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I would like to welcome everyone to Custom Minis, and as a small gift Custom Shoulder Pad Designs will only be $12 for a short time. That's over 50% off the normal commission fee.

In addition to the shoulder pad design sale, one set of 10 shoulder pads will be raffled off for every 10 shoulder pad commissions during the duration of the sale. All you need to do to enter the raffle is complete a commission purchase for your Shoulder Pad design, follow the Custom Minis website, and provide your following user name in your commission form.

Winners of the raffle will receive 10 shoulder pads matching their custom commission design.

The sale and raffle entry is good until end of day Sunday, July 17th. To be eligible for the raffle your payment must be received by 11:59 pm on Sunday, July 17th. All shoulder pads must also meet the Terms and Conditions listed on the Custom Minis website. For any questions feel free to contact Custom Minis.

http://custom-minis.blogspot.com/2011/07/custom-shoulder-pad-sale-and-give-away.html

-Custom Minis

These are very nice I cant wait to get a set or 6.

is it possible to commission designs other than those featured already on the site? specifically, i am looking for ones with Cyrillic (Russian) letters, like и, я, п, й, etc.

I have asked the same thing on their site and it seems you can all you do is fill out a fourm and they will get back to you. I believe they can do other things like storm shields and etc. Hopefully they do!

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Chapterhouse wrote:
I call it fuzzyness, but the shapeways prints I have seen in the last month or so have had a very hard time with good edges (they are very soft) and its almost like its powdery (like a bad priming job maybe?). I think you can see what I mean in the actual photo the OP showed.

Could be a result of the process/material they use. I know Shapeways offers several options.

Don't a lot of the 3d printers essentially use a process where tiny 'beads' of material are melted together to make the design? I know a friend has a home-built 3d printer and the stuff he's printed looks kind of like the styrofoam that's expanded pellets, albeit very, very small pellets.

catharsix wrote:
is it possible to commission designs other than those featured already on the site? specifically, i am looking for ones with Cyrillic (Russian) letters, like и, я, п, й, etc.

Yes most definitely. I've already done a couple of custom pads for others, an example of which can be seen here. http://www.shapeways.com/model/276634/28mm_shoulder_pad_custom_sunburst_blood_moon.html?gid=ug

Russian letters would not be that hard to do either, feel free to contact me through the Custom Minis website and we can discuss what you would like further.

Lysenis wrote:
I have asked the same thing on their site and it seems you can all you do is fill out a fourm and they will get back to you. I believe they can do other things like storm shields and etc. Hopefully they do!

Storm Shields should not be an issue, I've shot a email back to you regarding your questions.

Chapterhouse wrote:
I would be interested in seeing an actual product detailed photo from this vendor, if so I may end up using shapeways finally.

I call it fuzzyness, but the shapeways prints I have seen in the last month or so have had a very hard time with good edges (they are very soft) and its almost like its powdery (like a bad priming job maybe?). I think you can see what I mean in the actual photo the OP showed.

I wish Shapeways was a good source for 3D print, as their prices are awesome compared to the 50-200$ we have to pay for our CAD designs to be printed up (and thats for a small shoulder pad or arm size piece), and we still have to clean and polish them up to remove the "stepping" or print lines.

The photos above are actual pictures of the product. I apologize for the lighting but it's the best I can do at the moment. Depending one what material you use, you will get that fuzziness, but they have recently released a polished material for models using the "fuzzy" material in which they polish it down to a smooth feel.

For the shoulder pads we use a completely different material, it lays out a thin layer of plastic material at either .2mm or .1mm (which is considerably small) and leaves little to no striations. On the shoulder pad tests I've done so far I've seen no striations, but depending on the size of model you are looking at getting printed with this material you could easily reach the $50-$200 mark.

As the commissioner of the pads in the above post I can say that my dealings with Custom Minis have been excellent. I don't yet have the pads in hand, but I'm happy to post pictures when I do.

Is there going to be any love for the terminators?

I've been waiting for GW to release pads like these for years. Well done!

Mad4Minis wrote:Is there going to be any love for the terminators?

