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Man those Havocs!

Here's one that's going to be worth following, he's planning plastic Zone Mortalis compatible rooms

https://cults3d.com/en/users/lizzz3ard2/creations

Anyone doing Idonteh? Instant bases here, free

https://www.thingiverse.com/pellinor1/designs

Here's one I just saw, some cool sci fi stuff with a bit of Rogue Trader, 2000AD vibe.

https://www.patreon.com/bigmrtong/posts



https://www.patreon.com/posts/imperials-44397189

I really love the Cobramode stuff.
Slightly cartoony without being overly precious but really characterful and unique.
https://www.patreon.com/cobramode

I just printed that new bo staff salamander ninja, plus the freebie sword one (who's appearing in my new Malifaux gang ) Pumping myself up to tackle her axolotl dragon:



I also printed that Bite the Bullet llama but the supports were so heavy and hard to remove that I gave up and tossed it in the misprint bin, since I had slapped it on the build plate on a lark anyway

So here's a question for you folks. Where can I find historical STLs (ancient, medieval, Age of Sail, WWII) that aren't either:
A ) "ya get what you pay for" freebies that are so lo-res that I'd be better off throwing a blob of clay on the table;
B ) quality models priced such that it'd be cheaper to just buy plastic kits; or
C ) "fantasized historical" models, like zombie Wehrmacht, knights on lions, 40K-stature Romans, etc?

Vehicles and terrain are easy enough to find for the most part, but infantry and cavalry are a pain to find that don't check off at least one of those three categories.

A friend of mine does the painting for a new start up on patreon; https://www.patreon.com/printminis they used to do Asset Drop. First month's worth of STL's is massive for £8.50.

Anyone do a necron patron?

https://www.patreon.com/DarkFoundryMiniatures/posts

Dark Foundry has a line called 'Teknops'.

In other news, there's a wonderful new Dark Eldar patreon, Edge Miniatures:- https://www.patreon.com/EdgeMiniatures/posts
On top of the wracks for this month, there's a Raider variant coming out later this month. Cheap too at £4.50 for unsupported files!

Oh man, am I glad I stumbled onto this thread!

Never would have guessed I could become a Patreon to venerable Mr Naismith I had to start a sub and I'm not even sure if/when I'll get a 3D printer! I'll be happy just to texture paint his models for the lulz in the meantime.. Awesome!

Any other famous GW sculptors on Pateron?

 griffen127 wrote:
Anyone do a necron patron?

One Page Rules have started one as part of their monthly selection of files.

These were the December offerings, and are already available on My Mini Factory, presupported as well.



January is close combat squads, cryptek proxies, and a giant stalker/ spider model.

Plus the Patreon has tons of rules to use it all in, and also has lizardman files if you want to build a Seraphon army while you're at it.

I was just looking at those yesterday and wondering if it's time to print a Notcron army. The snakes are a miss for me but I dig everything else, a little bit like Star Wars drones but if they meant business

Let me throw out the caveat that these are all individual pieces. They are thin and small. Each leg, arm, upper and lower torso part, wires for the weapons... they're all small parts that have to be printed separately.

I'm quite tempted to toss the parts in blender and doing supports after at least building the bodies up. At least the main body and legs. The arms and head I don't mind positioning, but damn if the other parts aren't pretty fiddly.

It's probably just me and my luck but things seemed to rarely want to connect afterwards as well.

Worth letting you know before diving in. At least the lizards are a bit thicker and chunkier, making them easier to work with.

I've ended up doing the prebuild with guard alternatives too. It's a nice little passtime in front of a film to put together combinations of the bodies etc.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Here's one I just saw, some cool sci fi stuff with a bit of Rogue Trader, 2000AD vibe.

https://www.patreon.com/bigmrtong/posts



https://www.patreon.com/posts/imperials-44397189

Nice find! These are from his collection, just adorable, perfect for Rogue Trader!

