Orca is fine. There is a flatpak of bambu studio if you wanna use that.
Some tips.
Start with fat dragon's print profile but set the resolution to a much lower number, you'll retain more detail that way.
Auto supports generally suck tons of cock, the only way to not get scarred up dogshit prints is to use resin-style supports. I do mine in Blender with a custom setup but you can generate them in a resin printer slicer (0.2mm contacts, 2mm pillars) and export them as a mesh which you then slice in an fdm slicer.
For post-processing the layer lines, nothing really works except sanding them. Gloss primers hide them a bit but not on the worst spots like round top surfaces.

>>96676093
You can get filler primers that greatly reduce the amount of sanding required, but the best method is to just get a smaller extruder nozzle and do smaller layer heights.

>>96676105
Well the smaller nozzle is basically mandatory.

>>96676137
Oh I see anon is going for a knight, no nozzle is small enough, needs to be resin and even then you need to reduce layer height from factory and turn on antialiasing.

>>96676145
There are ways of getting 0.15mm nozzles onto A1s/minis to get crazy small layers and details, but its usually not worth the headache of the shitty aftermarket hotends which wind up failing explosively. Finding one that isn't shit is just russian roulette with your print head

>>96676379
I barely use my FDM, only for very big things that I have to, so I only buy the brand name stuff made by the same company as the printer,

>>96676412
Entirely fair. I prefer FDM since its the more familiar platform for me, and its fun to tinker but I still break out my mars if I really want something to look nice.

Speaking more generally, technically FDM can do some properly unhinged stuff, like sub 2 minute near flawless benchies and resin quality prints via a 0.1mm nozzle, but the parts to actually do these sorts of things are so scattered, new, expensive and sometimes one of a kind currently that its a bit pointless to bring up.
And a lot of ideas are currently unexplored. I'm still waiting on literally anyone to try putting a marker pen head adjacent to the print head so they can just put ink on the top of supports to prevent layer adhesion instead of all this goofy multimaterial supports. Seriously, this was shit I manually back in highschool a decade ago and no one has bothered automating it.
FDM is going to get a lot better for miniatures, but waiting on it is frustrating.

My first attempt at some poorhammer 40K. His arm failed near the support so this is as far as he got.

Rest well angry plastic space man. He never skipped leg day.

>>96676494
I would highly recommend breaking up your models into separate legs, torsos, arms, heads and backpacks whenever possible. It both cuts down on the number of failures, but also the amount of overhangs and supports needed. For FDM, either you want something that's designed from the beginning to be printed as one piece, or something that gives you a bunch of little pieces that can be orientated easily to minimize supports.

More printing-adjacent but for anyone interested I've found Siraya Defiant 25 silicone does exactly what it says on the tin and has no issues with cure inhibition with 3D printed resin. I know for most cases printing is superior to casting anyway but for select uses I can see it being nifty- for example, printing a whole kit in opaque resin and any parts you want to be clear you can sand/polish to remove layer lines and then make a mould and cast in a decent clear epoxy rather than faffing about with printing clear resin (especially if you only have one printer and one vat and don't fancy swapping resins), or if you wanted to make metal castings of a 3D master- though you'd need to make a regular cast-resin copy and then make a new mould from heat-resistant rubber, as Defiant 25 isn't suitable for metal. Also in my case as someone into making toys of my toy soldiers (I'm >>96635459) I can cast parts in polyurethane resin to make flexible components rather than having to go through the nightmare of printing flexible resin, which IIRC is notoriously finicky to print.

How the fuck do I find a job. I feel like a fine layer of butter on a very large piece of bread. Spread too thin.

Also today I printed some warhammers

so was there a 40k model stl leak or not?

>>96679048
No. Someone posted a bunch of scans with basedjak memes making fun of gw.

Anons I went to print today after days of hiatus doing other things, I open the bottle and pour resin and... I barely covered the release film... I don't think anyone's open today at this time.

Printer screen is shot and I have to wait for my replacement to ship in from beautiful Zhongguo

>>96680527
someday I should order a replacement bulb for my old printer and try to sell it.

>>96679961
Amazon is always open

Im starting burrows and badgers and need some animal minis. I've had a look on telegram but there is not much on there.(a small amount of goon hammer)
Is there a particular channel I should be looking for?

