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Albany, NY

Skin looks pretty solid, nice wood. The metal isn't xpress is it? I know speedpaint has some metal coming out.

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 Boss Salvage wrote:
Skin looks pretty solid, nice wood. The metal isn't xpress is it? I know speedpaint has some metal coming out.


No, metals are Vallejo metal colors, of which I'm a big fan

This weekend I painted one of the new plastic 30k Contemptor dreads, and I've just finished its printed brother:






That makes a total of 4 painted IW dreads, two plastic and two printed.
   
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Berlin

The metal is very convincing. So much that I wonder whether they a Rust Warriors.
   
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brumbaer wrote:
The metal is very convincing. So much that I wonder whether they a Rust Warriors.


They kind of are, yes ^^. Side effect of being Iron instead of Stainless Steel I guess . Thanks!

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Quick print this weekend, after about a month being too sick to bother >_>

I printed a not really all that full plate of the absolutely beautiful vehicles from The Lazy Forger's Enlisted range:



And I've painted a test one to both show all the detail and see how they look painted in a fast-ish scheme:




All in all, very happy with the results... but now I wanna make them at 15mm. I'm sure they'll look incredible.
   
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New weekend, new printed plate ^_^

Yesterday night I prepped a plate with some stuff I needed for today's Lancer game, which we're taking out of hiatus.

The PCs got new licenses and new equipment, so it was a good point to redesign their frames. Also, as the Saturn 2's plate has more than enough space fir it, I also printed some vehicles for Evergreen's militia and turret drones, which my players seem to like quite a bit, and personalized bases with the PCs' callsign and the name of their frames:

Vehicles:






A size comparison of the original vehicles at 6mm vs the 15mm version I printed now:



Turret Drones:



And the family photo of all the PCs' new frames:



Cruzado's Frame, Gargatua, is based off an older version of GMS' Everest, the Sagarmatha, which is bigger but not quite as versatile. He's added some equipment from IPS-N's Drake license to enhance the Sagarmatha's offensive and defensive capabilities:






Norda's Frame, Yerina, has extra EW and hacking systems taken from HORUS licenses and from her studies on the wrecks from Evergreen's past, plus nexus drone deployers and a prototype gun she's still working on:






Toyboy's Frame, KRK 02, uses some of the equipment from the Metalmark's license to add stealth and invisibility capabilities to his frame to help him to more easily apply his multiple close combat weaponry, and a bigass howitzer in case he can't get to the enemy:






And lastly Silbido's Frame, VĂ­bora, adds a limited flight/jump ramjet to help him relocate to the best possible position from which to use the anti-materiel rifle to the best effect, with some nexus deployers in case some enemy decides to close in:






Sources:

- The vehicles are from the designer TheLazyForger, from his excellent "The Enlisted" range. They have just financed a full on rules system for their ranges, check it out at MMF
- The turrets are from DAO Factory, this month's guest designer from the Patreon The Makers Cult
- The big guy is an upscaled (140%) Ajax suit from the Patreon Anvil Digital, with a wolf skelly head from Thingiverse
- The other three are select parts from a multitude of the incredibly modular and awesome sets from the Patreon Pipermakes

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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

Looks great! I'm very impressed with how crisp the edges are. Did you print them in one piece or assemble some later from parts?

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 warboss wrote:
Looks great! I'm very impressed with how crisp the edges are. Did you print them in one piece or assemble some later from parts?


All assembled from parts, using the presupported parts from the Patreons (except the vehicles, which needed better ones after the rescale and the skull head, which was free)

I'm quite happy with Lychee as slicer now, after a few iterations.

This is more or less the plate I printed:



So, not overloaded, not empty.

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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

I've obviously not tried Lychee as I haven't printed since the beginning of the pandemic unfortunately but I'm glad it's an improvement especially with the newer printers.

That's definitely a full plate and obviously worth it given the results! Have you found that paid presupported models reliably print and easily clean up or is it still better to support things yourself manually?

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It really depends on the designer: some have really good presupports and other are basically autosupports, and hence either worthless or detail- killing.
   
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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

How do you evaluate them? Do you open them up in the slicer and check layer by layer for islands? Or do you test print a run by a designer to see if they're competent?

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 warboss wrote:
How do you evaluate them? Do you open them up in the slicer and check layer by layer for islands? Or do you test print a run by a designer to see if they're competent?


Mostly by eyeball mark 1 and an islands check (Lychee autodetecs islands, for example).

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Albany, NY

Great looking mechs, appreciate the customizing work to fit the game. Name plates are a nice touch as well. Super good vehicles too! Thanks for the sources!

Also shout-out to Lychee, I switched over some time ago and haven't gone back.

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 Boss Salvage wrote:
Great looking mechs, appreciate the customizing work to fit the game. Name plates are a nice touch as well. Super good vehicles too! Thanks for the sources!

Also shout-out to Lychee, I switched over some time ago and haven't gone back.


Thank you! I must admit that playing a campaign is a great excuse to do cool stuff and actually print and paint things to be used, for a change xD

This weekend I also tested Lychee's filament slicer, and it worked pretty decently too.

I printed two Battletech hills, a single hex one and a three hexes one:


(granted, as I covered it, there's not much to see about the print quality ^^)



They paint up fast, too:





Got the turrets painted already, using xpress paints:



And I also finished Silbido's ride, VĂ­bora. The player asked me to paint it with camo, so I tried to obligue:




   
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Albany, NY

VĂ­bora looks a treat, extra credit for the camo turfing

How do you like Xpress? Compared to Speed and Contrast?

