Wow those look really great! I'm quite partial to the design on the 2nd and 3rd one especially.

 Paradigm wrote:
Oh wow, those look incredible. Lovely clean prints on what look like quite tricky models. Any idea on a colour scheme yet?

I tend to overlook Heroes Infinite when doing my monthly Patreon check as I usually find them way too over-the-top, but damn, now I'm gutted I missed the first batch of Eldar and seriously considering going in for the second wave. Would have been perfect for the Craftworld KT I just printed last month!

Color scheme is not up to me, but I hear he wants them to be "dryad-like", and he started the harp mini yesterday with greens.

I'm mostly torn with Heroes Infinite, as the designs are lovely... but they are honestly not good models. Too splindly and busy with really thin ankles, cloth strips and.... well, mostly too thin everything. They will break to a faint breeze at the regular size.

So, first big print with the Saturn 2, and it did work pretty well:





It is a sizable beast:







Unfortunately, I didn't remove the inner supports before curing it under the UV light, so they expanded and deformed the top sides a little bit (I blame the water wasable resin). Live and learn ^^

Nicely printed out. What differentiates the Saturn 2 from other printers out of curiosity? I'm guessing plate size is a key feature. I haven't really kept up with the last few years of printers.

Blimey, you must have nerves of steel printing something that big in one piece! Very impressive, and I can't really notice the warping on the top to be honest.

 warboss wrote:
Nicely printed out. What differentiates the Saturn 2 from other printers out of curiosity? I'm guessing plate size is a key feature. I haven't really kept up with the last few years of printers.

Well, yeah, it's quite bigger:




It has a 10'' screen instead of a 6'6'' one, when compared with the Mars 3 (or the 6'08'' of the Mars 2 Pro) so it certainly opens up what you can actually print.

When compared with the Mars 3, it has the aforementioned bigger screen, which is 8k resolution instead of 4k, so it actually ends up having better printing resolution, too. It also has an integrated air filter and a more stable, double rail for the printing bed. Plus it has a taller Z axis, which allows you to print taller stuff.


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 Paradigm wrote:
Blimey, you must have nerves of steel printing something that big in one piece! Very impressive, and I can't really notice the warping on the top to be honest.

Well, I did need to test it for reals, so it was kind of a given I'd be doing that ^^

The warping is not terrible, but it's there, and it's something I'll need to watch out for, and b sure to remove all internal supports before curing with the water washable resin.

Cool and thanks. Do you think you'll be printing normal sized items on it as well or just reserving it for the big stuff? Do you still FDM for terrain or will this take over for that as well?

I'm honestly expecting to start printing scenery on this one, now.

So, the only actually printed parts on these are the bases, but anyways, I've painted a Kill Team, as it seems we're gonna play:

Had a bit of fun with the power sword, but the rest is mostly "paint it fast" level:

Looking good. The power sword in particular is a thing of beauty!

 Flinty wrote:
Looking good. The power sword in particular is a thing of beauty!

Thank you! It's been a long time since I actually took the time to do some glazing, and I like how it looks, even though it takes forever xD (I think I did the sword in like 30+ minutes).

Nice! Are you using the free intercessor tactical and assault combo rules they released? Is three primaris a whole team of specialists/leader?

 warboss wrote:
Nice! Are you using the free intercessor tactical and assault combo rules they released? Is three primaris a whole team of specialists/leader?

Yep, I'm using the newer team, and the full team is the six guys, only I have a fire base (three intercessors each with one of the boltguns they can use, plus an uderslung GL) and an advance section (the sergeant, a regular assault intercessor and an assault intercessor grenadier).

Having the minis and only needing to paint six might have had something to do with the selection.

Ah, ok. I just didn't know with primaris what to expect in terms of model count. I'm surprised you didn't use some of your previously painted models like the officer with the helmet plume.

 warboss wrote:
Ah, ok. I just didn't know with primaris what to expect in terms of model count. I'm surprised you didn't use some of your previously painted models like the officer with the helmet plume.

Well, one of the objectives of playing KT is having an excuse to paint the stuff I have lying around unused and unpainted, too!

I've been following this thread since page one. Painting your stuff isn't what I would call a systemic problem for you.

 warboss wrote:
I've been following this thread since page one. Painting your stuff isn't what I would call a systemic problem for you.

I mean, it wouldn't if I stopped printing and buying more ^^

So, I've printed some more stuff ^^

First, some Dark Mechanicus from The Makers Cult:







A skitarii general (TMC):



An alternate Culexus assassin (TMC):





Then I printed the premade files of Anvil Digital's drone builder, at 100% size (dark eldar for scale):



And finally a unit of the new Universal Guard from TMC:



I had some failures with this plate, probably due to the machine's settings. I'll need to check a bit more.

Also, they look much better primed (...or at least, you know, visible):

Doomfist Electropriests are much better realized than GW's versions And I caught that Culexus not long ago on a YouTube channel where he painted up all 4 of the set. Gotta say the Culexus is the strongest of those sculpts - and I don't think he printed the veils? Very cool touch that adds nice dynamism.

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Doomfist Electropriests are much better realized than GW's versions And I caught that Culexus not long ago on a YouTube channel where he painted up all 4 of the set. Gotta say the Culexus is the strongest of those sculpts - and I don't think he printed the veils? Very cool touch that adds nice dynamism.

Yeah, the Culexus is the best by a wide margin, and IMHO the veils certainly add to her.

Quick test paint scheme for the Universal Guard... which in my case are gonna be Cobra troopers. COOOOBRAAAA!!!!





The idea now would be to remove the aquila from the torso and add a Cobra sigil in the middle of the front plate



...and use these heads from Reptilian Overlords instead of the official ones from TMC

Your productivity continues to astound... Where do the hours come from?

The test scheme works really well!

 Flinty wrote:
Your productivity continues to astound... Where do the hours come from?

The test scheme works really well!

Insomnia xD

So I've been playing around with the troopers, and I find they look pretty cool in general, and match up good enough with multiple things. For example, this Infinity mini would probably make a good Joe gal proxy (lso added a couple lights to the blue cloth):



So I spoke with Seb from TMC, and he guided me on how to remove stuff from a model so I could add my own logos...

And I made Cobra troopers xD




Then I made a neck piece to attach to the Reptilian Overlords' heads to make them fit in the TMC bodies and did a test print and fit:



I have to say, I like the look quite a bit, so I've just put 50 bodies to print ^^.


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I've also find this HISS tank from Monstrous Encounters:



https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-venom-sentry-tank-205634

So... yeah ^^

Nice looking Cobra Troops!

 Albertorius wrote:
So, first big print with the Saturn 2, and it did work pretty well:

I think you sold me on the Saturn 2.