Cough cough... Not sure what terminators are but I do have an experiment run of larger shoulder pads able to fit miniatures of a larger status So we'll just have to wait and see if the test run fits correctly.

Vladigar wrote:I've been waiting for GW to release pads like these for years. Well done!

Thanks!

I will email you a some pictures of terminators.

Lysenis wrote:I will email you a some pictures of terminators.

No need, I've got my own

can you do other items , custom guns or blades?

Custom Minis wrote:

Mad4Minis wrote:Is there going to be any love for the terminators?

Cough cough... Not sure what terminators are but I do have an experiment run of larger shoulder pads able to fit miniatures of a larger status So we'll just have to wait and see if the test run fits correctly.

Something similar to the "heresy" style but not quite as large would be cool.

Synthetik wrote:can you do other items , custom guns or blades?

Yes they can, here is a link to a custom Storm Shield I had designed.

It is rather cheap for the design fee and it is a one time fee as far as I have found.

The "mech dual gun" arms are sweet, I bet they'll be selling a few of those

These are real cool im gonna have to check it out.

Hi everyone, I just wanted to give an update of some of the work that's been done. Over the last two weeks I had a sale on Custom Shoulder pads and some of you guys took fool advantage of it. I'm quite pleased with the way they have turned out and have gotten some great feed back so far.

http://custom-minis.blogspot.com/2011/07/product-update-shoulder-pads.html

Custom Minis wrote:

Hi everyone, I just wanted to give an update of some of the work that's been done. Over the last two weeks I had a sale on Custom Shoulder pads and some of you guys took fool advantage of it. I'm quite pleased with the way they have turned out and have gotten some great feed back so far.

http://custom-minis.blogspot.com/2011/07/product-update-shoulder-pads.html

ZOMG...the jester skull ones...WANT WANT WANT!!!!!!

Very interesting....

Any pics on actual mini's?

Tose are actually pretty excellent, from the most recent pics. Everyone start designing your custom Chapters!!

Oh yes, if I can get both Terminator Shoulderpads and then Infantry (thus making a fluid looking shoulderpad image) count me in.

whitedragon wrote:Any pics on actual mini's?

As soon as mine arrive I'll take some photos.

Mad4Minis wrote:

Custom Minis wrote:

Hi everyone, I just wanted to give an update of some of the work that's been done. Over the last two weeks I had a sale on Custom Shoulder pads and some of you guys took fool advantage of it. I'm quite pleased with the way they have turned out and have gotten some great feed back so far.
http://custom-minis.blogspot.com/2011/07/product-update-shoulder-pads.html

ZOMG...the jester skull ones...WANT WANT WANT!!!!!!

So glad to see you are interested in starting a successor chapter......

Seriously though, if you like the 2D jester skull he did for me, there is another on his site in 3D that is amazing. That one is reserved for my officers...

I'll post pics when I get my order in.

The beautiful thing is that the more people that take apart of this the more interesting and amazing pieces of work that appear!

I would love to see some 'orky' shoulderpads for ork looty guys and deffskulls.

Wow, this looks like it has a lot of potential!

The stuff one could do ... custom banner poles ... custom weapons (unique army relic?) ... and apparently even custom heads? :3

Lots of people have shapeway stores for warhammer.

Like Chapterhouse was saying 3D printing often leaves a "stair step" effect, which needs to be manually fixed. Also its basically powder stuck togeather, so even after things you get rapid prototype'd are finished, they are not as strong as resin or plastic models.

The stairstep problem is mostly for rounded and curved surfaces on small objects. At a distance it looks sort of grainy sometimes.

That said, some people have made very nice models with 3d Printing, though most print a single master, which they then have a sculptor clean up and produce molds using the item. I believe this is how Spartan Games produces their new Dystopian Wars stuff.

Anywho, its a really cool technology, and while I don't know if shapeways has figured out a way to overcome the problems associated with it. And again if you cast stuff, rapid prototyping is great for getting you 90% of the way done with a model, and you just fix it up, smooth it out and cast a crap ton of copies.

Just my 2c on the subject.