New one with funky necrons https://www.patreon.com/ShimmeringSpace

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Let me throw out the caveat that these are all individual pieces. They are thin and small. Each leg, arm, upper and lower torso part, wires for the weapons... they're all small parts that have to be printed separately.

I'm quite tempted to toss the parts in blender and doing supports after at least building the bodies up. At least the main body and legs. The arms and head I don't mind positioning, but damn if the other parts aren't pretty fiddly.

It's probably just me and my luck but things seemed to rarely want to connect afterwards as well.

Worth letting you know before diving in. At least the lizards are a bit thicker and chunkier, making them easier to work with.

Yes, I do like the option of individual pieces to vary poses when assembling, but resin printing the tiny pieces can be a real pain. I use 3D Builder to quickly assemble the pieces into one mini. It is my favorite program for doing this and super easy. You can quickly set them up in your variety of poses and then print the batch all ready to go.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
New one with funky necrons https://www.patreon.com/ShimmeringSpace

You know, I dig the potential here, sort of a weird pulp / Giger without the genitals vibe. Will see how the line progresses.

 Carlson793 wrote:
So here's a question for you folks. Where can I find historical STLs (ancient, medieval, Age of Sail, WWII) that aren't either:
A ) "ya get what you pay for" freebies that are so lo-res that I'd be better off throwing a blob of clay on the table;
B ) quality models priced such that it'd be cheaper to just buy plastic kits; or
C ) "fantasized historical" models, like zombie Wehrmacht, knights on lions, 40K-stature Romans, etc?

Vehicles and terrain are easy enough to find for the most part, but infantry and cavalry are a pain to find that don't check off at least one of those three categories.

Depending on how you feel about 'hero-scaling' you might check out March to Hell. They look a little ridiculous in the 3d images way zoomed in, but the 15mm stuff I actually like better than Battlefront/Plastic Soldier Company as their faces and details aren't just tiny mush.

I'd agree on most of the March to Hell models. I really didn't like the proportions of the models from their Roman campaign. Their previous campaigns looked a lot less squat and heroic.

Which was a shame as they had a TON of stuff unlocked for what you paid. Gladiators, Britons, Gauls, Punic Wars, Germanic tribes, allies, a variety of buildings and terrain, war elephants... just all sorts of fun stuff.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I'd agree on most of the March to Hell models. I really didn't like the proportions of the models from their Roman campaign. Their previous campaigns looked a lot less squat and heroic.

Which was a shame as they had a TON of stuff unlocked for what you paid. Gladiators, Britons, Gauls, Punic Wars, Germanic tribes, allies, a variety of buildings and terrain, war elephants... just all sorts of fun stuff.

Yeah, see I've purchased 2 of their infantry packs for WW2 and I love 'em. Also you can print sooooooooooooooooooo many 15mm infantry with a half liter of resin lol.

With Papsikels Fantasy focusing more on cyber fantasy recently I finally decided to join that reward tier that they put out. Last month was Shadowrun and this month appears to be mostly Playmates TMNT bad guys.

They made Rocksteady!! Finally an excuse to grab Bebop and slap the gruesome twosome on a plate together

 Carlson793 wrote:
So here's a question for you folks. Where can I find historical STLs (ancient, medieval, Age of Sail, WWII) that aren't either:
A ) "ya get what you pay for" freebies that are so lo-res that I'd be better off throwing a blob of clay on the table;
B ) quality models priced such that it'd be cheaper to just buy plastic kits; or
C ) "fantasized historical" models, like zombie Wehrmacht, knights on lions, 40K-stature Romans, etc?

Vehicles and terrain are easy enough to find for the most part, but infantry and cavalry are a pain to find that don't check off at least one of those three categories.

