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>Last Thread: >>96723193

Reminder: Only retards and people with AIDS think resin fumes are dangerous.
>But Muh MSDS
Notoriously exaggerated, for example the MSDS for sand lists the recommendation that you wear nitrile gloves, a mask, and eye protection when handling it. Sand. They are published solely for the purpose of covering the company's ass so anything and everything that could happen with a substance is taken into account. That only some resins have a respiratory irritation caution and the ones that do are category 3 (same as many household cleaners) should put it into perspective. Do you wear a respirator when you mop your floors? Well maybe some AIDS cases do.
>But Muh VOCs
A lot of stuff has them, like Glade Plugins for example. Resin variety has a lot to do with the volume of VOCS they produce, but of the six varieties tested in the below study the average TVOC was about 586 µg/m3. Glade Plugins are generally between 300 and 600 µg/m3 for a room the size of most print rooms. They do have different VOCs, but neither have any of the truly bad VOCs in large amounts.
Source: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/14/11/3343
>But Muh Internet Search Results
Unless you are looking at an actual study with data you are getting people's opinion, often based entirely off of other people's opinion. You can also find articles telling you how gluten is poison and tomatoes cure cancer. Things like ChatGPT and other AI programs just scrape the internet and as a result will often present these opinions as facts. Look into the actual science and studies that have been conducted and review the data.
>Summary
Resin fumes are no worse than Glade Plug-Ins. There is enough scientific evidence to support that conclusion that is freely available. Anyone who says otherwise is a retard, AIDS case, or some combination of both.

More naked prints please. You are leaving me few choices for OP images. Also remember safety first and don't huff resin fumes or you're going to be in for a bad time. Ignore the post above, he's just a sad little troll.

>>96823840
You shouldn't huff air fresheners either lol.

>>96823911
That's right. Huffing anything is bad m'kay. For those old timers out there I'm sorry and I'll post an update in the other place sometime today.

>>96823778 (OP)
I print everything. I love the hobby of modelling and painting but it's expensive even without buying GW, but on the other side its one of the things that keep me mentally sane and going

>>96823840
This is actually a set that i sculpted myself awhile ago
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/abomination-golems

>>96824672
>"You've finally made it Guts, grab on to my strong hand, the final challenge is just *cough cough* sorry resin fumes, the final challenge is just ahead."

>>96824749
Hey, i have to die of somthin'

>>96824672
>>96824862
These look dark souls-y. Are they for a game you made or something?

>>96824959
I just like sculpting and grimndark

>>96823840
using axe deoderant bodyspray is also a good way to get cancer, as is occupancy of an operational motor vehicle, and let's not forget the dangers of febreze, lysol and fabric softeners.
In fact you should wear a mask all day everyday to protect yourself!

>>96825209
Do you concur that there is a difference between driving a car and having it running in a badly ventilated garage?

(Yes it is not exactly the same as the lack of oxygen leads to CO instead of CO2)

Your last post is nothing but a Tu quoque fallacy, so irrelevant.q

>>96826405
NTA but I am pretty sure he is talking about the carcinogens. With carcinogens it is not about the levels in a single moment but how much will you be exposed to over a long period of time. The total amount of carcinogens you would be exposed to over many decades would still be higher driving than from a car in a poorly ventilated garage because you will spend far longer driving than you will in that garage.

>>96826405
Actually you don't even need to drive a car for them to ruin your health, just living near a sufficiently busy junction has been proven to generate high enough levels of tyre particulates and NO2(and other Nitrous Oxides) *in your home* to create signficantly high rates of asthma and numbers are suggestive(though not yet conclusive) of a link to lung cancer as well. Spending hours each day in traffic as you commute would, logically, have a pretty similar impact.

Anon is absolutely, 100% correct that the panic over resin fumes is ridiculous and overblown. People are exposed to dozens of chemicals every day that could, cumulatively, have a negative impact on their health but you're not pissing your pants over toilet cleaner or air fresheners or car fumes or the fomaldehyde offgassing from your furniature or any of the rest of them because you either don't know about them or you're so familiar with them they long ago stopped being scary, while resin printing is new and weird and you're too fucking dumb to understand the parallels.

All this hyperbolic lamenting and wailing and tooth-gnashing is not, contrary to your delusional fantasies, saving people from some great - nonexistent - danger by educating them how to protect themselves, all it's doing is putting people off from using a perfectly safe and useful new tool they could be enjoying using the same basic "don't be retarded" precautions they do for any other hobby stuff.

Tell me, do you wear a VOC cartridge respirator when you glue your models together, you fucking buffoon?

>>96827281
>All this hyperbolic lamenting and wailing and tooth-gnashing is not, contrary to your delusional fantasies, saving people from some great - nonexistent - danger by educating them how to protect themselves, all it's doing is putting people off from using a perfectly safe and useful new tool they could be enjoying using the same basic "don't be retarded" precautions they do for any other hobby stuff.
Yeah, that's what anons who fearmonger here are paid for.

>>96827281
>do you wear a VOC cartridge respirator when you glue your models together
i filter it through a cigarette

>>96824862
>goatse monster
Based

started manually supporting my prints and damn they're not lying when they say auto supports are dogshit

>>96828070
Use Lychee Slicer
Press Feeling Lucky
Set everything on but Auto Rotate (you do that yourself)
Pick light supports, they're good enough for everything
Execute

OK you're almost done, now you manually check for the lowest points on the model and click an extra medium support there or several light ones, and look for extra islands

This basically will make 90% of the job for you and it's ezpz

>>96828153
>now you manually check for the lowest points on the model
NTA, I typically make a ton of supports on the bottom facing edge of the feet and just file them flat post-print.

I want to print some lewd minis and dioramas, but buy there's so fucking few options
I've printed a bunch of this, and I'm currently painting the girls with torches

>>96828217
My phone is 10 years olds, but you get the idea
If you see some other packs of beauties with titties out, let me know

Got my first print done just now (just the RERF test that Anycubic gives), definitely learned a few things with it and some extra things I'll be needing to buy for it before I start printing some bigger stuff (mainly better air filtration, cause that stuff stinks before I put a filtration mask on).

Probably will look into a DIY solution of venting the fumes out of my print room or buying an activated carbon air filter for the room I print in.

Is there a torrent site for STLs? I'd like to print some Wargames Atlantic figure parts.

>>96828973
Stls sharing is at an impass.
There's so many indie modelers and trash that is hard to short stuff out.
I recently finished shorting out a 600GB stl torrent pack, took me the whole month going almost file by file, and only extracted something like 10GB of useful stuff
Telegram is no better, nomatter how much good will there is, if the file is improperly named or has no pic, you could download 50 different Sniper_troop and not find the one you want for your setting/time period
The only solution will be native 3d web displays, kinda like how pdf is standard now and you can open up something to check it out and it opens (relatively quickly) in a new tab. You used to need a third party software to open up pdfs
That tech for 3d is like 20 years away to be implemented, and you'll be able to check stls as conveniently as you can check pdfs now
We can only dream to see it

>>96829025
I will NEVER sort my STLs

>>96829025
>There's so many indie modelers and trash that is hard to short stuff out.
Welcome to 2002 Napster or Limewire where people complain that the quality of stuff they’re stealing is not to their satisfaction, faggot

>>96829060
it's a sisyphean task for sure

>>96829103
That's a very glib interpretation

>>96829176
Not an incorrect one though. He is right, complaining about it being hard to get things that are very cheap for free is pathetic. Telegram is fine, if you cant find it there then just spend the $10.

