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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.

 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

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

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

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):

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

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

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.

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.


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Two layers of shades to give them the proper metal tone:

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



Also testing basing material:

 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 ^^

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:

 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.

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:

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

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

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

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.

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.

 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.

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 ^^

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.

 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)

 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.

 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):

 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:

 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:

 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

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:

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.

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