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Productive and impressive! Always had a soft spot for Anvil's near-future scifi stuff, and the N7 aesthetic totally fits (as, I imagine, would Cerberus white/yellow/black as well).

I wonder if it's the hair colour that's throwing off the Breacher test, being a little close to the suit colour? To me at least, the scheme works fine when I cover the head on the image, but looks a little too orangey when the whole thing is visible.

Wow dude, you've been busy

I'll give my shout to the Corsair team, nice to see paint on so many cool sculpts in one place

Indeed, busy busy gamer! Nicely done and hope it was a fun game.

Wow the Corsairs look terrific painted, I'm impressed!

Paradigm wrote:Productive and impressive! Always had a soft spot for Anvil's near-future scifi stuff, and the N7 aesthetic totally fits (as, I imagine, would Cerberus white/yellow/black as well).

I wonder if it's the hair colour that's throwing off the Breacher test, being a little close to the suit colour? To me at least, the scheme works fine when I cover the head on the image, but looks a little too orangey when the whole thing is visible.

I'm not sure, but at this moment I'm not happy with it at all. I'll probably need to try some options at the very least.

Boss Salvage wrote:Wow dude, you've been busy

I'll give my shout to the Corsair team, nice to see paint on so many cool sculpts in one place

warboss wrote:Indeed, busy busy gamer! Nicely done and hope it was a fun game.

The Red Hobbit wrote:Wow the Corsairs look terrific painted, I'm impressed!

I'll pass the compliments to the painter

As to the game itself, well... turns out I played a Compendium list, Imperial Guard, all with regular guard, and it seems that they have... issues. They can't really do much by themselves other than ping people and hope for the best, and they die fast to basically anything. That plus no special abilities and the orders needing the sergeant to work at all leaves them basically with the special weapons (which you can't double up on).

And then there's the KT actual rules, which are OK, for the most part, but must have the worst rules for terrain, elevation and LoS I've seen in a long while.

Your stuff never ceases to amaze! Went back a dozen pages and makes me want to play Epic40K in 15mm.

What is your current (November 2022) set up? What resin are you using? How are you washing the models? How are you curing them?

Amazing work across all scales as ever - exactly what we all come to this thread for!

Thanks for sharing

 Chairman Aeon wrote:
Your stuff never ceases to amaze! Went back a dozen pages and makes me want to play Epic40K in 15mm.

What is your current (November 2022) set up? What resin are you using? How are you washing the models? How are you curing them?

Well, currently I have a Mars 3 and a Saturn 2, although I'm still test driving the Saturn.

For washing it really depends on wether I'm using "regular" resin or water washable.

For regular resin I have a three tuppers setting. I have three tuppers with alcohol: one is absolutely dirty as all heck, the second is clean-ish and the third is almost clean. I dunk the prints into the dirty one and swhish it around for a minute or so to take out the biggest part of the resin, then the second one to basically clean it, and the third one is kind of for rinsing it and giving the last step.

Then for water washable I have an ultrasonic cleaner, a big 10 liters one that I can either use as is (for bigger models) os I can put a smaller container inside with the prints and water. I usually give it a two or three 15-minutes programs, swqapping the water for each.

As for curing I have a wash & clean station (I've ended using it mostly just for curing, but it's good). 2 minutes on a side, 2 minutes the other, and done.


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 IGtR= wrote:
Amazing work across all scales as ever - exactly what we all come to this thread for!

Thanks for sharing

Glad you like it

Thanks for the run down on your set up. I’m thinking I might pick up some extra vats to bee able to swap resins based on needs and costs.

Now print on my man!

