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Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/15 14:33:22


Post by: Albertorius


About a year ago I bought my first 3d printer, a FMD Anycubic i3 Mega. It is a very nice machine that requires very little assembly, so it was kinda perfect for a total novice. I liked it so much that about half a year later I splurged some cash and got a DLP Anycubic Photon. Since then, I've been mostly fething around with stuff, and I'll use this thread to post some of it.

I'l start with one of my forst forays with the i3 Mega: Some walls for Newcromunda!



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/15 19:20:22


Post by: Flinty


They look really good. Did you model them yourself or pick them up online?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/16 07:30:56


Post by: Albertorius


 Flinty wrote:
They look really good. Did you model them yourself or pick them up online?


I downloaded them from Thingiverse, and yeah, they look really cool . These are the ones I'm using:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2742746
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2799190
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2800358
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2803044
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2799472


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Some other early tests, trying to print minis with the FDM printer:

MWO Wolverine:




Goblin warrior from Thingiverse:




MWO Thunderbolt:





Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/16 13:39:27


Post by: warboss


The quality possible on the FDM printer surprises me (in a good way!). I always think of those as only really being usable for the larger scenery.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/16 22:28:00


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
The quality possible on the FDM printer surprises me (in a good way!). I always think of those as only really being usable for the larger scenery.

If you print slowly and the printer is well calibrated, you can do very minute stuff... and if you use a smaller printing head (which I haven't, I'm using a regular 0.4mm one) you can do stuff that compares very well with low def DLP printing.

Still, each printing tech has its best case uses, TBH, and fdm cleaning is much, much harder IMHO, at least when talking about minis.

Some more FDM tests:

Map scale Leopards (low quality [meaning, high layer size for fast print] prints):




Macross Q-Rau:




Macross Gnerl:





Macross Armored VF:





Epic scale Deimos Predator:




40k scale Deimos Rhino:


MWO Atlas:



Generic-ish sorceress mini from Thingiverse (face turnes out kind of crappy but that might be the smoothest print I've made on the Mega):




Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/16 23:12:33


Post by: warboss


How much prep time per fig would you estimate the infantry sized figs (up to the various mechs) take to get them to those states?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/17 06:38:34


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
How much prep time per fig would you estimate the infantry sized figs (up to the various mechs) take to get them to those states?

It really depends on the mini in question. If it has been designed with FDM printing in mind, supports will be minimal and you'll be mostly smoothing things out. For example, from the above the sorceress, and the goblin are almost as-is.

In other cases the pieces will have been split for ease of printing or poseability, which will make prep lenghtier but will get you good results (of the above, the Gnerl and the Q-Rau were split):



In other cases, though, you will need supports, which means that you will need to remove those supports... and the more complex the mini is, the harder to remove those are. This was the case of the Armored VF above, which came out from the printing bed like so:



Cleaning this one up was a fething nightmare, let me tell you. That one might have been what finally prompted me to splurge and get a Photon. And boy, does it make a difference!



OTOH, resing support cleaning is really easy in comparison ^_^


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/17 14:33:38


Post by: warboss


Thanks.. and, yeah.. wow... that veritech looks sisyphean in terms of the cleanup. With your photon, do you have an option as to what size connection to the actual model you can use for the supports? (to minimize the possible damage to surface detail/cleanup effort) I'd be curious if for smaller 25-35mm infantry sized figures printed in one piece if that affects print stability. In regards to your earlier comment about nozzle diameter, this video popped up in my youtube recommended feed this morning and might be of use. I've only watched a few minutes and apologies if it covers stuff you already know. The first 6 minutes are basically warnings, precautions, and reasons why you shouldn't change to a smaller diameter nozzle but there is a noticeable difference in the quality of the baby benchy boat model at the 6:30 mark. It's a bit of a moot point though as you've already got a good resin printer though and not worth spending almost 24 hours to print a 35mm figure.




Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/18 06:37:29


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Thanks.. and, yeah.. wow... that veritech looks sisyphean in terms of the cleanup. With your photon, do you have an option as to what size connection to the actual model you can use for the supports? (to minimize the possible damage to surface detail/cleanup effort)

Yeah, both the official Anycubic slicer and Chitubox allow multiple support sizes, as well as automatic and manual placement, and you can combine support sizes in the same print. Chitubox have more detailed options, though.

I'd be curious if for smaller 25-35mm infantry sized figures printed in one piece if that affects print stability.

Can't say I've had much of a problem with them.

In regards to your earlier comment about nozzle diameter, this video popped up in my youtube recommended feed this morning and might be of use. I've only watched a few minutes and apologies if it covers stuff you already know. The first 6 minutes are basically warnings, precautions, and reasons why you shouldn't change to a smaller diameter nozzle but there is a noticeable difference in the quality of the baby benchy boat model at the 6:30 mark. It's a bit of a moot point though as you've already got a good resin printer though and not worth spending almost 24 hours to print a 35mm figure.

One of the usually overlooked perks of using a smaller noozle is that supports are far easier to remove. But yeah, they come with their own sets of problems, and given the costs, well... honestly speaking, I feel it's best to use FDM printers for what they're best at.

Now, as I said, I ended up getting a resin printer too (it was on sale at the time), and boy, does it make a difference! These were my first prints, and the quality absolutely blew me away:


(The fething gun cannon is fething hollow! At that size! That's bonkers)




(Again, just for clarity )

After cleanup, I ended up with this:






I didn't stop using the FDM printer, of course. I just... started using it for other stuff. Like custom dice:





And... you know, stuff ^^



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/19 03:17:10


Post by: Fajita Fan


I really need to get my library to buy a Photon, our FDM printer really struggles to do my conversion bits.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/23 07:56:20


Post by: Albertorius


After my first prints using the newfangled Photon, I continued doing some more tests:





And then I started to try and push the limits of the printer further... until then I had only printed stuff at 50 microns per layer, which, as far as it goes, is actually the thicker recommended layer height. So next I tried to print the same model at 50 microns and again at 20 microns, to try to see how much of a difference would that make. Yhis is the mini I tried it with:



Primed, because that green gak doesn't really takes well to photos:



Now, first things first: 50 microns is more than enough definition for most things, and works really well for minis. But still, as you can see the difference is noticeable in photos (almost not at all with the naked eye, though). And it is even moreso when you actually zoom in:

50 microns:



20 microns:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/23 14:46:57


Post by: warboss


I wonder how the recently added anti-aliasing would affect the 50 micron layer. I'd imagine that it wouldn't do anything for the 20 as I can't see any layer lines there. Were the orientations on the print bed the same for both?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/23 15:04:35


Post by: Albertorius


Yep, exact same orientation for both.

As to the antialising, remember that it only helps with the pixelation of each layer: it won't help with the vertical layering per se.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/07/23 15:40:25


Post by: John Prins


50 microns seems to be approximating the surface texture of lead free pewter castings. 20 microns approaches injection plastic or resin casting. Thanks for blogging this.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/02 21:33:59


Post by: Albertorius


It's been a bit more than a month, and well... I've been doing stuff ^^

With the advent of the new Adeptus Titanicus I had already been mulling around the idea of doing some Epic stuff, and the Apocalypse ruleset kinda set me to do it, as I felt it could be worth to test it that way. So... I started with these:




Those are regular Epic size, but honestly... I feel they work well enough with AT, really:





They also paint up really, really well, IMHO:





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The logical step, then, was Armigers of course





...and then I thought smaller:



Just out of the vat and still wet. I could have filled more the bed, but well... that's a 2-hours print, so...



This is what they look like just of of the cleaning. The detail is insane, and I've printed those at "low" detail settings!




Yeah, I know they don't look like much unpainted... but they do gain a lot with a lick of paint:




Those were painted in about 5 minutes and what it took to dry the wash.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/02 22:20:20


Post by: warboss


Nicely done! The finish on the tiny marines is smoother than expected. Have you noticed a difference in that regard between your resin printers?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/02 22:36:17


Post by: Albertorius


I still haven't painted any Epic infantry using the Mars, so not so far


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Once I saw that a Horus Heresy Space Marine force was pretty doable, I turned my eyes again to ye olde anvil of the Emperor:




I love how they look side by side with marines:




The bases, by the way, were printed on a fdm printer





Once again, a tiny bit of paint works miracles:



After seeing that infantry was withing my grasp, I started to churn more armor. Firstly, some Chimeras and more russes:



I... kinda made a whole buncha them





I love how they look, TBH:




And then... well, then bigger stuff, you know:








For size:





This is all I've ended printing, armor-wise, but I still have only assembled like one third of the infantry I made...



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/03 19:20:56


Post by: MDSW


What great work - the resin printers do such a good job. You have an excellent armored force!!

Do you find the resin cost with all you have printed a bit much or is it manageable?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/03 19:26:26


Post by: Albertorius


 MDSW wrote:
What great work - the resin printers do such a good job. You have an excellent armored force!!

Do you find the resin cost with all you have printed a bit much or is it manageable?


IME, more than manageable. All that, plus about thrice as many infantry more, plus all the supports, plus some other assorted stuff for a friend's boargame might have been... maybe half a liter of resin. Or about €23.


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Lately I've been playing a campaign of Maho Shojo, an upcoming PbtA RPG about magical girls that's going to be released sometime this year. We had a blast. This was our team, the Uber Fraus, with a mythical norse theme:











Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/03 19:58:01


Post by: MDSW


Killer!!!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/03 21:42:04


Post by: warboss


The chibi is strong with this one.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/04 09:31:41


Post by: Albertorius


Last week I tested the Lancer RPG for the first time. It's a very interesting, tactical mech combat RPG with deep customization, and we got hooked. And well, one thing led to another and...

I started with these guys



(btw, contrast paints over metallic coat gives a lovely metallic color)



Then I went "eh, why the hell not", and started testing out sizes, and... (the current Btech box mechs are there for size comparisons)












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And this is my very first "own" miniature. I posed this one using the destophero beta using their current assets, and I'm really happy with how it looks, and with what it means for the future. I mean, I "designed" this in the morning and had the mini by lunchtime! That's bonkers!

(the closed fist arm din't print correctly, though. I need better supports there)





Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/04 14:00:44


Post by: MDSW


Great!! The design feature you have is great, as i have not jumped into that aspect yet, but it would have taken my Ender 3 the better part of the workday to print that in the highest resolution.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/04 16:57:19


Post by: Albertorius


 MDSW wrote:
Great!! The design feature you have is great, as i have not jumped into that aspect yet, but it would have taken my Ender 3 the better part of the workday to print that in the highest resolution.


In this case I printed it at 50 microns per layer, and it took about 2 hours and a half to print, which is not bad. Of course, printing 6 would have taken exactly the same time...


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/04 17:34:05


Post by: warboss


 Albertorius wrote:

And this is my very first "own" miniature. I posed this one using the destophero beta using their current assets, and I'm really happy with how it looks, and with what it means for the future. I mean, I "designed" this in the morning and had the mini by lunchtime! That's bonkers!

(the closed fist arm din't print correctly, though. I need better supports there)

Spoiler:




I like it. Is that a heroforge style plug and play service or have you branched out into 3d modelling?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/04 20:39:36


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
 Albertorius wrote:

And this is my very first "own" miniature. I posed this one using the destophero beta using their current assets, and I'm really happy with how it looks, and with what it means for the future. I mean, I "designed" this in the morning and had the mini by lunchtime! That's bonkers!

(the closed fist arm din't print correctly, though. I need better supports there)

Spoiler:




I like it. Is that a heroforge style plug and play service or have you branched out into 3d modelling?


Heroforge style but currently much more involved (I had to close that empty hand, and each digit has three joints... >_&gt. The second iteration of DesktopHero is very much in beta yet, so the amount of assets is quite limited, currently.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/05 03:09:30


Post by: Fajita Fan


I love those Epic tanks for AT and Battlemechs sooooooo much!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/07 11:43:59


Post by: Albertorius


 Fajita Fan wrote:
I love those Epic tanks for AT and Battlemechs sooooooo much!


Thanks! I'm really happy about how they turned out, tbh. Epic was something that I always liked to get heavily into, but at the time I got there GW prices were kinda stupid high...

Also, I just printed these feudal world IG regiment troops:




I'm trying to fill up as much of the building plate as I can, for this kinda stuff:



Also working on a City of Tarok cottage:




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A very fast and dirty paint test:






Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/08 13:37:49


Post by: Fajita Fan


I really wish I could get my hands on a resin printer.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/08 13:59:52


Post by: warboss


Looks great, Albertorius. Were those at 50 microns? You can definitely see the difference in the details with models purpose built for printing as compared with the more shallow details on my first test print.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/08 17:26:09


Post by: Albertorius


Fajita Fan wrote:I really wish I could get my hands on a resin printer.