>>96829252
I think you might be acting like a kid, because you are not understanding the argument that the adults here are having.

>>96829472
>nooooo you don't understand
>no rebuttal
Faggot detected. Is that what you told your parents when they looked at your browser history?

>>96829176
>glib
You don’t deserve a quality response that’s based on respect. You’re stealing other people’s work and complaining it’s not to your liking. The phrase “tough shit, cunt” comes to mind.

>>96829486
>>96829505
I'm talking about an administrative problem, and you're going on a "thief" rambling, like, two miles behind me.
I don't care to address glib arguments. You are glibs. You are not up to the level of discussion I'm in; you are at the bottom of the barrel. The proof is that what I'm talking about applies EVEN if I purchased the other 62GB of stuff I have.
I have my administrative problem with my file sharing(the thing I'm talking about) EVEN if your glibness doesn't apply to what I'm saying (it doesnt)
If you remove your glib argument from this equation and pay for absolutely every file I have forever and ever, I still have the sorting problem (The thing I was adressing).
It has nothing to do with your small, reductive, glib rambling. That's where you are.
I'm on another side, completely separated from your glibness.
I hope I was clear enough even for your small brains
Please do not adress me again with glibness

>>96829875
>acts like we cant comprehend the concept of a searchable directory
You acting like you are the smartest person in the room because you havent figured out tags and keywords is sad. You are describing a problem that places like MMF and Cults didnt even have, because it is fucking obvious you just add a place to put tags. You are trying to reinvent the wheel a thousand years after it was already invented while completely ignoring the horse and buggies going by you.
>inb4 it is different
It really isnt, we already have very easy to search sources of 3d models that show preview images and everything. You trying to make a version of them so people can get things for free rather than paying isnt a big brain moment.

>>96827281
The long term results of 3d printing resin on your health are not well researched, yet. Until they are, caution is better than hindsight.
Also many poisons are additive, so it does make a difference between living next to a junction, and living there and smoking like a chimney. Your arguments assume that as soon as you do something that increases your risk of cancer that you can do nothing about, anything other can't increase it further.


And when I use super glue it is way less in amount, way better understood because it has been used for longer by way more people, and I use it in a well vented area.

>>96830307
>long term effects
It has been around since the 80s, how much longer do you need? It is one thing to advise people to err on the side of caution, it is another to make people think that caution is necessary. That is the problem, no one cares if you dont want to eat gluten but telling people gluten is poison (something people actually do) and then when people say it isnt going on a rant about how if you snort a line of it you will get sick is the problem here. There are too many people that are telling people if they dont vent their print room and/or wear a reapirator they will get sick and die which is pure rubbish.

>>96829025
>That tech for 3d is like 20 years away to be implemented, and you'll be able to check stls as conveniently as you can check pdfs now
Windows 10 already has a preview mode for 3D files built into the file explorer

>>96830434
Huh, I've been using W10 for like 8 years and this is the first time I use that feature
but don't sweat it, I tried it with some small pieces and it's gold, I dumped a 1.3Gb file and took 2 and a half minute to open, and Blender did it in 4 seconds

>>96830587
https://papas-best.com/stlthumbnails_en

>>96830398
^"my lungs are rotting" cope

>>96830398
>pure rubbish
Bro stop outing yourself as a jeet it's getting embarassing

>>96831825
>Bro
But you just outed yourself as a nigger?

>>96831825
>only jeets use british phrases
So you basically just dont know that many white people, got it lol

>>96831876
>british phrases
Only third-worlders like jeets and africans use these because they learned them in school. White people don't use them. Brits don't even anymore.

>>96831876
Whoah, wait, hold on.
Since when is "rubbish" british exclusively?

>>96832154
You're schizo. Dorky Brits go out of their way to pound their local and regional slang into peoples' faces in order to signal "I'm a neato Brit."

Search Mad Doc Grotsnik on the Dakka Dakka forum.

>>96832180
It isn't, but that is its origin. I have literally never heard a jeet even say the word but I am guessing that anon is the same anon that calls everyone who lives somewhere cold a jeet lol.
>>96832223
Mordian Glory too

>>96828217
Love the idea, hate the execution, Bestiarum humans are horrendously fucking grotesque.

Which I guess fits the style of the brand, and even the "crazed filthy paesants having an orgy" concept of this specific set, but I guess the gooner in me wanted something nicer to look at.

>>96828270
Artisan Guild makes a point of having a fully naked pinup bitch in each of their sets, no matter how little sense it makes.

>>96829060
I dream of emptying the download folder, 7z-everything, make an image folder for reference, then sort the images with tags.

I have managed to get to the "empty the dowload folder" stage a couple times, of course it never lasts.

>>96832569
I am downloading this set now just for this mini.

I have a little IPA left, and I bought a whole bunch of ethanol to test it out for cleaning.
Can I mix them in the cleaning jugs or am I mustard-gassing myself?

>>96832603
I see you are a man of culture.

>>96832683
You can mix them, but why would you?

>>96832683
They won't mind each other's company.-

Finally bought a 3d resin printer and looking more into the miscellaneous shit.
Bit confused at the final steps.
After printing out the miniature you take it out and wash it with 91% IPA? Do you still have to cure it with UV light or is that just an alternative to washing it?

>>96832729
You have to cure it, the iso is to clean off excess resin.

>>96832729
Wash then cure. Need to do both.
I let my stuff dry completely before I cure or you can get white residue on your cured print

>>96832729
>Do you still have to cure it with UV light or is that just an alternative to washing it?
Well, the reason you need to clean it is because it's literally been pulled out of a vat full of liquid resin and as such will be covered in a more or less thin layer of the stuff. Cure without washing and all of that extra gunk solidifies into being a permanent part of the mini.
Second, cleaning doesn't mean you don't need to cure. The reason you need to cure afterwards is because a small amount of the UV light will scatter around in all directions in the resin as you print, so if you keep exposing for too long resin outside of the active pixels will also solidify and become part of the mini with bloated details and filled-up recesses as the result. And so you need to stop the exposure when just the right amount of resin has turned solid, but this is long before the chemical reaction that turns liquid resin monomers into solid polymers has completed. So to not have a bunch of still-active monomers on the surface of the mini even after cleaning looking to react in whichever way with whatever they can (including you) you need to take your printed mini, ash away the excess resin, and then finish curing it.

tl,dr; you must wash AND cure.

>>96832793
>>96832835
>>96832844
Thanks anons
Was hoping I could get away with only doing one.

>>96832880
It's like 10 seconds of iso wash and 5 minutes UV.
Be sure to keep a "clean" and "dirty" iso jar, dirty is initial wash right off the plate, then shake the print off and wash again in the clean jar, doing just 1 tends to leave them tacky, then BEFORE CURING put them in hot water to make removing supports easy, clean up support scars with hobby knife before curing but leave any filing for after curing (usually bottoms of feet for flat gluing surface)

>>96832880
After cleaning them with IPA, wait for them to dry and then dump your models on some close to boiling water. Leave them a bit (this depends on your resin) until the supports are wobbly. Then gently move your model side to side and out from the supports. Clean the imperfections with a hobby knife. Wait for them to dry, then cure.