So this weekend's haul:

Printed another KT for a friend, this time Phobos marines:





I helped him mod some of the models (like the sniper, adding the long barrel) and taught him to add shoulderpad emblems:



Also, scenic bases:




The Vipers are not complete, but are advancing:



Also I just bought a samurai 15mm game by Peter Pig, Battles in the Age of War (BAW)... so obviously I have printed bases and minis to at leat get an idea of it ^^

Most of the units are formed by 30x30mm bases (30x40 for generals and cavalry, 40x40 for the daimyo and some more, but the base is that):



This would be a full basic unit of armoured ashigaru with spears (you can mix bases in units, except for arquebuses and bows in the same unit):



Now, armies are made of multiple clans' troops, usually two to four clans per army. These are two small clans, with the general of each (the bigger base in the middle of the samurai units) backed by units of ashigaru:




The minis are from this KS, which I backed a while ago and I jast just looking for something to use them for xD:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smolminiatures/samurai-warfare-smol-miniatures?lang=es

Now, the minis themselves are fantastic, although the supports have some issues and I got a fair amount of failures (I guess I'll need to revise the supports)...but they are very, very fragile, particularly, of course, the nageyaris, but all sashimono, polearms, etc are pretty dainty.

They have a couple of sets of modular minis (samurai and ashigaru), so I will probably be printing those, which have empty hands with no weapons and holes, and use metal pins or something like that.

I first printed the bases 2mm thick, but afterwards decided to make them 4mm thick instead, for ease of picking.

The tiny sand details on those bases is awesome.

 Fluid_Fox wrote:
The tiny sand details on those bases is awesome.

They are really crisp, yeah

New test for the gothic void troopers:




I've been just told it's basically Buzz Lightyear's scheme ^^, but I really wanted to give the new contrast purple a go.

No real effor here: the purple is contrast, and all the rest is speed paints except for the metals, with no extra details save for the face, which I started with speed paint flesh and then detailed a bit.

Finished painting the Vipers

And I'll call the Baroness done, pending finishing the base ^^

I blinged her out more than usual because I wanted to give her a bit of interest, what with her being black on black over black and all that >_>

Great work! Really love the bill on the vipers helmet.

Is there a tutorial somewhere on how you add and remove the emblems? Your work on them looks so crisp!

 Psychopomp wrote:
Is there a tutorial somewhere on how you add and remove the emblems? Your work on them looks so crisp!

Not that I know of, but it's really quite simple:

First, open 3D Builder and the file you want to modify, like for example, a shoulder pad on a mini:



Then you select it, and on the Edit tab, you select "Emboss" ("relieve" in the image, because it's in spanish):



Once here, you'll see multiple options to emboss text and images on a 3d file, play around with them ^^. If you want to emboss an image, though, you need it to be a vector image, like a png file for example.



Choose what you wanna do and where, and done!

Interesting. I'll have to muck about with it some over the long weekend.

Thank you!

So, I'm still getting the hang of the Saturn 2, and the lowering of temperatures is exacerbating my not getting the hang of it.

I guess I need to stop procrastinating and order the pieces I need to make the enclosure heater >_>

Anyways, This week I decided to run a couple busts from Loot Studios, because I had them and because As I said, I need to run the damn thing xD.

I made two variants of the same bust (different heads) basically because they both fit in the plate:




And I have to say, they look fantastic... I'll probably end up priming them metal, staining them and using them as christmas presents for someone ^^.

I also bought the incredibly cool Warforged Voidwalker set from Napking at Cults and made a unit of Tyrant Siege termies that's incredibly imposing (the launchers are not glued):




I had some issues with the presupports on the S2 (all torsos and legs failed, as well as one shoulder pad, an arm, a couple heads and all the combi bolters, meaning I had to run a vat clean process and try again after adding some supports.

I ended up running the same batch on both the S2 and the M3, and the M3 ran it perfectly, but the S2 still had two failures (one set of legs, which delaminated and a torso, which fell off even with the added supports), so it seems that it might be something to do with either the cold (bigger vat, more resin, so it's colder) or maybe with the elevation speeds or timing... so it needs additional testing I guess.

Still, now I have four extra bodies that I'll have to do something with ^^.