I'd love to see some terrain, possible buildings on it.

The Red Hobbit wrote:Nice looking Cobra Troops!

Thank you! I'm pretty happy with how they look

Chairman Aeon wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
So, first big print with the Saturn 2, and it did work pretty well:

I think you sold me on the Saturn 2.

I'd love to see some terrain, possible buildings on it.

Maybe in the near future.

So far, this weekend has been productive. I had a fair amount of printing errors with the TMC presupports, and I needed to readjust some settings (lift height seems to have been the main one)... so I printed some plates xD.




They went all very well, without a single misprint... which now means I have a set of 50.

So obviously I needed some armor, and I went and printed a HISS tank. The first time around the left track fell off the supports mid print and failed, so after cleaning and resupporting, I launched it again...so now I have two xD.

Anyways, I've assembled a squad of Cobra troopers and another squad of Vipers (I didn't use the backpacks on the regular Cobras so as to make the Vipers more distinctive, but I know there's more variations for the UG in the works, so I might end up revisiting all of it).





After that it was time of cleaning the HISS tanks, so down the new big ultrasonic cleaner they went:



"Army" look:



H.I.S.S. "tanks" are really tiny, and they favor speed and firepower above anything else. The idea is that they are cheap enough to have loads of them, fast enough to be there when needed and small enough to deploy anywhere (they are about 9 tons each).

They are really more a (slightly) uparmored snowmobile with a turrent and a windscreen than anything else, really xD. But I've always loved the look.

And they do loke mighty impressive, TBH:



...so yeah, now that I have the starting point of a Cobra army, I obviously need some Cobra HQ, so down to Hero Forge I went and made me a Baroness:

Looks great, those prints are super clean and sharp, my voxel and line covered tanks are jealous

I realize you're going for 40K-ized Cobra troopers, but I do want to point out for the audience that Monstrous Encounters's Cobra Troopers set is spot-on for pulp/modern wargaming. He's also working on a set of Joe greenshirts, in both the "Toy wave 1" and "cartoon generic troops" usages of the term.

 Psychopomp wrote:
I realize you're going for 40K-ized Cobra troopers, but I do want to point out for the audience that Monstrous Encounters's Cobra Troopers set is spot-on for pulp/modern wargaming. He's also working on a set of Joe greenshirts, in both the "Toy wave 1" and "cartoon generic troops" usages of the term.

The HISS is from Monstrous Encounters, actually, and it's a really nice piece of kit (although I got it on a promo, "12 Days of Monstrous Encounters ", and I think the full kit has additional turrets. Also, I printed it at 120%), but I wasn't really sold by the Cobra Troopers. They look the part, but they're really stiff.

I was not aware of the joes, though, thanks!

EDIT: An old school Snake Eyes! Hah, I love how derpy it is ^^


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 Psychopomp wrote:
I realize you're going for 40K-ized Cobra troopers, but I do want to point out for the audience that Monstrous Encounters's Cobra Troopers set is spot-on for pulp/modern wargaming. He's also working on a set of Joe greenshirts, in both the "Toy wave 1" and "cartoon generic troops" usages of the term.

So... I just entered the Monstrous Encounters Patreon and... is there any way to get the Green Shirts? It's not on sale anywhere tht I've seen, and it's not available in the Patreon... >_>

Patreon backers have been getting access to WIP versions of the Greenshirts project as he goes. I've gotten the WIP set in two or three different monthly bundles, each time with new additions.

It's been a long-running project as it was a bit more work than he initially anticipated. It was further delayed by a long move back to the US from overseas, but he seems to be settled in and churning out Middlehammer orcs now.

Once the initial run is finished, it'll probably go up for sale.

 Psychopomp wrote:
Patreon backers have been getting access to WIP versions of the Greenshirts project as he goes. I've gotten the WIP set in two or three different monthly bundles, each time with new additions.

It's been a long-running project as it was a bit more work than he initially anticipated. It was further delayed by a long move back to the US from overseas, but he seems to be settled in and churning out Middlehammer orcs now.

Once the initial run is finished, it'll probably go up for sale.

And I see there's no way of getting access to the WIP versions, then? Well, shame.

 Albertorius wrote:




They went all very well, without a single misprint... which now means I have a set of 50.

This right here is why I both want and should not buy a Saturn

Impressive how fast this project is progressing, and looking great as it does Baronness looks a treat as well, go HF + home printing!

 Albertorius wrote:


And I see there's no way of getting access to the WIP versions, then? Well, shame.

If you're a backer and he does some more work on it, the entire WIP project goes into that month's bundle. I've gotten it in something like 3-4 different months, so far.

It really has been a lot of work. He's doing every one of the unique parts as well as all of the wave 1 reused parts, as well as all the arm variants holding all or most of the weapon variants.

 Psychopomp wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:


And I see there's no way of getting access to the WIP versions, then? Well, shame.

If you're a backer and he does some more work on it, the entire WIP project goes into that month's bundle. I've gotten it in something like 3-4 different months, so far.

It really has been a lot of work. He's doing every one of the unique parts as well as all of the wave 1 reused parts, as well as all the arm variants holding all or most of the weapon variants.

I'll have to be on the lookout I guess, then.

In the meantime, I have the first Cobra trooper squad done:

Baroness printed and sloppily basecoated so that you can see something of the details xD

Cobra Squad 1 looks the business and so quickly as well Baroness is fun, nice Cobra symbol mod to the HF.

Wow!! The paintjob on the Cobra squad looks terrific. I am very impressed by your 3d prints they look smooth as butter to me.

Boss Salvage wrote:Cobra Squad 1 looks the business and so quickly as well Baroness is fun, nice Cobra symbol mod to the HF.

Thank you ^^. I have not a lot of experience painting black leather catsuits, so I'm not sure how would she end up looking ^^.

The Red Hobbit wrote:Wow!! The paintjob on the Cobra squad looks terrific. I am very impressed by your 3d prints they look smooth as butter to me.

Thanks! The print quality is mostly down to dialing down settings, all the rest is the machine... and current tech desktop machines are basically magic.

The print quality is very impressive, what printer are you using? I've only used an FDM in the past and it does a decent job at terrain but not much beyond that.

 The Red Hobbit wrote:
The print quality is very impressive, what printer are you using? I've only used an FDM in the past and it does a decent job at terrain but not much beyond that.

Right now my poisons of choice are Elegoo: a Mars 3 and a Saturn 2, and both give stellar results (the Cobra troopers above were printed on the Saturn 2, the Baroness on the Mars 3).

Oh wow that's quite a selection! When I eventually break and get a resin printer to make some starships I'll have to ask you for advice on settings cause your prints turn out fantastic!

So I'm printing some scenery.

I've startd to print some Sector Fatalis pieces from Dragon's Rest (filament) and I printed a modular container from Print Minis (resin).

It was my very first resin scenery piece, so I was intrigued, and this is how it looks in comparison with an fdm piece:



Took as long to print as that single pillar, and I could probably have squeezed in a second one on the Saturn. So, speed wise at least, it's significantly faster to print resin scenery.

Looks wise it looks good:




And another comparison, printed vs primed:

Looks good! What resolution do you plan on using for scenery versus your typical models?

 warboss wrote:
Looks good! What resolution do you plan on using for scenery versus your typical models?

No real difference ^^. 50 microns work fast enough for me.

Certainly looks great! Personally I find the cost of resin for terrain (other than small scatter pieces) to be too high for me, but it's still undoubtedly cheaper than buying most terrain kits, after all!

 Paradigm wrote:
Certainly looks great! Personally I find the cost of resin for terrain (other than small scatter pieces) to be too high for me, but it's still undoubtedly cheaper than buying most terrain kits, after all!

Dunno... at the prices I'm currently getting resin and hollowing the pieces, it's not actually all that much. With no modifications at all, I could print about ten containers with a bottle of resin, and that's certainly good enough xD.

So! I kinda liked (a lot) the DG upgrade kits for 30k... which has prompted this:





I have entirely too many IWs by now (other than filling out a couple units)... so I guess I'll at least paint some of these. I have about 70 spares after all >_>

They look great. Speaking of upgrade heads in resin, do you have a line on good wolf helms like the FW set? I kind of love how goofy they look, while still being nice and angular, but so far my searching has turned up some older 40k files that are too much in various directions.

 Boss Salvage wrote:
They look great. Speaking of upgrade heads in resin, do you have a line on good wolf helms like the FW set? I kind of love how goofy they look, while still being nice and angular, but so far my searching has turned up some older 40k files that are too much in various directions.

How about these?

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/space-woof-helmets-for-new-heresy

DUDE, YES

Great comparison shots with the filament vs resin on the containers. I've used Dragon's Rest in the past and I really like their sculpts. You're weathering there looks great!

Quick test paint of a DG marine





And a test print of some Necromunda campaign territory tracker hex tiles:

Cool! I got the Necromunda set as well. I've become rather overwhelmed with a backlog of them though. There are so many awesome tiles to print!

My print-fu is not really good enough for the clips and embedded magnets, so I stuck a larger magnet on the underside and plan to use on some kind of metal sheet. Means I can stick them to a whiteboard as well

 Flinty wrote:
Cool! I got the Necromunda set as well. I've become rather overwhelmed with a backlog of them though. There are so many awesome tiles to print!

My print-fu is not really good enough for the clips and embedded magnets, so I stuck a larger magnet on the underside and plan to use on some kind of metal sheet. Means I can stick them to a whiteboard as well

That's actually a pretty good idea, IMHO! It will certainly help with space issues

Super smooth Death Guard, really appreciate the focus on pre-bloat while still looking totally DG thanks to the helm.

I've been looking for an excuse to print the excellent Gothic Void Troopers set fromAnvil Digital for a while now, so I guess I'm gonna make a navy breachers KT or something ^^

Well, last friday I sent back the Saturn 2 for a bad case of Z-axis wobble, and DHL has just called to tell me they'll be delivering a new one at home tomorrow.

So far, I can only say that Elegoo's customer service is pretty fast and responsive.

That said, and even though it won't be a problem for my specific use case (I already use pretty high delays between layers), everyone looking to get one should probably take a look at this in depth review:

https://blog.honzamrazek.cz/2022/10/elegoo-saturn-2-review-is-pixel-size-everything-in-depth-look-disassembly/

And decide for themselves, particularly now that there's also a Saturn 8k with the form factor of the original.

Commiserations on the Saturn sadness. Hopefully the new one serves you better. I'm about to replace the screen on my Mars Pro again, which was easy enough the first time but I have some doubts about the hardware this time, as I guess Elegoo 2k screens are no longer available? So it's a third party piece

Anyway! Gothic Void Troopers look the business, savvy Breacher team

Greetings Albertorius,

I've been following this thread for a while now, there's some great work on here (both print- and paint-wise). Kudos !!

I sent you a PM with a 3D print-related question. Could you have a look when you have a couple of minutes to spare ?


Regards,

Old-Four-Arms

Mailed you back, hope it helps!

Busy weeks, so not much done unfortunately

Printed and painted a batch of Kill Team order tokens:



My friend managed to finish the eldar corsairs Kill Team I printed for him, and they look very cool for not having painted anything in 20+ years



(pic is at my home, with me on the background after the corsairs totally wrecked my regular IG compendium KT)

How it started (more or less, I already moved a couple of grunts on the left)



How it went:



I also used the fdm printer to print an angler doodad to help with the cleaning:




(you can put it like that or at an angle directly on the axis)

Did a first scheme test on the Anvil "breachers", but I'm not very happyt with the look, so that's a wash:



Also from Anvil I printed a set of Ajax powered armors, which are stupidly cool:





I love how it looks like an actual human being would fit inside (with the arms inside the torso instead of dangling from the ears ), and then it shows it to you in the character with the damaged one. Just cool.

...so obviously I printed a full set of six. And 4 light mechs more, just because xD.

I might have gottend ahead of myself here ^^



Size wise the Ajax armors are really cool:



Then I test painted one with an N7 style scheme:






Thinking about using them as Algoryn Hazard Squad troopers



Then I got a pot of the new Imperial Fists contrast paint, so I had to test it:



And boy, but it looks good.




The white stripes are painted using the new Whites set from AK Interactive that I just got ^^

And yesterday, after getting mauled by eldar pirates, I printed a Mk6 melee squad:



...they are a bit big xDDD



But they look cool, so whatevs




I ended up using old beaky helmets, which are bigger. Now the bare heads from the HH set look like they'd actually fit inside xDD

But boy are they big compared with oldmarines:

Productive and impressive! Always had a soft spot for Anvil's near-future scifi stuff, and the N7 aesthetic totally fits (as, I imagine, would Cerberus white/yellow/black as well).

I wonder if it's the hair colour that's throwing off the Breacher test, being a little close to the suit colour? To me at least, the scheme works fine when I cover the head on the image, but looks a little too orangey when the whole thing is visible.

Wow dude, you've been busy

I'll give my shout to the Corsair team, nice to see paint on so many cool sculpts in one place

Indeed, busy busy gamer! Nicely done and hope it was a fun game.

Wow the Corsairs look terrific painted, I'm impressed!

Paradigm wrote:Productive and impressive! Always had a soft spot for Anvil's near-future scifi stuff, and the N7 aesthetic totally fits (as, I imagine, would Cerberus white/yellow/black as well).

