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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?

 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.

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?

Do you plan to play Legion?

 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):

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.

 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:

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.

 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:

Looking crisp as hell, great sculpts as well. Was aware of Skullforge, but Dark Fire are new to me, going to have to look them up when my Photon is up and running.

I've seen Skullforge before and have been admiring them for a while. Dark Fire are a new one on me, but also full of shiny goodness.

I really didn't need another project to print and fail to paint

Hey, where do you source your Epic stuff? Any any tips on scaling it to AT like you did?

 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:

What an awesome collection and so nicely done!!

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!

Nicely printed and painted. Do you prefer the Clone Wars stylized super battle droids to the slimmer trilogy ones?

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.

Thanks for all the pics, and the print settings thoughts!! They look great, and those droids definitely are beefcakes

Those ARCs do look like a cool kit. I'm continually disappointed that the Legion stuff is the wrong scale to be useful.

Really nice stuff all around, though. The Mando collection is awesome.

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

Scheme test for these guys:

Looks good and I like the paint scheme. The only thing I may recommend is to paint the tracks a different metallic color so that they differentiate more from the hull metallic color.

Agreed! Man that is sharp. Who would have thought that Epic would just keep getting better and better after its death.

warboss wrote:Looks good and I like the paint scheme. The only thing I may recommend is to paint the tracks a different metallic color so that they differentiate more from the hull metallic color.

lord_blackfang wrote:Agreed! Man that is sharp. Who would have thought that Epic would just keep getting better and better after its death.

Thanks, and agreed! Epic is such a cool scale, IMHO. Much more adequate to actually depict 40k battles.

Anyways, agreed on the tracks. I've muddied them up to see how it looks:





I am getting a hard time trying to get a proper photo of this guy: on hand it looks much darker and the mud is quite a bit more subdued, but my crappy phone camera ramps it all up like a mf.

It suitably varies the tracks away from the tone of the hull so it works for me!

Today, a test scheme paint for The Makers Cult's Valour Corps:

Nicely done. Are they canon fodder.. I mean valuable adjuncts to your heresy era Iron Warriors? Was the base printed with the model or separately?

Base is FDM HIPS, for ease of use with plastic minis.

As to what they will be... well, time will tell. For the moment they're cool minis to paint ^^.

EDIT: Ah, forgot about it. Mini printed at 0.05mm per layer.

Some boomers (...because they go "boom", see? ...I'll get my coat) for my Epic Iron Warriors:





Not my best print, not my best paintjob, but they're done ^^

Great stuff, especially the little stoic fellow.