>>96832880
While >>96833025 and >>96833071 aren't wrong, at some point you may consider upgrading to an ultrasonic cleaner that heats. Having a single box that cleans and heats AND doesn't require you to constantly change water out was a game changer for me.
You don't need it right now, but as you get printing and are having to deal with that water be thinking about "what if I didn't have to deal with this water".

>>96832706
Because not much IPA is left and rinsing a plate is becoming difficult, but I don't want to throw it out if still usable if I can just top the jar up.

>>96833290
Isn't this only valid for water washable resin?

>>96833396
I have never used water washable resin in my life if that answers your question. My process is an initial clean in LA's Totally Awesome (half water half cleaner) to get the bulk off and heat the prints for support removal. I then do a second clean in a baggy of iso that also goes into the same cleaner (never put iso directly in the cleaner). As a result I can go many prints without having to get rid of any waste water and I save a lot on iso as the LA's gets a lot of the stuff off. I keep a five gallon gas can under the desk that I pour old LA's and iso into and have been doing so for quite some time and have yet to need to empty it.

>>96832683
I don't know much but I don't see why mixing ethanol and isopropyl would be bad.
Ask chatGPT?

>>96833602
>Ask chatGPT?

I know very little of things, but I can see the inordinate amount of bullshit chatGPT throws out about the little things that I know about.

I will NEVER trust chatGPT for anything that I don't know.

>>96833437
So what, it's water in the cleaner and then a bag with the cleaner/iso?

>>96833657
No, it is LA's Totally Awesome mixed with water. The stuff is cheap as hell and works great. I use to use just LA's Totally Awesome but found I get pretty much the same results and it lasts pretty much just as long if it is diluted with water some. The baggy is just 91% iso, do not put iso in the ultrasonic cleaner directly.

>>96833669
>LA's Totally Awesome
No idea what's an equivalent of that for non-burgers

>>96833901
I have no idea either, it is like simple green but cheaper and better. You can only find it at dollar stores here, I have never seen it in a major store. Its a all purpose cleaner so I am sure you have something, I just don't know if it will work as well or be as cheap so this might be a burger only option.

>>96833437
So you're going through more steps and more chemicals than the other two anons.

>>96834275
One more chemical that is like $1.25 for a huge amount. It substantially reduces the amount of iso used so really you are buying two chemicals but spending less money and making fewer changes. When I say a baggy, I mean like a sandwhich size baggy's worth.
As for it being more steps, it really isn't. It is just combining the softening with hot water with the first rinsing so it is the same number of steps. You just don't have to get more water and dispose of water each time you do it.

>>96834474
but you do to buy a special cleaning machine.
do you use the same baggy of iso over and over? because the two jar method means iso doesn't get swapped out more than once every 6 months or so and then the clean jar becomes the new dirty jar.

Is this a good price now or will it get cheaper for the holidays you think?

>>96834671
No that's not a good price, they're bundling the two machines because the second machine is not necessary, most people who buy printers don't make the mistake of buying a wash/cure station, read above comments about jars.

>>96834650
I tried that in the beginning, it is a bigger pain than the iso is worth in my opinion. That said, the same principle of being able to use the two jar method could be applied to the iso baggy. The baggy doesn't deteriorate, I just never tried it since it is such a small amount of iso.
And yes, you do buy a special machine - which is why I did say you don't need it but it is something to consider. It is about convenience, I push two buttons and have a liquid that heats up to a set amount.

>>96834732
>I push two buttons and have a liquid that heats up to a set amount.
I get that with my tea kettle.

>>96834855
Right, but presumably you have to change the water each time correct? That was why I switched, I got tired of getting fresh water each print to soften the prints for support removal. Now I have the same amount of effort without having to change the liquid but maybe a couple of times a year.

>>96835043
I can't imagine feeling that emptying and filling the tupperware container from the tap is "work"

>>96835054
>go to an entirely different room to get water
>either heat the water in that room and return or use a special device in the print room to heat it
>dispose of said water
I only have to do the middle one each print. I am not sure how you are disposing of your water, for all I know you are just chucking resin water outside. Not everyone can do that, some people have to deal with the reality of how to store their chemical waste. Even ignoring the disposal, that is still a lot of hassle to save the price difference between an electric kettle and a ultrasonic cleaner anon. That was my why I switched, I was considering getting something (like an electric kettle) to heat the water and realized for a relatively small amount more I wouldn't even have to use water at all.

why cant i just throw resin water down the street gutter?

>>96834689
Wash and cure is convenient if you don't have a lot of space. It's also possible to have two tubs to swap out anyway, which is what I do.

>>96835175
Because then you can't reuse the water for cooking.

>>96832540
You and me both pal, I understand you
It's all we gooners got.
Everything is big figures
There's very little love for little 32mm.
Fun fact: if you notice, the girl with torches in the promotional and the one I printed are different. Spot the diffence!

>>96835079

I have a heat gun on the table and I blast each mini for a couple seconds before pulling the supports off. Less hassle than having to manage and then dispose of even more water.

Maybe it's a bit less safe because heated resin going into the air or whatever, but who cares that's what respirators are for.

Speaking of, is the cotton pad part of the filters or is it a just a protective layer to avoid spoiling the filter do to passive airflow and to be taken out when using the respirator?

Also speaking of, I hate having goggles on. Is a full face mask overkill?

>>96836174
Yes, definitely overkill. Gloves are enough for 3d printing, anything else is just a waste of time, money, and energy.

>>96836174
you could just use safety goggles/glasses or a face shield. you just dont want that shit splashing in your eye

>>96836675
I mean, sure, it's just that I hate wearing the glasses over the respirator because they never sit right under the rigid "nose" part, so I'm under the impression that having my whole face under a dome would be slightly more comfortable.

>>96836174
>Speaking of, is the cotton pad part of the filters or is it a just a protective layer to avoid spoiling the filter do to passive airflow and to be taken out when using the respirator?
That sounds like the pre-filter, which is a small and cheap pad you put in front of your filters to catch the worst and coarsest dust before it clogs up your relatively expensive main filter(s). In your case the filters will probably be used up long before they mechanically clog up, and so the pre-filter won't really matter.
To prevent passive air flow from using up too much of your filter's lifespan put the mask in sealed(ish) container when not in use.

>>96836675
>splashing in your eye
You just go out and stare at the sun until it hardens and then blink away the resin like a fucking man.

>>96836174
>Also speaking of, I hate having goggles on. Is a full face mask overkill?
If you prefer that over goggles then it's not overkill. It depends how often you print.

So after several months I've had time to ""finish"" my Daemon Prince, I think I'll pick smaller models to sculpt next time.

>>96837864
>blink it off
check out this queer blinking like a fucking fairy. real men scrape it off with a razor blade.

how ya'll feel about ai?
i just fed a imagae to a website and it shit out a model just fucking fine.

>>96840814
shit being the right word

>>96838470
and this is the opposite of shit. done any prints yet?

>>96840814
I think it is neat. One of the best uses I have found is to feed it images of people so you can have customized officers and such for your army. Doing a sisters of battle army with my daughter and using golden girls heads. Will probably also do some other famous old ladies like judge judy.
You are still going to need to know some stuff to know which outputs will work and modify them as appropriate - its a tool rather than a replacement for actual modelling.