I wonder if it's the hair colour that's throwing off the Breacher test, being a little close to the suit colour? To me at least, the scheme works fine when I cover the head on the image, but looks a little too orangey when the whole thing is visible.

I'm not sure, but at this moment I'm not happy with it at all. I'll probably need to try some options at the very least.

Boss Salvage wrote:Wow dude, you've been busy

I'll give my shout to the Corsair team, nice to see paint on so many cool sculpts in one place

warboss wrote:Indeed, busy busy gamer! Nicely done and hope it was a fun game.

The Red Hobbit wrote:Wow the Corsairs look terrific painted, I'm impressed!

I'll pass the compliments to the painter

As to the game itself, well... turns out I played a Compendium list, Imperial Guard, all with regular guard, and it seems that they have... issues. They can't really do much by themselves other than ping people and hope for the best, and they die fast to basically anything. That plus no special abilities and the orders needing the sergeant to work at all leaves them basically with the special weapons (which you can't double up on).

And then there's the KT actual rules, which are OK, for the most part, but must have the worst rules for terrain, elevation and LoS I've seen in a long while.

Your stuff never ceases to amaze! Went back a dozen pages and makes me want to play Epic40K in 15mm.

What is your current (November 2022) set up? What resin are you using? How are you washing the models? How are you curing them?

Amazing work across all scales as ever - exactly what we all come to this thread for!

Thanks for sharing

 Chairman Aeon wrote:
Your stuff never ceases to amaze! Went back a dozen pages and makes me want to play Epic40K in 15mm.

What is your current (November 2022) set up? What resin are you using? How are you washing the models? How are you curing them?

Well, currently I have a Mars 3 and a Saturn 2, although I'm still test driving the Saturn.

For washing it really depends on wether I'm using "regular" resin or water washable.

For regular resin I have a three tuppers setting. I have three tuppers with alcohol: one is absolutely dirty as all heck, the second is clean-ish and the third is almost clean. I dunk the prints into the dirty one and swhish it around for a minute or so to take out the biggest part of the resin, then the second one to basically clean it, and the third one is kind of for rinsing it and giving the last step.

Then for water washable I have an ultrasonic cleaner, a big 10 liters one that I can either use as is (for bigger models) os I can put a smaller container inside with the prints and water. I usually give it a two or three 15-minutes programs, swqapping the water for each.

As for curing I have a wash & clean station (I've ended using it mostly just for curing, but it's good). 2 minutes on a side, 2 minutes the other, and done.


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 IGtR= wrote:
Amazing work across all scales as ever - exactly what we all come to this thread for!

Thanks for sharing

Glad you like it

Thanks for the run down on your set up. I’m thinking I might pick up some extra vats to bee able to swap resins based on needs and costs.

Now print on my man!

So this weekend's haul:

Printed another KT for a friend, this time Phobos marines:





I helped him mod some of the models (like the sniper, adding the long barrel) and taught him to add shoulderpad emblems:



Also, scenic bases:




The Vipers are not complete, but are advancing:



Also I just bought a samurai 15mm game by Peter Pig, Battles in the Age of War (BAW)... so obviously I have printed bases and minis to at leat get an idea of it ^^

Most of the units are formed by 30x30mm bases (30x40 for generals and cavalry, 40x40 for the daimyo and some more, but the base is that):



This would be a full basic unit of armoured ashigaru with spears (you can mix bases in units, except for arquebuses and bows in the same unit):



Now, armies are made of multiple clans' troops, usually two to four clans per army. These are two small clans, with the general of each (the bigger base in the middle of the samurai units) backed by units of ashigaru:




The minis are from this KS, which I backed a while ago and I jast just looking for something to use them for xD:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smolminiatures/samurai-warfare-smol-miniatures?lang=es

Now, the minis themselves are fantastic, although the supports have some issues and I got a fair amount of failures (I guess I'll need to revise the supports)...but they are very, very fragile, particularly, of course, the nageyaris, but all sashimono, polearms, etc are pretty dainty.

They have a couple of sets of modular minis (samurai and ashigaru), so I will probably be printing those, which have empty hands with no weapons and holes, and use metal pins or something like that.

I first printed the bases 2mm thick, but afterwards decided to make them 4mm thick instead, for ease of picking.

The tiny sand details on those bases is awesome.

 Fluid_Fox wrote:
The tiny sand details on those bases is awesome.

They are really crisp, yeah

New test for the gothic void troopers:




I've been just told it's basically Buzz Lightyear's scheme ^^, but I really wanted to give the new contrast purple a go.

No real effor here: the purple is contrast, and all the rest is speed paints except for the metals, with no extra details save for the face, which I started with speed paint flesh and then detailed a bit.

Finished painting the Vipers

And I'll call the Baroness done, pending finishing the base ^^

I blinged her out more than usual because I wanted to give her a bit of interest, what with her being black on black over black and all that >_>

Great work! Really love the bill on the vipers helmet.

Is there a tutorial somewhere on how you add and remove the emblems? Your work on them looks so crisp!

 Psychopomp wrote:
Is there a tutorial somewhere on how you add and remove the emblems? Your work on them looks so crisp!

Not that I know of, but it's really quite simple:

First, open 3D Builder and the file you want to modify, like for example, a shoulder pad on a mini:



Then you select it, and on the Edit tab, you select "Emboss" ("relieve" in the image, because it's in spanish):



Once here, you'll see multiple options to emboss text and images on a 3d file, play around with them ^^. If you want to emboss an image, though, you need it to be a vector image, like a png file for example.



Choose what you wanna do and where, and done!

Interesting. I'll have to muck about with it some over the long weekend.

Thank you!

So, I'm still getting the hang of the Saturn 2, and the lowering of temperatures is exacerbating my not getting the hang of it.

I guess I need to stop procrastinating and order the pieces I need to make the enclosure heater >_>

Anyways, This week I decided to run a couple busts from Loot Studios, because I had them and because As I said, I need to run the damn thing xD.

I made two variants of the same bust (different heads) basically because they both fit in the plate:




And I have to say, they look fantastic... I'll probably end up priming them metal, staining them and using them as christmas presents for someone ^^.

I also bought the incredibly cool Warforged Voidwalker set from Napking at Cults and made a unit of Tyrant Siege termies that's incredibly imposing (the launchers are not glued):




I had some issues with the presupports on the S2 (all torsos and legs failed, as well as one shoulder pad, an arm, a couple heads and all the combi bolters, meaning I had to run a vat clean process and try again after adding some supports.

