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Hahah, thanks I'm pretty happy with the end result, tbh, given the effort required.

This has certainly been my biggest print on the Mars 3 so far, and the result is very encouraging.

Also, yeah, those handles are pretty nice ^^

This weekend I've been printing stuff for my IWs, and probably for therest of the beakies, when I decide what to do with them.

Firstly, I painted a couple of special guns:



You know, so I have spares just in case ^^.

I also printed some "Iron" marks to fill the support units I already have:

I topped off the melta unit with three models:





And used some of the plasmas with plastic Mark IVs to fill the plasma unit:



And seeing as I'm interested in testing them, I built a volkite caliver unit with the rest of the bodies:

Ok, unit fillers done:

Thanks! I'm reasonably happy with them, given the time I invested.

Also, a callout to Helforged Minis' Patreon: if you sub for just a single month, you get all their back catalog. Kinda nuts.

 Paradigm wrote:
The Iron Warriors continue to look excellent! Must be time for a new army shot soon?

@warboss, re. Helforged

They've got a subreddit where they post previews, they keep them off Patreon after a kerfuffle with GW, I believe. But pretty much everything is here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HelforgedMiniatures/
Thus far they've done Mk3 armour (generic, chaos and Iron Warriors), MkIV (generic, chaos and Word Bearers), MkV (generic, Chaos and Sons of Horus) and MkVI/Recon armour (Generic and Alpha Legion), plus more 40k-style Night Lords, Noise Marines and Khorne Berserkers, and generic Cataphractii and Saturnine Terminator armour.

I also subbed to them this month, absolutely killer bits and kits and solid support work by Atlas too, so you can fairly reliably just load up a plate of whatever you want and press go!

Thanks, there's still some more things I "need" to finish ^^

Like Rhinos, for example. I did finish the first, though:

 warboss wrote:
So who is leading this burgeoning force in multiple scales? There's a very nice Perturabo up on MMF that used to be available on kickstarter a few years back.

No one of note, to be honest. It is supposed to be a garrison force left behind on a no-name planet, so the officers cadre is mostly unknowns and undesirables, like original terrans and the like that did not particularly like Perti but also didn't have the decency of dying in combat or in the decimation like they should have.

Basically, they're a bunch of bitter old warriors resentful of their leader that are still for some reason loyal to the idea of the grand crusade (if not the execution or the fact that they have been left to rot, so there's resent for everyone there) and when they learn about the betrayal and perti's decision to side with Horus they go all "feth that, I'm outta here".

 warboss wrote:
Fair enough. I'm guessing you're a fan of that short story of the hrud aged loyalist warsmith then?

I figured you might not use a primarch given they're loyalist and split not just between two scales but two eras as well.

I actually learnt about Barabas after I dediced on the background of my army ^^, but it's a cool story nonetheless.

Also I'm personally not very fond of special characters in general and primarchs in particular, as part of an army. To me, they make the setting feel smaller, and I much prefer to play with my dudes instead of someone else's (and yes, the same could be said of choosing a legion/chapter instead of making a new one, but it feels a bit different, particularly on the HH, because there's just so much variation inside every legion).

Painting some more 15mm marines this time I'm testing a colorshift paint to try and get a decent-ish Alpha Legion look:




The paint is kinda weird: it basically looks like a milky liquid with metallic flakes floating on it, and you an actually see the flakes when applying it, but it looks decent enough afterwards.

This would be more or less the full idea:

I'm printing an eldar Kill Team for a friend and helping to start with painting and all, so I've been painting eldar proxies from multiple patreons.

The first tests have been from last month's Heroes Infinite Patreon. These first were done with the MArs 3 at 25 microns per layer.

For this one I did a zenithal basecoat with rattle cans (my friend was home yesterday so he started working on some):




And for the rest I primed them with the airbrush, regular black and then zenithal with Liquitex white ink:








And these I printed yesterday as a test for the newly arrived Saturn 2, 50 microns, all default settings save for light off delay, which I added (brushed on primer):

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

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

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

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

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





It is a sizable beast:







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

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

Well, yeah, it's quite bigger:




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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So, I've printed some more stuff ^^

First, some Dark Mechanicus from The Makers Cult:







A skitarii general (TMC):



An alternate Culexus assassin (TMC):





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



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



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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

The test scheme works really well!

Insomnia xD

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



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

And I made Cobra troopers xD




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



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


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



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

So... yeah ^^

The Red Hobbit wrote:Nice looking Cobra Troops!

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

Chairman Aeon wrote:

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

I think you sold me on the Saturn 2.

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

Maybe in the near future.

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




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

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

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





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



"Army" look:



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

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

And they do loke mighty impressive, TBH:



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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

 Psychopomp wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So I'm printing some scenery.

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

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



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

Looks wise it looks good:




And another comparison, printed vs primed: