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At Sandevista we pride ourselves with being fine procurers of 3d third-party printed objects of desire for your wargaming lusts.
First out is a not-quite-dread set of shoulder and arms.

on the upcoming list we have:

Automatic rifles for that guardsman in dire need of munitions to keep him fightin' against that green tide.

Spare bionic legs and arms for your blown off limbs.

Did Techmarine Cheat-o-Materials install bad treads on your tank? not to worry, we'll have that covered.

Need an extra pair of hands? who needs 'em when you can just install another set of mechadendrites or a new pneumatic arm for your fusion-powered-backpack!

We know all about deathworlds, so when your sentinel breaks down, we'll have it walking again in no time with a new spare set of legs

and for that legiones astartes adept, growing can be a pain! don't worry, with our truescale armor we'll have you out of that cramped, sweaty interior in no-time

dont, worry. you can find us here

(yep, i did it, finally. cue the hatin')

Very interested.

lord marcus wrote:Very interested.

Good, good *rubs hands together* so what can i do you for?


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Removing details that my overzealous gun-nut of a 3d designer added:

As someone with basic knowledge of 3d design I can say that I am not at all impressed by the dreadnought arms. I will keep an open mind for your future releases though.

The iPhone Dock is a conversion piece for the Land Raider... right?

ph34r wrote:As someone with basic knowledge of 3d design I can say that I am not at all impressed by the dreadnought arms. I will keep an open mind for your future releases though.

As someone with a permanent smile and optimistic outset i'll redefine the design next weekend

@HBMC, well no, its part of the princeps control interface on an imperator class titan, hook it up and itll put the machinespirits in the correct mood. We highly recommend the tune "hammertime" by his most glorious of artisans. Mc Hammer.

I want to be impressed with 3D printing, I really do. I just don't think the technology is quite there yet. :(

To be fair Breotan, if you order the bits in metal, you'll more than likely to something very naughty in your underwear

But to be perfectly clear, this isnt reprap. and we have some design considerations to optimize the printing of details on our "casts".
The other thing, is that our female spirers for a generic 28mm gang warfare wargame set in the future, even impressed us.

If you have well detailed, well prinatble figures that you're capable of selling, why only showcase a few arms that look like you mocked them up in about 30 seconds?

Well that's a valid question, it's because we want to have their accessories done first

ph34r wrote:As someone with basic knowledge of 3d design I can say that I am not at all impressed by the dreadnought arms. I will keep an open mind for your future releases though.

ph34r, Keep in mind that these are early renders, the final parts can often look a lot more interesting, especially when painted.

I have a Shapeways store as well: http://www.shapeways.com/shops/objects. i haven't tried to do parts for 28mm infantry, mainly doing spaceships and modern aircraft and naval, but the models have been well received by even the admittedly picky naval collectors. :-)

From my experiments, the current costs of Shapeways materials (especially the 100-micron resolution material) would make it expensive for full 28mm scale, but it is well suited to aircraft scales (1:600, 1:285 (6mm)) and naval scales (1:6000 to 1:2400, maybe 1:1200 for smaller ships). Also, it seems to work well for 6mm (Epic) scale vehicles. See: http://shpws.me/LGC

The materials paint well, and, especially at 100-micron resolution, they look very good (consider, 100 microns is below human visual resolution at game-table distances).

3D printing still has room for improvement, but Shapeways has made it _much_ more affordable and accessible. In some hobbies (like naval minis and model railroads) it has opened up some really interesting new innovations. Also, there is a lot of free software (E.g. I use Blender) which makes it pretty easy for anyone to start making (and selling) their own minis.

wee update to tease the mind.

ph34r wrote:As someone with basic knowledge of 3d design I can say that I am not at all impressed by the dreadnought arms. I will keep an open mind for your future releases though.

As someone with basic knowledge of internet I can say that I am not at all impressed by you.

This seems very intresting.

harlekin wrote:

ph34r wrote:As someone with basic knowledge of 3d design I can say that I am not at all impressed by the dreadnought arms. I will keep an open mind for your future releases though.

As someone with basic knowledge of internet I can say that I am not at all impressed by you.

This seems very intresting.

You use your first post on this site to troll a much more established user over a post made about three weeks ago?

On topic? :/

Pardon me.

Suggestions I do have regarding alternate Guardsman weapons if the following:

- Current Guardsmen weapons are attached to their arms. It's rather difficult to remove. It'd be great if you can provide arms as part of the weapon. Bonus points if you can combine the guns wit your bionic arms.
- Guardsmen seem to look tremendusly out-of-place when equipped with solid-ammunition rather than the classic lasgun designs. If you could make the automatic rifles with a lasgun-tip, that'd be a long way towards a great item.