>>96840873

i'm currently doing another print but ill post again once their done.

iI've modeled stuff just for printing in the past but holy shit the amount of improvement with ai over the last 2 years is worrying

>>96823813
resin fumes are dangerous

>>96830398
Then why do people who actually work with resins advise hobbyists to wear a respirator and pipe out the fumes?

what kind of download speeds are you guys getting on telegram, has anyone paid for premium to see if it's worth it just for the speed boost? fuck these kikes are stingy throttling me bad

>>96842039
Slow as fuck
But also telegram premium isn't available in my country so I have to accept shit speed
A 140GB download took like six-seven hours

>>96840869
Ty, I'll try to but idk if I'll have time to print it, I think I bought the 3d printer to have an excuse to sculpt more xd

>>96841544
Liability mostly, we live in a "cover your ass" world so they always advise more than is necessary. They also recommend you chew your food at least 30 times before swallowing, do you count your chews on each bite anon?
>>96841317
Not at the levels the average person would be exposed to is my point. They produce a similar level of air pollution when printing as a Glade Plug-In produces constantly. You shouldn't fill a baggy with the fumes and huff it, but that is true with a lot of stuff.

>>96842544
yeah sounds about right, i'm getting similar speeds. they are advertising premium as 10x faster however 10x what i'm currently getting is still not worth paying for

>>96843109
It is also a matter of scale too, the professionals who work with it every single day are exposed to a lot more of it than a person who does it for a hobby would. Most people who do it as a hobby aren't printing every single day for years straight.

>>96842754
so you do this for love not money? your stuff shits ghamak that's for sure.

>>96843415
I would say 90% of people who sell their sculpts do it for love. Probably less than 10% make enough to make a living.

Man it's convenient to just put your tools and silicon mats outside and let the sun deal with the resin residue.
And I'm noting this now because it's going to be about half a year before I can do that again, current UV index in my neck of the woods barely even being in the positive numbers.

>>96843953
You can do that year round if you don't live in the ant/arctic circles.

>>96844188
>if you don't live in the ant/arctic circles.
Not quite but, well, not that far off either. Add in the leaden slab of a cloud cover that's the default for much of autumn and spring...

>>96844259
Clouds don't stop UV like that, if it's light out you can cure
>t. canadian that goes down to 6 hours of greylight in winter.

In your experience, is clear resin more difficult to print with than grey, for example?
I bought some bottles of Anycubic clear resin by mistake, and I've never had more problems with pulling off supports and failed prints than I have with this resin.

>>96844703
Same experience, I still use it but I think I will go back to skin color or gray and save the clear for specific things

>>96844852
>forget to close the latch securing the build plate
>print a plate of stuff
>one piece still somehow fucking printed largely successfully
But since I'm too lazy to remove that bit in the slicer and re-slice instead of just telling the printer to try again (after come tank cleaning) all that really amounts to is a minute waste of resin compared to all the stuff that just ended up as millimetre-thin outlines on the FEP.

>>96843859
so i take you have a real job and this is a hobby for you. is the real job also in modelling?

>>96831497
Yes, we also had pdf extentions for 10 years, untill it was native to the OS

>>96844703
After tuning the settings, I have not had more problems with one than the other, but there are definitive advantages to either:
On clear models you can see if there is liquid resin trapped inside, so great if you hollow the models often.
On opaque models you can better see when a print has failed somewhere and you need to clean the film.

I'm looking for a villainous kitsune/kumiho that isn't fanservicey (or at least is less sexy than this one) and isn't noble-looking -- I'm trying to play a villainous kumiho, who were basically serial killers

>>96829252
>>96829505
what's with all the redditors here? I feel like tg attracts a high amount of reddit users by nature

>>96849845
easiest kitbash ever
just grab any "ninja female" and add cat ears and the thails from any naruto or ahri model
You may even find some flat ahri models that aren't too fanservicey

>>96849857
TTRPGs are by design against anonymity and isolation

Silly question, but how much should you decimate your sculpts?

Fabazel my beloved

>>96849857
It's like indians leaving india, reddit is a shithole and they've heard great things about /tg/ yet they hate the people and culture that made that reputation.

>>96849845
Here is one looking more ignoble. Bit fanservicey but the best I can do.
https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-fox-girl-bandit-293046

>>96849845
>>96850628
please gas yourselves you freaks

>>96850648
Nah. I'd rather enjoy my 3d printed fox girls

>>96847694
No I'm one of the lucky 10% who can make a living out of it (never thought I would), but I'm in a few creator groups to know that the majority of people are doing it for the love alone. Most take home <$1-2K/mo. Maybe sporadically will get boosted with a crowdfunding campaign that nets them an extra 10-15K for 6 months of work.

>>96850648
only if you gas me~ ;3

>>96850769
Where do you get touhou minis?

>>96850648
I keep trying but the Zyklon B is only killing the lice and ticks!

>print a plate for a kitbash
>start bashing my kit
>realize I forgot a bit
>have to print a whole new plate of bits I didn't need because monkey brain requires I fill the whole plate every time for "efficiency"

>>96853040
why not digitally kitbash?

>>96853081
I like having a stock of random bits on-hand for future bashin

Got my first real prints done the other day, most of them turned out well. One broke as I was breaking off the supports because I was an idiot and cut too close to an arm and it sliced through the support and the arm.

Now I start trolling around places online for files and look at kitbashing things together and modifying model files to better suit the style I'm looking for.

>>96853590
ywnbaw

>>96852245
I just started modelling them by myself.

>>96853590
>Now I start trolling around places online for files
Trawling.

Went nutty in the early Black Friday sales. Got an Elegoo Saturn 4 16k for minis and Creality Ender 3 V3 SE for terrain, plus a filament sensor and 0.2mm nozzle kit. Did I fucked up?

Going to do the build plate sand down and 6mm washer trick plus 60-75% UV on the Saturn, any other hints? I have 6kg of Sunlu ABS-like on the way as well, and a heated grow tent in the shed so I don’t need to print in the house.

Also, any improvement hacks for the Ender?

>>96824672
these are like an M.C. Escher fever dream monster.

Are there files for all the current 40k stuff?

>>96854540
There was a huge leak a few weeks ago with pretty much the entire 40K catalogue, but I’m certain James is hunting it down whenever it pops up.

>>96854313
You get a Saturn 4 and only 6 kg of resin lol, that shit isn't going to last very long
>Going to do the build plate sand down and 6mm washer trick plus 60-75% UV on the Saturn
Never heard of this before, why not just try printing with what you get out of the box?
>and a heated grow tent in the shed so I don’t need to print in the house
Doesn't the Saturn 4 16k come with an inbuilt heater? I guess it could help having an extra source of heating
Anyway having it in the shed is great

>>96854313
you should try the machine first before sanding the plate. mine was fine out of the box

>>96854313
>build plate sand down
Don't do this. If you need to sand your plate, they sent you a bad one. This is an old trick from the early 3dprinter days just like oiling the fep IE contaminating your resin for no fucking reason. We have progressed past this with modern printers.

>>96840952
It ended up hallucinating the shit out of the back, wheel and mace

>>96855399
Did you not examine the stl before printing?

>>96855315
6kg to start, plus the 2kg of Elegoo standard grey the vendor threw in. I can always order more.

Build plate will be tested, if the standard exposure prints aren’t sticking I will do the sand down. There are a few vids on YT where people with the S416k have had to do this.
>heater
Yeah but I will also be running the Creality FDM next to it and generally where I live rarely gets hotter than 20 degrees Celsius.

>>96855331
I will, thanks for the advice.

