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I've been eagerly watching the developments in consumer level 3d printing with an eye towards designing my own bits for 40k.
The Makerbot series of 3d printers - http://www.makerbot.com/ - don't seem like their able to replicate the fine detail required for 28mm modeling, but I've seen some really promising stuff on Shapeways.com, particularly bits like http://www.shapeways.com/model/297672/ from custom minis, and full models like http://www.shapeways.com/model/446658/stealth_ladies_revolvers.html?gid=sg28704 from GangWar/NotNorm.

Does anyone have first hand experience with consumer level 3d printers, and how have you found them?
Has anyone patronized the designers on Shapeways, and what has your experience been? - For me, I've purchased a couple small bits from Dynath40k as a quality test and found the prints to be acceptable for 28mm scale use.
Has anyone designed their own bits for 3d printing?
If so, what software and techniques did you use, and what was your experience like?

Must we do this every week?

I too am interested in this and either have missed threads on the topic or something. So if anyone has any links to previous threads, can you please post them so we can go to those?

Currently active thread: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/423440.page

From last week: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/426992.page

Two weeks ago: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/425963.page

Excellent, thanks for the links!!

As this is a redundant thread, I'm locking it.