>>96684050
try yiff in hell furfag

>>96684050
Not gonna find something so niche on trannygram. Your best best is buying something on cults or other site.

>>96684050
Nobody has actually made models for that super niche thing to my knowledge sorry
Besides maybe myminifactory and that's only a maybe

>>96684050
I saw briteminis has some animalfolk, but ehh.

>>96684608
>>96685690
>>96685718
None of you thought to suggest to anon that he find a badger sculpt, cut it's head off and swap it for the head on a regular medieval miniature?

>>96685839
why are you phrasing this as a question and not just replying to anon

>>96685839
Sounds like a lot of work.

>>96685891
You 3 just demonstrated a need to have your hands held over simple concepts like a head swap or keeping track of the most recent comment to show up on the bottom of the page you're looking at.
>>96685895
If you can't into digital kitbashing you shouldn't have a printer, it's so easy I do it on an old tablet.

>>96685958
This, digital kitbashing is very easy. Also quite fun- made some BFG Tyranid ships from random parts. Should really print these.

>>96685988
This one was inspired by an old Sherman Bishop conversion (I think?)

>>96685999
As were these!

>>96685958
Doesn't look like a simple headswap. He'd need to alter the proportions and add some details like claws.

>just simple headswap bruv
might as well not even bother and pretend your other minis are this and that proxy

>>96686025
>>96686133
If somebody hasn't done it for you, it can't be done eh?
Wish your ancestors had shared that attitude and consequently spared us your existence.

>>96686172
if you are just trolling then fuck you
if you don't, which is unlikely from the way you communicate, then you are a stupid nigger. I didn't say it can't be done, I said a headswap only bash would be SHIT, you retard
I don't know why some people just enjoy stirring shit for no reason, but this is my last reply to your bullshit

>>96686172
You arrogant little nigger. I work with Blender for a living. Making shit look good is a little more involved than reordering a bunch of shapes on the ipad you were raised on.

>>96686402
Sucks that you wasted money on that education, eh shitbird?

>>96686951
Youtube tutorials are free. What really sucks is that you're still alive and shitting up the thread.

>>96687014
>youtube tutorials on resume
Nice LARP

>>96684050
I would try making something good enough on heroforge and rip the files.
That has the advantage that you can make other poses or loadouts while keeping the proportions.

Made some nice bloodbowl teams that way before so many great 3rd party designers made way better ones.

>>96687099
Good job outing yourself as unemployed.

>>96687606
I grew up with more than two braincells in my head, so I never made the asinine mistake of pursuing art as a career choice.
Art is a hobby, and it sounds like I can do better with free software and being self taught in evenings than you can with high end equipment and a pile of student debt =)

G'day 3dpg

I'm using an anycubic photon mono x, haven't turned it on in the past three months, and now the control touchscreen is blank on startup.

Does anyone know a way to confirm that it's the screen that's toast other than purchasing a replacement?

>>96688209
try contacting customer service?

>>96687267
when you say rip the files.....
How would one go about this?

>>96688300
Already did, they've essentially told me the screen is broken but weren't able to substantiate that so I figured I'd ask before I fork out for a new screen.

>>96688159
>pursuing art as a career
Blender is just a part of what I do.
>pile of student debt
I never went to collage. Why am I even replying to a retarded schizo nigger like you, just kill yourself already.

>>96688677
>Blender is just a part of what I do.
Changing goalposts, you said it was your living.
>collage
Sure looks like you got the education.

>>96688530
If one were to do something like that, they could go about it like this:
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I’ve got 40 plates to print
4-5 a day if nothing goes wrong and then no more printing for 6 months
I can’t wait to not have to print anymore
t. 2 weeks off

I'm really missing the mordheim group on telly. Is there a replacement?
Or has anyone seen the Magori Minis patreon/Undead warbands stl kicking about?

>>96690727
What u printing lad


pic for attention

Right what's a decent STL for heavily armoured humans in "heroic" scale with good modularity? Bonus points if it's not just 15th century plate

>>96677508
Look into title insurance anon. Boring as fuck but pretty simple if you can read. I have had a mars 3 for a year now and yet to assemble it because I am afraid to set it up in my garage without some kinda gas mask I can't afford at the moment. Plus worried about the rest of the house or neighborhood stinking if I leave the garage door open while printing.

