3D printable Sci-Fi Tanks by Duncan 'shadow' Louca Kickstarter

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**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1795844993/3d-printable-sci-fi-tanks

got a 3D printer, or access to a friends, or one at a library or university this might be for you

About

With this project I will be bring you a collection of Sci-Fi Vehicles and Artillery to be used in whatever tabletop game you choose. With more vehicles being added as stretch goals are hit. All sculpts will be supplied as 3d printable STL files.

Why am I doing this project?

My passions are sculpting, 3d printing and wargames. I wanted to be able to field the sort of armys I wanted without breaking the bank. So I started sculpting the sort of models I needed. After sculpting quite a range I decided to bring it to Kickstarter to enable me to further expand the range.

I have a Patreon page were I produce sculpts for my backers each month as well as a website where you can see some of my past work. So you can be sure I have the knowledge required to deliver printable files, and can be trusted to deliver them in a time frame.

Patreon: www.patreon.com/Duncan_shadow

Website: https://www.duncanshadow.com

Scale: The default scale of my files is 32mm / 28mm Heroic, but Being 3D Files they can be scaled up or down.

What do I get?

As soon as the kickstarter has ended and funds cleared you will receive 3d Printable files in a stl format. You can print as many of the figures on your home printer as you want, or send the files to a external printer to do the printing for you.

The kickstarter includes 7 vehicles 1 walker and 2 artillery pieces, with extra weapon options, (see below) to start with, more sculpts being unlocked in the near future.

Main battle tank comes with multiple turret, hull and sponson guns.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS. When you contribute to This campaign, you will receive STL files for the models as per your selected pledge. The pledge files will be delivered May 2018, with successful stretch goals arriving later. You can print these files for your personal use, but you may not sell the printed items for profit or distribute the digital 3D models/files to other parties.

**RiTides**

Well that looks absolutely brilliant! I hadn't backed any Kickstarters this year yet (trying to be much more judicious and only back things I'm sure to use!) but this just broke my streak

I've asked in the comments about how they come out printed at smaller scale - 28mm tanks aren't the best fit for 3D printing, imo, due to all the material they'll use, but this detail looks chunky enough to scale down. We'll see

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

It certainly looks a good one if you've got/got access to a printer

and the creator looks to be reliable too which is a bonus

**Skinnereal**

This will work better than a lot of other 3d-printer kickstarters.
Current home-grade printer tech will have problems with ~28mm models, like a lot of people want to print, but vehicles and buildings work well.
I'll have a poke about at that link, for later.

**Dark Severance**

RiTides wrote:
I've asked in the comments about how they come out printed at smaller scale - 28mm tanks aren't the best fit for 3D printing, imo, due to all the material they'll use, but this detail looks chunky enough to scale down. We'll see

They print in multiple pieces so the amount of material depends on how you do infill for FDM/FFF or if you hollow it out for SLA/DLP printing. The other pieces are bulky enough too, you can split them into parts maximize printing capability and lesson supports.

**insaniak**

The vehicles look nice enough... but I'm a little confused as to what the point of the Kickstarter is if the sculpts are already done.

**Dark Severance**

insaniak wrote:
The vehicles look nice enough... but I'm a little confused as to what the point of the Kickstarter is if the sculpts are already done.

Not to sound mean towards him or anything but it is a money grab or rather seeking payment for work he's done. He digital sculpts and created them so basically selling the designs. For the most part, it is no different than a lot of 3d terrain Kickstarters in which the majority of it was already done, with newer getting done in Stretch Goals. They also might not be completely finalized. He could have the initial shapes, designs, to show a render but still needs to be cut and fixed if needed for printability.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

He's also going to get far more eyes on the project than via a personal patreon page which seems the normal way people making 3D files (but not printing them) seem to go

**angel of death 007**

They look really good. I am on the fence about backing because my guard army is pretty much complete.... Ever think of doing some sisters of battle type tanks.... immolator or exodist.

**ph34r**

Some of those are quite nice looking. I would definitely want to see what the end results look like in real life so I can know what to expect.

**Malika2**

Should be pretty easy to also print them in other scales right?

**RiTides**

Malika2 wrote:
Should be pretty easy to also print them in other scales right?

I asked about that in the comments and the creator is going to print some in 15mm to show

(and said he had previously as well and they looked good). I definitely want to print them smaller if possible!

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Thanks everyone for making this project a amazing success already, and the campaign has barely begun. Hit 7 stretch goals so that's an extra 7 sculps everyone on the commander level tiers will get files for. Lets hope this keeps up so even more sculpts can be added

Would really appreciate it if people could share the project with friends and people they think might be interested.

Thank you all so much.

**Dark Severance**

Malika2 wrote:
Should be pretty easy to also print them in other scales right?

For the most part the answer is mostly yes. The mostly part depends on the type of printer you are doing and the amount of details in certain areas. For example is it easy to take something designed for 10/15mm to scale upwards, but sometimes harder to take something at a higher scale to scale down. FDM/FFF will have trouble with smaller scale because details get tighter, and those routes still happen even though detail becomes tiny. While a SLA/DLP printer will have an easier time with scale adjustments. But for the most part the answer is yes.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

a 15mm scale version of one of the KS tanks from facebool

Duncan 'shadow' Louca My printer is only a flash forge finder but on smaller bits I print at the highest settings and I think the rigid ink fillamet helps.

**Prometheum5**

insaniak wrote:
The vehicles look nice enough... but I'm a little confused as to what the point of the Kickstarter is if the sculpts are already done.

I have asked this in other KS 3D printed terrain threads. Seems like this is just the way they do things. KS has kind of broken things such that there's no other way to get the word out better.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

another scale shot here from facebook

Artillery prints. First image shows the mobile artillery printed at 28mm scale with the main battle take printed at 15mm, the other two miniatures are just for scale.

**drbored**

Good looking tanks, and the 3d prints look really solid.

I can tell that a lot of these are designed to be 40k proxies, but in my local groups and in many tournaments, proxies like this are either frowned upon or simply not allowed. :/