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2020/09/22 13:52:29
Subject: Favorite Patreons or other direct to artist sources?
For fantasy (especially of the dark or cosmic horror flavour) I love the work of Comet Lord Miniatures. Store or Patreon, superb quality and aesthetic and the vast majority of their minis give you a bunch of pose/gear options for a single purchase (some of the character minis have 20-odd variants for about £3). It's pretty clearly tailored for resin printing, but I've had some success with some of them in FDM. https://www.cometlordminiatures.ca/
Currently subscribed to The Printing Goes Ever On, who have just started working through the LotR trilogy with monthly themed releases and a style more based on pre-movie art than the films, so nice and different to GW's offerings. https://www.theprintinggoeseveron.com/
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2020/09/22 19:15:54
Subject: Re:Favorite Patreons or other direct to artist sources?
For 40k? Makers Cult, without a doubt. Models made by and for modelers. Everything is modular and compatible across the various armies they've made so far. Some are obvious 40k equivalents but all are created with their own style and flair, which I vastly prefer if we're going to have people make proxy models rather than wholesale ripoffs.
They're a bit pricier but you tend to get entire units with multiple poses that like I said, are pretty compatible across their ranges, and it's also 3 sculptors with a guest rotating material each month.
September has not Krieg infantry guys and some swanky heavy infantry.
It may be obvious but Heroforge deserves a mention too. It's a make your own character site and while the printing is expensive STLs are $8, $4 during a sale.
2020/09/23 12:07:41
Subject: Favorite Patreons or other direct to artist sources?
I signed up for Anvil's for a bit although I think I prefer to directly buy certain .stl's rather than subscribe to a series. They make really cool stuff, though!!
2020/09/23 15:29:59
Subject: Re:Favorite Patreons or other direct to artist sources?
I have had some really good luck scanning through Thingiverse and when I find a cool mini, I look at what they have also posted and follow the creator.
MDSW wrote: I have had some really good luck scanning through Thingiverse and when I find a cool mini, I look at what they have also posted and follow the creator.
I do that too, I think by now I'm following about 300 people ^^
What's weird is that I have about 65 people following me xD.
2020/09/23 21:58:39
Subject: Re:Favorite Patreons or other direct to artist sources?
One thing that's become obvious is we need a set of consistent non-GW names.
Therefore I propose:
Battleaxe in the 401st Century
The Immortal Son of Heaven rules the Galaxy from the Celestial Throne, among his servants are the superhuman Star Samurai, the fanatical female warriors the Niso and the endless ranks of the Ashigaru.
Arrayed against him are alien races including the savage Goblinoids, the technologically advanced Mecha Republic, the aloof Ancient Ones and the mysterious Chrome Pharaohs.
But the true foes are the Eldrich Horrors from beyond reality. The Eldrich Horrors themselves can only manifest for a brief period of time and much rely on moral servants such as the mutated Fomorians and worst of all the traitor Samurai known as um... Fallen Samurai?
OK it's harder than it looks, but some consistency would be welcome.
2020/09/24 15:45:42
Subject: Re:Favorite Patreons or other direct to artist sources?
Another terrain one is Txarli Factory, as seen below. Frankly though, they only give you two filesets per month, which isn't great value for money compared to competition. There's a huge amount of free terrain files on Thingiverse, much of it for the same basic stuff (Tyranid spores, Necron Crystals, generic ruins, etc). I'd file them next to Anvil as 'Decent stuff if you've loadsa cash or something specific you're after, but otherwise not worth the time'.
I have to say I have been consistently very happy with Lost Kingdom's patreon. Although, I will admit, I don't have a resin printer yet, so I haven't actually printed anything from it, despite being on it since they started. It is Fantasy stuff, but anyway, here is a look at their latest offering.
LostKingdom's Patreon for October:
Yeah, the image says September, but it is the October release. Some really nice stuff there, to me.
If you didn't catch it earlier this month, this model is now in their welcome box as well:
"Wir sehen hiermit wieder die Sprache als das Dasein des Geistes." - The Phenomenology of Spirit
2020/09/26 15:05:51
Subject: Re:Favorite Patreons or other direct to artist sources?
There's some fully-free content creators such as Mz4250 (focusing on DnD) and myself, too (available on thingiverse/MyMiniFactoy at DungeonWardenMiniatures).
Hopefully you guys don't mind someone promoting free projects?
I won't lie, that Lost Kingdom Patreon is a real beaut. I'm left wondering now if my budget can squeeze to match another patreon, even if I don't play Fantasy....
Another good fantasy one I just found is Highlands Miniatures
Kid_Kyoto wrote: One thing that's become obvious is we need a set of consistent non-GW names.
Therefore I propose:
Battleaxe in the 401st Century
The Immortal Son of Heaven rules the Galaxy from the Celestial Throne, among his servants are the superhuman Star Samurai, the fanatical female warriors the Niso and the endless ranks of the Ashigaru.
Arrayed against him are alien races including the savage Goblinoids, the technologically advanced Mecha Republic, the aloof Ancient Ones and the mysterious Chrome Pharaohs.
But the true foes are the Eldrich Horrors from beyond reality. The Eldrich Horrors themselves can only manifest for a brief period of time and much rely on moral servants such as the mutated Fomorians and worst of all the traitor Samurai known as um... Fallen Samurai?