It's not really all that expensive anymore... at least when compared with starting a new GW game, for example

warboss wrote:Looks great, Albertorius. Were those at 50 microns? You can definitely see the difference in the details with models purpose built for printing as compared with the more shallow details on my first test print.

Those have indeed been printed at 50 microns, and yeah, being made specifically as minis makes a world of a difference.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/08 22:11:51


Post by: IGtR=


Wow, the tech is moving fast in this space! Great execution of prints


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/14 19:10:09


Post by: Albertorius


 IGtR= wrote:
Wow, the tech is moving fast in this space! Great execution of prints

Thanks! I'm quite happy on how they turn out, tbh.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/14 22:40:09


Post by: Fajita Fan


I'm working on getting my office a resin printer, we have the money but it's hard sometimes getting people to spend on money on my toys *AHEM* work devices.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/16 06:36:31


Post by: Albertorius


 Fajita Fan wrote:
I'm working on getting my office a resin printer, we have the money but it's hard sometimes getting people to spend on money on my toys *AHEM* work devices.


I've ended up basically assembling a workshop at home for this stuff >_>

This weekend I've printed a couple of Marauder Destroyers, scaled for AI. They are... big. Like really fething big. Like "it almost doesn't fit into the printing bed" big:




I really like the end result, though, and it was all a single piece:






And even with the amount and size of supports I added (I think I put a lot more than needed, and most of those were big ones), the backside has printed beautifully:






Plus, as I said before... BIG:




Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/16 16:09:44


Post by: warboss


Those look epic! Figuratively and literally.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/16 16:53:03


Post by: Fajita Fan


I'm iffy on printing models that are sold but that's just me. I'm all about weapons, terrain, and conversions though.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/17 22:29:21


Post by: Albertorius


Painted it up, so here it is!






Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/17 22:33:38


Post by: brumbaer


Looks very good.
Did you design it yourself ?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/18 01:53:17


Post by: warboss


It clearly needs more centerline guns and bombs on the racks. Looks very dangerous!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/18 06:19:01


Post by: Modock


Amazing prints, really! Congrats.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/18 07:38:21


Post by: Albertorius


brumbaer wrote:
Looks very good.
Did you design it yourself ?


Afraid I'm not at that level yet ^^


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 Modock wrote:
Amazing prints, really! Congrats.


Thanks! I'm slowly getting the hang of it


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/18 15:38:36


Post by: MDSW


Outstanding!!!

...and, as far as printing things that are currently sold, if there is a 3D stl file out there and you are not mass printing to sell everywhere, that works for me.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/23 06:56:04


Post by: Albertorius


Honestly, mass printing for selling is not really very appealing to me, given printing times and all the cleanup you have to do. As far as "existing things" (I mean, the Marauder above is actually a design from scratch) it will also help me do things like changing the scale.

Lik,e for example, this weekend I've disassembled my fdm printer to give it a much needed maintenance. I've also changed the hotend and the stepper motor, oiled it, cleaned all the muck... you know, stuff. After reassembling it, I made some test prints to check calibration.

But well, cubes are sort of boring:



I liked how they ended up looking (for fdm I mean) so I decided to do a full bed print:



Now I sort of want to print all of the rest in color-appropiate plastic and hang them up my wall ^^



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/23 13:03:11


Post by: MDSW


Very cool! On some of the emblems, you might try if your slicer has an 'enable ironing' setting, as when I use it in Cura it smooths out the top of prints just like glass - takes it a bit longer to print, though...


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/23 14:18:20


Post by: Albertorius


I have tried it sometimes, but the results so far haven't been very encouraging, tbh.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/23 21:23:57


Post by: IGtR=


Love seeing the experiments.

Everything you do is pretty impressive, and I this really is starting to look like the future


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/24 00:17:31


Post by: warboss


Looks great and definitely a testiment to the strengths of having a solid 3d printer for larger projects. How much time did that biggest battletech placard take to finish?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/25 06:32:13


Post by: Albertorius


IGtR= wrote:Love seeing the experiments.

Everything you do is pretty impressive, and I this really is starting to look like the future

Thanks for the kind words

I agree, we're currently living in the freaking future, and I personally am loving it.

warboss wrote:Looks great and definitely a testiment to the strengths of having a solid 3d printer for larger projects. How much time did that biggest battletech placard take to finish?


The big one took about 11 hours, but that's only because I printed it using the "extra quality" settings I've prepared to print scenery, meaning small layers (0.12mm) and slow movements. I probably could have printed it in half the time using the regular settings and it would have looked more or less the same.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/29 15:12:01


Post by: petrov27


Your 3D prints are really fantastic - quite a production line going - very impressive!

Just picked up a Photon here and starting to have some luck with it - curious - what resins have you had the best results with on yours? Your prints seem crisper on the detail vs. what I have done with mine so far.... Thx!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/09/30 06:34:21


Post by: Albertorius


petrov27 wrote:
Your 3D prints are really fantastic - quite a production line going - very impressive!

Just picked up a Photon here and starting to have some luck with it - curious - what resins have you had the best results with on yours? Your prints seem crisper on the detail vs. what I have done with mine so far.... Thx!


Thanks!

Well, I've found that usually the most important thing tends to be finding the sweet spot in curing time per layer for the resin you're using. Too long and your prints will look coarser, big bigger layer lines. Too short and you might end up having to scrap a failed print off the fep.

It's a bit of a trial and error thing, but for the Photon there's a "latitude test" that you really should use for every new resin you wanna use:

https://github.com/altLab/photon-resin-calibration

Follow the instructions there and find out the sweet spot for your printer and resin. That will help, I assure you.

Personally, I've had some problems with a batch of Anycubic resin that they sent me expired (so that wasn't really a surprise) and sometimes with the more transparent ones. I've got the best results using Elegoo fast grey resin (and the new "ABS-like" formula they're using) and the FunToDo white. Between those two, I'd pick Elegoo because you can get it off Amazon next day delivery at a very competitive price and because the sweet spot in time is much shorter (7-8 seconds per layer for the Elegoo at 50 microns versus 12 for the FunToDo).


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/10/13 15:35:14


Post by: Albertorius


Metal Weekend!

This weekend I've decided to design some stuff to spruce up my 30k loyal Iron Warriors:

First, I remixed some very nice Mk III and Mk IV shoulder pads I found with the IW logo:



The design fits perfectly over regular SM arms:



Then, as I liked the results, I decided to make me some breacher shields, as I don't have any and I've always liked how they look:




All in all, I'm really happy with them


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/10/13 15:39:39


Post by: Flinty


They look great... and I thought they looked familiar

Shoulder Pads for Warriors in Iron found on #Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3912640


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/10/13 15:51:18


Post by: Albertorius


 Flinty wrote:
They look great... and I thought they looked familiar

Shoulder Pads for Warriors in Iron found on #Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3912640


Ahahahah, guilty ^^

I haven't uploaded the shields yet, but I will.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/10/13 17:10:12


Post by: warboss


I didn't know you were on there. Followed!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/10/15 01:56:35


Post by: Ouze


 Albertorius wrote:
[Personally, I've had some problems with a batch of Anycubic resin that they sent me expired (so that wasn't really a surprise)


If you're referring to the date on the bottle, that's the manufacturing date, not the expiration date. Resin is good for at a minimum of 2 years when properly stored, so no resin produced by Anycubic has yet expired.

I'm not discounting you may have gotten a bad bottle, of course - it happens.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/10/15 06:32:17


Post by: Albertorius


 Ouze wrote:
 Albertorius wrote:
[Personally, I've had some problems with a batch of Anycubic resin that they sent me expired (so that wasn't really a surprise)


If you're referring to the date on the bottle, that's the manufacturing date, not the expiration date. Resin is good for at a minimum of 2 years when properly stored, so no resin produced by Anycubic has yet expired.

I'm not discounting you may have gotten a bad bottle, of course - it happens.

Well, if it was the manufacturing date, it was made in the future, as it was a month after I got it... Problem is I didn't actually check until a while later, as I was using other bottle.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/10/15 18:15:15


Post by: Ouze


Oops, looks like they changed it just to avoid that sort of confusion.

Nevertheless, I stand by my contention that as Anycubic has only been manufacturing resin for about a year and a half, nothing they have produced has expired due to old age; and I don't doubt at all you got a bad bottle, it definitely happens. If it was improperly stored hot enough prior to you receiving it, I think that would do it regardless of when it was manufactured.

By the way, have you ever tried the bio-resin made by eSun? It's pretty terrific - strong, easy to use, just a little flex so it's not brittle. The downsides are the bottles are awful and it's an absolutely hideous color... but we paint our prints so whatever.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/10/16 08:42:15


Post by: Albertorius


 Ouze wrote:
Oops, looks like they changed it just to avoid that sort of confusion.

Nevertheless, I stand by my contention that as Anycubic has only been manufacturing resin for about a year and a half, nothing they have produced has expired due to old age; and I don't doubt at all you got a bad bottle, it definitely happens. If it was improperly stored hot enough prior to you receiving it, I think that would do it regardless of when it was manufactured.


Well, I'm not really sure either way, but it really, really doesn't print >_>. I can say that I'm storing it properly, but other than that... yeah

By the way, have you ever tried the bio-resin made by eSun? It's pretty terrific - strong, easy to use, just a little flex so it's not brittle. The downsides are the bottles are awful and it's an absolutely hideous color... but we paint our prints so whatever.

No, I haven't yet: So far I've used Anycubic, FunToDo and Elegoo resins.

I'm pretty interested in eSun's water washable one, as it would make my life much easier.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/10/18 19:14:27


Post by: MDSW


Any reasonable sources for the eSun water soluble resin? I saw the great Youtube review, but am having trouble finding available, like on Amazon, etc.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/10/19 12:48:46


Post by: Albertorius


 MDSW wrote:
Any reasonable sources for the eSun water soluble resin? I saw the great Youtube review, but am having trouble finding available, like on Amazon, etc.


Nothing so far outside from Aliexpress, I'm afraid.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/05 22:09:17


Post by: lord_blackfang


Man, great thread. I am almost set on getting the Mega next week when the Chinese have their massive sales on 11/11 and it will be below 200€. The Photon stuff looks ace, but resin is nasty stuff, right? Do you have your printers in your living area?

PS for anyone reading, the Photon is 260€ on Amazon.de right now. You could literally get both the Mega and the Photon for the cost of 2 new Necromunda starters


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/06 00:25:21


Post by: Ouze


I keep my printers in an upstairs bedroom, and when I am actively printing, the door is closed and there is a fan in the window venting outside, so the whole room is negative pressure.

I'm not sure that resin is any less safe than FDM printing, which is more unsafe then previously thought - a study recently found FDM printing emits significant levels of VOCs.

So regardless of which you get, use adequate ventilation. For the resin printing, you also want gloves - getting uncured resin on your skin can cause allergic reactions at a minimum.

I have the I3 Mega, the Photon, and the Photon S. They're all great printers.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/06 00:55:35


Post by: petrov27


The green resin that came with my Photon I thought smelled powerful bad, yet the Eegloo Gray resin I went with after some suggestions smells not bad or near as strong - oddly I kinda like the smell of it but maybe I am weird lol

So changing resins may make a big difference to you on that front. For my part I have it in my basement workshop and that contains the smell just fine.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/07 15:28:38


Post by: MDSW


Yeah, I find the Elegoo grey smells a bit like the nail shop when I take my wife to get her nails done. I have an Elegoo Mars resin printer and it only smells briefly when you remove the lid. I cut a piece of plastic sheet to drop over the resin vat when the cover is removed to keep anything from falling into the resin and keeping any fumes down and it works great. I have it in my large game room next to my desk where I work all day long and I smell nothing while it is running.

I can't say enough how much I love the Elegoo Mars printer, along with my Ender 3 Pro, I can handle anything I need with amazing details - both are the best printers IMHO at their price point available.

I am ready to try some SainSmart resin soon, as they say the smell is not bad either


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Actually, I currently use the Elegoo Grey ABS-like and really love the still slight flexibility when cured - it will not shatter if dropped. I have some SainSmart coming so hope it does act similar - anyone had any experience with SainSmart? It is on sale, so it was a cheap and highly reviewed alternative.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/12 16:46:50


Post by: Albertorius


 lord_blackfang wrote:
Man, great thread. I am almost set on getting the Mega next week when the Chinese have their massive sales on 11/11 and it will be below 200€. The Photon stuff looks ace, but resin is nasty stuff, right? Do you have your printers in your living area?

PS for anyone reading, the Photon is 260€ on Amazon.de right now. You could literally get both the Mega and the Photon for the cost of 2 new Necromunda starters

I have everything in a dedicated room, but the brands I use leave almost no odor... most of the odor comes from the cleaning alcohol, truth be told.


