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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
It's doing it again!

Try adjusting your support Z distance setting.
https://all3dp.com/2/cura-support-settings-optimize-your-supports/
It could be that it is too shallow and since it’s a curved area it is placing extra supports which is causing heat build up.

Something a bit different for me today, 10 hours on the Ender and I have this rather cool Death Korps of Krieg bust ready to go. Printed in one piece, so a good hour of cleanup has gone into it (and as always, the lighttbox reveals what the desk lamp doesn't, so a few imperfections still need sorting) but overall I'm pretty darn pleased with it. Wanted something larger to paint as my eyesight is acting up at the moment, and he should fit the bill very nicely.




('scuse the crappy paintjob on the Oldmarine. he's only there for scale! )

Oh hush you and bad paint job.

Love the scope on the front if the plasma gun by the way .

Print looks great. I know what your saying about the light showing differently. I actually moved over to the paint desk and saw layer lines I couldn’t at my print desk. I even have gone back to start reprinting things that I thought were great only to find layers under the paint lights.

How do you clean up the print lines?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
How do you clean up the print lines?

I haven't cleaned up any print line, I'm just reprinting at better settings. still adjusting the settings and printing the models in parts where I can. The Komainu models that I am reprinting above I had originally printed them all four parts on one build plate and at normal print settings. Now I have reprinted with my custom print settings which are giving me a better finish than the high quality preprogrammed settings.

Others like MDSW have stated that they add a little PVA glue into their paints to try and help cover the layer lines.

Okay, so while still Printing the Dragon Empire Bundle 2 stuff I bought on Patreon a month ago, I decided I want to grab the other bundles: Dragon Empire 1, and Dragon Empire 1.5. They are each $60, but they come with 100+ files and 40+ Files respectively, so to me it's a good deal. But we all know me by now and a good deal is not what I am after , I want the best deal. So I re-upped for another month of the Titan-Forge Patreon, which also allowed me to download the Titans of Adventure packs, Base packs, and Freebies they give away with the monthly pledge all for $10. That also Got me a discount code for 50% off their MyMiniFactory bundles (Will save me $60 of the $120 for the other two Bundles ). Also I got the Monthly Package in that $10 so I also got the Sons of (Chaos Dwarf Name Here).

That Centerpiece Robotic Minotaur

They also Previewed Next Months Membership which is in partnership with Brent from Goobertown Hobbies. RPG city folk with cultists and looks like a nice Inn Terrain Piece.


Also Their poll for September Releases is concluded.

Looks Like I'll be in through September at least . Amazons Riding Dinosaurs fighting Ogre Pirate invaders.

I'm going to need more printers

Also, Changed another setting. I'm printing everything on Rafts to keep them from moving around on the print bed, But I have changed the raft extra size down to only 1mm perimeter. The change saves me about 12 minutes per human sized model, but so far I haven't had any issue with the parts moving or sliding during print, so well worth it.

Because some times you just NEED an Ogre.

Oh that lettuce field is just what I need for my folk horror table!

I wasn't so keen on the chaos dwarves this month. I'm more of an old-school GW chaos dwarf look. I hope the Ogre pirates come through though as those look fun

The chaos dwarves aren’t as nice as GW chaos dwarves, but the big four armed minotaurobot looks great, plus it saved me a bunch on buying the other bundles.

Speaking of bundles, I was unaware that the dragon cavalry could be printed without riders.

Just over 12 hours total and it is gorgeous. Maybe one day I’ll print it at twice the size

edit: never mind. As mentioned below, not really a good deal.

I didn't look too carefully at what came with it, but you can get the photon s off the manufacturers site for about £300. Other sites also have it sub £300. Looks like a fake "deal on that amazon site.

Ah, fair enough. I just saw the discount from the 'original' price and assumed it was a good deal, didn't realise they were just being cheeky with the Amazon pricing.

So my Mars Pro arrived on Wednesday, here's what I've printed in two days:



That's a Swolbasaur (MyMiniFactory), a bunch of chaincannon barrels (Thingiverse), a growing pile of striking scorpion-esque marine helmets (Thingiverse), two full-size tree-critters by LOTP called Blight (MyMiniFactory) and six more of them at 75%. Next batch of 6 + 3 helmets is cooking right now.