>>96692254
If you haven't been able to scrape together thirty bucks for a 3M 4251 over years then the cost of resin ain't within your pay grade either.

>>96692081
maybe try asking /awg/

>>96626270 (OP)
I'm late to the party, but was the GW leak true and if yes link?

>>96692950
at least read the thread.

>>96692950

Come on man... Ctrl-f "leak"

Would putting my washed models in a tub of water and leaving them in the sun for a few hours cure them well?

>Post something making fun of the new troon looking marine heads on a "chud" stl channel on trannygram.
>Get banned because they think I'm a commie because I have Sam Hyde on my profile pic and Trotsky as my username.
Fake chuds. Thanks for reading my blog.

Can you guys give me some ideas for fun fantasy enemies to print off?
I've printed some Teenage Mutant Ninja Tortles, Wild West Orcs, Pirate Orcs, Robocop-Orcs, Mafia Orcs, Napoleonic Goblins, Goblins as Horror Movie monsters, etc.

Not necessarily meme-y stuff but just minis you've seen that were fun and soulful.

>>96695101
dirt, rock and stone dudes

>>96695101
everything i've ever seen from warploque is soulful as heck.

>>96695455
I love these. Holy shit.

>>96695561
I've printed some of his gnomes and bullywugs. He's probably my favorite creator except I had modular parts and idk how to merge the parts to just have one print.

>>96695455
I did my halfling Blood Bowl team out of these guys, my head canon is that the coach is a halfling wizard and he summons up his team of clods from the very pitch before the game starts.

>>96695561
Love me Warp(loque). It took forever to get that months release out in the wild. I have everything up until August this year from them apart from a gap from Nov 24-Apr 25 (apart from the Dwarf Mining Team)

>>96695561
all the designs look too samey.

Printed 7 plates today
Feels good, I can't wait to put my printer away after all of this is done

>600gb of stls on an external ssd, many scans
>ssd is starting to fail at a rapid pace out of nowhere
>half of the files on there besides my stls are already corrupted and inaccessible
>frantically trying to move my stls to a different drive before it shits out completely
may the Omnissiah's grace ease the humble drive's machine spirit so that it may perform its sacred duty one final time
>mfw i have no face because my face folder is corrupted

>>96698006
Why did you not back them up online?

>>96698044
last time i had a drive fail i swore i was going to backup all my important files and then i just never did on account of the fact that i am retarded

>>96698006
I'm slowly moving mine over to a 18tb RAID1 setup. I will not lose everything again.

>>96698006
>Buy 500gb hdd for pennies (Recycling centres will give you them for free)
>Take backup every 6 months
>throw drive into back of a wardrobe and forget

>>96698006
If you print those STLs you never have to worry about losing them again.

>>96698056
Well, this time you will be smarter. Create a telegram group for yourself, and upload whatever you can save from your SSD.
And then look for some long term online storage.

>>96698057
Same. I lost so much anime due to failures and hdds are cheap enough that there's really no reason not to have resilient cold storage.

>>96698095
>long term online storage.
Oxymoron.

>>96699487
Not really as long as you physically own the server.

>>96699619
Then it's offline storage.

>>96699634
It's not though if the server is in a different physical location than you and you use networking to access it.

Dialing in the scaling for my Armor sets, the chest and arms feel right. The head definitely needs to shrink a bit, maybe 5% at most, and the legs are just a hair too small.

What do you think?

Anyone have a good plastic tub for the hot water and alcohol cleaning steps you would recommend?

>>96700341
fwiw, unless i was breaking out a tape measure and notepad at the game, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference standing at the table.

>>96702096
cheap tupperware and old sauerkraut jars.

Is there a way to "hollow" FDM prints like you can Resin? I'm trying to print terrain but each wall piece takes 14 hours on my Ender 3.

>>96703629
>infill
>0%

>>96703650
Is that going to cause print failures / weakness if I do 2 walls or will they stay solid?

>>96703662
You want it hollow, that's how you get it.