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So I wanted to try and make a bigger print using the resin printer. As big as possible. So seeing as I had the files, I tried this:






...unfortunately, as you might notice, there was not enough resin left in the vat when I put the middle to print, so... yeah >_>

I'll have to redo that part, but I'll use that unfinished one for scenery, I think.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/12 17:04:03


Post by: warboss


Looks great! What settings did you use and which printer? I'm running low on resin and need to get some more which is why I haven't printed much recently other than adding to my bag of (misprinted) shame. Plus I have two minis that I cobbled together that did work out that I have yet to paint and I promised myself that I wouldn't get too far behind in that regard.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/12 18:54:33


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Looks great! What settings did you use and which printer? I'm running low on resin and need to get some more which is why I haven't printed much recently other than adding to my bag of (misprinted) shame. Plus I have two minis that I cobbled together that did work out that I have yet to paint and I promised myself that I wouldn't get too far behind in that regard.


Let me see... the sides were done on the Photon at 10 seconds per layer (probably could reduce it to 8s, but eh). The body, turret and sponsons were done on the Mars at 8 seconds per layer, both using Elegoo grey resin.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/12 20:14:10


Post by: warboss


Thanks. Both at 50 microns?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/12 20:35:03


Post by: Albertorius


Yup, everything at 0.05


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/13 18:51:59


Post by: Albertorius


A while ago I bought a plastic Contemptor dreadnought from Ebay. I have yet to paint it, and its lack of poseability made it kind of too similar to the one I did paint, so I thought I probably should spruce it up a bit, and change the weaponry too, to booth:







I printed a couple of kheres assault cannons for it, but I was printing a full Contemptor on the other printer, so I changed the weapons around (that's why it has two different colors of resin):







I should probably try to remesh the design sometime, as currently it's a little bit too blocky (you can see the triangles pretty well in some of the round parts)


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/14 16:58:04


Post by: Prometheum5


 Albertorius wrote:


I should probably try to remesh the design sometime, as currently it's a little bit too blocky (you can see the triangles pretty well in some of the round parts)


I'm always surprised by this when I download files from places like Thingiverse. Unless you're specifically going for a polygon look I don't understand why everyone doesn't use the most triangles possible for detailed models? Is it a software limitation I'm not aware of depending on what you're modeling in? Or just a filesize consideration? It just stinks that even if you've got the best printer some models are going to look like 3D models because they're designed that way for no good reason.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/17 14:46:21


Post by: Albertorius


Today I made a warsmith for my detachment:






A bit more "war" than "smith", granted, but I assure you, all those extra (servo) hands sure come... well, handy, when fixing stuff :p


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/19 19:28:13


Post by: Albertorius


Still not finished, but I've been working on the warsmith:






Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/21 08:05:27


Post by: Albertorius


Test print of modular terrain from a KS:




All in all print quality is pretty decent, but I get some ghosting. I guess I should tinker with it to see what's causing it...

I've also ordered a bottle of water washable Elegoo grey resin from Amazon. We'll see how that works.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/21 14:51:43


Post by: Fajita Fan


Your printer does great quality.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/22 17:42:54


Post by: Albertorius


 Fajita Fan wrote:
Your printer does great quality.


Well, there's still room for improvement. Still, thanks!

Just made two minis from the Artisan Guild Patreon:






Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/22 17:52:48


Post by: warboss


Nicely done. You definitely do a great job with the supports (or lack thereof).


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/22 21:43:47


Post by: SeanDrake


Just about to buy a Mars as there pretty much the only affordable printer in th uk.
You mentioned elegoo new water cleanable resin was wondering if you had used it yet and how you found it, also is it still low odour like there normal resin?
Thanks


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/22 22:40:29


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Nicely done. You definitely do a great job with the supports (or lack thereof).


Oh, no lack of supprts I assure you ^^:



I tend to put a fethton of supports, probably way too many ^^


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SeanDrake wrote:
Just about to buy a Mars as there pretty much the only affordable printer in th uk.
You mentioned elegoo new water cleanable resin was wondering if you had used it yet and how you found it, also is it still low odour like there normal resin?
Thanks


I got the bottle a couple hours ago, so I haven't tested it just yet .

I'll try and do it tomorrow.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/23 12:49:09


Post by: Flinty


Yeah the Mars is on Amazon for just over £200. It's crazy.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/23 18:20:12


Post by: Albertorius


 Flinty wrote:
Yeah the Mars is on Amazon for just over £200. It's crazy.


I'm guessing they want to unload them to concentrate on their new Mars Pro ^^

So I tested the elegoo water washable resin, and I have to say, so far I am very happy with it! For the test, I printed this guy:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3920897

And this is how it looked right after rinsing it in warm water with a drop of dishwasher and brushing it with the provided brush (yeah, the bottle comes with a brush for that ^^):




The cleaning process was so much easier that it's not even funny, you guys. It is a bit more expensive (49.99 euros a 1 liter bottle), but... you know, you won't be expending money on IPA anymore, so it's not actually that much more, and its so, so, SO much easier. I'm thinking I'll probably swap to water washable entirely from now on, if the quality is consistent.

This is the big guy after butting supports and filing it a bit:





It would only need a bit of green stuff to seal the holes and it would be good to go.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/23 20:21:03


Post by: Flinty


Thanks for the review. I had seen the water washable stuff come up... that makes resin printers basically a no brainer

Any idea what the new elegoo price point will be? Worth waiting for?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/23 20:56:28


Post by: warboss


Great looking print! It's probably time I got a new bottle of some kind of resin myself and I'll consider the water washable one. I had been focused on a clear one for the visual effect of being able to print some clear parts (like lightsaber blades and such) but it is tempting to just be able to wash in water as well.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/23 21:14:46


Post by: Albertorius


 Flinty wrote:
Thanks for the review. I had seen the water washable stuff come up... that makes resin printers basically a no brainer

Any idea what the new elegoo price point will be? Worth waiting for?


I've been hearing 300 euros. If you don't mind much waiting, and don't find a very good deal coming Black Friday, I'm sure it will be worth it. If you can find a Mars for cheap, well... it's really great.


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 warboss wrote:
Great looking print! It's probably time I got a new bottle of some kind of resin myself and I'll consider the water washable one. I had been focused on a clear one for the visual effect of being able to print some clear parts (like lightsaber blades and such) but it is tempting to just be able to wash in water as well.


I've gotten an elegoo transparent resin bottle on a flash sale, I'll see how it goes. Unfortunately that one's not water washable >_>


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I've been forwarded this:



I've used both gloves and a cleaning vat for cleaning, but... Something to think about. Basically, use gloves and everything, make sure you cure it completely befor handling, and make sure to cure the leftover resin in the cleaning vat before throwing it out (after that is mostly inert).


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/23 22:24:48


Post by: warboss


Definitely don't drink it even with gloves.


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 Albertorius wrote:

I've gotten an elegoo transparent resin bottle on a flash sale, I'll see how it goes. Unfortunately that one's not water washable >_>


As usual, LMK how it goes! I was looking at that and possibly the anycubic ones. I'm curious how good (or bad) the translucent resin without obvious color looks with a light wash coat to give it some color.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/23 23:55:25


Post by: Trimarius


How's the smell on the water washable resin, since it seems to print well? I was thinking about picking up a printer to play with now that the costs are getting pretty reasonable, but the back room I'd be using it in isn't as separated as I'd like and the resin odor isn't something I'd want floating around.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/24 00:10:01


Post by: Albertorius


 Trimarius wrote:
How's the smell on the water washable resin, since it seems to print well? I was thinking about picking up a printer to play with now that the costs are getting pretty reasonable, but the back room I'd be using it in isn't as separated as I'd like and the resin odor isn't something I'd want floating around.

Not too bad, but IMHO a bit more noticeable than the regular elegoo grey, which is almost non existent.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/24 13:52:06


Post by: SeanDrake


Hmmm given I also am going to have to setup my printer in my spare room would I be better off waiting for the pro?
As from what I have read a lot of the improvements are qol and safety features, like a carbon filter and better air tight seals to stop fumes/odour and being quiter and quicker.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/25 22:38:41


Post by: Albertorius


SeanDrake wrote:
Hmmm given I also am going to have to setup my printer in my spare room would I be better off waiting for the pro?
As from what I have read a lot of the improvements are qol and safety features, like a carbon filter and better air tight seals to stop fumes/odour and being quiter and quicker.

I'd say that unless there's a very significant prince difference you'll probably be better off with the pro, if only because it has an improved led matrix.

Also, I fast painted with Contrast paints one of my last prints:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/25 23:25:05


Post by: warboss


Nicely done. I wouldn't have guessed that was with contrast paints. That sounds like it's a back handed compliment but it's not meant to be, lol.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/26 07:56:04


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Nicely done. I wouldn't have guessed that was with contrast paints. That sounds like it's a back handed compliment but it's not meant to be, lol.


Hahaha ^^. Well, I'm trying to use Contrasts in a bit more controlled way, to see how much I can get out of them, so that's good xD


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/26 12:21:59


Post by: bbb


This is a wonderful thread. Thank you so much.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/26 14:19:21


Post by: Albertorius


Cheers man, glad you like it


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/26 15:20:09


Post by: Trimarius


Yeah, that looks pretty nice painted up.

I may also hold out for the pro. The array should give better definition at the edges (effectively giving it a bigger build area for minis) and hopefully the inbuilt carbon filter helps with fumes.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/28 19:54:27


Post by: Flinty


Argh... so there is a really good deal.on The epax x1 and I was going to get it, but now there is the elegoo mars pro.coming out. Does anyone have any opinions on which would be better? The Mars Pro I can probably get for.cheaper than the x1, but the robust build and purported z stability and pre-levelling of the X1 is of intest to.me.

Any opinions either way?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/11/28 22:46:38


Post by: Albertorius


Well, not really knowing how the Mars Pro will turn out, but knowing for a fact that the x1 is a great machine... only possible problem is that it uses a propietary film instead of fep, which might be harder/more expensive to replace.

Another good option would be the kelant s400 which is both bigger format and really reliable. The d200 is also a great option, having much more potent LEDs which makes it way faster than the Photon/Mars.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/12/02 18:55:35


Post by: Albertorius


Been testing a novelty filament, of the "stone effects" variety:




I... might need to test it on an actual building or scenery stuff, but... I really wouldn't mind putting something like that directly on a table, with no (much) further processing. And that would be fabulous.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/12/02 21:44:12


Post by: warboss


As long as you're looking for a clean looking stone that has kept up, I think that works just fine as is without any further processing. If you're looking for something more worn in like an ancient temple or stonework, a copious dirty wash of cheap craft paints and some glue and flock would do and only take a minute or two for big pieces.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2019/12/03 08:48:10


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
As long as you're looking for a clean looking stone that has kept up, I think that works just fine as is without any further processing. If you're looking for something more worn in like an ancient temple or stonework, a copious dirty wash of cheap craft paints and some glue and flock would do and only take a minute or two for big pieces.


Yeah, that's more or less the idea. I really need to test this further....


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/06 23:30:35


Post by: Albertorius


I've been busy working in a book this christmas holidays, so I haven't been printing too much stuff... until this weekend, that is, in which I've been mainly testing some stuff from Patreons, but also something different.

The different thing being a mini designed with online tools to be a Shadowrun decker:



...yeah, the skin colored resin doesn't really "do" photos >_>. Let's try with a bit of ink:




Well, not perfect, but better, and at least you can see a bit of it and the 'deck.

Then I tried to print one of The Makers' Cult Patreon new Vase Mode Terrain models, seeing as they print really fast by dint of being vase mode:



This gate is really big, yo



And as it's printed completely hollow, it printed in about 2.5 hours and used like, 40 grams of plastic, if that. To print this as they are supposed to I'd need to use a 1mm nozzle, but I made do with my regular 0.4 one.



Then I printed some Reptilian Overlords' Heretic soldiers:



...once again, skin color doesn't like photos, so there:







They are amazing, TBH, even if I still need to print the shoulder pads!

After that? Titan-Forge Miniatures' Samurais:










I call this one Hida Sumasshu ^_^




Truly beautiful minis, tbh, and they look to scale well with other minis I'm interested in:



So all in all, not too bad for a weekend.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/07 17:03:47


Post by: warboss


I'd say that was a productive printing weekend. I like the shadowrun mini as well. Ok, boom(box)er! Is that his cyberdeck? I don't know which era of SR you play or is he a 2074 hipster who turned his commlink into a retro cyberdeck?

Does Titan Forge sell stl files? I've been a fan of their komainu samurai cavalry for a while.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/07 17:33:23


Post by: H


 warboss wrote:
Does Titan Forge sell stl files? I've been a fan of their komainu samurai cavalry for a while.

