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 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

Well, it took a while, but I finished my Sicaran squad:

Those all look great! If someone mentions the lines on the rhinos... just say it's the 40k equivalent to zimmerit

 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 ^^


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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.

And... I finished the Fellblade squadron:



(the actual minis I painted this time, the other was already finished):

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.

 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.

Great little big tanks - tracks looking great

Thanks for sharing

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:

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.

The Alpha Legion dudes look Gorgeous, though I'm enamored of all the Iron Warriors vehicles

Finishing up the Air Support:

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?

Yes, and the paint job being so stellar really sells these!!

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" ^^

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

Warmaster is 10mm unlike Epic's 6mm, right?

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:

The level of detail on this stuff is very impressive!

Thanks for sharing

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).

Wow, those Dark Elves are fantastic for the scale. Amazing stuff.

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)

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

Cool! Any failures on the plate? How tall is the first one (the bruiser from all the trailers)?

 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:

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!

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

If nothing goes weird, this weekend I'll try to print this plate:

Looks a it heavy geary. Does it have an official designation?

Cool! Hunter? Is that the one posted on reddit a few weeks back?