Looking for some input on a resin printer to buy. I tried to refer to the Resin Printer pastebin but the info. in there is from 2021/2022 and while its helpful, doesn't really help with the more modern printers. Here's a few questions I hope folks can answer:

1. In your experience has cleanup of a resin printer after a print been a pain with the Elegoo printers vs. the Anycubic ones, or is the cleanup going to be a pain no matter what?

2. How far away is the hobby from getting "next years" printers? Do they tend to do yearly refreshes of the printers or put out a brand new one every couple years while the older generation matures and gets it issues worked out?

3. If my use case is mainly going to be for tabletop minis and slightly larger monster figures (at most 6 inches tall) will a smaller print bed be fine, or should I go to the medium size printers that are in the 9-10 inch range?

4. Any features or gimmicks you like on your current printer (or ones you thought would be useful but turned out to be a pain)?

For reference my budget is looking to be in the 500-700 USD range for the printer itself, with another 100-200 for resin, curing booths, washing beds, cleaning fluids, etc.

>>96703662
Most of the strength of the FDM print is dependent on the wall thickness of the print, and infill only increases in importance when you have large values for it. It also depends on the type of infill you are printing. If you're printing for something that won't carry a lot of weight, 5-10% is more than enough. I'd rather do 1.2 mm thick walls and 5% infill than have 0.8 walls and 20% infill.

Infill types are important as well. Gyroid infill is strong in all directions. Lightning infill is probably the lightest one you can use since it only serves to support top layers and is mostly hollow enough.

>>96703852
For me, bigger is better. I started with a 6 in one and I hated it. Went with a Saturn 3 10 inch and it was so much better and saved more time.

Essentially you can print twice the amount with a 10 in printer than a 6 in one, and that also means less cleanup per plate and less total printing time. Additionally, fitting and filling a 10 in plate is so much easier than filling a 6 in one. Anecdotally, if a print fails in one area of a large plate, it won't affect something far away. Smaller plates won't have that luxury.

Bigger models might have worse resolution (a 12K 6 in will get you more detail than a 12K 10 in) but at the end of the day, the print gets covered in primer and the fine details get removed anyway.

>>96703854
>1.2 mm thick walls and 5% infill than have 0.8 walls and 20% infill.
I'll try this on my next print. Thank you!

I just printed a giant frog just now with 5% infill and it turned out pretty solid.

I only use FDM for bases. What else even is there?

Anyone ever seen these steel legion prints before? I've got all the originals but looks like someone made some kitbash/resculpts that would fit in well with the og range

>>96704521
Forgot pic

>>96704528
Nice try James

>>96704062
Do they get discernible print lines?

>>96704634
Just a newfag who collects old guard regiments looking for a direction to search, but I do sound like a gw glowie reading it back

>>96703881
Thanks for the help. Right now I've narrowed it down to Anycubic M7 or Saturn 4 Ultra. I'm also thinking about just waiting cause a bit of extra research said there's some big enthusiast printer convention in Germany in early November, where these companies might show off next gen printers?

>>96704062
Buying them for pennies in china obviously.

I have gotten about 600 18mm miniatures out of 3/4 of a bottle + 1 vat clean
Feels good man
Buying that many miniatures from AB figures would cost me $825 AUD for pewter equivalents whilst this bottle cost me $25 AUD
Also I bought one of these for $2 from bunnings and it's been really effective at removing the prints from the build plate

>>96704854
Don't get an anycubic, they're notoriously bad
If the Saturn 3 Ultra is cheap then get that, it's perfectly adequate and you should spend the money saved on getting a proper set up with an exhaust fan and a grow tent
Next gen printers won't give you anything you need and will just be a lot more expensive
That said idk what the price difference between the Saturn 3 Ultra and the Saturn 4 Ultra is in your country, maybe the Saturn 4 Ultra would be a good pic but some people complain about reliability with the 4
I am happy with my Mars 4 Ultra but sometimes I wish I got a Saturn after experimenting with chitubox and seeing just how much shit I could print with it
I spend so much time arranging my plates perfectly but with a Saturn I wouldn't even need to bother

>>96704528
Probably AI, don't worry about it James

>>96705082
I meant what else to print with FDM. Terrain takes forever and FDM supports are annoying.

How is printing terrain at 0.05 or 0.1 on a resin printer?
Anyone here do it at 0.03?