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I love the camo on that one
   
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Boss Salvage wrote:VĂ­bora looks a treat, extra credit for the camo turfing

How do you like Xpress? Compared to Speed and Contrast?


Thank you! ^^

So far, the Xpress paints flow great and are very nice to play with, much easier to thin down and get to it. The extra drying time is also nice for blending or putting the paint where you actually want it, so that's really nice.

OTOH, the current range is very limited, particularly in the browns category.

Fluid_Fox wrote:I love the camo on that one



Thank you kindly
   
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Painted the rest of the PCs' rides for our Lancer campaign:



Spoiler:












Unfortunately the green speed paint of the big guy reactivated after I washed it, leaving skid marks :(. Ah well.
   
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Getting back to the FDM printer lately, as I wanted to print a fair amount of buildings, hills and the like:



I'm also in the process of fine-tuning the printer, because I had a big case of banding that I'm trying to fix. Little by little, I'm getting better prints:

Here you can see a building (primed metal) that I printed a while ago that shows heavy vertical banding, and the last thing I printed:





Also, starting to paint them:



Must admit, they look pretty cool en masse:







   
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Albany, NY

Great looking buildings indeed, especially cool that they're on hexes for grid purposes. Did you add the hexes yourself or are these available somewhere?

Also! The rest of the Lancer crew is rad, Toyboy's derezzing / camo cubes being the flashiest effect (so much edge highlighting!)

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 Boss Salvage wrote:
Great looking buildings indeed, especially cool that they're on hexes for grid purposes. Did you add the hexes yourself or are these available somewhere?

Also! The rest of the Lancer crew is rad, Toyboy's derezzing / camo cubes being the flashiest effect (so much edge highlighting!)


Thanks! The fdm buildings are from the hextech line at steewarriors.com, and they come with and without hexes (and with flat/weighted bottoms, in case you wanna add a bit of heft to them). They all print without supports, so it's quite user-friendly. I've also been printing Battletech hill sets from the same designer, and they're also pretty great.

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Great looking stuff! What FDM printer do you have? Those look super crisp.
   
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The Battle Barge Buffet Line

Nicely done! How long were the print times for those buildings on average?

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 bbb wrote:
Great looking stuff! What FDM printer do you have? Those look super crisp.


You think? I'm not completely happy with it yet myself... anyways, I'm using an Artillery Sidewinder X1 with a couple mods.


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 warboss wrote:
Nicely done! How long were the print times for those buildings on average?


It really depends ^^. The smallest ones can be down to a couple hours, and the biggest up to 9-12 hours, at 0.24mm per layer.

The medium ones (the 3-hex skycrapers, or the 4-hexes romboid condos) print in about 4 to 5 hours, on average. The good thing is that you don't need any kind of post processing whatsoever, which takes a while with resin prints.

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And these resin buildings are from...
   
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 Chairman Aeon wrote:


And these resin buildings are from...


The Lazy Forger on MMF. Lovely stuff.
   
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Still on a Battletech mood, as of late ^^

I've been priming and starting to paint buildings:



Also, printed "some" vehicles and IS standard battle armors:



The BA are lovely sculpts, even though a tad bigger than the official toads:



Fun and easy to paint, too, at least at the "be ready to play like, now" level.




I've also started to print the main frames for the StageTop printable gaming table:



They stack really well, which should help for storing them:



By my calculations, I'll need about 15 for 2 Battletech boards:




And I've just got ready for play the vehicles I'll be needing for next friday's game:



Nothing fancy at all, just "table ready".
   
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That's a very pleasing scheme

The buildings are looking awesome as well.

Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!

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Whew, it's been a minute since I last posted! I've been doing stuff, but... you know, sometimes you lose sight.

Ok, let's start updating this a little bit. First things first, the table is looking good. I've finished printing the 15 frames I need to use it for a Battletech two-maps game. I still need to do the borders and some more legs, but it's looking nice:


It kinda looks like this:




The legs put it high enough to have stuff below it without much of an issue, like minis, boxes, books, or beverages:




As an added benefit, it's just the right size to put it over the small table that's besides the sofa, meaning we can play while loafing around it instead of the dinner table, which is also nice ^^



All the 15 frames locked together:



As you can see, two boards do fit nicely enough:




So yeah, still needs some more stuff, but looking good enough ^^

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Did a test rescaling 15mm infantry models to Battletech scale (about the same scale as the one used in the "new" Epic stuff), mostly happy with the results, even though some guns are veeery fiddly:



Checking the scale with other vehicles, mechs and battle armor:




Then we used everything on an Alpha Strike game (variant Capture the Flag rules, with the attacker (ComGuard elements disguised as mercs) having to go grab a black box from a lab inside an urban area defended mostly by conventional militias on a Davion world.

This is how it started (objective is the red marker):



The "mercs" pushed through some mined areas and advanced to the city while the militias jumped to intercept, with almost fanatical bravery from the infantry...



...which was rewarded by being targeted by an extremely effective AS strafer which broke hell onto them:



MVP from the militias were the *RM carriers (the SRM carrires basically deleted a couple mechs by themselves), whereas for the attackers itcertainly were the AS support and the light elements, which managed to grab the black box and run.

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