They have a Patreon that you get STL files monthly. I think they sell them "retail" as well, I'm just not sure off which site.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/07 18:48:08


Post by: Albertorius


I haven't seen any store yet, but yes, they have a Patreon.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/07 18:54:12


Post by: Kid_Kyoto


Those feudal guard look great, where are the files from? Yours or a 3rd party?

The print lines actually look like grain in the metal and work for those figures.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/07 18:54:54


Post by: MDSW


Those Samurai are totally awesome!! Came our great!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/07 18:54:58


Post by: H


 Albertorius wrote:
I haven't seen any store yet, but yes, they have a Patreon.

I couldn't recall the site, but I managed to find it. Still is way cheaper to get in on the Patreon though.

I don't even own a 3D printer at the moment, but I might just join to get the files for when I do.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/07 19:22:50


Post by: warboss


Thanks and I'll go take a look. This is the physical model site I was referring to.

http://titan-forge.com/dragon-empire/243-komainu-spearmen-cavalry


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/13 20:22:28


Post by: Albertorius


I've started painting the stuff I have from SW Legion, and I found Skullforge Studios, a Gumroad store that sells gorgeous alternate models and unreleased stuff, so I bought these three to test:

Leia in rebel commando garb:






Mara Jade:






And an Imperial field officer:






As I said, absolutely fantastic. I'll be buying more stuff in the near future, for sure.

...and as I was already filling the printing bed, I also printed the Mando:








Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/15 03:55:46


Post by: bbb


Soooo goood...


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/15 04:15:53


Post by: MrH86


It's crazy how detailed the models are, the tech has come so far.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/15 12:02:26


Post by: Albertorius


MrH86 wrote:
It's crazy how detailed the models are, the tech has come so far.


Also remember: this is a print made in a $250 machine and not even at it's full resolution: that's printed at 50 microns/layer in all axis. It can go as low as 10 microns on the Z axis.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/15 13:50:26


Post by: warboss


Show off! In the time you've been doing this, I've only supported half of a 40mm tall model. Lots of great Star Wars figs there. Do you they have "counts as" fan rule for them in Legion?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/15 14:41:52


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Show off! In the time you've been doing this, I've only supported half of a 40mm tall model. Lots of great Star Wars figs there. Do you they have "counts as" fan rule for them in Legion?


Oh that was one day

The new units and special characters do, many are just "count as" stuff, to avoid duplicates and such.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/19 12:02:52


Post by: Albertorius


This week I've been messing around some more with SW Legion stuff:



I ended up printing two of that one, plus four E-Web heavy blasters, plus bases. so it's been kind of fruitful ^^

The only thing I've cleaned up and prepped is a pair of E-Webs, you know, for gaks and giggles:





And I've finished a very rough and dirty scheme for one, to test the way I want to paint them:






Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/19 19:10:32


Post by: bubber


very nice & thanks for the info on Skullforge Studios!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/01/26 21:30:29


Post by: Albertorius


Some more Legion minis:

Krennic



Imperial Patrol Troopers, I'll be using these guys as recon troopers








And a First Order sergeant





Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/01 22:51:00


Post by: Albertorius


So I painted the officer in the livery of the stormtrooper corps.

...I got bored with the uniform and made kind of a hack job, though ^^. I really need to relearn how to do good black cloth, it's been so long.



Spoiler:







Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/02 16:08:49


Post by: Vulcan


That's actually quite a good job of it, especially on the boots. The difference between black cloth and polished black leather comes through very well.

The only thing I would suggest is either going in with black and cleaning up the highlights and deepening the shadows, or giving it an overall black glaze to accomplish much the same goal.

Still, nice job regardless!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/02 18:29:32


Post by: bbb


How easy is it to remove the supports? These look fantastic.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/03 08:22:51


Post by: Albertorius


Vulcan wrote:That's actually quite a good job of it, especially on the boots. The difference between black cloth and polished black leather comes through very well.

The only thing I would suggest is either going in with black and cleaning up the highlights and deepening the shadows, or giving it an overall black glaze to accomplish much the same goal.

Still, nice job regardless!

Thanks! I might just give it a whirl, but as I said, I kinda got bored halfways and just wanted to finish ^^. Honestly, I think it has to do with the fact that I can just print another one and do it again if I so decide.

bbb wrote:How easy is it to remove the supports? These look fantastic.


It really depends on type of supports, density and placement. Positioning a mini for printing and adding supports is a learning skill, I've found. That said, using hot water and clipping the supports right after cleaning (even better, when they're still hot and pliable from the hot water) and before the UV hardening it's the best way, IMHO. Then, afterwards, you just do cleanup and filing.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/05 20:07:18


Post by: MDSW


For the supports I opt for the thin ones only and on sturdy areas before curing you can just pull them all right off. If attached to delicate parts you can snip with small pliers (Elegoo Mars gives you a great pair) - All in all, so much easier and cleaner than FDM supports.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/05 20:27:18


Post by: bubber


do you need a pc to run a 3-d printer? I use a chromebook most of the time. I do have a pc but haven't turned it on for 3 years or more.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/05 21:16:07


Post by: Lance845


 bubber wrote:
do you need a pc to run a 3-d printer? I use a chromebook most of the time. I do have a pc but haven't turned it on for 3 years or more.


Generally, yes.

The software that slices the model and prepares it for 3d printing is run on a computer and sends the data to the printer. Very few printers can do all that on their own.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/06 07:27:12


Post by: Albertorius


 bubber wrote:
do you need a pc to run a 3-d printer? I use a chromebook most of the time. I do have a pc but haven't turned it on for 3 years or more.

Mostly yes, you do. I know there are some online slicers, but I don't actually know if they're any good.

OTOH, I do most of my slicing on a Surface Pro, so it's not like you need a top of the line performer in that regard.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/06 16:09:04


Post by: Musselman


Hey was referred by Albertorius to check this out and glad he did. I have skimmed and read most the updates I guess my questions are, to get 28mm to 50mm scale figures and bits would a DLP Anycubic Photon be a good start? Is it a resin printer and is this specific printer able to print tanks(40k size not Epic scale)as well? Also are the files that are used for printing scalable?
I see that 20 microns has the level of detail I want and was shocked by the quality, as many have already said haha.

Edit: haha okay I have looked through the thread and seen most of my questions were answered. But now I ask just as a personal preference is the DLP Anycubic Photon of the DLP Anycubic Photon S LCD a better investment for a beginner? Because I am tempted by the S model but don’t want to overspend if possible. Ironically I am cheap wargaming, or I try to be.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/06 20:16:19


Post by: bubber


thank you Lance845 & Albertorius


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/07 09:09:39


Post by: Albertorius


Musselman wrote:Hey was referred by Albertorius to check this out and glad he did. I have skimmed and read most the updates I guess my questions are, to get 28mm to 50mm scale figures and bits would a DLP Anycubic Photon be a good start? Is it a resin printer and is this specific printer able to print tanks(40k size not Epic scale)as well? Also are the files that are used for printing scalable?
I see that 20 microns has the level of detail I want and was shocked by the quality, as many have already said haha.

Edit: haha okay I have looked through the thread and seen most of my questions were answered. But now I ask just as a personal preference is the DLP Anycubic Photon of the DLP Anycubic Photon S LCD a better investment for a beginner? Because I am tempted by the S model but don’t want to overspend if possible. Ironically I am cheap wargaming, or I try to be.


Glad you found it interesting

IMHO, the Photon S has the advantage of a slightly more powerful led and a sturdier z axis, but other than that... dunno, I'm not too fond of it. For the price, I'd check out the Mars Pro instead.

bubber wrote:thank you Lance845 & Albertorius


I'm just happy that this is useful for someone ^^


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/07 16:06:25


Post by: Das_Ubermike


I have a question for Albertorius. Your Marauder Bombers were very impressive, with some crisp detail. I'm starting to get back into Star Wars Armada and I'm discovering that stock levels are pretty low across all the major online retail outlets. In your opinion could an Anycubic produce Armada scale ships at a roughly equivalent level of detail compared to the retail offerings? I know a lot of the Imperial ships have recessed details along the sides or engine areas, so I'm not sure how well a 3d printer would handle those. Ideally I'd just buy retail but God knows how long it'll take Fantasy Flight to do a reissue.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/07 16:23:18


Post by: Albertorius


Das_Ubermike wrote:
I have a question for Albertorius. Your Marauder Bombers were very impressive, with some crisp detail. I'm starting to get back into Star Wars Armada and I'm discovering that stock levels are pretty low across all the major online retail outlets. In your opinion could an Anycubic produce Armada scale ships at a roughly equivalent level of detail compared to the retail offerings? I know a lot of the Imperial ships have recessed details along the sides or engine areas, so I'm not sure how well a 3d printer would handle those. Ideally I'd just buy retail but God knows how long it'll take Fantasy Flight to do a reissue.


It would very much depend on the models you use for the print, tbh. If you get good stl files, the current crop of dlp desjtop printers are more than enough to pull it off.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/08 03:22:58


Post by: Musselman




Glad you found it interesting

IMHO, the Photon S has the advantage of a slightly more powerful led and a sturdier z axis, but other than that... dunno, I'm not too fond of it. For the price, I'd check out the Mars Pro instead.



Thank you for clearing that up, yes the Mars Pro does look like a better option, cheaper and if it can produce the quality of models that you have shown then seems to be a good investment. Especially if it can be used for tanks?!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/08 10:54:45


Post by: Vejut


15mm tanks, probably. 28mm, unless its bigger than the standard Mars, you can JUST about get a russ hull in there, better if its in parts, but that's gonna be a long print.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/08 16:05:50


Post by: Musselman


Vejut wrote:
15mm tanks, probably. 28mm, unless its bigger than the standard Mars, you can JUST about get a russ hull in there, better if its in parts, but that's gonna be a long print.


Ah thank you for letting me know. I really have zero experience with a 3D printer so any advice is helpful. Okay so might still have to buy some standard tank kits but at least custom guns, doors and accessories can be done. Damn was hoping to save money on those primaris repulser and executioner tanks


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/08 22:56:08


Post by: Albertorius


Vejut wrote:
15mm tanks, probably. 28mm, unless its bigger than the standard Mars, you can JUST about get a russ hull in there, better if its in parts, but that's gonna be a long print.

I've personally printed a couple of predators with the Photon, and I've seen many IG ones printed as well. It is a longish print, but not really any longer than you'd need with fdm... but, well, way, waaay smoother ^^

For the Preds, I needed to print in parts: first the main body, then the sides, one at a time, then turrets and sponsons all at the same time, so that's four plates, each running for about... 5-6 hours maybe.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/16 08:38:42


Post by: Albertorius


So, looking up interesting minis for Necromunda this time. I've just found the gumroad page of "Art of Mike", and it has some suitable stuff:







I also have beel dicking around on desktophero to see what I could do (...yeah, well xD):




Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/27 21:32:37


Post by: Albertorius


So today I had a lot of work... that, fortunately, I needed to do at home, so I decided to put the printers to work ^^, and I printed some scenery for Epic/AT

I started printing some of Troublemaker Games' STL Kickstarter files, and boy, they do look sweet (one of the grey ones, the one at the top left, didn't print correctly, not sure why, but the rest printed perfectly):







I also printed a very neat multi level building I found on Cults3D:




It does look very good... but man, have I been spoiled by the resin printers: you can see a lot of stringing (due to speed and to that I printed too hot), I got slight warping on the underside of two of the three, and even at a brisk 45mm/s the three sections took almost 5 hours... so I also printed it on resin, as they are really light, being hollow:







I printed two sections at a time (might have been able to fit three, I think, but... eh) and each building plate took about two hours and a half... and even doing a bit of a slapjob cleaning the grey ones (...I got bored ^^), man, do they look sweet.

I also realize that being hollow, I could print a fethton of these with a single bottle... enough for a full table, I think.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/27 21:39:20


Post by: warboss


Looks good for both. Do the resin prints require any supports beyond just the base?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/02/27 23:01:37


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Looks good for both. Do the resin prints require any supports beyond just the base?

Nope, it was all printed directly on the plate without supports


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/06 00:52:59


Post by: Albertorius


Sooo thos quarantine I've been at my parents', so I haven't had my printers around :(

But I'm back, baby (...well, for the weekend. I need to do some maintenance >_&gt, so I've fired them up:

Doing tiny guys at 0.02 microns per layer



They look amazing, tbh... well, they look tiny as all heck, but still



Size comparison




Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/10 20:41:39


Post by: Albertorius


So, I'm making up for the lost time... at least for the little while I can stay at home (meaning, it's over until next time )

I painted a base of marines to see how they en up, and I'm personally very impressed:



Closer!



