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There are people out there who haven’t turned to 3d printing for all their HH nicnacs?

Madness.

I just buy bundles of guff off of eBay and kitbash everything.

 morganfreeman wrote:
There are people out there who haven’t turned to 3d printing for all their HH nicnacs?

Madness.

Not everyone wants to spend the money for a printer.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:
There are people out there who haven’t turned to 3d printing for all their HH nicnacs?

Madness.

Not everyone wants to spend the money for a printer.

So buy from people who have one.

Etsy has a massive community of shops which are just a couple of people with a printer and STLs. There’s literally no excuse for someone not having the bits they want at a price cheaper than GW would charge, except having a fetish for corporate boot licking.

 morganfreeman wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:
There are people out there who haven’t turned to 3d printing for all their HH nicnacs?

Madness.

Not everyone wants to spend the money for a printer.

So buy from people who have one.

Etsy has a massive community of shops which are just a couple of people with a printer and STLs. There’s literally no excuse for someone not having the bits they want at a price cheaper than GW would charge, except having a fetish for corporate boot licking.

I mean a set of 10 mark appropriate melee arms and some shoulders will still set you back £30+ from a printer bro on etsy.

Dudeface wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:
There are people out there who haven’t turned to 3d printing for all their HH nicnacs?

Madness.

Not everyone wants to spend the money for a printer.

So buy from people who have one.

Etsy has a massive community of shops which are just a couple of people with a printer and STLs. There’s literally no excuse for someone not having the bits they want at a price cheaper than GW would charge, except having a fetish for corporate boot licking.

I mean a set of 10 mark appropriate melee arms and some shoulders will still set you back £30+ from a printer bro on etsy.

Not if you have a serious look. Also, if they are out of stock it doesn’t take 6 months like it does for GW.

Really you can keep making excuses, but 3D printing is the way.

Or like, y'know speak to people IRL and do bitz trades?
Cos that stuff is free.
Release yourself from the need to have everything be perfect and embrace kitbashing.

And come on, do we really need to call people bootlickers just because they disagree with you on 3d printing? You aren't going to sell people on it by being gakky.

Dudeface wrote:


I mean a set of 10 mark appropriate melee arms and some shoulders will still set you back £30+ from a printer bro on etsy.

In which case, ebay has your back

Honestly I'm both surprised and annoyed that the plastic Mechanicum are as good as they turned out to be, as I'd *almost* managed to put three of my concept armies in the "too expensive, let it go..." bin and now they'd be no more expensive than anything else and I have an itch to do them.

I wasn't the greatest fan of the little tweaks made to the SAux design to get them into plastic, but everything for Mechanicum just hits right, I even love the Zombots.

 Theophony wrote:

Dudeface wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:
There are people out there who haven’t turned to 3d printing for all their HH nicnacs?

Madness.

Not everyone wants to spend the money for a printer.

So buy from people who have one.

Etsy has a massive community of shops which are just a couple of people with a printer and STLs. There’s literally no excuse for someone not having the bits they want at a price cheaper than GW would charge, except having a fetish for corporate boot licking.

I mean a set of 10 mark appropriate melee arms and some shoulders will still set you back £30+ from a printer bro on etsy.

Not if you have a serious look. Also, if they are out of stock it doesn’t take 6 months like it does for GW.

Really you can keep making excuses, but 3D printing is the way.

Well please find your way out of here, this is 30k News & Rumours not 3D printing sales pitch

 Rolsheen wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

Dudeface wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:
There are people out there who haven’t turned to 3d printing for all their HH nicnacs?

Madness.

Not everyone wants to spend the money for a printer.

So buy from people who have one.

Etsy has a massive community of shops which are just a couple of people with a printer and STLs. There’s literally no excuse for someone not having the bits they want at a price cheaper than GW would charge, except having a fetish for corporate boot licking.

I mean a set of 10 mark appropriate melee arms and some shoulders will still set you back £30+ from a printer bro on etsy.

Not if you have a serious look. Also, if they are out of stock it doesn’t take 6 months like it does for GW.

Really you can keep making excuses, but 3D printing is the way.

Well please find your way out of here, this is 30k News & Rumours not 3D printing sales pitch

Thanks for filling in for the MODs. I’m sure they appreciate your help as much as the rest of us

This is a thread about the news and rumors about 30k as a hobby. When people complain that it is impossible to afford it, some of us feel it necessary to remind people that there are affordable was. If that offends you….

I think that it's just boring as feth, frankly.

Perhaps there should be a separate thread for people to circle jerk over 3d printing?

Perhaps they can get it out of their system that way?

I mean, if I ever read something along the lines of "people who don't use 3d printing are corporate bootlickers" again I might just die from an overload of cringe.


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 YodhrinsForge wrote:
Honestly I'm both surprised and annoyed that the plastic Mechanicum are as good as they turned out to be, as I'd *almost* managed to put three of my concept armies in the "too expensive, let it go..." bin and now they'd be no more expensive than anything else and I have an itch to do them.