>>96703943
just keep in mind that the arachne mode, if you use it, will not work with most of the quality/slowdown adjustments in your filament settings. You'll have to tune that on your own via the overhang and bridging speeds. Or enforce special speeds with modifier parts or layer height modifications. If you're going to go for fat walls, which it sounds like you are, that'd be the mode to do it in. Classic wall generator will look shitty with thick walls. Alternatively you could do more wall passes with thinner walls to balance detail and appearance preservation, have more forgiving cooling needs, and keep strength. Downside would be the hit you take to print speed.

>>96703852
Whatever you get, I'll warn you, nobody tells you the importance of waits. Resin is thick gooey stuff. Waterwash especially, and that is why waterwash gets a bad rep. Everyone is ignorant to tuning waits. You need time for your chemical reactions to finish for a smooth release, you need time for the resin caught under the bed or caught on the next layer to even out naturally. You need time for new resin to flow into the freshly made voids. Those settings are "Wait before cure(wait before print)", "wait before release (wait after print)", "wait after release (wait after lift)" and people keep this knowledge to themselves like black magic. Most of the movement between of the Z-axis, the tuning people do, is inadvertently tuning these factors instead of doing it directly. If you get a tilt-release printer, it's doubly important to understand these are the real workhorses under the hood. Manufactures keep advertising insane speeds with extra-fluid resins, best case scenarios, because millimeters per second helps sell printers to print farms.

If you want better prints, whatever you get, try 3/2/3. Good results? Try 2/1/2. Good results? Try 1.7/1/2. Good results? 1.7/1/1.5 (for normal layers)

The biggest problems occur on bottom layers. Even if you keep the default times for normal layers (defaults are 1.5/0/0, delays for before and after release are considered adequate from screw/tilt motion) you will want buffed up times for the first 5-6 bottom layers. Like 20/1/2.

Why 20 wait before cure for bottom layers? The huge surface area of the build plate is a ton of force on the LCD. With only the area at the edges of the build plate being a place for the resin to escape. This means most people start curing before the plate is done moving and level. You get half-cured goo moving outward in all directions (pancaking) and worse, as it cures, it also pushes into the LCD with even more pressure.

>>96677508
Largely overstated fears with modern resins. Influencers quite rightly release if the bar is less than pants shittingly scary, people will treat it like it is no more dangerous than using paint thinner without gloves. Just put the whole thing into a grow tent like you would use for "tomato" farming. Replace a window pane for your garage door with a plastic exhaust port. Or leave it cracked open and aim a fan under the door. If grow tent isn't an option, filter the air in the garage with an ikea FÖRNUFTIG.

>>96705355
My biggest fear with the Saturn 4 (and the Elegoo stuff in general) is LCD screen replacement. As someone that's built PCs and torn apart laptops to replace broken screens I know how frustrating and time consuming that process is.

I also really like the idea of a phone app to track progress on a print. And I've been watching videos from multiple people on the current gen of printers and they all say Anycubic really improved their QC with this generation of printers.

>>96706239
I could care less about print speed, i want it to look smooth and finished after its done printing and curing, I'm more than willing to fool around with times and settings to dial in my prints to get done with as little clean-up or sanding done as possible.

>>96707254
anycupic resin printers will also need screen replacements?

I bought a returned saturn 4 and had to change the screen right away. There is a good video for it, the only hard part was that I needed to torch it a bunch with a heatgun because the glue was so tough. But the good thing with that is that when the screen is broken, nothing sensitive is near to it so you can just go ham.
Regarding the app, there is "resin control", an app with which you should be able to control them as long as they have wifi, like the sat 4 ultra, but I have not tried it yet.

>>96708294
But my understanding was replacing the M7 screen is a ton easier than the Saturn's.

Does anyone have or know where I can find monsterpocalypse STLs? apparently after their kickstarter went bust they gave all their backers the stls but I cant find any except for some starter stuff and all my telegram groups are for warhammer stuff only

>>96626270 (OP)
I my first 3D printer recently.
Can somebody point me to the simplest/easiest 40k models to print?

>>96709572
Print Ameralabs town
https://ameralabs.com/blog/town-calibration-part/

>>96709649
What? No, that's a tremendous waste of resin.
You want to test your printer? PRINT A MINI, you know, something you'll actually use?