>>96855357
It will only be a last ditch thing if I have to do it.

>>96855539
You should play around with exposure time first, prints not sticking is normal for a beginner not something that you should start permanently modifying your printer for
Also make sure to heat the plate before you print as well, submerging it in the resin and turning the heater on will improve adhesion

>>96855399
what >>96855426 said. in your bragging about ai is king you just made yourself look retarded. congrats.

>>96855539
build plates should come laser etched as standard these days

>>96855555
Yeah I will be using the Elegoo exposure tests, they put 8 of them on the plate so if 2 of them in one area don’t stick you know the plate isn’t perfectly flat.
>>96855664
I’ll see if I can find it but one YouTuber with a S416K had to sand his laser etched plate because the 8x exposure tests had 2 of them at the back of the plate that always failed.

>>96853590
>breaking off the supports
>cut too close
Whatever weird shit way you're doing to remove them is wrong.

Slowly falling out of printing for these exact reasons. The customization is amazing, the cost is definitely there once you offset the initial investment.

Good lord does it take some time. Time slicing files, time finding files, handling all the dangerous chemicals (resin fucks me up bad). It’s borderline not worth it.

The allergic reaction to resin is cumulative too. So, you start out fine then progressively get more sensitive until your first actual allergic reaction. Once that trigger is tripped there is no going back and you’re permanently in the allergic reaction zone and each exposure will be worse than the last. Not even mentioning the cancer risks involved. Hard pass for me.

>>96856283
Okay James

>>96856283
James "The BITCH" Workshop

>>96856307
Also resin is brittle. Like, swords snapping off if the model tips over on the table.

I've printed multiple armies at this point and owned several printers. I enjoy 3d printing in most aspects but I would still rather work with GW plastic every time.

Each time I get my hands on a plastic mini it's like a breath of fresh air it's such a joy to work with.

>>96856341
How do you know of a war gamer 3d prints? Don’t worry he’ll tell you.

And also complains about prices while buying hardware expensive enough to have just bought an army instead

And tells you about the 8 armies he's printed, while you look at one of them that's unpainted and covered in print lines.

Half those armies are just gross pinup versions of 40k models too

>>96856345
>he doesn’t know about ABS-like
Self-inflicted, no sympathy.

>>96856345
>if the model tips over on the table.

Wrong

>>96856345
>Like, swords snapping off
What janky rinky-dink resin are you using, chang?

>>96853695
I'll probably do that too then

>>96856283
not me lad
luv me some 3d printing I do. a plate a day keeps the Workshop away

>>96856349
hey retard. nice pivot from fume posting faggot. cant wait to read your next ploy for attention

The good thing about 3D printing is that if I don't like a mini after painting it, I can just throw it away

>>96856349
Only noob 3d printers brag about how much they have printed so these people you are describing don't exist. There are casuals who don't paint their models who buy the overpriced plastic too, though I will admit for some reason people sperg out when you tell them they need to paint their minis here though.
>>96856748
Settle down schizo, this guy has nothing to do with me. Stop accusing everyone you don't agree with of being the same person, it makes you look retarded.
>>96856851
Yep, though I would say that can be a bad thing at times. I am less motivated to print something if I know that I can bin it without a second thought.

>>96856861
ok retard

>>96856851
I don't have a printer but I've purchased like 200 minis from cheap resin shops
And I would say I'm the opposite
Because I choose carefully the things I want to get printed, if I paint it badly, it just bums me out and I don't feel like painting shit anymore
Definitely don't feel like requesting the same mini again
Conversely, I've painted stuff I liked and promptly request that mini again to have duplicates/do it better

>>96856851
That's a huge plus to me too. Some minis look good on renders, but not so good once printed, so my desire to paint them becomes zero. So to the trash they go. Nothing of value was lost. Helps a lot with the backlog.

>>96856345
Nothing snaps from tipping over on the table. The cheapest shit of resin will be fine of you tip over a mini on your gaming table. I printed through a lot of regular water washable resin (the non abs like stuff), and I am fairly confident that most of those minis would survive a regular drop from table to floor too. I broke a couple of bits during handling, removing from the plate in particular, but that's it.
And if you use abs like resin, nothing will break.

>>96856908
Good attitude to have anon and I am glad you have found a cheap source of printed minis. More than GW I blame creators for stifling the growth of the 3d printed miniature industry. Almost none of them allow a merchant tier because they all want to be the only one that sells physical prints.

>>96856916
I have had some stuff still break from a tabletop fall when printed in abs-like. Fingers and other spindly bits are still relatively fragile but no more than plastic.

>>96856923
The things that pains me is the exact same with tech, people buying overpriced Apple shit when it's no better than any other equivalent stuff
There's virtually 0 difference, It's impossible to tell, if a mini is resin printed or plastic once is painted over
You can tell on scans, because scans are shit
But between a modeled piece by a chinese dude or a plastic sprue one? No difference, just like with Apple products, it's people lying to themselves that what they have is "better"
Like this nigger
>>96856345
If you want I'll make a video with a resin printed mini and drop it from the ceiling, but you have a poisoned mind so you would never ever believe it's resin printed if it doesn't break
There's an absurd level of proof you'll need like a 50 hour video of a no-cut recording of the printing, cleaning, drying, assembly and then crash test, and you'll still probably find stuff to disregard it

>>96856980
I mean, that is if you are getting 1:1s but why would you? You are still supporting GW by doing that rather than getting an alternate (and more often than not better) sculpt. You are giving them free advertising. You are also playing into their argument that they have the best sculpts when you don't use alternate sculpts.
You do you, but to me it is like setting up a woodworking workshop just to build Ikea clones.

>>96856980
You're right about people lying to themselves that what they have is better, but it's proontlets doing the lying.

>b-but they look the same whence painted
Irrelevant. Fag. You could paint a piece of frozen cheese to be visually-indistinguishable from a proper model when painted. Idiot.

>>96857005
What a disingenuous argument as you know that frozen cheese would have nowhere near the same level of detail as either GW plastic or resin prints.
I get it, you don't want to admit that you are wrong. But making obviously bad arguments because you are desperate not to admit you are wrong is objectively worse than just walking away. We don't care about you enough to remember your shame anon.

>>96856980
>You can tell on scans, because scans are shit
Many scans are shit, some are great. Problem is how to get to the good scans people made with dental or jewelry scanners. Also, many of the scans I've seen are from older, metal minis, and the originals sometimes looked like bad scans.

>But between a modeled piece by a chinese dude or a plastic sprue one?
The finished piece can be of the same quality, or better (bad printers exist, huge layer heights, still wet, liquid resin inside...) but the working with it can feel different. There is a reason why so many people want to digitally kitbash instead of working with parts in resin. Part of it is less support removal, but other than that, plastic glue is easier to work with, cutting resin is tough and can break off along layer lines, slightly translucent resin tricks the eye so the model looks different after priming. So if you like building and personalizing by hand, plastic just is easier.

It could be that there are some resins that work great with plastic glue and is elastic enough to be better to cut, but most chinese dudes won't use that if it's not the cheapest they can get.

> you would never ever believe it's resin printed if it doesn't break
I started with anycubic basic, and any ABS-like is such a huge improvement that I almost could not believe it myself, and I printed it.
To convince the doubters, you could just ask beforehand what kind of model from a free site you should print, something there is no other version of.