Talk about B, man, currently attempting to clean up some of the most crazy, crappy meshes I've ever seen in my life. But, you get what you pay for. Literally. As someone with a lot of years in 3D modelling it makes me want to scream and just start fresh because mesh is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.. so many doubled vertexes, stacked edges, and faces.. It is amazing that the printer doesn't fail to print right from the mesh being so crazy bad. I mean, the printer must do some kind of interpolation on the doubled edge...

 meatybtz wrote:

 Carlson793 wrote:
So here's a question for you folks. Where can I find historical STLs (ancient, medieval, Age of Sail, WWII) that aren't either:
A ) "ya get what you pay for" freebies that are so lo-res that I'd be better off throwing a blob of clay on the table;
B ) quality models priced such that it'd be cheaper to just buy plastic kits; or
C ) "fantasized historical" models, like zombie Wehrmacht, knights on lions, 40K-stature Romans, etc?

Vehicles and terrain are easy enough to find for the most part, but infantry and cavalry are a pain to find that don't check off at least one of those three categories.

Talk about B, man, currently attempting to clean up some of the most crazy, crappy meshes I've ever seen in my life. But, you get what you pay for. Literally. As someone with a lot of years in 3D modelling it makes me want to scream and just start fresh because mesh is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.. so many doubled vertexes, stacked edges, and faces.. It is amazing that the printer doesn't fail to print right from the mesh being so crazy bad. I mean, the printer must do some kind of interpolation on the doubled edge...

Most slicers use something like netfab to repair meshes when sliceing.

Just be be clear, is it the mesh on the outer surfaces not correct? I think there is an option in Chitubox to 'repair', but I have never used it; however, when manipulating stl files in 3D Builder I will sometimes get the message that a repair is needed and I click the repair button. It will take quite a bit of time on occasion, depending on the file size. Is the mesh what it is fixing?

 Monkeysloth wrote:

 meatybtz wrote:

 Carlson793 wrote:
So here's a question for you folks. Where can I find historical STLs (ancient, medieval, Age of Sail, WWII) that aren't either:
A ) "ya get what you pay for" freebies that are so lo-res that I'd be better off throwing a blob of clay on the table;
B ) quality models priced such that it'd be cheaper to just buy plastic kits; or
C ) "fantasized historical" models, like zombie Wehrmacht, knights on lions, 40K-stature Romans, etc?

Vehicles and terrain are easy enough to find for the most part, but infantry and cavalry are a pain to find that don't check off at least one of those three categories.

Talk about B, man, currently attempting to clean up some of the most crazy, crappy meshes I've ever seen in my life. But, you get what you pay for. Literally. As someone with a lot of years in 3D modelling it makes me want to scream and just start fresh because mesh is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.. so many doubled vertexes, stacked edges, and faces.. It is amazing that the printer doesn't fail to print right from the mesh being so crazy bad. I mean, the printer must do some kind of interpolation on the doubled edge...

Most slicers use something like netfab to repair meshes when sliceing.

Still no excuse for doubled vertexes,edges, and faces. I mean it's a hellish dirty mesh. No excuses for dirty meshes. A clean mesh should always be done and isn't too hard to accomplish. I am certain that some failures in prints are as a result of the slicer trying to sort out crap meshes. Sculpting rarely creates bad meshes, or flipped normals. It's purely a user error.

There's a lot of technically unsound files out there to be sure. I'm convinced that even some commercial "sculptors" have never done a physical print in their life. Never mind thingiverse "remixes" that are seven already unsound meshes hacked up and overlapped to make a new model.

Thankfully I have found resin printer slicers to be infinitely more robust about handling gak meshes than FDM slicers.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
There's a lot of technically unsound files out there to be sure. I'm convinced that even some commercial "sculptors" have never done a physical print in their life. Never mind thingiverse "remixes" that are seven already unsound meshes hacked up and overlapped to make a new model.

Thankfully I have found resin printer slicers to be infinitely more robust about handling gak meshes than FDM slicers.

Sounds like the meshes I create when I pose a model and the joints get all mangly.

My general philosophy is "welp, that's why god made clippers". I'd rather have 10 distinct poses of warp spider with slightly triangley shoulderpads than 2 with everything perfectly smoothed from hours of painstaking weight painting.