I ended up running the same batch on both the S2 and the M3, and the M3 ran it perfectly, but the S2 still had two failures (one set of legs, which delaminated and a torso, which fell off even with the added supports), so it seems that it might be something to do with either the cold (bigger vat, more resin, so it's colder) or maybe with the elevation speeds or timing... so it needs additional testing I guess.

Still, now I have four extra bodies that I'll have to do something with ^^.

Also, the minis are... hefty as all hell, and BIG:

See here compared with plastic Tartaros and Cataphracts:




...and here compared with a printed assault beakie, which itself is maybe half a milimeter shorter than a primaris:



So yeah, big bois, as the doctor ordered.

Those are some lovely clean prints! The Terminators are great, defintely appropriately chunky without looking stocky or motionless.

Given the prevalence of closer-to-true-scale power armour and terminators out there from various STL sculptors, I'm now wonderingif anyone has done an upscaled Dreadnought to go with them....

 Paradigm wrote:
Those are some lovely clean prints! The Terminators are great, defintely appropriately chunky without looking stocky or motionless.

Given the prevalence of closer-to-true-scale power armour and terminators out there from various STL sculptors, I'm now wonderingif anyone has done an upscaled Dreadnought to go with them....

Pretty sure ther must be some out there, but maybe as there's usually not whole marines, people don't feel the need. Plus, there's the Primaris dread too.

Painted the first of the termies to test the scheme and the details:

That is a solid slab of a terminator! Extra imposing with paint. I love the oversized details, like the knuckle screws and pauldron venting.

Loot busts look really good. Think you'll mess with any of their props? Their BF sale wasn't remotely what I wanted it to be, but I was able to pick up a few sets I've really wanted for home brewed sci-fi gaming. Loot does really good space horror sets, sucks that their releases are so (comparatively) expensive - and I didn't even know they existed until Damnation targeted ads found me I guess that's the cost of exclusivity and not signing up with MMF or similar. (That said, the new website is much nicer to work with than the last one.)

This weekend I've printed a batch of the really excellent "not Armageddon" troopers fron Brother Varus at Cults (the same one who designed the Epic beakies):

Printed at 15mm scale:



Remember, these fethers are meant for Epic scale! the detail is insane.

Some size comparisons:





Printed at 25 microns on the Saturn 2, and they are smooooth



Almost enough for a full platoon:



And a quick paint test:

These look great, but forgive me. This was all I could see.

They look great! What is the measured height of the figs? I think the scale and detail are stellar.

 bbb wrote:
These look great, but forgive me. This was all I could see.

Hah! I love it ^^


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 warboss wrote:
They look great! What is the measured height of the figs? I think the scale and detail are stellar.

The originals have a "6mm" and "15mm" scale, but I scaled those last ones to 110% to better fit the minis I already have printed. They're about 15mm to the eyes.

Thanks. Works for me! What is your favorite scale for use with Epic specifically? Is there a benefit to scaling down 15mm to 10mm for added detail at the risk of too thin bits on occasion?

 warboss wrote:
Thanks. Works for me! What is your favorite scale for use with Epic specifically? Is there a benefit to scaling down 15mm to 10mm for added detail at the risk of too thin bits on occasion?

For Epic I don't worry too much about scale for infantry miniatures, as at that size it usually hardly matters, but I'm partial to the scale of the galactic crusaders, which are themselves scaled as the AT minis (1/4 of 40k).

But yes, they need to be made for the scale to avoid stuff being toofragile (and even so... sometimes is hard xD).

Testing some of the new Vallejo zpress colors on stuff I had printed:

 Albertorius wrote:

 warboss wrote:
Thanks. Works for me! What is your favorite scale for use with Epic specifically? Is there a benefit to scaling down 15mm to 10mm for added detail at the risk of too thin bits on occasion?

For Epic I don't worry too much about scale for infantry miniatures, as at that size it usually hardly matters, but I'm partial to the scale of the galactic crusaders, which are themselves scaled as the AT minis (1/4 of 40k).

But yes, they need to be made for the scale to avoid stuff being toofragile (and even so... sometimes is hard xD).

I scaled my galactic crusaders up by 8% to bring them to 8mm to the eye (the most recent marine models being 32mm to the eye). I somewhat regret it though, because it makes it harder to fit them on the 40x12mm strip bases, I think I'm gonna have to print my own 40x15-ish bases so that they can be staggered on the bases.

Though that extra 8% does make them a bit nicer to paint, lol.

Skin looks pretty solid, nice wood. The metal isn't xpress is it? I know speedpaint has some metal coming out.

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Skin looks pretty solid, nice wood. The metal isn't xpress is it? I know speedpaint has some metal coming out.

No, metals are Vallejo metal colors, of which I'm a big fan

This weekend I painted one of the new plastic 30k Contemptor dreads, and I've just finished its printed brother:






That makes a total of 4 painted IW dreads, two plastic and two printed.

The metal is very convincing. So much that I wonder whether they a Rust Warriors.

brumbaer wrote:
The metal is very convincing. So much that I wonder whether they a Rust Warriors.

They kind of are, yes ^^. Side effect of being Iron instead of Stainless Steel I guess . Thanks!

Quick print this weekend, after about a month being too sick to bother >_>

I printed a not really all that full plate of the absolutely beautiful vehicles from The Lazy Forger's Enlisted range:



And I've painted a test one to both show all the detail and see how they look painted in a fast-ish scheme:




All in all, very happy with the results... but now I wanna make them at 15mm. I'm sure they'll look incredible.

New weekend, new printed plate ^_^

Yesterday night I prepped a plate with some stuff I needed for today's Lancer game, which we're taking out of hiatus.

The PCs got new licenses and new equipment, so it was a good point to redesign their frames. Also, as the Saturn 2's plate has more than enough space fir it, I also printed some vehicles for Evergreen's militia and turret drones, which my players seem to like quite a bit, and personalized bases with the PCs' callsign and the name of their frames:

Vehicles:






A size comparison of the original vehicles at 6mm vs the 15mm version I printed now:



Turret Drones:



And the family photo of all the PCs' new frames:



Cruzado's Frame, Gargatua, is based off an older version of GMS' Everest, the Sagarmatha, which is bigger but not quite as versatile. He's added some equipment from IPS-N's Drake license to enhance the Sagarmatha's offensive and defensive capabilities:






Norda's Frame, Yerina, has extra EW and hacking systems taken from HORUS licenses and from her studies on the wrecks from Evergreen's past, plus nexus drone deployers and a prototype gun she's still working on:






Toyboy's Frame, KRK 02, uses some of the equipment from the Metalmark's license to add stealth and invisibility capabilities to his frame to help him to more easily apply his multiple close combat weaponry, and a bigass howitzer in case he can't get to the enemy:






And lastly Silbido's Frame, Víbora, adds a limited flight/jump ramjet to help him relocate to the best possible position from which to use the anti-materiel rifle to the best effect, with some nexus deployers in case some enemy decides to close in:






Sources:

- The vehicles are from the designer TheLazyForger, from his excellent "The Enlisted" range. They have just financed a full on rules system for their ranges, check it out at MMF
- The turrets are from DAO Factory, this month's guest designer from the Patreon The Makers Cult
- The big guy is an upscaled (140%) Ajax suit from the Patreon Anvil Digital, with a wolf skelly head from Thingiverse
- The other three are select parts from a multitude of the incredibly modular and awesome sets from the Patreon Pipermakes

Looks great! I'm very impressed with how crisp the edges are. Did you print them in one piece or assemble some later from parts?

 warboss wrote:
Looks great! I'm very impressed with how crisp the edges are. Did you print them in one piece or assemble some later from parts?