>>96857015
nta but you can absolutely find cheese with a fine enough grain to temporarily sculpt it with the same level of fidelity as ~28mm minis (although it probably won't hold it's own weight in certain elaborate limb-splayed poses without some kind of pretzel armature).

>>96857041
Doubtful, maybe the same fidelity as stuff from an fdm printer that hasn't been dialed in but resin? I don't even think you could do the same level of detail with wood much less cheese lol.

>>96857041
>>96857060
Wouldn't a very old hard cheese have about the same properties as soft soapstone?
I could see some marine tanks made from that without much loss of detail.

Also, the original argument did not mention sculpting, so you could just use the same tools for plastic sprues to heat up cheese and injection mold it.

>>96857089
If it is soft enough to flow through an injection molding process it is too soft to have that level of detail even if you froze it. Injection molding is really the worse way to get that level of detail anyway, GW is miles ahead of any other plastic producer in terms of detail but if you get a resin sculpt (not a print but an actual sculpt) by an artist and compare even their current stuff one is noticeably better.

>>96833437
Kind of curious; what's your run time in the ultrasonic? I'm running basically the same setup (LA's with an ultrasonic, iso secondary bath) but I've been running undiluted @ 15 mins.

>>96857103
>GW is miles ahead of any other plastic producer in terms of detail

Maybe you should stick to cheese, because you clearly have no clue about plastic and what else is on the market.

>>96857089
>Cheese models with salami base and grape weapons
>loser gets eaten
delicious

>>96857146
Feel free to prove me wrong, show me one sprue by any other manufacturer that has better detail than any GW sprue.
>>96857167
NGL that would be pretty cool

>>96857203
*than all GW sprues

>>96857167
Maybe you could cast it in platinum molds?

>>96857203
Just about anything by Tamiya or Hasegawa is better than GW and they don’t have the advantage of being able to just make shit up. Scale modeling has always been a cut above wargaming modeling.

>>96857203
Scale models in general. Not all brands, but many are simply better than GW in terms of technology used (slide molds) and also details.
I would also recommend to check Victrix. They have come a long way, but their newer sets are ahead of GW in terms of detail.

>>96857023
Bear in mind that I commission the resin prints.
So all the problems with supports and printing small bits and this and that and the polishing, its all inconsequential to me
I send the money, I get the product, for a fraction of a price, and that's it

>>96857005
>>96856991
I don't care, and I get a LOT of shit, not only chinese proxies

>>96857254
>>96857271
Fair enough, I will admit that I was mistaken.

>>96856283
>once you offset the initial investment.
This is done within 48 hours of plugging in the printer
>>96856349
>hardware expensive enough to have just bought an army instead
500 points isn't an army
>muh allergic reaction
you know what? I challenge you GW employees to show a video of someone using a 3D printer and actually having an allergic reaction.

wanted to print more christmas gobs but I fucked up (first print after a few months) and shit fell off. Turned the rest into a christmas clock summoning a snowman (??)
And TC warband

>>96856349
Unironically cheaper to buy a used printer than some of the newest geedubs boxsets but ok
Bait anyway

What layer height do you print at? Does a smaller layer height improve horizontal details as well?

>>96859075
I print at 0.02mm though my printer could handle 0.017 according to specs.
Yes it helps details horizontally, just stop and think about how curvature works and you'll realize how.
But it's also important to enable antialiasing.

>>96859176
What? From what I understood Anti Aliasing would blur details.

>>96832569
elephorim more like ELEWHOREIM

>>96855657
>bragging about ai is king
no one did that

Finally got my printer and ran a quick little amerilabs calibration test to see if there are any problems.
Used the ABS-like dark grey the anons recommended.
Clearly from the test it seems the exposure is a bit too high as theres some slight warping in the middle lines part. The checkerboard pattern also seems to be beyond fucked but im wondering if its because its technically a bottom layer or if its also too high exposure.
Can the kind anons who recommended the resin also recommend their settings for it?

>>96860434
It sharpens or it blurs, depends which you choose in lychee.
Either way it gets rid of layer lines
>but that's confusing
I know.

>>96860723
Post settings
Also I would recommend Cones of Calibration V3(or whatever is newest). Amerilabs town is still a good calibration tool though.

>but im wondering if its because its technically a bottom layer
Yeah if you didn't adjust the bottoms layers in your settings for the calibration print it can cause issues.
For an example whenever I run a flat calibration matrix I have to change the amount of bottom layers because it is so thin.

Looking to run a desktop spool feeder instead of the top mount spool holder on an Ender 3 v3 se. Printer will have the filament sensor. Anyone running a setup this way that can provide any tips?

>>96861204
No, got the same printer though and I have to wonder, why?

>>96860723
You need to let it dry complete to get an accurate reading.
Also do not touch models even when you've washed them, they need to be cured first before you can touch them.

>>96861156
I made a second amerilabs version which got much better results. Nearly got the checkerboard and lines completely fixed.
>>96861231
Oops, the fervor of a shiny new machine has me ignoring OSHA protocols. Would curing really change the difference in the checkerboard/lines? Cause everything else is fine

>>96861212
Gantry stability apparently suffers from having the spool on top.

>>96861488
I can't see that being a thing unless you're putting a 5KG roll on it.

>>96861479
Why are you printing with a layer height of 0.05? You should be doing 0.03 for minis

>>96861479
I've only used 1kg of Sunlu ABS before so I don't really remember but 2.5 exposure on regular layers may be a little high. (Although I could easily be wrong)
Even a tenth of a second makes a difference. If you are getting overexposure you can try lowering by .1 till you find the sweet spot. And even if you get to a point where you have good visual results you may still need to calibrate for strength so your prints don't fail. But this only applies if they fail.

>>96861501
Long term plans include ceramic hot end, gantry braces, fan upgrades, bed upgrades and linear rails, just seems as though setting up a spool stand is the easiest first step.

>>96860503
>"look at what ai can do! digital sculptors on life support"
>"oh where ai didnt see is all retarded and shit"
sure you didnt

>>96861516
I dont know, it was the default setting

>>96861479
Printed out some bits for an upcoming tank. Sadly the bottom stuck to the FEP plate and a 50mm base came out with puberty.

Anyone got stls for trench crusade? I've got some good riptide files and greytide bits packs to share.

>>96862983
>50mm base came out with puberty.
Id highly consider getting a cheap FDM printer for bases if you don't have one. It feels extremely wasteful to print them with resin imo and you don't have to worry about warping.

>>96863884
Seconded, beyond bases there are a lot of uses for a fdm printer anyway.

Anyone else feel poisoned after dealing with a batch of resin? Shortness of breath, sweatings, itchiness, pain and redness. I think it's confirmed that printing resin is bad for your health?

>>96864117
Those are not symptoms of resin exposure

>>96862983
>printing big flat shit on resin
What are you doing senpai

>>96862774
Yeah, many people never thought about it for a bit.

The pixels get smaller every generation, but you print in layers as thick as 3 pixels, why would you do that?

The best compromise between printing time and quality is to print in a thickness that is about what your pixel size is.

Beyond that, it is good practice to check what step size your printer has and make sure your layer height is divisible by that cleanly.
Like, if your step size is 0.02mm, a layer height of 0.02 or 0.04 would be great.

>>96864284
>0.04 would be great.
Come on man, don't give bad advice like that.