Seriously, these guys are tiny



I also printed some Sicaran Venator tanks:



And really... it makes you realize how fething tiny the old Epic plastic vehicles really are... they're actually quite a bit smaller than the infantry!



Honestly, the 40k Rhino mini is ridiculously small (I mean, there's no way 10 marines fit in there, unless they've been mashed to a pulp first), but these Rhinos make me think of clown cars:




...so given that the Venator is at the "correct" Epic scale (meaning, the AT one, which is actually the same as the Epic infantry one), and that I have AT stuff and I'm painting it and all, I printed some AT scale Rhinos, which honestly, looks like it's the scale that they should be:



White resin photographs like gak, though, but hopefully size is evident:





I honestly believe that these look very good and "right" ones besides the others.

They do make the old ones look like clown cars, though :




More stuff!

Command bases!




Troublesome Games' STL files!

Turrets!



Extra tiles for their buildings!



...honestly, the tiles didn't turn out perfect, but that's mainly because I'm printing them using HIPS, which means I'll be able to glue them with the rest of Troublemaker Games' ones using plastic glue, which is just really cool ^^

Also, the small ones fit inside the big ones and are designed to fit the turrets too



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/10 21:14:04


Post by: warboss


Those tiny marines are so cute! I'm really impressed with the detail on such tiny little models and I'm guessing it's even better in person when you're holding them in your hand.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/11 02:31:55


Post by: Arakasi


Tiny hazard stripes


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/11 03:02:07


Post by: CaptainWaffle


Looking great. I'm hoping to get into epic or warmaster stuff with my resin printer too. Amazed at your tiny stripes. Steady hands!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/11 16:20:11


Post by: Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll


Those infantry are amazingly painted for how small they are! You must have a VERY steady hand!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/12 09:23:14


Post by: Albertorius


warboss wrote:Those tiny marines are so cute! I'm really impressed with the detail on such tiny little models and I'm guessing it's even better in person when you're holding them in your hand.


Arakasi wrote:Tiny hazard stripes


CaptainWaffle wrote:Looking great. I'm hoping to get into epic or warmaster stuff with my resin printer too. Amazed at your tiny stripes. Steady hands!


Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Those infantry are amazingly painted for how small they are! You must have a VERY steady hand!


Thank's guys ^^. More than a steady hand, I have not much space to work with there, so the lines look good xD.

And yeah, the level of detail for something so small is amazeballs, given that I've printed them at home. Having stuff designed for 3d printers instead of ripped from games and the like os for other types of production make a world of a difference.

Finished one of the Sicarans... it's a bit of a hack job, but I wanted to see how they'd look (also, after a certain point you hit diminishing returns FAST):





Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/12 12:38:51


Post by: warboss


Looks good! Did you print it horizontally or vertically on the print bed?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/12 12:47:47


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Looks good! Did you print it horizontally or vertically on the print bed?


...a bit of both columns, actually ^^




Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/12 20:05:30


Post by: Kayback


Why do you print them at an angle like that?

Yes I realize a 3d printing forum is a better place to ask noob questions, but I'm here.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/12 20:16:48


Post by: Albertorius


Kayback wrote:
Why do you print them at an angle like that?

Yes I realize a 3d printing forum is a better place to ask noob questions, but I'm here.


Both to minimize the area that is printed on every layer (thus making it less taxing and easier to succeed) and to try and make the layers less noticeable.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/14 17:35:00


Post by: Albertorius


Ok, so I'll be prepping some of the stuff I printed to see if I actually play with it.

I've opted to use it for Epic: 40.000, in part because I've always felt the system is much more elegant than Epic: Armageddon is (I mean, yes, stuff is more abstracted, but at the level of play that is Epic... well, I'd much rather see the game do that instead of trying to be 40k writ large), but also because list building in E:40k allows you a much, much greater level of personalization, in no small part due to that very same abstraction, which at the same time makes the detachments much more special... and also allows you to map 40k armies into E:40k detachments, which I've always found very cool.

So that's what I'm starting with: mapping and painting all the painted HH Iron Warriors I have:



...which translated into these Epic units:



(There is a Contemptor, but those aren't at home right now, bear with me )

That translates into this Epic: 40k detachment:

LOYALIST IRON WARRIORS GARRISON (326 points)

Commanders
- Space Marine Captain (Detachment HQ): 50 points

Main Force
- Legion Terminator Squad (1 base): 19 points
- Legion Marine Squad (2 bases): 30 points
- Legion Marine Squad (2 bases): 30 points
- Legion Marine Squad (2 bases): 30 points
- Legion Heavy Support Squad (2 bases): 40 points
- Legion Heavy Support Squad (2 bases): 40 points

Support
- Siege Tyrant Terminator Squad (1 base): 20 points
- Tactical Support Squad (1 base): 10 points
- Tactical Support Squad (1 base): 10 points
- Tactical Support Squad (1 base): 10 points
- Tactical Support Squad (1 base): 10 points
- Legion Dreadnought (1 unit): 27 points

It's not really an ideal detachment, by any means, but it should be decent on the defense, and I could always airdrop it (either via drop pods or flyers) or add a whole lot of transports.

I also could simply split it up to be more "optimal", but I find that I'd kinda prefer to use "field" formations, meaning stuff that you could see yourself fielding as 40k armies or that would logically be the purview of a single commander.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Two layers of shades to give them the proper metal tone:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/15 17:38:07


Post by: Albertorius


Tiny (heh) update: I've started painting the detachment to a level I'm happy with:



Also testing basing material:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/15 20:18:48


Post by: CaptainWaffle


Quality stuff. I assme you didn't paint that iron skull on the banner by hand. Did you?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/15 22:13:49


Post by: Albertorius


 CaptainWaffle wrote:
Quality stuff. I assme you didn't paint that iron skull on the banner by hand. Did you?


Ahahah, no, no way, that's a decal from the latest CSM decal sheet.

...the smallest one ^^


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/15 22:59:56


Post by: Theophony


My favorite legion looking.....EPIC


Wish I could afford a resin printer, just got a FDM printer myself.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/16 17:11:03


Post by: Captain Brown


Great work Albertorius.

Cheers,

CB


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/17 14:50:00


Post by: Albertorius


Thanks, guys

I've finished the detachment:



...well, except for all the transports, that is ^^

HQ and termies:



Tactical Squads:



Tactical Support Squads:



Heavy Weapons Support Squads:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/17 15:01:32


Post by: warboss


A legion to be feared! Will you be adding a primarch to lead them?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/17 15:33:23


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
A legion to be feared! Will you be adding a primarch to lead them?


I do have a stl appropiate for it... but not for these guys, my IW are loyalist ones, dontchanow

I still need an opfor, though, so maybe ^^

Forgot to christen it: Iron Warriors 27th Garrison Detachment, 34th Grand Company, 102nd Grand Battalion, 51st Expedition Fleet. There.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/17 16:31:00


Post by: warboss


Well, Perturabo was iirc a loyalist for a century or more during the Great Crusade sooooo....


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/22 07:12:18


Post by: Albertorius


Been asked to test print these guys from the designer, to see if they turned out OK:





The legs are probably a bit too fragile for actual use, but other than that, they turned out pretty well.

Also, the big guns:





And I do mean BIG:





Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/22 07:18:41


Post by: Sherrypie


Looking great! Those stripes and lens glares are great for bringing some life and character into the units. Do you intend to keep the bases simplistic or add some shrubs or debris on them?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/22 07:38:35


Post by: Albertorius


Well, I still have to shop around to find some suitable ones, but the first order of business is making them table ready.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/26 07:20:39


Post by: Albertorius


This week, I've printed and painted transports for the detachment:





Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/29 12:08:58


Post by: Albertorius


Ok, small paint test for the land speeders I printed (I've ended up with a dozen of these):



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/29 13:03:49


Post by: Vejut


Definitely small, but look good. Little bit of print lining on the hood, maybe a bit of liquid green stuff/Vallejo filler putty? Only really see it on the 2nd or third look, though, will look pretty good on the table!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/29 13:57:01


Post by: Albertorius


Actually, I can only see it on the photo xD. OTOH, it's printed at only 0.05 per layer, you could go lower...

That said, I'm not sure it's that... I printed it at an angle, and that doesn't line up with it.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/29 14:43:48


Post by: Theophony


I can see the print lines also, BUT let’s remember these are extreme closeups of super tiny models. At regular arms reach and definitely at table length I don’t think they will be noticeable.

I will hold off on printing any epic stuff until there’s actual word on the game. I never got into it years ago, so I don’t have to worry about mixing sizes unless I start now and things change with the release.

The dire avengers guns look a bit large to me design wise, but maybe once they are painted it will look more inline with the 40k equivalent.

Nice paint work on the Iron Warriors .


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/06/29 15:23:06


Post by: IGtR=


Epic stuff is looking, well .... Epic!!

I shall show myself out, but seriously good work on the vehicles.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/07/04 10:20:32


Post by: Albertorius


Thanks, guys ^^

Today I've been testing some different stuff, namely presupported minis from some Patreons that are starting to offer them.

I started testing some of Artisan Guild's last month release, Wasteland survivors. Bear in mind, I did all of these in a single print:







The only thing I've done with these so far has been cleaning them and ripping the supports off with my bare hands, nothing else. One of them had a misprint on a leg, but all in all, I'm pretty impressed.

Then I did these, also a single print; these from the same Artisan Guild set:






And these from the guy who's doing the supports for the Peculiar Companions' Patreon:







IMHO, the Artisan Guild's supports are superb: the minis print real well, and the supports peel off basically effortless. The other set is not quite as good, but it is still very good. I think that this is probably the next step a lot of Patreons are going to end up doing, as it gives real value to it.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/07/04 10:45:21


Post by: Theophony


those are some nice prints, almost makes me want to look at a resin printer. I still have a lot to learn with my Ender3, but glad to see the differences.

Presupported sounds great. I may have to try one or two of the presupported prints from my Titan forge patreon pledge to see if the Ender can handle it.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/07/04 12:55:13


Post by: Albertorius


 Theophony wrote:
those are some nice prints, almost makes me want to look at a resin printer. I still have a lot to learn with my Ender3, but glad to see the differences.

Presupported sounds great. I may have to try one or two of the presupported prints from my Titan forge patreon pledge to see if the Ender can handle it.


Don't. Those are presupported for resin, it simply won't work as intended on fdm. You'll probably get better results the usual way.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/07/07 15:00:30


Post by: Boss Salvage


They look awesome! I just saw those Wasteland sculpts this weekend, love the whole set. Also it's been great seeing more and more presupported STL on the market.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/07/07 16:32:15


Post by: Theophony


Is that last model part of the Spaniards? Or where is she from? Very nice details.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/07/08 16:41:34


Post by: Albertorius


Boss Salvage wrote:They look awesome! I just saw those Wasteland sculpts this weekend, love the whole set. Also it's been great seeing more and more presupported STL on the market.


Yes to both accounts. I'm seriously thinking about using the wastelanders as some sort of rebooted ratskins for Newcromunda.

Theophony wrote:Is that last model part of the Spaniards? Or where is she from? Very nice details.


The last model is Yennefer of Vengerber from The Witcher. You can find her here:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4124582

And supported:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4461522



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OK, so I've finished painting all the forces I needed for the Epic 40.000 intro game I'm planning on make my group suffer:

The SM force consist of three detachments in total: Force Adonis is the one in the actual field at first, it will be defending one of the routs to Baile Alpha's main settlements, after the arrival of the Space Marines managed to break the back of Waa-Gogard's forces:



But Gogard wanted to avenge himself on the beakies, so after haphazardly managing to fix and crew Skull Smasha, his battered Great Gargant, he launched it again after Baile Alpha's cities, taking by surprise the human forces:





After detecting the giant war engine's approach, Captain Adonis asked for reinforcements and ordered his troops to hunker down and slow down the beast's advance.

The Space Marines' High Command assembled reinforcements as fast as they could, and sent Forces Citus and Lentus to relieve the battered squads of Force Adonis:

Force Citus:


Force Lentus:


We'll see how it turns out, I'll probably be playing as Gogard, at least on the first game ^^


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/07/14 22:14:12


Post by: TinyLegions


Very impressive. Makes me want to start thinking seriously about things like BFG.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/07/15 09:52:58


Post by: Pacific


Absolutely beautiful work on the Epic Iron Warriors, Albertorius! Hazard stripes on 6mm boltgun.. wooowwww!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/21 10:32:59


Post by: Albertorius


Arise, arise from thine ashes, oh tread of mine!!!

Ehem, so... the delights of having both desktop printers at home and poor impulse control ^_^

Last friday I got a squad of SW Legion's ARC Clone Troopers, now made using HIPS plastics, and honestly, they're a delight to work with... not at the level of GW's machining, but real nice, and the mixture of the plastic reminds me to tamiya kits:



Honestly, great little minis.