All assembled from parts, using the presupported parts from the Patreons (except the vehicles, which needed better ones after the rescale and the skull head, which was free)

I'm quite happy with Lychee as slicer now, after a few iterations.

This is more or less the plate I printed:



So, not overloaded, not empty.

I've obviously not tried Lychee as I haven't printed since the beginning of the pandemic unfortunately but I'm glad it's an improvement especially with the newer printers.

That's definitely a full plate and obviously worth it given the results! Have you found that paid presupported models reliably print and easily clean up or is it still better to support things yourself manually?

It really depends on the designer: some have really good presupports and other are basically autosupports, and hence either worthless or detail- killing.

How do you evaluate them? Do you open them up in the slicer and check layer by layer for islands? Or do you test print a run by a designer to see if they're competent?

 warboss wrote:
How do you evaluate them? Do you open them up in the slicer and check layer by layer for islands? Or do you test print a run by a designer to see if they're competent?

Mostly by eyeball mark 1 and an islands check (Lychee autodetecs islands, for example).

Great looking mechs, appreciate the customizing work to fit the game. Name plates are a nice touch as well. Super good vehicles too! Thanks for the sources!

Also shout-out to Lychee, I switched over some time ago and haven't gone back.

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Great looking mechs, appreciate the customizing work to fit the game. Name plates are a nice touch as well. Super good vehicles too! Thanks for the sources!

Also shout-out to Lychee, I switched over some time ago and haven't gone back.

Thank you! I must admit that playing a campaign is a great excuse to do cool stuff and actually print and paint things to be used, for a change xD

This weekend I also tested Lychee's filament slicer, and it worked pretty decently too.

I printed two Battletech hills, a single hex one and a three hexes one:


(granted, as I covered it, there's not much to see about the print quality ^^)



They paint up fast, too:





Got the turrets painted already, using xpress paints:



And I also finished Silbido's ride, Víbora. The player asked me to paint it with camo, so I tried to obligue:

Víbora looks a treat, extra credit for the camo turfing

How do you like Xpress? Compared to Speed and Contrast?

I love the camo on that one

Boss Salvage wrote:Víbora looks a treat, extra credit for the camo turfing

How do you like Xpress? Compared to Speed and Contrast?

Thank you! ^^

So far, the Xpress paints flow great and are very nice to play with, much easier to thin down and get to it. The extra drying time is also nice for blending or putting the paint where you actually want it, so that's really nice.

OTOH, the current range is very limited, particularly in the browns category.

Fluid_Fox wrote:I love the camo on that one

Thank you kindly

Painted the rest of the PCs' rides for our Lancer campaign:





Unfortunately the green speed paint of the big guy reactivated after I washed it, leaving skid marks :(. Ah well.

Getting back to the FDM printer lately, as I wanted to print a fair amount of buildings, hills and the like:



I'm also in the process of fine-tuning the printer, because I had a big case of banding that I'm trying to fix. Little by little, I'm getting better prints:

Here you can see a building (primed metal) that I printed a while ago that shows heavy vertical banding, and the last thing I printed:





Also, starting to paint them:



Must admit, they look pretty cool en masse:

Great looking buildings indeed, especially cool that they're on hexes for grid purposes. Did you add the hexes yourself or are these available somewhere?

Also! The rest of the Lancer crew is rad, Toyboy's derezzing / camo cubes being the flashiest effect (so much edge highlighting!)

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Great looking buildings indeed, especially cool that they're on hexes for grid purposes. Did you add the hexes yourself or are these available somewhere?

Also! The rest of the Lancer crew is rad, Toyboy's derezzing / camo cubes being the flashiest effect (so much edge highlighting!)

Thanks! The fdm buildings are from the hextech line at steewarriors.com, and they come with and without hexes (and with flat/weighted bottoms, in case you wanna add a bit of heft to them). They all print without supports, so it's quite user-friendly. I've also been printing Battletech hill sets from the same designer, and they're also pretty great.

Great looking stuff! What FDM printer do you have? Those look super crisp.

Nicely done! How long were the print times for those buildings on average?

 bbb wrote:
Great looking stuff! What FDM printer do you have? Those look super crisp.

You think? I'm not completely happy with it yet myself... anyways, I'm using an Artillery Sidewinder X1 with a couple mods.


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 warboss wrote:
Nicely done! How long were the print times for those buildings on average?

It really depends ^^. The smallest ones can be down to a couple hours, and the biggest up to 9-12 hours, at 0.24mm per layer.

The medium ones (the 3-hex skycrapers, or the 4-hexes romboid condos) print in about 4 to 5 hours, on average. The good thing is that you don't need any kind of post processing whatsoever, which takes a while with resin prints.

 Albertorius wrote:

And these resin buildings are from...

 Chairman Aeon wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:

And these resin buildings are from...

The Lazy Forger on MMF. Lovely stuff.

Still on a Battletech mood, as of late ^^

I've been priming and starting to paint buildings:



Also, printed "some" vehicles and IS standard battle armors:



The BA are lovely sculpts, even though a tad bigger than the official toads:



Fun and easy to paint, too, at least at the "be ready to play like, now" level.




I've also started to print the main frames for the StageTop printable gaming table:



They stack really well, which should help for storing them:



By my calculations, I'll need about 15 for 2 Battletech boards:




And I've just got ready for play the vehicles I'll be needing for next friday's game:



Nothing fancy at all, just "table ready".

That's a very pleasing scheme

The buildings are looking awesome as well.

Whew, it's been a minute since I last posted! I've been doing stuff, but... you know, sometimes you lose sight.

