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Something that's been in the works for a while at Baphominiatures is the addition of a custom digital sculpture service that would allow clients to have parts designed for their armies and printed with high fidelity.
In an effort to start rolling that process out, we've opened a store that is currently offering custom Space Warrior pads, in a variety of styles printed with your choice of emblem.

In the future there will be additional miniatures, custom bits services and much more, but we're very excited to start with this small baby step towards providing a unique service to the wargaming community.

http://www.baphominiatures.com/store/

This could be a good idea for armies like the black dragons. Keep up the good work

Im mostly excited about the inevitable Angry Marines. Not so much the possibly vulgar ones.

Great Start, Zach!

 Zach wrote:
Im mostly excited about the inevitable Angry Marines. Not so much the possibly vulgar ones.

I hadn't even thought about them and I've always wanted a small detachment of those .

I like the American flag one, it's funny how few country-based marine chapters are out there.

A Union Jack shoulder pad would also do well I think.

I have always wanted someone to design more interesting poses for the bodies of Hormagaunts and Termagants. Any chance that you will make some "bug bodies" instead of just another shop rolling out shoulder pads?

kronk wrote:Great Start, Zach!

Thanks man!

Theophony wrote:

 Zach wrote:
Im mostly excited about the inevitable Angry Marines. Not so much the possibly vulgar ones.

I hadn't even thought about them and I've always wanted a small detachment of those .

I think they deserve their place.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:I like the American flag one, it's funny how few country-based marine chapters are out there.

A Union Jack shoulder pad would also do well I think.

Mmhm, pretty much anything can be printed. Im sure there will be some rebel alliance or Imperial empire ones, eventually.

Lance845 wrote:I have always wanted someone to design more interesting poses for the bodies of Hormagaunts and Termagants. Any chance that you will make some "bug bodies" instead of just another shop rolling out shoulder pads?

Thats a question that I have an oddly specific 'yes' to, because its one of the main reasons I ventured down the 3D printer rabbit hole. No timeline on that though.

One of the first orders, these guys look familiar:

Any chance to see Terminator-equivalent sized pads in there as well?

Yep, in the pipeline.

Out of curiosity, when it says "10 pair" does that mean you do a custom left/right set (20 total), and that if you just wanted a single design you could technically just get 20 of the same design?

Yep, Ive had customers ask for both.

Along with plans to make terminator size pads, would you be open to making different shaped pads that are more like the plastic MKVII tactical marines? Your pads look absolutely great, but they're a bit more sloped than the plastic MKVII pads especially at the top and the bottom corners are just slightly splayed out. The plastic MKVII have a slightly larger lip and curve more severely to end 90° to the vertical lip while the vertical curves go all the way down and end almost 90° to the horizontal flat edge


These are not my 3D renders, but show what I mean:


I'm currently rebuilding an old Space Wolf army I sold years ago. Originally I freehanded the unit badges/pack markings, this time around I was going to have custom decals done, but would MUCH rather have 3D molded pads than decals. I'd also love to have my forum avatar as a custom pad for the army badge, right now i've got about 60 of the plastic SW "ragnar" pads that I'm painting white on a black field but would rather switch to making it my own actual icon. I'm also not fond of having one side 3D molded and painted with the other side decals on a smooth pad. There's a lot of pads on Shapeways, but I'm not confident in even the Frosted Ultra Detail prints, your resin looks to be much better quality for about the same cost. Almost placed an order a couple times the last few weeks, but I'm a bit anal retentive when it comes to shapes and body lines and the shallower slope and thiner lip on your pads has kept me from ordering any