>>96709649
>>96709686
Oh yeah I should have specified I'm looking for minis to print

>>96709686
Hard disagree. You need to get your exposure right, and your bottom layers right with as little over exposure as possible. Only then can you worry about figuring out how thick your supports need to be or how small your contact tips can be. I'd only do it your way if I was determined to caveman things with strong supports right out the gate and enjoy the golf-ball style marks all over my minis.

>>96711442
And I'm saying you can get all of that dialed in without wasting material on some stupid gigantic chunk of nothing, you can use an actual mini to get all your settings right and then USE THAT MINI.

>>96711442
I just click auto support. What are you even talking about?

>>96711826
>wasting material on some stupid gigantic chunk of nothing
Holy poorfag.

>>96709649
The new cones of calibration is probably more useful for people printing minis (especially the clearances tests).

https://www.tableflipfoundry.com/3d-printing/the-cones-of-calibration-v3/

>>96709686
The size of that test is a bit overkill, but there are very good reasons to use tests, not minis.

They help you dial in, and one failed or bad print means you need to clean up and loose way more resin by it.

Baseline prints are comparable between resins, printers. users, so if you find yourself needing help you can give people something to compare to.

>>96712967
Wasting money is actually something poors do.

Has anyone printed the Steel Rift minis? I'm looking into the game right now. Mini quality seems decent

Is it viable to resin print miniature bits? Do you get visible gaps when using a superglue so you also need to fill them with green stuff/goo etc?

>>96716303
>Is it viable to resin print miniature bits?
Usually yes.

>Do you get visible gaps when using a superglue so you also need to fill them with green stuff/goo etc?
Depends on if the stl files fit properly, the shrinkage/warping characteristics of the resin, if the bits were deformed during print for whatever reason...

>>96716303
Generally anons seem to find it easier to just assemble the bits digitally and print whole minis.
Though I did recently print the scanned GW ambot bits to then assemble with superglue, there were so many that it was easier to work out what went where physically post-print on that one.

>>96716407
>Generally anons seem to find it easier to just assemble the bits digitally and print whole minis.
That's what I had in mind. What software do you use for that, Blender?
I'll get 5 characters but they're 10 bits each, and gaps worry me since on plastic the plastic cement melts it.

>>96716428
I use meshmixer

Is this the place to ask about editing STLs in blender/meshmixer/etc or should I find some kind of 3d modeling thread on another board?

I guess this is some interesting information:

https://www.myminifactory.com/tribes/Ghamak/posts/Games_Workshop_Is_Suing_Me-81126

In all honesty, i dont think this guys models are "that" close to GWs designs, or "that" good for that matter. Lots of overdetailed stuff, but i guess he has his fans.
But here are many other STL creators out there, way closer to GWs factions than Ghamak, so there is probably a lot going on behind the scenes.
The most interesting bit for me was that MMF actually refused to follow GWs orders (you would expect a plattform like them to try to appease and try to avoid any trouble).

>>96717118
I don't think GW has any leg to stand on legally. If this was going anywhere they could tell random sculptors to give up their livelyhood. The demands are just posturing to bully someone with a smaller legal warchest into submission. It's a common tactic to just financially ruin small businesses by weaponizing the legal system before it even comes to a verdict.

I think they are probably going after him specifically though because a lot of his sculpts dip into the less family friendly "pinup" side of things. Arguably in slightly less good taste than some other sculptors. Considering GW is targeting (single?) mothers now it's maybe not that surprising. (it's what the former product designer for GW said on that podcast with Chris Peach so don't yell a ME about it. Guess parking your kids in a GW store is cheaper than a babysitter)

>>96716428
I use blender and it's pretty easy
You just move the parts and then press ctrl j to join the stls

>>96717344
>Arguably in slightly less good taste than some other sculptors.
Wrong, fully nude women is a hallmark of classic cultured art going back to ancient antiquity.
The only poor taste is GW marketing ugly mannish beasts as being "female" which is an attack on clean and healthy society.

>>96717118
>MMF actually refused to follow GWs orders
MMF do things properly through DMCA and if you fight it and GW doesn't follow up on it they go back up. As opposed to cults where they just take everything down no questions asked and with no recourse because they can't be fucking bothered

>>96717674
Which is odd because cults did tell GW to go fuck themselves before.