...and I am a HUGE Clone Wars cartoon fan. So, one thing led to another, and a weekend passed, and... well, this happened:







Everything printed at 20 microns per layer with x4 AA, too, so the minis are smooth as all hell, easily as good as most stuff in the market.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/21 10:41:58


Post by: ingtaer


Fantastic stuff mate, where did you source the files from for the CW stuff? Should have done a pic with the Bad Batch front and center!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/21 10:52:46


Post by: Albertorius


 ingtaer wrote:
Fantastic stuff mate, where did you source the files from for the CW stuff? Should have done a pic with the Bad Batch front and center!

Oh I have , just haven't uploaded them yet

The stuff above comes from two gumroad sellers: Skullforge Studios (Bad Batch, adult Ashoka) and Dark Fire Designs (all the rest)


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/21 10:56:03


Post by: warboss


Nice! I love the Clone Wars era and set my old rpg campaign during it. I don't have any of the current Legion models but I bought a bunch of the WOTC prepaints to populate my npc collection. Are those from thingiverse or did you buy a collection from elsewhere?

We're you running both printers to get all that done at 20 microns in one weekend? Or have you gotten one of the new mono screens that print faster?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/21 11:11:13


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Nice! I love the Clone Wars era and set my old rpg campaign during it. I don't have any of the current Legion models but I bought a bunch of the WOTC prepaints to populate my npc collection. Are those from thingiverse or did you buy a collection from elsewhere?

We're you running both printers to get all that done at 20 microns in one weekend? Or have you gotten one of the new mono screens that print faster?


The Photon is stored because I'm gifting it to a friend, so all that was done printing almost non-stop with the Mars over the weekend (6-7 hours per plate, with plates prety much full to bursting)

The stuff comes from two gumroad sellers: Skullforge Studios (Bad Batch, adult Ashoka) and Dark Fire Designs (all the rest), but I plan to print a lot of Velrock's droid stuff.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/21 11:17:53


Post by: warboss


I haven't heard of the former but checked out the latter once because they had a nice set of phase one clone commandos. The stark white scheme comic book version of those (pre-video game) were my favorite. The Dark Fire stuff iirc came presupported as an option. Did you use those files or tweak/redo the supports?

Do you plan to play Legion?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/21 11:46:24


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
I haven't heard of the former but checked out the latter once because they had a nice set of phase one clone commandos. The stark white scheme comic book version of those (pre-video game) were my favorite. The Dark Fire stuff iirc came presupported as an option. Did you use those files or tweak/redo the supports?

Only files that came presupported were the heavy weapons, all the rest came without supports, but I redid them all anyways (I'm getting better at it, now)

Do you plan to play Legion?

A friend of mine is the line translator here, and I've been reviewing his stuff. I am interested in playing, TBH, but currently everything is... complicated enough that it won't happen in a while (we're being confined again and here in Madrid things look.. very much not good).

That said, my interest got piqued with the CW stuff.


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Closeups! And stuff!

I also printed these two BARC speeders:




And a bunch of mandos (some more are printing right now):




Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/21 11:54:28


Post by: ingtaer


Fantastic, those Mandos are really cool. Thanks for the names, my Brother is getting a printer delivered this week so will be putting them to good use as we are both massive Legion fans.

Would highly recommend the game, it plays really well on Table Top Simulator if you are not able to meet in person to play.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/21 11:57:40


Post by: Albertorius


 ingtaer wrote:
Fantastic, those Mandos are really cool. Thanks for the names, my Brother is getting a printer delivered this week so will be putting them to good use as we are both massive Legion fans.

Would highly recommend the game, it plays really well on Table Top Simulator if you are not able to meet in person to play.


Thanks, I'll try if things don't change.

Also, you can download the mandos from here:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4004395


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Soem closeups:

Bad Batch:













Adult Ashoka:




Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/21 12:07:42


Post by: ingtaer


Cheers for the link! If you ever fancy a game on TTS feel free to drop me a PM and we can see if we can arrange something.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/21 12:57:42


Post by: Albertorius


 ingtaer wrote:
Cheers for the link! If you ever fancy a game on TTS feel free to drop me a PM and we can see if we can arrange something.


Glad to help! I'll see if I can find someone more local, given that by your flag you're literally at the other side of the world ^^, but I might just end up taking that offer .

Some more closeups:

Good old cap'n Rex, original clone armor:




...and the modified, upgraded one:




General Skywalker:




Young Commander Tano:




Clone trooper squad, these are either shinies or god-dang vets from the start of the war (I'll be doing another unit of these so I have two):




And two squads of current-specs clone troopers. I'm thinking I'd like to paint them all as the 332nd company... which means I should probably paint one of the ARCs as Jesse:







Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/21 13:14:10


Post by: Paradigm


Looking crisp as hell, great sculpts as well. Was aware of Skullforge, but Dark Fire are new to me, going to have to look them up when my Photon is up and running.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/22 09:06:01


Post by: endtransmission


I've seen Skullforge before and have been admiring them for a while. Dark Fire are a new one on me, but also full of shiny goodness.

I really didn't need another project to print and fail to paint


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/23 20:40:30


Post by: lord_blackfang


Hey, where do you source your Epic stuff? Any any tips on scaling it to AT like you did?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/23 21:33:56


Post by: Albertorius


 lord_blackfang wrote:
Hey, where do you source your Epic stuff? Any any tips on scaling it to AT like you did?


I got it mostly out of thingiverse. PM me if you're looking for something specific, but I have most of what I've found here:

https://www.thingiverse.com/albertorius/collections/epic


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/28 12:04:45


Post by: Albertorius


So, this weekend I did a test paint for the clone troopers color scheme:



Not a top shelf work, but it does work. The unit markings help make the minis more interesting.

Then I made two batches of B" Super battle droids, one at 0.05, another at 0.025:







The 0.05 batch has very small but somewhat noticeable circles (layer lines) on the top of the dome, a bit above the head. The 0.025 ones are almost completely smooth, but I think the half step hampered it, so I'll need to try it at 0.02

I did start painting the first batch, too:



...I mean, it was easy

In the meantime I painted one of the phase I units. This is after unit markings but before a light weathering:



and this is after said weathering:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/28 13:24:54


Post by: MDSW


What an awesome collection and so nicely done!!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/28 14:57:03


Post by: lord_blackfang


SW isn't my thing but it's inspiring to see a whole army grow from just printing! And you paint them well of course!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/28 16:18:07


Post by: warboss


Nicely printed and painted. Do you prefer the Clone Wars stylized super battle droids to the slimmer trilogy ones?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/28 18:06:14


Post by: Albertorius


MDSW wrote:What an awesome collection and so nicely done!!


lord_blackfang wrote:SW isn't my thing but it's inspiring to see a whole army grow from just printing! And you paint them well of course!


warboss wrote:Nicely printed and painted. Do you prefer the Clone Wars stylized super battle droids to the slimmer trilogy ones?


Thanks, guys ^^

I do actually prefer the CW ones, they just look imposing as all hell.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/28 22:04:40


Post by: RiTides


Thanks for all the pics, and the print settings thoughts!! They look great, and those droids definitely are beefcakes


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/09/28 22:49:06


Post by: insaniak


Those ARCs do look like a cool kit. I'm continually disappointed that the Legion stuff is the wrong scale to be useful.

Really nice stuff all around, though. The Mando collection is awesome.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/06 21:29:12


Post by: Albertorius


Today, some support weapons platforms for my 30k Epic Iron Warriors:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/08 22:31:39


Post by: Albertorius


Scheme test for these guys:





Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/08 23:04:11


Post by: warboss


Looks good and I like the paint scheme. The only thing I may recommend is to paint the tracks a different metallic color so that they differentiate more from the hull metallic color.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/09 07:25:08


Post by: lord_blackfang


Agreed! Man that is sharp. Who would have thought that Epic would just keep getting better and better after its death.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/09 10:43:45


Post by: Albertorius


warboss wrote:Looks good and I like the paint scheme. The only thing I may recommend is to paint the tracks a different metallic color so that they differentiate more from the hull metallic color.


lord_blackfang wrote:Agreed! Man that is sharp. Who would have thought that Epic would just keep getting better and better after its death.


Thanks, and agreed! Epic is such a cool scale, IMHO. Much more adequate to actually depict 40k battles.

Anyways, agreed on the tracks. I've muddied them up to see how it looks:





I am getting a hard time trying to get a proper photo of this guy: on hand it looks much darker and the mud is quite a bit more subdued, but my crappy phone camera ramps it all up like a mf.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/09 11:02:26


Post by: warboss


It suitably varies the tracks away from the tone of the hull so it works for me!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/19 14:52:54


Post by: Albertorius


Today, a test scheme paint for The Makers Cult's Valour Corps:









Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/19 14:59:49


Post by: warboss


Nicely done. Are they canon fodder.. I mean valuable adjuncts to your heresy era Iron Warriors? Was the base printed with the model or separately?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/19 15:29:58


Post by: Albertorius


Base is FDM HIPS, for ease of use with plastic minis.

As to what they will be... well, time will tell. For the moment they're cool minis to paint ^^.

EDIT: Ah, forgot about it. Mini printed at 0.05mm per layer.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/23 07:51:02


Post by: Albertorius


Some boomers (...because they go "boom", see? ...I'll get my coat) for my Epic Iron Warriors:





Not my best print, not my best paintjob, but they're done ^^


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/23 13:09:09


Post by: MDSW


Great stuff, especially the little stoic fellow.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/24 17:00:20


Post by: Albertorius


Prepping some more stuff:







Somehow, I always get back to the fun sized guys ^^


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/25 23:16:07


Post by: Kennypowers


Hey bud

I literally made a profile to just reply to you in regards to your awesome Epic 40k prints.
I've ordered a Anycubic photon myself which has arrived, resin due tomorrow.
Are your recent 6mm iron warrior Infantry printed using this said printer?
If so sir, show me the way! If you could help give tips? Lol

I tried getting into Epic40k back in the early 2000's but it was discontinued.
Decided to focus on 28mm 40k when Epic Armageddon came out, this then went out of continuity.

Now with my huge interest wanting to get into 3D printing and sculpting these little guys have inspired me to get a Imperial fist force of my own.




Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/25 23:24:48


Post by: warboss


Albertorius, you are entirely too productive with your 3d printing and therefore a jerk. Nice models yet again!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/26 07:31:44


Post by: Albertorius


Kennypowers wrote:
Hey bud

I literally made a profile to just reply to you in regards to your awesome Epic 40k prints.
I've ordered a Anycubic photon myself which has arrived, resin due tomorrow.
Are your recent 6mm iron warrior Infantry printed using this said printer?
If so sir, show me the way! If you could help give tips? Lol

I tried getting into Epic40k back in the early 2000's but it was discontinued.
Decided to focus on 28mm 40k when Epic Armageddon came out, this then went out of continuity.

Now with my huge interest wanting to get into 3D printing and sculpting these little guys have inspired me to get a Imperial fist force of my own.

Well, that is a ringing endorsement, thanks! ^_^

Yes, all the Epic infantry shown here has been done with either an Anycubic Photon or an Elegoo Mars. Currently I'm printing them at 0.02mm per layer with AA at 2. The layer time will depend on your printer and your resin brand (do some tests to find the sweet spot beforehand). As a general rule, do NOT try to print 28mm stuff downscaled, as the detail is not right and you'll end up with stuff way too fiddly and fragile to be of any use. If you to want to downscale stuff and print it at 6mm, you'll be needing to mod the files to thicken the delicate parts, deepen the details and do away with the fiddlest ones.

Also, Imperial Fists, eh? These are not mine, but I've seen it done

Spoiler:



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 warboss wrote:
Albertorius, you are entirely too productive with your 3d printing and therefore a jerk. Nice models yet again!

Thanks . I do aim to please XD


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/26 23:02:24


Post by: Kennypowers


@Albertorius
Ah nice, I am completely new and wanting to learn from those who know best. So thanks! I have the Anycubic Photon too, so any help/tips would be awesome.
I am going to try doing 6mm Epic minis first as that's one of my initial reasons to get this printer.

Thanks again.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/29 13:10:58


Post by: Albertorius


I have a truckload of tiny marines printed and ready to go... other place (where the printer also is, btw, I'm just going through the printed stuff that I have here >_&gt, but I've finished all the tiny marines that I currently have access to:









Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/30 23:10:26


Post by: Albertorius


Batch painting FTW! Managed to paint this in a single afternoon at a decent enough level



Astartes Legion Land Speeder Detachment Special Rule: Must make "whoosh" sounds when moving this detachment.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/30 23:34:09


Post by: warboss


Nice! Will you be using them this weekend for a game hence the rush?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/10/30 23:53:50


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Nice! Will you be using them this weekend for a game hence the rush?