Also, the minis are... hefty as all hell, and BIG:

See here compared with plastic Tartaros and Cataphracts:




...and here compared with a printed assault beakie, which itself is maybe half a milimeter shorter than a primaris:



So yeah, big bois, as the doctor ordered.

Those are some lovely clean prints! The Terminators are great, defintely appropriately chunky without looking stocky or motionless.

Given the prevalence of closer-to-true-scale power armour and terminators out there from various STL sculptors, I'm now wonderingif anyone has done an upscaled Dreadnought to go with them....

 Paradigm wrote:
Those are some lovely clean prints! The Terminators are great, defintely appropriately chunky without looking stocky or motionless.

Given the prevalence of closer-to-true-scale power armour and terminators out there from various STL sculptors, I'm now wonderingif anyone has done an upscaled Dreadnought to go with them....

Pretty sure ther must be some out there, but maybe as there's usually not whole marines, people don't feel the need. Plus, there's the Primaris dread too.

Painted the first of the termies to test the scheme and the details:

That is a solid slab of a terminator! Extra imposing with paint. I love the oversized details, like the knuckle screws and pauldron venting.

Loot busts look really good. Think you'll mess with any of their props? Their BF sale wasn't remotely what I wanted it to be, but I was able to pick up a few sets I've really wanted for home brewed sci-fi gaming. Loot does really good space horror sets, sucks that their releases are so (comparatively) expensive - and I didn't even know they existed until Damnation targeted ads found me I guess that's the cost of exclusivity and not signing up with MMF or similar. (That said, the new website is much nicer to work with than the last one.)

This weekend I've printed a batch of the really excellent "not Armageddon" troopers fron Brother Varus at Cults (the same one who designed the Epic beakies):

Printed at 15mm scale:



Remember, these fethers are meant for Epic scale! the detail is insane.

Some size comparisons:





Printed at 25 microns on the Saturn 2, and they are smooooth



Almost enough for a full platoon:



And a quick paint test:

These look great, but forgive me. This was all I could see.

They look great! What is the measured height of the figs? I think the scale and detail are stellar.

 bbb wrote:
These look great, but forgive me. This was all I could see.

Hah! I love it ^^


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 warboss wrote:
They look great! What is the measured height of the figs? I think the scale and detail are stellar.

The originals have a "6mm" and "15mm" scale, but I scaled those last ones to 110% to better fit the minis I already have printed. They're about 15mm to the eyes.

Thanks. Works for me! What is your favorite scale for use with Epic specifically? Is there a benefit to scaling down 15mm to 10mm for added detail at the risk of too thin bits on occasion?

 warboss wrote:
Thanks. Works for me! What is your favorite scale for use with Epic specifically? Is there a benefit to scaling down 15mm to 10mm for added detail at the risk of too thin bits on occasion?

For Epic I don't worry too much about scale for infantry miniatures, as at that size it usually hardly matters, but I'm partial to the scale of the galactic crusaders, which are themselves scaled as the AT minis (1/4 of 40k).

But yes, they need to be made for the scale to avoid stuff being toofragile (and even so... sometimes is hard xD).

Testing some of the new Vallejo zpress colors on stuff I had printed:

 Albertorius wrote:

 warboss wrote:
Thanks. Works for me! What is your favorite scale for use with Epic specifically? Is there a benefit to scaling down 15mm to 10mm for added detail at the risk of too thin bits on occasion?

For Epic I don't worry too much about scale for infantry miniatures, as at that size it usually hardly matters, but I'm partial to the scale of the galactic crusaders, which are themselves scaled as the AT minis (1/4 of 40k).

But yes, they need to be made for the scale to avoid stuff being toofragile (and even so... sometimes is hard xD).

I scaled my galactic crusaders up by 8% to bring them to 8mm to the eye (the most recent marine models being 32mm to the eye). I somewhat regret it though, because it makes it harder to fit them on the 40x12mm strip bases, I think I'm gonna have to print my own 40x15-ish bases so that they can be staggered on the bases.

Though that extra 8% does make them a bit nicer to paint, lol.