>i'm going to make models as close as i can to the gw range without breaking copyright
>oh no gw are suing me! please fund my legal bill
yeah nah fuck off. you knew what you were doing and made bank from it so you can fund your own battle mate

>>96718515
Nice try James. Good luck in the lawsuit, you're gonna need it you slimey kikes.

>>96718515
You didn't even read it
GW stated they are suing him not for copyright infringement, but that him making models that are in any compatible with their games is "unfair competition"
GW is literally crying because they invested all their money in warhammer+ wokeshit instead of getting onto the 3D printer scene years ago when they should have,

>>96719091
Truth care package
Wasted all of that money on warhammer+ and warhammer adventures slop and memory holed both when they failed

Where could one hypothetically find White Scars files to as a joke hypothetically 3D print as hes broke but has a printer.
Y'know, as a hypothetical :)

>>96720763
Cults

>>96720763
Cults but good luck finding something good, I had to search for hours. I think they are legitimately the chapter with the least ammount of stuff

>>96719091
I suspect that's a mistranslation of wop legalese.
Absolutely nobody on this forum, or any other forum, understands the intricacies of italian IP law.

>>96721532
The assumption that there is anything to understand is faulty. Things end up in court because there are two sides who present arguments for their interpretation of the law. If it was a clear cut issue that you can just parse with logic you wouldn't need lawyers to argue each side.
Especially with IP law it's basically up to the people in the room to make decisions based on gut feeling and however they feel that day. How closely can this cartoon mouse resemble the other? There are no rules set in stone when it comes to that stuff.

GW is a weird case anyway since their setting is basically just Starship Troopers, Dune and the war in heaven with a ton of pop culture, historical and literary references. They have these newfangled retarded names everywhere now to make it more distinct. If they have to go through the entire catalog of Ghamak minis and if he made minis for something they haven't made minis for before they could even lose the ability to make those models in the future themselves. It's a big risk to actually go to court with this. It's the The Chapter House lawsuit all over again. They didn't get a clean win and that guy wasn't even trying to use cute alternate names or anything either.

>>96721791
>It's the The Chapter House lawsuit all over again

This. GW counts on Ghamak (and probably others) to give up, because they either cant afford the year long legal fight, or they dont want to risk loosing eventually after a year long legal fight. For small businesses if this happens, its usually the financial end.
(Lego is well known to bully independent toy stores with this method if they sell chinese knockoffs, no matter if its not direct copies of Lego sets. Its pretty much the same case here.. they claim you could use it together with their product and therefore it needs to be stopped, and many just give up because they cant afford to fight).

>>96718643
>>96719091
t. scenequeens who have never given garmak a single euro but are happy to scrape his shit off trannygram for free

>>96720763
What exactly are you looking for?

>>96721315
>I had to search for hours

What did you do for hours?
Pic related already has shoulder pads and helmets and some bolters with WS iconography. Further down the first page are some curved chainswords. No clue what else would be needed to make some White Scar Marines. But it took me less than 2 Minutes.

Also, if you look for "Space Mongols", it results in some really nice banners.

>>96721908
Even if thats the case, it does not mean its right what GW does.
I subscribed for his Sci-fi tribe for this month out of solidarity, but his sculpting style is not really my taste. So no, i do not even pirate his stuff, because on average, i dont really like his minis. But i actually bought 2 of his fantasy chaos models i liked from his MMF store during a sale a year ago.

>>96721943
cool story bro

>bitch and moan about gws legal tactics
>tell everyone on the internet exactly where to find things that might infringe on gws copyright
drink resin retard

>>96722007
Oh no, the super secret and hidden purple page has been spelled out without 3 layers of encryption.

Do you think GW is THAT stupid, that they needed those above posts about Cults to learn about its existence?

>>96722073
>Do you think GW is THAT stupid
To be fair history has proven that they are REALLY fucking stupid.
They advertised the Damnatus fan film in WD to recruit volunteers and then gave them a legal notice to prohibit them from ever releasing it once it was finished.

>>96722104
>They advertised the Damnatus fan film in WD to recruit volunteers and then gave them a legal notice to prohibit them from ever releasing it once it was finished.

Thats not stupid, thats evil.