Nah, we're confined again, so that's not going to happen for a long while. It's just that here's a certain backlog at the painting table ^^


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/01 07:57:03


Post by: Albertorius


So I've been confined to my parents' home for a while now, waiting for my mother to get her surgery appointment (as I'm the only family member that's not currently inmunodepressed I need to avoid contact with... basically everyone so that I can accompany her to the hospital... plus, as they are immunodepressed they have difficulties to go out and be with people, so they're lonely. Now I am too >_> ).

I'm getting a bit stir crazy cooped up here, as I'm used to be at my home, with my stuff and my printers, but at least I have been able to work from here and to paint when I'm not doing that.

Anyways, yesterday I braved the lock down the region is in to go home for a couple hours and get the Epic printed stuff that I had there:









These will last a while ^^


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/01 08:16:22


Post by: lord_blackfang


One billion points of Marines!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/01 08:19:31


Post by: Albertorius


I will have, like, ALL the points


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/01 09:19:41


Post by: Flinty


That is a good haul of amazing looking models. I really hope the justified satisfaction of getting paint in that will help you get through the rest of the year. Good luck sir!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/01 13:03:20


Post by: warboss


Now that's a painting backlog! Is it possible to thin the thickness of the boarding marine shields? Even at epic scale, they're a bit chunky.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/02 08:36:01


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Now that's a painting backlog! Is it possible to thin the thickness of the boarding marine shields? Even at epic scale, they're a bit chunky.

Not easily, no, they are sculpted that way. OTOH, the end result are really sturdy miniatures, so... ^^


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/10 16:23:51


Post by: Albertorius


Quick one today: some time ago I printed some Epic "space aelfs" out from thingiverse, as the designer wanted people to test them. They came out great, and afterwards he made a full posed set and thickened some parts. This is the end result:



And this is after a paint schemes test



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/10 16:27:47


Post by: Boss Salvage


Adorable lil' space elves Great work at the teensy scale.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/10 17:15:20


Post by: endtransmission


Awww so cute in all their tiny fury


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/26 14:40:00


Post by: Albertorius


Painted this big boi last weekend:



Size wise it's, well... scaled with all the latest stuff ^^



So yeah, big boi

I've been painting it on and off for a couple days (color separation on a hunk of metal is kinda hard, who would haven known ^x^)





Spoiler:







Pretty impressive kit, all in all, but the panelling is a bit on the shallow side, a bit of sharpening in that point would go a long way.

Still, it does look impressive:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/26 14:51:27


Post by: warboss


Looks good! Are the yellow and black hazard stripes customary on HH IW vehicles or is that more of a post-Heresy thing?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/26 14:59:54


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Looks good! Are the yellow and black hazard stripes customary on HH IW vehicles or is that more of a post-Heresy thing?


It really depends (this one has none, as you can see); It's usually a good way of breaking the "all metal, all the time" pattern ^^.

That said, yes, it is exacerbated post-heresy, IMHO.

In this case, I opted for a very demuded "Iron Within, Iron Without" on the black of the secondary winglets.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/11/26 15:16:33


Post by: warboss


It looks good regardless. About the only thing I may suggest to break up the metallics as you mentioned would be to use some appropriate decals like roman numerals or other miltary symbols on the wings or other large, flat surfaces.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/12/03 11:18:08


Post by: Albertorius


Two Predator squadrons added to my loyalists





Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/12/03 18:54:55


Post by: IGtR=


Nice tanks, and great to see you chugging your way through these IWs (even if, as a die-hard son of Dorn, I should want to smash them with my fists)

Thanks for sharing


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/12/08 21:03:41


Post by: Albertorius


Today just a small test, for now:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/12/08 21:22:20


Post by: lord_blackfang


Those are good! How's the STL support for Epic Orks in general?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2020/12/08 21:32:05


Post by: Albertorius


 lord_blackfang wrote:
Those are good! How's the STL support for Epic Orks in general?


Well, not that great xD. There's some stuff (and I've printed some ) but usually are either very simplistic or not really for the scale.

These, for example, are from Thingiverse's user jazzmantis (and he has a lot of ork infantry), but they are designed for about 10-12mm, and the files are huge, with millions of faces, so I've had to:

- Scale at about 65% (I might have to thicken some stuff too, we'll see)
- Decimate the files to about 30k faces per model
- Add a more correctly scaled circular base, so that they fit better on the actual bases
- Supports! That's the hard one ^^

This is what I have so far:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4678305

I'll be adding more and doing the rest of jazzmantis' models.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/08 18:50:23


Post by: IGtR=


Gosh, sounds emotional (to a complete novice). But totally worth it for tiny orkses

Thanks for sharing


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/08 21:38:59


Post by: Albertorius


 IGtR= wrote:
Gosh, sounds emotional (to a complete novice). But totally worth it for tiny orkses

Thanks for sharing

In the appropiate parlance "decimating" a model means reducing poligon count ^^.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/08 22:21:50


Post by: warboss


You have to admit that it sounds pretty dramatic even if you're not just removing every 10th triangle.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/12 17:18:42


Post by: Kaptin_Grubkrumpa


Hey I'm sure this is answered somewhere in the thread, but what exact model of the 3d printer did you use? I've been hesitant to jump into the market because I wasn't sure how the mini's would turn out but this thread convinced me it's possible to make good minis!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/12 23:24:47


Post by: Albertorius


 Kaptin_Grubkrumpa wrote:
Hey I'm sure this is answered somewhere in the thread, but what exact model of the 3d printer did you use? I've been hesitant to jump into the market because I wasn't sure how the mini's would turn out but this thread convinced me it's possible to make good minis!


Most of what I've done I've done it with an Anycubic Photon original or an Elegoo Mars 1. Both are great, but both are "obsolete" right now, in the sense that are 2k color lcd printers. You should be looking at mono lcd printers, preferably 4k.

Also, tax:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/13 16:54:49


Post by: Kaptin_Grubkrumpa


Well if they're obsolete they should be less expensive, right? Thanks for answering, this thread is awesome!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/13 17:25:31


Post by: Albertorius


 Kaptin_Grubkrumpa wrote:
Well if they're obsolete they should be less expensive, right? Thanks for answering, this thread is awesome!


They are indeed (you can get a cheap resin printer for even $120, but I'm not sure it's worth it anymore.

See, the important, the really important difference, is the change to mono screens instead of color.

Color printers just use a standard LCD made for a phone. Importantly, this means it has Red, Green and Blue filters to create color.

However, the printers' light source is on the border of violet and UV. This means 2/3 of the filters block nearly all of this light, and even the blue one filters a fair bit out. This dramatically lowers the light making it to the resin, massively increasing exposure times required. It also means more light is absorbed, increasing damage done, shortening the lifespan.

Monochrome just doesn't have the RGB filters.

In simpler terms, it means you go from 8s exposure, to 2s, and 400 hours before LCD failure, to 2,000 hours. ( Approximately, these numbers are highly variable. )


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/13 17:31:20


Post by: MDSW


Everything took a big jump, even the base Elegoo Mars, just before the holidays. You could get the 2k base Mars before for around $180, now it is $230 or so on Amazon. Let the market cool a bit and you should save some money any any printer you choose.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/13 18:17:02


Post by: tauist


Did I mention your epic army is looking AWESOME! Keep up the good work sir


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/14 09:22:51


Post by: Albertorius


 tauist wrote:
Did I mention your epic army is looking AWESOME! Keep up the good work sir


Heheh, thanks! ^^

So, one of these squads is printed at 0.05mm per layer and the other at 0.02mm per layer...





Also, no, they're not the same squad with the minis moved around



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/14 21:13:57


Post by: tauist


What printer are you using to get 20 micron prints? I've been trying to research these things and I've yet to find a single low cost resin printer which goes down to 20 microns (which seems to be the seet spot for my eyes anyway). Most of them only go to around 50 microns..?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/14 23:27:02


Post by: Albertorius


 tauist wrote:
What printer are you using to get 20 micron prints? I've been trying to research these things and I've yet to find a single low cost resin printer which goes down to 20 microns (which seems to be the seet spot for my eyes anyway). Most of them only go to around 50 microns..?


20 microns per layer means thickness, the Z axis. Most printers are able to do steps of up to 10 microns on that axis.

OTOH, on a DLP printer the resolution on the XY axis (the resolution on each actual "slice" or layer of the print) is dependent on the definition of the LCD screen it mounts. For example, the original Anycubic Photon has a 2K 5,5'' screen, so it allows for a max resolution of about 47 microns on the XY axis. OTOH a Phrozen Sonic Mini 4k has a 4K 6,1'' screen that allows for a max XY resolution of 35 microns.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/15 05:32:20


Post by: Vaktathi


Digging the Iron Warriors and Star Wars stuff, those Droids look fantastic.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/15 07:57:55


Post by: Albertorius


Thanks man ^^


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/15 08:51:20


Post by: tauist


 Albertorius wrote:
After my first prints using the newfangled Photon, I continued doing some more tests:





And then I started to try and push the limits of the printer further... until then I had only printed stuff at 50 microns per layer, which, as far as it goes, is actually the thicker recommended layer height. So next I tried to print the same model at 50 microns and again at 20 microns, to try to see how much of a difference would that make. Yhis is the mini I tried it with:



Primed, because that green gak doesn't really takes well to photos:



Now, first things first: 50 microns is more than enough definition for most things, and works really well for minis. But still, as you can see the difference is noticeable in photos (almost not at all with the naked eye, though). And it is even moreso when you actually zoom in:

50 microns:



20 microns:



I was referring to the print examples in this post.. Here the 20 microns is looking great! so you can achieve this "20 micron" result even with a 2K printer? But I thought they only go to 50?, I'm confused..


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/15 12:37:33


Post by: Albertorius


 tauist wrote:
I was referring to the print examples in this post.. Here the 20 microns is looking great! so you can achieve this "20 micron" result even with a 2K printer? But I thought they only go to 50?, I'm confused..

Yes, as I said I'm talking about layer thickness here: what you see in the 50 microns pic is the more pronounced layering, stepping or stair effect that a thicker layer (50 microns per layer) has in comparison with a thinner one (20 microns per layer). But that's exclusively on the X axis, on the "height" of the print (not really the heigh of the mini, because you will usually print it at an angle, though). The XY axis, or the "screen resolution" of the print, is in both cases about 50 microns, which is the resolution of the lcd screen (2K).

In other words, in the 50 microns pic you can more easily see the separate layers of the print because they're thicker.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/15 14:35:52


Post by: tauist


 Albertorius wrote:
 tauist wrote:
I was referring to the print examples in this post.. Here the 20 microns is looking great! so you can achieve this "20 micron" result even with a 2K printer? But I thought they only go to 50?, I'm confused..

Yes, as I said I'm talking about layer thickness here: what you see in the 50 microns pic is the more pronounced layering, stepping or stair effect that a thicker layer (50 microns per layer) has in comparison with a thinner one (20 microns per layer). But that's exclusively on the X axis, on the "height" of the print (not really the heigh of the mini, because you will usually print it at an angle, though). The XY axis, or the "screen resolution" of the print, is in both cases about 50 microns, which is the resolution of the lcd screen (2K).

In other words, in the 50 microns pic you can more easily see the separate layers of the print because they're thicker.


So even the in printers that only state 50 microns as their resolution, layer thickness is actually a very meaninful parameter as well; these two values form the overall printing resolution, and then the lift speeds and layer curing times affect how perfectly the print rendering itself occurs (values which are also synergistic with resin type and the size/weight of the model etc).. Ok, I think I'm starting to uderstand all this a little bit!

Cheers


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/15 14:44:07


Post by: Albertorius


 tauist wrote:
 Albertorius wrote:
 tauist wrote:
I was referring to the print examples in this post.. Here the 20 microns is looking great! so you can achieve this "20 micron" result even with a 2K printer? But I thought they only go to 50?, I'm confused..

Yes, as I said I'm talking about layer thickness here: what you see in the 50 microns pic is the more pronounced layering, stepping or stair effect that a thicker layer (50 microns per layer) has in comparison with a thinner one (20 microns per layer). But that's exclusively on the X axis, on the "height" of the print (not really the heigh of the mini, because you will usually print it at an angle, though). The XY axis, or the "screen resolution" of the print, is in both cases about 50 microns, which is the resolution of the lcd screen (2K).

In other words, in the 50 microns pic you can more easily see the separate layers of the print because they're thicker.


So even the in printers that only state 50 microns as their resolution, layer thickness is actually a very meaninful parameter as well; these two values form the overall printing resolution, and then the lift speeds and layer curing times affect how perfectly the print rendering itself occurs (values which are also synergistic with resin type and the size/weight of the model etc).. Ok, I think I'm starting to uderstand all this a little bit!