Ok, let's start updating this a little bit. First things first, the table is looking good. I've finished printing the 15 frames I need to use it for a Battletech two-maps game. I still need to do the borders and some more legs, but it's looking nice:


It kinda looks like this:




The legs put it high enough to have stuff below it without much of an issue, like minis, boxes, books, or beverages:




As an added benefit, it's just the right size to put it over the small table that's besides the sofa, meaning we can play while loafing around it instead of the dinner table, which is also nice ^^



All the 15 frames locked together:



As you can see, two boards do fit nicely enough:




So yeah, still needs some more stuff, but looking good enough ^^

Did a test rescaling 15mm infantry models to Battletech scale (about the same scale as the one used in the "new" Epic stuff), mostly happy with the results, even though some guns are veeery fiddly:



Checking the scale with other vehicles, mechs and battle armor:




Then we used everything on an Alpha Strike game (variant Capture the Flag rules, with the attacker (ComGuard elements disguised as mercs) having to go grab a black box from a lab inside an urban area defended mostly by conventional militias on a Davion world.

This is how it started (objective is the red marker):



The "mercs" pushed through some mined areas and advanced to the city while the militias jumped to intercept, with almost fanatical bravery from the infantry...



...which was rewarded by being targeted by an extremely effective AS strafer which broke hell onto them:



MVP from the militias were the *RM carriers (the SRM carrires basically deleted a couple mechs by themselves), whereas for the attackers itcertainly were the AS support and the light elements, which managed to grab the black box and run.

Printed another Level-II for a friend, so far looking nice:



I actually printed two versions of the Trebbie, one from MWO and another one much more in line with the classic one. And a Raijin:



Scale shot of the classic Trebuchet with two other trebuchets (same sculpt, one coming from the first print run of the anniversary box, the other from a later one):



The Bombardier has turned out really nice, but it's freaking big! xD. This is a comparison shot with an Archer after scaling it down a bit (like 95% IIRC):




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After that, a change of resin (trying out Jayo ABS-like) and I put on the Saturn plate a whole lotta CP2077 Edgerunners sculpts from Papsikels:

Nice! Was that all in one month? I'd love to see a comparison between that and the Unit9 equivalent but you already know that.

I am sort of new to Battletech, but aren't those Whitworths in picture 3? (with two LRM-10 and three mediums)

Really enjoy seeing the 'mechs as you make them.

warboss wrote:Nice! Was that all in one month? I'd love to see a comparison between that and the Unit9 equivalent but you already know that.

Oh, no, the Edgerunners were all printed in a single plate ^^. I haven't printed any of the Unit 9 stuff yet, so no comparisons just yet xD.

lasgunpacker wrote:I am sort of new to Battletech, but aren't those Whitworths in picture 3? (with two LRM-10 and three mediums)

Really enjoy seeing the 'mechs as you make them.

Do'h! You're absolutely right, I was thinking Whitworth and for some reason my fingers wrote Trebuchet xD

The full Edgerunners plate, after basing:



And some details of the actual models. It's a mixture of named characters and some extras with the same style.

Three cybered up mercs based on the cyberpsycho from the intro:





Details look much better after priming, of course:




And they take paint good, IMHO:







Size wise, they're sizable, but not ginormous:

Where did you get the nice Phawks? I swear I've seen that gun somewhere.

M.

Great paintjob on the cybermercs!

Miguelsan wrote:Where did you get the nice Phawks? I swear I've seen that gun somewhere.

M.

Hm... Thingiverse, I think? There's a Ragic database with a whole lot of links to stuff, both free and paid.

The Red Hobbit wrote:Great paintjob on the cybermercs!

Thank you! For the amount of work they took (not really much at all, mostly contrasts + highlights) I'm pretty happy myself

Some more of the "generics" from the Edgrunners set:

A couple of Maelstrom gangoons:






And the second one painted:




A ripper doc:




A netrunner:




And some characters actually labelled as "Blade Runners":

Named characters, in order of appearance

Sasha Yakovleva, the original crew's runner





And action poses

Those characters are asking for synthwave color schemes.

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:
Those characters are asking for synthwave color schemes.

M.

Not disagreeing here ^^. But I'm not sure I'd be able to do them justice like that xD

Oh boy, am I neglecting this page... let's see

Painted Kiwi, our favorite masked netrunner:




I'm decently happy with her, all told.And she ain't big...






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Seems like I didn't upload here a fair amount of stuff... let's see

Generic mech painted as a test for Moid's Patreon:





Leman Russ proxy on Epic scale, for the same:




Another generic mech, this time more modular, again from Moid:

Some Wargames Atlantic Cultists:





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Printed an Epic 40k Tyranid army, designs from the talented Ankylo Miniatures:




Some closeups:

Genestealers:



Gargoyles:



Warriors and the like:



Bigger bugs:



Dominatrix:



Gun bugs:




Transport bugs:

Lovely stuff, and buttery smooth as always. I'm super jealous

Thak you! I've been slacking off putting some stuff I've been working on here, so I'll try and update it ^^

Some painted bugs; First I tested a scheme using a Carnifex, with contrasts and regular highlights:





After that I did a Zoanthrope:

Couple more tests, this time using Vallejo Xpress paints as a base. It looks really cool, but the "purple" is way too pink, it kinda blends with the flesh:





Third test was with a Hive Tyrant. This I think looks pretty great, and it's actually just a xpress coat and highlights:






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Some more bugs!





Comparison of the trygon and the special "brood mother" with a regular hive tyrant



And gaunts! So cwute!




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After that I bought a Leviathan Psychophage because I thought it would probably look cool as a big biotitan.

And honestly, I think it looks pretty cool side by side with Ankylo's designs



Size wise I think I can use this guy as a hierophant and Ankylo's as hierodules:



I only needed to make a couple of changes to the mini: the skulls being digested under the skin and the marine arm being grabbed by the mouth's tentacle thingies needed to go. The skulls only needed a bit of scraping, and as for the arm, well... a swap was in order:



After that, the only thing needed to do was spruce the base up a bit to sell the scale:





Still only in early painting stages, though.




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Then I got a bit of an ork bug and did a quick paintjob of a dozen Deff Dreads from Red Nebular that I printed a while ago:

Adorable output is adorable. The Nid force is impressive to be sure, nice call on the psychophage, I'm a believer.

The accidental dozen deff dreads are extra adorable <3

YMCA dreadmob! Make it Happen!

Good progress all round.

 Albertorius wrote:


And gaunts! So cwute!

Spoiler:

Hive Fleet Chibi confirmed! Nice work as always and impressive output.

Gah, I way out of date with this.... >_>

Ok, let's see:

I've been working on a kind of special project lately: I kinda wanted to assemble a full 2000 points old school Imperial army, and I decided to use as a template the one from WD 216's battle report, The Scourging of Lammas, changing a couple things around (couple changes in the detachments mainly for aesthetics, removing the space marines and using legio and Imperial Fleet assistance instead) and filling it up to the full two thousands.