Pretty blown away that I'm already pumping out units on this thing I also think it's interesting that with the most recent 3D print I bought off Etsy (which arrived the day I got this printer!), I can already troubleshoot where he cut corners a little (by using fewer, bigger layers) and didn't cure as long or in the same way I do. Tempted to buy the file and print it myself out of curiosity ... which I would have done anyway but I got this printer like 3 months early

Nice pile there, seems you've got to grips with it really fast. How long do those regular those minis take on the Mars?


If you're after more corrupted tree people types, you might want to look up Comet Lord Miniatures. He's had a really cool set up on Patreon this month that should hit his store any day now, a bunch of lance/sword and shield tree folk knights in a very similar style and a big (70mm odd at 100%) fey lord that would work really nicely as a boss for that mob.

Thanks for the recommendation, tho happily I already back Comet Lord The problem for me is that these are slotting into an existing army that just needs infantry, not monsters or large infantry, but sadly I've found a LOT of wonderful mucoloid / blight / fae sculpts that are much cooler than the stuff I've already painted So for now I'm pressing on with just the blight, in the interest of forward momentum. I will spoil that I'm planning to make a full KOW army using only his August Undersands bug dudes. I love bug-people and he's crushed it with these guys.



2x fullscale blight + 1x helmet printed in like 3.75 hours? Currently 6x smaller blight + 3x helmets are rolling in at just about 3 hours. I'll probably try a longer print this weekend, maybe Comet Lord's stone golem as big as I can make it while still one piece.

Those bugs are indeed pretty cool. Not something I have a use for right now so I've unsubbed for this month, but I'll 100% be grabbing that Tabaxi fighter from the store when it shows up.

Thanks for the speed info, seems a fair bit faster than FDM for multi-model prints. Man, the temptation to go resin is just going to keep getting stronger...

As for myself, finished up the Krieg bust, honestly didn't think ?i'd ever get an FDM print that I'd be happy throwing into the monthly competition, but t his guy has come out really nice, possibly even moreso in person.



Today's print is one third pf a gargantuan Purple Worm for DnD, only 22 hours more to do across the other two pieces. Easily my biggest print project to date, and so far, coming out very nicely even at nearly double the original sculpt size. .

Boss: those tree people look great , I had started a Sylvaneth army, but they too have grown dormant.

Paradigm: great job. Just needs a “The Emperor needs you” sign. Reminds me of all the WWII Uncle Sam recruitment signs.

Well I was scared this morning because my printer would start up, but wasn’t printing. Turns out it has formed a union with our toaster demanding better conditions, service contracts and time off. Should know that during this pandemic they are easily replaceable. Got home to work and the prints are starting again. I shouldn’t run them both for four days straight in hindsight.

Broke up the Union good by pulling out the old toaster oven and leaving my laptop open to the Mars resin printer website . All is wonderful again .

So quick pic drop before heading to work at church for a few hours.

This might be why the machine was complaining. I’d start the wall sections when I got home from work and 11-12 hours later before I’d leave for my next shift the sections were done and i’d Start an ogre. Printer was working 20+ hours a day most of the week. With only quick breaks between those and doing human sized models or parts.

The tall wierd square at the end is another center tower to the walls, I just need to remove the excessive supports. Also you can see the bottom of the walls have a slight curve to them. I’ve long known my print bed has a bend to it.

Group of three Oni, there are two sculpts, the Kanabo and attached hand are separate, so I can vary them a little when they get glued together.

I have another printing right now. I think i’m Going to try and get two groups of three done this weekend to have something to paint as a whole unit this week.

And the human sized models.

Samurai lord has a separate katana, which with playing with different print angles I was able to get a really nice print of a blade which had no lines. A wizard, looks like David Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China . Also a ninja in mid leap being held aloft by his cape and twin Kusari -gamas.

Waiting for Oni weapon to finish before starting Oni and leaving for work.

Thanks for stopping in and showing off your guys progress. I think it helps to show others what they can do with printers and will help grow the community.