Cheers


Exactly so, yes ^^. There's a fair amount of variables, and you need to account for the properties of the specific resin you're using, but honestly? It's not even that hard. IME, resin printers are much easier to operate and maintain than FDM printers, up until cleaning and post processing (and FDM supports are evil incarnate. They hurt).

Glad to be of help

Also, just finished painting Padawan Ahsoka Tano, or Snips











Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/15 14:53:02


Post by: warboss


I really liked it until you called her Snips, AL Guy!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/15 15:02:43


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
I really liked it until you called her Snips, AL Guy!


This one's not old enough to be called anything else


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/15 15:49:02


Post by: warboss


Just resize her to season 5+ proportions.

Joking aside, nice job!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/15 16:20:04


Post by: ingtaer


Those B2s look nice and chunky, the larger shoulders look a lot nicer than the FFG ones.
Nice work on Ashoka.
Do you fully cure the resin on the sabers? I have printed off a couple of saber wielders (Mara Jade and Revan) and found that its impossible to keep the sabers straight when I fully cure them, even after hot water bending they just bend back again and it really irritates me.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/16 11:49:35


Post by: Albertorius


 ingtaer wrote:
Do you fully cure the resin on the sabers? I have printed off a couple of saber wielders (Mara Jade and Revan) and found that its impossible to keep the sabers straight when I fully cure them, even after hot water bending they just bend back again and it really irritates me.


It's fully cured, yes. I'm assuming it will depend on the angle you print it and how you position the sabers during curing, as that will lock it in place. Pretty sure that hot water bending will do little with UV resin, due to the layering (meaning, it should follow the layers and the way it cured as a "default" form, instead of the mold).


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/19 14:36:13


Post by: MDSW


I have done hundreds of minis with super thin swords and such and never have a bending issue, unless I wait to do a full cure for a few days I noticed some may droop slightly and have to straighten before doing the uv cure, then they stay fine.

If you get excessive droop after printing, maybe try to increase your layer exposure by a half-full second or so - this will cure the mini a bit more before you do the full cure.

As far as the layer lines and what to choose, here is what I found out for my Elegoo Mars:

- Small and super detailed minis - .02-.03 and turn any blur or AA off.
- Not so detailed, but small minis - .04-.05 and set AA to 2
- Larger minis with good details - .05-.06 with AA at 2 or 4
- Very large minis - .06-.08 with AA at 8

Obviously the thinner the layer the longer it takes to print, but if they are small and you orient to shorten the height, it is not so bad. Another trick is you can generally use a shorter cure time when using thinner layers - for example when using the Siraya Tech Simple I go about 8 seconds when at .07-.08 and can go about 5.5-6 seconds when at .02-.03 layer. Hope this helps...


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/20 11:11:56


Post by: Albertorius


Ok, finished Anakin, that's two MCs out of however many there are in the Clone Wars cartoon ^^









Family photo, although a small one



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/20 15:24:59


Post by: MDSW


Super nicely done!!!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/20 17:24:21


Post by: Boss Salvage


Great job on Anakin's CW pallid skin and sunken eyes. Snips is rocking too.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/01/20 21:44:41


Post by: warboss


Agreed! I can't help but feel that those painting details are trying to foreshadow some sort of darker turn in the character though...



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/05 17:51:50


Post by: Albertorius


This week I've been finishing more tactical and assault marines to be able to field a full Battle Company:



So now I can do this, weeee ^^



The Rhinos were a failed print, actually; I didn't do the right times and the print is all layer-y... but as I've been separated from my printers for months now, it's not like I can print more right now, so they'll have to do I guess:





This week I've also painted some close support units of the holy orders of kboom and zchort:









Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/05 17:55:31


Post by: Flinty


They look amazing. Interesting to see the layer lines on the rhinos, but not on the vindicators. Do you churn the rhinos out on different settings, or are they just supported at a different angle?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/05 18:06:17


Post by: Albertorius


 Flinty wrote:
They look amazing. Interesting to see the layer lines on the rhinos, but not on the vindicators. Do you churn the rhinos out on different settings, or are they just supported at a different angle?


Just adjusted the layer time settings correctly for the next print ^^


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/08 14:52:29


Post by: Albertorius


I'm testing color schemes for an astartes opfor for my loyalist IWs. So far I'm testing these ones, one finished, one not:





Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/08 17:52:44


Post by: Flinty


The metallic green is lovely, but possibly too similar to.your iron warriors in that its shiny metallic. The red is definately fundamentally different, and obviously fits the bill as a "red force" OPFOR, but overall I think the green is nicer.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/08 18:05:25


Post by: Albertorius


 Flinty wrote:
The metallic green is lovely, but possibly too similar to.your iron warriors in that its shiny metallic. The red is definately fundamentally different, and obviously fits the bill as a "red force" OPFOR, but overall I think the green is nicer.


I'm liking it more too, tbh. It has the added benefit of being much, much easier to do. The above is literally a layer of metal and a layer of dilluted Akhellan Green, no highlights or anything at all.

...I kind of like the idea of having something that paints that fast xDDD


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/11 10:22:43


Post by: Albertorius


Well, it took a while, but I finished my Sicaran squad:







Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/11 16:33:52


Post by: endtransmission


Those all look great! If someone mentions the lines on the rhinos... just say it's the 40k equivalent to zimmerit


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/11 16:46:39


Post by: Albertorius


 endtransmission wrote:
Those all look great! If someone mentions the lines on the rhinos... just say it's the 40k equivalent to zimmerit


They're almost invisible, TBH, it's just that with the bigass zoom every single defect shows ^^


Automatically Appended Next Post:
I'm almost finished with my Epic loyalist Iron Warriors project: Iron Warriors 27th Garrison Detachment, 34th Grand Company, 102nd Grand Battalion, 51st Expedition Fleet.



From the above there's only two Fellblades and two Storm Eagles to do. Infantry wise, I want to finish these:



Hopefully I'll be able to finish it this month.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/15 16:16:40


Post by: Albertorius


And... I finished the Fellblade squadron:



(the actual minis I painted this time, the other was already finished):




Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/15 16:46:47


Post by: warboss


Soon you will have enough to crush the false Emperor's forces! Mwuhahaha!! Nicely done.

Since you've printed so much 6mm stuff, I was curious what your thoughts were of some of the 3d models that seem like they're just shrunk down to the size from 28mm+. Every time I look at them I can't help but focus on areas that I don't think will print correctly (let alone resolve well even if they do). Have you tried test printing those types of models? This would be an example of the type I'm referring to (obviously Dark Angels and not Iron Warriors though).

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4763122

My only personal experience was converting a Sons of Horus terminator into Horus and I thickened the hell out of that thing and it still barely printed out ok at 12-15mm tall.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/15 18:39:56


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Soon you will have enough to crush the false Emperor's forces! Mwuhahaha!! Nicely done.

Since you've printed so much 6mm stuff, I was curious what your thoughts were of some of the 3d models that seem like they're just shrunk down to the size from 28mm+. Every time I look at them I can't help but focus on areas that I don't think will print correctly (let alone resolve well even if they do). Have you tried test printing those types of models? This would be an example of the type I'm referring to (obviously Dark Angels and not Iron Warriors though).

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4763122

My only personal experience was converting a Sons of Horus terminator into Horus and I thickened the hell out of that thing and it still barely printed out ok at 12-15mm tall.


It certainly looks like most of that detail will not print as is, and it will mostly be a blob if it even prints.

Lately I refrain from trying to print such stuff clearly not correctly done, as usually the result is either underwhelming or unprintable.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/16 22:17:36


Post by: IGtR=


Great little big tanks - tracks looking great

Thanks for sharing


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/18 12:59:20


Post by: Albertorius


I'm prepping a HH opfor for my marines... the idea was a fast paint scheme to try and not spend way too much time with them:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/21 21:05:50


Post by: Albertorius


Weeeeeeeee

Some restrictions were lifted and I got to spend the weekend playing a bit with my printers

Firstly, I prepped a full Alpha Legion tactical company, as defined in Imperius Dominatus, just in case ^^:



I also printed a boatload of terminators and MkIV assault troops (I didn't take pics, but you'll see them soon enough

I also finally found some crews for my basilisks:



...and they brought friends xD



Also printed some jetbikes that I'm gonna use for the Alphas:



...using translucent resin!



(OK, it's what I had. But still)

Lastly, I found all my SM sprues and unpainted plastics:



Seeing as the regular plastic SM are ridiculously small (they are smaller than IG, FFS), I'm thinking about using them as squats or something.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/22 01:05:33


Post by: Vaktathi


The Alpha Legion dudes look Gorgeous, though I'm enamored of all the Iron Warriors vehicles


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/26 10:50:12


Post by: Albertorius


Finishing up the Air Support:







Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/26 13:16:46


Post by: warboss


Very nicely done! The angles on the print look very crisp and we'll defined, even more so than normal. Did you change anything in the settings of get a new printer?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/02/26 14:29:43


Post by: MDSW


Yes, and the paint job being so stellar really sells these!!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/01 07:55:54


Post by: Albertorius


Thanks, guys ^^

Last week I bought Moonjammy's very excellent Warmaster Dark Elves, so I printed "some" over the weekend. Black and translucent resin don't really photograph well, so I primed some:









(...yeah, black primer kind of have a similar problem xD)

I also test painted a spearmen strip to see it a bit better:



As you can see, detail is great, at least as good as the original metal ones:



I also found at home three old orc army blisters, and let me tell you, they are magnificent:



Side by side comparison:



Anyways... I printed "some" ^^



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/03 21:44:54


Post by: IGtR=


Detail on these Dark Elves is amazing - they look better than the metals, and really like a shrunken-down version of the classic Dark Elf Spearman!

Thanks for sharing, this stuff is going to look awesome when all painted up


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/03 23:14:22


Post by: warboss


Warmaster is 10mm unlike Epic's 6mm, right?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/04 07:29:28


Post by: Albertorius


More like 12mm, to be completely honest:



(The marines are about 8mm)

Took the time to test paint some stuff other than the lancers, and I'm really impressed with the level of detail:










Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/04 10:17:19


Post by: IGtR=


The level of detail on this stuff is very impressive!

Thanks for sharing


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/04 11:09:06


Post by: warboss


Indeed, great detail and nice paint job on the witch/sorceress! There's a lot more that you can do at that scale, more than I would have thought. With the big vehicle focus on Epic, that somewhat shifts the baseline away from what is possible in infantry. I like that the marines are 8mm actual in 6mm scale as the ratio correlates with the relative heights in the fluff (8ft tall marine vs 6ft average human).


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/04 13:01:29


Post by: Paradigm


Wow, those Dark Elves are fantastic for the scale. Amazing stuff.


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/04 15:46:26


Post by: Boss Salvage


WOW that sorceress O_O I'm increasingly tempted to do up some 15mm KOW, since I've got too many 30mm ones at this point and 15mm offers a pretty rich world of minis to tap (ignoring all the 3D files I've never looked into for that range)


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/07 14:56:33


Post by: Albertorius


This weekend's tithe is some Cyberpunk 2077's characters from Papsikel's Patreon. Used the presupported versions with a couple added thick supports on the feet, just in case. Printed on translucent resin, so it's a bitch to take pics:

My main man, Jackie Welles:



Most annoying head-tenant ever, Johhy the donkey-cave :



Ozob Bozo, funniest straight up psycho ever:



...some cybered-up punk that will do well as an Escher ^^:



Evelyn Parker, doomed doll:




Judy Alvarez, cutest BD techie in all NC:




And finally Panam Palmer, Aldecados' bestie:




All ten of them fit in a single print, at 0.02


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/07 16:37:23


Post by: warboss


Cool! Any failures on the plate? How tall is the first one (the bruiser from all the trailers)?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/07 18:24:07


Post by: Albertorius


 warboss wrote:
Cool! Any failures on the plate? How tall is the first one (the bruiser from all the trailers)?


No failures at all, and about this big:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/07 18:32:30


Post by: warboss


Thanks and good to hear that the pre-supported version was adequate (with the caveat you mentioned about adding more to the feet). Probably roughly 40mm if primaris sized... that's big!


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/09 21:33:40


Post by: IGtR=


These look great, even if the clear plastic makes it difficult to see! You must paint these up so we can admire your printing skills!!

Thanks for sharing


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/10 21:03:18


Post by: Albertorius


If nothing goes weird, this weekend I'll try to print this plate:



Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/10 21:30:04


Post by: Flinty


Looks a it heavy geary. Does it have an official designation?


Re:Albertorius' 3d Printing, Painting Modelling Blog (Tiny Marines, p.25) @ 2021/03/10 22:38:41


Post by: warboss


Cool! Hunter? Is that the one posted on reddit a few weeks back?