>>96865710
If you have a printer with a step size that large, it will be old and your pixel size is probably 0.05mm, which would make 0.04 layer height ok.
Thinner layers will most often lead to better results, but why doubling the print time to gild a turd?

more printed things and better pictures

Been slowly working through printing my guard army -
Phrozen Sonic Mini 8ks

>>96866406
Valor korps are so ugly to me idk why

I prefer tiny legends or straight up scans

>>96866406
>>96866422
having said that.... DAMN! your prints are coming out super high quality

What's your layer height and pixel size?

>>96866526
I hadn't heard of tiny legends before! Honestly, I agree, I might try some of these models out
>>96866542
Thanks!
23μm XY, 50μm layer height, with antialiasing.
The valour korps are pre-supported really well, which helps with the cleanup

>>96866715
>23μm XY, 50μm
so t it at 0.025mm for both.

>>96866920
Afaik, XY is just the mm-per-pixel, and can't be adjusted without a different LCD
Layer height I could change up, but I don't want to 2x my print times, plus with AA and paint, the layer lines aren't noticeable

>>96866406
>>96866422
>Virgin Korps
gain taste my dude

>>96867920
What faction would you suggest instead?
I'm pretty new to the game

>>96867994
What do you want anon? That is the better question. If you want that kind of aesthetics then give Grim Guard from Station Forge a look.

>>96868008
If it needs to be Krieg, then Tiny Legend rules supreme. Station Forge is horrible, especially compared to Makers Cult.

>>96868213
I just checked it out and they are objectively better, but I feel that VK and GG are both more complete lines. Not a problem if you can digitally kitbash but I would stick with one of the other two if you are new and want anything other than infantry.

>>96868257
I'm definitely liking TinyLegend for the krieg. The problem is filling out the rest of a guard army (Kasrkin, Cadian shock troops, bullgryn, etc)
TheMakersCult has great vehicles, but the infantry are pretty bland looking.
GG definitely has a bit more detail for those other units

>>96868330
I despise the VK vehicles, that was the only time I cancelled my sub to them was over that. Ace Minis has good vehicles that pair with the VK if you are looking to keep the aesthetic without walker vehicles.

anyone know any guard size heads that have a gas mask, but not a helmet?

>>96868516
Maybe give a look at the Agmen head builder on Cults. You can pick and choose which features you want on your guard head. Great if you want something like you are asking for, I got it because I wanted guard heads with Ushankas and Gas Masks.

>>96868555
fits the bill perfectly. even has funny hats.

>>96868866
Yep! And one of the things you can do is print just the accessories for kitbashing. So for example you have a head that you like but doesn't have the right hat or a gas mask, you can export just those things and combine them in 3d builder (or probably in Blender if you know how to).

>>96868881
‘Artisans of Vaul’ on YouTube has a great series of videos on how to use Blender to repose and kitbash .STLs if you want to look into that.
He makes it look easy.

>>96868908
I might check it out, I use 3d Builder and TinkerCad because I mostly just need the most efficient way to cut and merge things. I don't do sculpting, closest I come is running things through Meshy.AI to get things like heads from photos.

>>96868922
>>96868908
unironically that sounds right up my alley. I struggle to make the fine precision motions for kitbashing and recutting up models, but the computer makes such a factor less important as long as you can use the program.
Thanks anons! I'll check out that channel.

Anyone able to point me towards some like mutated hulking berserker bugbear or grimdark type guy?

I'm doing a DnD campaign and trying to do a phase 2 bossfight for a bugbear chief and need an STL.

>>96868346
Luckily, MC has more than the VK vehicle line. Station Forge Poses are weird and all over the place, and their vehicles dont look like they belong to the same range. Their flame tank is great tho.

this helped a brainlet like myself for no-brainer supports.
could help some other anons too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-48RKSB4T3U

>>96870520
Speaking of MC, am I the only one that thinks Garin's stuff is awful compared to the other two? I get that they are friends but months where there is nothing from Seb and Brexitts stuff isn't interesting I feel like I am getting screwed.

I print at 0.05 because my printer is less reliable at 0.03 and the quality decreases

>>96870885
Got any examples? I never paid attention to who sculpts what.

>>96870952
Here is his Jade Coalition Basic Infantry. They are suppose to be like an alternate version of the Tau. He just has shit tastes so while he isn't really worse at modeling than the other two his stuff is just always ugly.

>>96870965
NTA but I thought the Jade Coalition was meant to be not-Solar Auxilia, going off their other models. The core infantry look like the weakest part of the army, though.

>>96871021
This is their crisis suit equivalent, the Y80 combat frame. They are suppose to be faction agnostic but the proxy list is mostly Tau stuff. This - like the infantry - just looks like crap to me. Could just be my opinion but when compared to the stuff Seb and Brexitt turn out it just seems significantly worse.

>>96870965
>He just has shit tastes

Its hard to argue about taste i guess.
Jade Coalition is pretty meh in my opinion too, and i really dislike their vehicles, but as you said, the modelling itself is not bad and i'm sure the files would print without bigger issues just like the rest of their stuff. The pic related Gheists are my favourite in this range, but it is certainly not an army i would start to print and built as a whole. Too futuristic and too sleek designs, and they look nothing like 40k. But tastes are different, so others might like them, especially since they look really different from what you'd expect from 30/40k proxies.

But i've checked some of their release notes, where they state who sculpted what for the monthly stuff, and he also does the Obsidian Guard. I like their vehicle designs even less actually, while the basic infantry is okay, the guns look so bad, i would never print them (this is a complaint i have with Station Forge too. Their Lasguns just look like shit).

>>96871066
>obsidian guard

I meant the Primus Scions (he does both)
Pic related for example. I like the uniforms and the bearskin hats, but those rifles just look like shit.

>>96871081
The obsidian guard are his best current line, but even then they lack the "oh that is cool" vibe that would make a person choose to make them their custodes army.

>>96871103
>they lack the "oh that is cool" vibe that would make a person choose to make them their custodes army.

Thats true, but i get that feeling with 90% of all STL files. Sometimes i see something (like pic related), and i just have to print and paint it asap.
But the vast majority of STL files is just "whatever". I guess that is just how it is.

>>96871036
I'm trying to discern whose stuff is whose; is he the guy who is painting most of the models with photo previews? Those are typically tagged with Garin's name on MMF, and I suppose they give a better initial impression than a blank render, don't hate most of what I see but also not particularly huge on it either, and maybe it doesn't look as good past that initial sugarcoating. I think there's way more uninspiring stuff out there especially when it comes to proxies, and between the not-marines, I assume he's going for a Unification Wars sort of angle?

>>96871148
>But the vast majority of STL files is just "whatever". I guess that is just how it is.

Legally-distinct proxies to be fair especially have to contend with printing official designs for a given game or very good approximations of them, essentially going up against an entire aesthetic. The Jade Coalition example might be useful to the odd person who really hates how Tau looks but wants to try their rules or some shit, or whatever in some other wargame.

>>96871302
>is he the guy who is painting most of the models with photo previews?

Yep, that is him/his stuff. I like that too. Not every model is for me, but i can appreciate the fact that at least one person (he himself obviously) likes the models enough to actually print and paint them. Its quite rare to see that.

>>96867994
krieg is a great faction but makers cult are shit. >>96868213
>makers cunts
>better than anyone else
lol lmao even. i'd take station forge over virgin korps anyday

>>96871338
I do wish more of these proxy-making people did that, Nfeyma paints his shit too and even shows off all the possible options. Just wish he did better with infantry.