Love a good Oni, those are real meat. If you're after more, Duncan Shadow has a free one on the Gumroad store he puts his older sculpts on. I've got,it saved but not got to printing it yet.
https://gumroad.com/duncanlouca?sort=newest#AcrmR

"As for growing the community, I'm pretty sure Creality should just be giving you commission on Ender 3 sales at this point! In all seriousness though, you're right, this thread is an ever-running stream of inspiration.

 Paradigm wrote:
Love a good Oni, those are real meat. If you're after more, Duncan Shadow has a free one on the Gumroad store he puts his older sculpts on. I've got,it saved but not got to printing it yet.
https://gumroad.com/duncanlouca?sort=newest#AcrmR

"As for growing the community, I'm pretty sure Creality should just be giving you commission on Ender 3 sales at this point! In all seriousness though, you're right, this thread is an ever-running stream of inspiration.

Yep , I have him downloaded for a while.

So, another power glitch today, middle of a 5hour print. I need to figure out what’s causing it and kill it quick and painfully. It looks like the print will be okay, but it has a few minutes more to print before I can tell.

Also I have gotten another old PC(not nearly as old as the one I’ve been playing Alpha Centauri on) working and have just finished downloading Cura 4.6.2 onto it. Once I have completed these Oni I will play around with the setting on it and see what this much improved over Cura 3.6 program can do.



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 Theophony wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:
Love a good Oni, those are real meat. If you're after more, Duncan Shadow has a free one on the Gumroad store he puts his older sculpts on. I've got,it saved but not got to printing it yet.
https://gumroad.com/duncanlouca?sort=newest#AcrmR

"As for growing the community, I'm pretty sure Creality should just be giving you commission on Ender 3 sales at this point! In all seriousness though, you're right, this thread is an ever-running stream of inspiration.

Yep , I have him downloaded for a while.

So, another power glitch today, middle of a 5hour print. I need to figure out what’s causing it and kill it quick and painfully. It looks like the print will be okay, but it has a few minutes more to print before I can tell.

Also I have gotten another old PC(not nearly as old as the one I’ve been playing Alpha Centauri on) working and have just finished downloading Cura 4.6.2 onto it. Once I have completed these Oni I will play around with the setting on it and see what this much improved over Cura 3.6 program can do.

Edit: had my Patreon for Titan-Forge for August pull from my bank account. They will most likely be dropping the files tomorrow. Very D&D centric town of secrets with a huge tavern and they hint at other items as well, I’m thinking an underground lair for the cultists. Might start to see some of those pop in here and there in the coming weeks.

Finished Mage riding her Koi Fish named Wands tonight.

Having seen this painted up gave me the inspiration for the Goldfish Rider.

He isn’t trying to woo her.


I haven’t played around with the desktop computer at all to see about inverting models. If I can mirror the Goldfish then I will make a full unit of them . I’ll have to bring a bucket of tartar sauce with me when I play .

mirroring is eeeeeeeeeaasy and a great way to quickly add variety to things like the fish. The painted goldfish looks great, though I'm still not entirely sure about shoals of fish cavalry...

One of the reasons I didn't go for the tavern is that it is too big for the Mars. Hopefully the Saturn will be big enough to deal with that sort of thing though

Six days into printing and I'm finally getting some failed prints, which I've lowkey been waiting for so I can learn. One was a case of under-supporting, so some hoses just didn't print:



(red dots on the big lad in the back)

But then this morning I had some supports I think fail? So the print doesn't pick up until I'm guessing supports nearby pick up the resin feed. I was wondering what causes this? Dirty plate? Maybe dirty or old resin? I thought it might be an adhesion failure along the support. These failures were in pre-supported minis I've successfully printed 12 of already, also.

EDIT: I remembered the magic of mirroring to up your sculpt count this morning! Useful when you need 30x 2 sculpts.

EDIT2: This is what happened to me, gonna go with needing to clean the vat out: https://www.instructables.com/id/Why-My-Support-Structures-Are-Partly-Missing-or-Br/

Ah useful link, thanks! At some point you will need to disassemble and regrease the z axis of the Mars as the factory grease tends to harden a little over time and gunks up the threads. This can cause prints to shift a bit, causing parts of the model to vanish.