This would be the full army footprint before gluing the infantry:



Which, when zooming in, is composed of:

"F" Company, 8th Magdellan Regiment
Captain Morcar with escort and Primaris psyker with two additional Command sections and two Ogryn squads for protection, commanding a full company composed of three regular infantry squads and six heavy weapons squads, with a Demolisher Siege Tank providing support and 4 scout Sentinels as recon elements



4th Armored Company, 8th Magdellan Regiment
Captain August Bach riding the Command Vanquisher LR commanding two full Leman Russ squadrons, with 2 Griffons providing close fire support and 2 Hellhounds to discourage assaults, and two mechanized infantry squads (standard and HW) to intercept any would be assaulters:



1st Artillery Company. 8th Magdellan Regiment
Bombardier-Major Senlac onboard a Bombard Heavy Siege Gun and a Deathstrike Missile Launcher, plus a full battery of six Basilisks, two Hydras for provide AA defense and a mechanized infantry squad to stop assaulters:



Jegun's Charges
Rough Rider Captain Jegun and an additional RR command section plus 6 Rough Rider Squads to act as flankers, with 6 Sentinels providing much needed heavier firepower:



2nd Armored Company, 8th Magdellan Regiment
Captain Hardraade on a Baneblade with a Shadowsword for super heavy hunting (yeah, I only have printed two Baneblades so far, but I'll eventually probably swap it xD)



135th Support Air Wing, Segmentum Ultima Fleet
Just a couple of Marauder bombers to reach out and touch someone:



Legio Gryphonicus Battle Maniple Element
Gladius Rex, Reaver Battle Titan:



The idea here was to not have "ideal" detachments, but rather to have a established army with which one would need to make do and adapt it to the battle's circunstances. Some of the additions are to fill out points or for aesthetics reasons (haven't found yet Epic scale ratlings I like, for example, and I I prefer to field full LR squads instead of pairs) or to have a little bit of everything. The mechanized infantry squads in the armored or artillry detachments are mainly fo aesthetics and in-world sense ^^.

Of all that, so far I've fully painted Gladius Rex, the 2nd Armored Company and Jegun's Charges, while the rest is in various painting stages.











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I also painted up some more artillery for my IWs, that I printed a while ago:





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Printed a full squad of the new Mark IV marines builder done by LoggyK, to update the one he did a long time ago:




IMHO, they look spectacular. Scale-wise, they are scaled to the current HH proportions. Here's some comparisons:

With the old plastic HH sets




With the new Mk VI



With printed Mk IIs and Mk IIIs




And a painted example:







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We got a new player for the Lancer RPG campaign, and he's decided to get the licenses for the Zheng, a close quarters brawler for a penchant for scenery destroying (and creating)






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Some of the IG vehicles painted:




(decided to add a bit of snow here and there to blend them with the stuff with bases)






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Printed some scenery from Grimdark Terrain, and it's lovely! Waaaaay too many pieces, but that same thing makes them incredibly modular.

This is the first test



And based on a strip of MDF





I've printed another half a dozen buildings in different states by now, which I'm painting at the moment.

Also, Btech buildings (based on the ones from the AS box) which are also storage boxes:





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Some very lovely old school orcs and goblins from Warploque Miniatures












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Grom the Paunch! I always loved the character from waaaay back in the day, and this sculpt from Avatars of War is incredible.

I decided to print the "Bane of Dwarfs" version, and all told I'm pretty happy with the paintjob:







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Epic orks!!!

I'm not sure if I posted these here, so... here we go, Ork Speek Freaks:






And the full detachment:



A big ork battlewagon to carry some boyz in style:




After that, I printed a Gargant and a number of stompas

Gargant:




Size-wise, it looks decent (gargants have always been shorter than Imperial Titans):




As to the Stompas, I wanted to scale them so that they'd be a bi shorter than Imperial Knights:





Family photo!



And I painted one xD






Printing Epic Eldar for a friend:




And a pokémon for my nephew xD

The epic armies are fantastic. Great colour schemes and impressive detail for such tiny minis.

Thank you!

Epic scale is great, all in all, it's usually much easier to get good results ^_^.

WOW loads of progress, thanks for catching us up I'll give my shout to the gargant and stompa children, those are some great sculpts cannily scaled. Big fan of Warp's sculpts as well, happy to see you tackle some of those in the ocean of Epic

 Boss Salvage wrote:
WOW loads of progress, thanks for catching us up I'll give my shout to the gargant and stompa children, those are some great sculpts cannily scaled. Big fan of Warp's sculpts as well, happy to see you tackle some of those in the ocean of Epic

Thank you

I guess I kind of have a bit of a theme lately ^^

This week I've been testing a bit the new range of XPress paints, and so far I'm pretty happy with the results:










I also painted the 15mm Swooping Hawks I printed a while ago. Still love them, they're so cwute and nice to paint....

Some Whirlwinds, that I realized I didn't have any painted for the IWs



And also a big blob of jetbikes, because why the hell not ^^

Productive weekend!

Printed a whole lotta Atlas heads to glue on the top of paint bottles:



Like, a lot



Why? Well, so I could prime them white and paint them and be able to tell what the hell color is that inside the bottle xDD




I feel like it will help quite a lot

I also felt like it was the weekend to celebrate the LI release!

So I printed enough parts for 24 dreadnoughts




They look incredibly nice even with the faintest lick of paint (seriously, what in the actual hell were they doing in the paint previews)



And thei I printed a squad of every Sicaran version and thee Kratos squads










A little bit of a size comparison

Talking about Btech, do you have any Dropship/Jumpship/Warship stls around? I'm interested in 3d printing some TRO 2750 stuff, rather than the 3057 versions.

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:
Talking about Btech, do you have any Dropship/Jumpship/Warship stls around? I'm interested in 3d printing some TRO 2750 stuff, rather than the 3057 versions.

M.

There's some out in the wild, yeah, mostly over Cults and thingie, but also in othere places... let me PM you


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There, the tiny dreads are painted.

Thanks Albertorius, I never got into the TRO 3057 remakes. I'm not sure why FASA changed the looks of the warships between TROs but probably is unseen related.

Another line of ships I'd love to see in STL form are the Renegade Legion ones, I remember seeing someone 3d sculpting some for filament printers years ago, but google is no longer helpful finding that kind of obscure information.

M.

Some tiny marines with Crusade era plates:

Mk II tacticals:



Mk III tacticals:



Mk II heavy support (with one Mk III plasma support):



Mk II assault:




All of it printed at 25 microns per layer with Sunlu ABS-like resin on my Saturn 2.

Those atlas heads on the paint bottles is pure genius.

 Fluid_Fox wrote:
Those atlas heads on the paint bottles is pure genius.

Absolutely not my idea, but I must agree... it is a treat ^^