>>96870885
skill means nothing when you are complete unlikable cunt like brexit. seriously fuck that guy and anyone else in his orbit.

>>96871377
why?
Their Grim Guard build set offers a ton of variation, but almost all of the poses are kinda weird, way too dynamic and kinda bad.
Whats their appeal to you?

>>96871395
>>96871377
We got it. They molested you as a kid.

>>96871406
you do realize they are modular and you can pose them how you like
>>96871409
unlike you i didn't enjoy it

>>96871424
by that i mean you can use parts from other gg packs not just those from the same squad

>>96871431
Not everything is compatible, some heads and bodies are not separate and sets like pic related are just outright jokes.

>>96871395
What a retarded take. Imagine having to like the artist on a personal level for you to give them business. Do you think any of us personally like any of these people or even care about what they are like in their personal lives?

>>96871473
>some heads and bodies
no shit. i didn't say they were
>>96871473
>pic related

>>96871487
You still did not tell us what about Station Forges Grim Guard is so good Anon.

>>96871496
well i was going to but then some uppity cunt rode in on his high horse and put me off.

>>96871487
Yep, as I suspected - anon is a faggot. Only a true faggot would keep instructions for anal insertion on their computer lol. So did Brexitt screw you and not call or something? Or did he give you AIDS? He does strike me as the kind of fag that would fuck a dude, give him AIDS, and then not call.

>>96871563
spoken like the exact uppity nigger that rode in last thursday that you are. drink resin my dude

>>96871714
>faggot calls me a nigger
Lulz is that truly the best you could come up with? Man Brexitt must have really broke your heart. You still have time to make up with him before Valentines Day AIDS anon, go to him.

>>96871467
what's with all the paintball guns?

>>96872108
>sets like pic related are just outright jokes.
LEARN TO READ

>>96866002
more

>>96823778 (OP)
does anyone have access to the Halo: Ground Combat troove, that was there in the past? I cant access it anymore, via the links I saved, but wanted to print some 15mm Halo Marines and Covenant.

>>96823778 (OP)
I'm getting somewhere with this guy now

What do you use for creating the supports?
There's software that does it and I'm curious if someone has recommendations or if I should check out a tutorial on making my own?

>>96875340
I just do mine in Chitu. I let it do auto-supports and then go through and hit areas I think will need extra support (like the first layers). Have had great results just doing that on stuff that is at forty-five degrees.

>>96875356
Cool, thanks anon

Got a warped door from printing, its non retarded brother for scale. Any one know why or is it just a problem of the trade?

>>96874074
second this

>>96871736
I hate Americans.

does anyone have the fummelfinger terminators? gw purged his purple page again

>>96875706
Warping often means not enough supports or lost contact to the supports because of slightly wrong resin settings. Was it maybe a bit colder when you started the print for the warped one?

>>96875340
https://c3po.link/Q5BcWzVW6h

>>96875340
I was on Lychee, but switched to SatelLite from elegoo.

>>96877628
It was cold as shit that morning. Like 18c (54F to burgers)

anyone know of any 28mm scale motorcycles that don't have riders? All the ones I find online are meant to proxy jackals or rough riders, which is fine, but they already come with riders.

>>96877524
Haha, they are gone from the internet. Too bad, so sad. James just keeps winning.

>>96879628
They'll win themselves right into a gallows someday.

Recently subbed to Bestiarum Minis on MMF since I like their stuff
Is there like a KemonoParty(site where people upload Patreon locked art) esque website where people secretly upload the stl files online for free?

>>96881658
I hope so, anon

>>96882238
Kemono generally scrapes Patreons of 3d printing releases too. Otherwise lurk moar.

>>96882967
Gyatt damn nice
Still subbing since $10 a month for a few neat stls isn't much

>>96882967
>>96883078
Oh. It seems all the good and smart ones made it that your MMF account and Patreon are linked to bypass pirates like me

I've learnt how to use my university's printing labs recently but they're PLA only. What is some neat shit I can make for 40k? I've only done up a custom dice box so far and the only other thing I can find on my own is an upgrade kit for Ikea shelves to make them more like traditional transport cases.

I fuckin love 3d printing

>>96878974
I’m about to start 3d resin printing for the first time and heard satellite was good (my printer’s an elegoo). Any tips for beginners?

>>96872614
>missile summoner
kek

>>96883419
Print good presupported models from a reliable source, then the slicer doesn't matter
Run calibration tests and don't blindly copy someone's settings, settings are printer and resin specific

>>96883309
I use the crap out of my paint pal and they have a new compact version that seems ok. You may also look into the omnicase thing, it takes a lot of filament though so I ended up not making one but that may not be an issue for you.

>>96883419
Start with the file that comes with the printer, probably a chess piece. It is sliced in a way that will probably cook the resin for too long, but it is a reliable base line that prints the way it is with all normal or abs like resins.

If that does not print, you know something with the printer is not right, like leveling or too cold, or broken.
Once you've done that, you know that any failures that might creep up stem from software problems, not anything physical with your machine.

Next I would try to start with a resin settings profile someone other used for that machine and brand of resin, but print a test file with it. I like https://github.com/Photonsters/Resin-exposure-finder-v2/releases/download/BETA_2.1/ResinXP2-ValidationMatrix_200701.stl it prints in 15 min, uses almost no resin and works.

Is my screen dying? Same models, same supports, the only difference is the placement. Not the first time it's happened.
Or could it be connected to me filling up the plate too much?

>>96884448
Overloading plate is real. When's the last time you changed FEP?

>>96884514
Shit, gotta be a half a year or so, but it's still in good shape, no tears or scratches so far.

>>96884533
Just because it's not scratched or torn doesn't mean it's in good shape though anon. Six months and through the whole summer is a long time without a change. If you've been printing consistently, the film can be stretched and loosened in that time. I'd say replace your FEP before you look at replacing your screen, and see if that fixes it. In the worst case scenario, you probably needed it anyway.

>>96884545
Now that i think about it, i'm using a new vat that had a preinstalled FEP, and it's really floppy now after disassembly. I guess you're right, it's stretched out and finished.

Half my telly groups got removed and I have no idea how to find the replacements.
Has anyone seen these Duncan Shadow Empire Ogres in the piracy groups?

>>96884089
>>96884170
Thanks anons

>>96884603
I've found a lot of his shit in my groups but can't find these. Do you know what month it was from?

>>96884448
filling the build plate is fine, i always fill mine

I actually got cancer and after going through the anxiety rabbit hole of looking at all possible causes, I'm pretty sure 3d printing isn't even in the top 20 worst risk factors for the average hobbyist.

>>96888870
Probably not, you have to think the average hobbyist spends maybe an hour or two a week exposed to it. If that were enough to cause measurable harm then there would be no US company that would sell it for fear of litigation. Most of the fearmongering you see about it is from people who think no one knows the long term effects, what chemicals are in it, or are basing it entirely off of the MSDS.

>>96888910
the MSDS for any chemical that is even slightly toxic is going to recommend that you basically wear a hazmat suit before you even open the lid on the container. even acetone, a chemical that is perfectly safe to handle, recommends a respirator be worn in the MSDS i read. absolutely nobody does this in the real world outside of workplaces where it is enforced so the employer doesn't get sued or fined

>>96887284
I think they were released jan 25, and all the patreons from him are from like 2020, certainly none recent .