OK it's harder than it looks, but some consistency would be welcome.
Just use the RT era names. It's not like GW is using them anyway (or that most can be copyrighted - eh, Spots?)
It never ends well
2020/09/29 08:26:41
Subject: Re:Favorite Patreons or other direct to artist sources?
Theophony wrote: After a bit of discussion here I have decided to open this up to all 3D Patreons. I’ll update this as quick as possible, but if you see or receive links for something I’ve missed, or not shown yet, just post them below. I will endeavor to keep the first post updated with the current months offerings and upcoming previews. Also if there are any 3D printing sales of files go ahead and share the love here and I’ll try to keep the first post going as I can.
Link to where September starts https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/790466.page#10913632Pg. 2
Okay . Holy You Guys have kicked out a fountain of things for me to try and update .
AUGUST 2020
I Think Lord BlackFang is right about trying to keep this updated/indexed. I think I might highlight a few each month, but have everyone post any they are personally backing or find interesting below to help grab attention. These guys are doing a great job and I feel for the price I'm paying I am getting what I pay for. Especially compared to GW prices nowadays.
Any Other suggestions Let me have 'em.
Original post spoilered.
Spoiler:
So I got into 3D printing a few months back and fell in love with the designs that Titan-Forge has put together. I thought I'd give them a boost (hopefully) by showing off their offerings for next months Patreon subscription.
Town of Dark Secrets: The Tavern
These have been designed with Brent from Goobertown Hobbies. Looks like it will be expanded upon in the future but you have plenty of Tavern folk along with some cultists, you know basic RPG fodder. You also get the .STL files for the Tavern
Their Patreon subscription is $10 a month.
You get that months bundle
a welcome pack which has designs for more models and bases
a 50% discount on buying other files from their collection on Myminifactory.com
Also if you stay around for at least 3 consecutive months you get a Exclusive big design file.
July is almost over but their offering for July is the Sons of Kashan Vra (Chaosy Dwarves)
They did a poll for September and it looks like Pirate Ogres vs. Dinosaur riding Amazons won out.
I am not affiliated with Titan-Forge, except as a customer of their 3D files. I am currently printing an Army of Their Dragon Empire Models on my Ender3. Which includes their centerpiece Tianlong Dragon (Which was only one of a couple dozen models for $10 a few months back.
(I am notorious for my bad pictures).
Warlord games ashigaru in front for scale reference.
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2020/09/30 15:15:40
Subject: Re:Favorite Patreons or other direct to artist sources?
Strong first month. I hope they can keep this pace.
This. Especially given that they want a higher price per month than virtually 90% of the competition. I'd expect at least three vehicle kits a month at that value, or I'd feel cheated.
There's a company called Reptilian Overlords that does a subscription package I've found. They did have a Patreon until recently, but they decided to ditch it because it didn't offer them the options they wanted. So they relocated it to their own site here:- https://www.reptilian-overlords.com/subscribe/
$10 a month grabs you three credits which can be used on any existing items. Looking through their catalogue, the trend tends to be that single characters and component sets are one credit, a handful of smaller squads/units are two credits, and full ten man squads/vehicles are three.
It seems like an okay deal, but their release rate is so slow that I'm unconvinced. Over the last three months, they've only released two squads and three special characters. That's literally barely enough to spend what you're earning in credits. You can always raid the back catalogue for stuff you want on a slow month (or when you don't want the latest release), but at some point, you're going to run out of those, not want the latest IG squad or whatever, and then you'll be permanently left with excess credits.
That's not to say they don't have some nice stuff though.
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2020/10/01 12:49:36
Subject: Favorite Patreons or other direct to artist sources?
I really like those guardsmen. They look like they give epic handshakes and will stick around long enough to get to the chopper. I could easily see them used for Warzone Free Marines in a Capitol force.
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2020/10/01 13:57:02
Subject: Favorite Patreons or other direct to artist sources?
Reptilian Overlords are slow, yes. You can put a freeze on payments until something more interesting comes along though and credits do not expire. I'm having fun with their tank and tallarn sets at the moment
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Space Legats are known for doing Primarch models that aren't the right scale for actual 30K.
https://spacelegats.com/ I just discovered however that they do a Patreon with the STL files.
https://www.patreon.com/spacelegats Which naturally means that you can just go into Chitubox and resize them until they're of an appropriate size. Here's an example one subscriber has done for the Khan:-
They also said on their Patreon that they might make the stl's for their leman russ tank models available sometime next year.
Does anyone know of some good minis that can be used to replace the Mantic Basilean Men-at Arms? I got the whole army way back during the original KS with the old original MAA that were totally terrible, so bad that I just shelved the whole army and it is still sitting in the box.
The ones from the post above, Davale Games, look fairly close and looking to either purchase (or free!) a few MAA in differing poses and I can print the 50-60 I need.
The new versions look OK, but with being able to print my own now, I really do not want to buy them all over again.
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although I think I prefer to directly buy certain .stl's rather than subscribe to a series. They make really cool stuff, though!!
. Holy 
You Guys have kicked out a fountain of things for me to try and update 
I could easily see them used for Warzone Free Marines in a Capitol force.