I’m getting plagued by overheating issues. A ruined 12 hour print (stopped at 6) a ruined 1.5 hour print an hour in. I thought it was just because of running it so much, but I’ve emailed Creality,

Sucks because I just got my computer all set with the settings from the laptop and was able to mirror the Oni print. Now I need the printer to work so I can make them.

I let the printer sleep last night but had sliced one of the Oni in mirror and had it print while I was at work today. The new set up using the Cura 4.6 software worked a dream. Even smoother finish with NO stringing at all. some of the supports stuck a little harder so a bit of scaring like the other version, but the rest popped off much easier. I'm wondering if the difference in computer power is the reason for the fix, that the desktop really was better at translating the file.

Also I took some time last night and decoded the hidden message in this months Titan-forge Patreon and unlocked the hidden area and extra sculpts.

@Endtransmission, I haven't looked at the size of the roof parts for the in, but all the walls are smaller sized, I think 4"x2" is the largest part.

Oh, that's good to know, thanks! I may be tempted for just the Inn as I am looking at redoing my entire gaming table (yes, I know I just finished it, *shut up brain*) and could do with a tavern!

What are the extra sculpts and are they worth it?

The extra sculpts are an entire basement to the inn which has a summoning star on the ground, stone walls and floors and two ghost miniatures which are shown in blue on the monthly Patreon image. Everyone will get these as part of the $10 Patreon for the month, it’s just he wrote a riddle and you had to solve it to have the password to download it. They will release the password later this month, so I’m just ahead of others. A little bragging rights .

The roof sections are huge. I just sliced section A and it’s a 3.5 DAY print. 8”x8” footprint and I forgot to check height of it. It will take almost a quarter of a spool of PLA+ so about $5 . To me all the options for walls and floors are worth the $10 for the month and they are open lock compatible, so with lots of designers using that as a base you will have tons of options in a few months. I already have the files for the Dragon Empire Castle so lots of Genres.

Got the mirror function working and prints are even better with the settings on cura 4.6.2. So a better computer helps with quality turn out as it can process more functions.

What’s also great about cura 4.6.2 is that when it finishes slicing the model it tells me how much material in both weight and length of spool I used. I can then calculate off of my spool cost how much each model cost me . While I’m sure there’s a way to plug in spool cost and get that calculated already, I have overlooked it. I’ll play around some more later, but the Oni here cost me about $0.25 to print in materials each.

So tell me again why everyone isn’t printing armies

My Dragon Empire Army is slowly progressing. The Oni came in two designs, I have printed 3 of each of those and now have both designs mirrored and the third print of one of the mirrors is just started as I type this. It’s a 7.5 hour print and then his club is another 1.5. The last (4the design) I’ll start when I get home from work tonight. He is a more compact design and is only 5.5 hours with his club being 1.25hours. I’ll make three of each so I can either field four stands of three, or more likely 6 stands of two as I think three is too crowded and two will give me some room to show off some of the basing.

So you think the actual computer change is helping the quality, or just the fact it can run a better Cura version? Looks great dither way!

On am unrelated note. anyone know if presupported resin files would work on am FDM pronter at all? Obviously the supports themselves won't do the job. but is it possible to add FDM supports and print, without the presupports being an utter pain to remove? There's a LotR themed Patreon starting soon that I'd like to get in on,nut the files are already presupported for resin?n.

For FDM printing, you have a very slim chance of pre-supported files for resin working - it could just become a mess, but if you add FDM supports too, it could work. Most all pre-supported resin files also come with a free or unsupported version.

For resin printing, I have found when I start to get failed prints I re-level the plate and make sure my FEP film is good and no gunk in the resin vat and I will get a clean print again.

However, there has been the very rare case where no matter what I did the print has a failed spot on it. This has happened on multiple runs of the same file when all of a sudden the same spot goes bad no matter what else I do. So, I slice another file and then it works.

On a Samurai related note, I had an assembled and only partially painted a full Samurai army from the Wargames Factory kits and was looking for some Oni and yours are awesome!! This totally makes me want to take them out and finish the army and print some Oni.