I wasn't the greatest fan of the little tweaks made to the SAux design to get them into plastic, but everything for Mechanicum just hits right, I even love the Zombots.

I've never been the biggest Mechanicum fan but even I was impressed by them, I'm even considering starting an army

 Lord Damocles wrote:

Dudeface wrote:


I mean a set of 10 mark appropriate melee arms and some shoulders will still set you back £30+ from a printer bro on etsy.

In which case, ebay has your back

Fair, they used to charge more than that, it's £5 for 10 mk appropriate shoulders. So £36 for 20 marines, £30 for arms and £10 for shoulders so £76 for 20 despoilers makes me spin because on one hand, that's a lot of cash for at best 10% of an army, but it's also not terrible compared to a lot of GW pricing.

 morganfreeman wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:
There are people out there who haven’t turned to 3d printing for all their HH nicnacs?

Madness.

Not everyone wants to spend the money for a printer.

So buy from people who have one.

Etsy has a massive community of shops which are just a couple of people with a printer and STLs. There’s literally no excuse for someone not having the bits they want at a price cheaper than GW would charge, except having a fetish for corporate boot licking.

I don't need an excuse not to use printed models, I chose not to do so. I have no intention of buying a printer and see no reason to pay somebody for ripping off another person's work. You may see it as being smart, I see it as a form of piracy. Each to their own but don't look down at me for making my choice to support the business that invested in sculpting the models in the first place. You do it your way I'll do it mine.

What's a bit amusing about that is that buying STLs directly supports the person who sculpted them, whilst GW sculptors are just wage slaves who relinquish all rights to their work to a corporation whose current management and owners have basically had zero to do with creating the IP we worship, they just inherited it from actual talent that has long since moved on.

Which is not to say you should print if you're not comfortable doing so, just a bit of perspective.

Jaxmeister wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:
There are people out there who haven’t turned to 3d printing for all their HH nicnacs?

Madness.

Not everyone wants to spend the money for a printer.

So buy from people who have one.

Etsy has a massive community of shops which are just a couple of people with a printer and STLs. There’s literally no excuse for someone not having the bits they want at a price cheaper than GW would charge, except having a fetish for corporate boot licking.

I don't need an excuse not to use printed models, I chose not to do so. I have no intention of buying a printer and see no reason to pay somebody for ripping off another person's work. You may see it as being smart, I see it as a form of piracy. Each to their own but don't look down at me for making my choice to support the business that invested in sculpting the models in the first place. You do it your way I'll do it mine.

If they're directly aping GW designs, I see your point.
But if you're just buying generally made and appropriately-sized axes or mauls, that's not piracy.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
What's a bit amusing about that is that buying STLs directly supports the person who sculpted them, whilst GW sculptors are just wage slaves who relinquish all rights to their work to a corporation whose current management and owners have basically had zero to do with creating the IP we worship, they just inherited it from actual talent that has long since moved on.

Which is not to say you should print if you're not comfortable doing so, just a bit of perspective.

^^^ this.

GW owns the idea of ‘beefy guy in futuristic plate armor’ about as much as ‘hero in a psuedo medieval world with a sword’ is the property of Tolkien, despite what the shills and apologists will argue. Or is Dudeface going to come in here and preach about how GW has the IP rights to 28mm axes, or the very concept of an energized weapon?

3d printing directly supports artists and sculptors; the webstores that sell the service buy the prints to sell, and the artists themselves sell the STLs on websites. It’s a healthier eco system for literally everyone involved. It’s also voting with your wallet; telling a massive company that there’s no excuse for going YEARS without something so basic, so voting those dollars in the direction of someone who’s willing to put in effort and fulfill a need.

So not only does it actually directly support creators and artists, but it’s even the capitalist thing to do: Support the guy who steps in to fill a glaring gap in the market.

There's an entire section of the forum for talking about 3D printing. Let's move the discussion back to the actual topic, please.

Part of me wants to use some of these new models for the 2nd Ed 40K Adeptus Mechanicus list in the Codex Imperialis.

These guys would be perfect for servitor squads with lasguns



Then use Skitarii as Techpriest squads with lasguns & special weapons. Maybe have Kataphrons as Tarantula or Rapier proxies.
I'd be able to play the army I always wanted back in '95

I didn't actually take a close look at those until now, damn they are way creepier than the older ones.
I like it though. Fits with the idea that these are the lowest strata of Mechanicum society.

One wonders how the servitors put their boots on in the morning.

 Shakalooloo wrote:
One wonders how the servitors put their boots on in the morning.

I doubt they're ever removed after being put on when made into thralls.

 Gert wrote:
I didn't actually take a close look at those until now, damn they are way creepier than the older ones.
I like it though. Fits with the idea that these are the lowest strata of Mechanicum society.

Yea I've seen some folks not happy about the shambling zombie poses but I love them. Gonna be 2-3 launch boxes for me (stop the presses, man with printer supports good product lol)

If someone is maybe a bit iffy about the zombie shambling, maybe try conceptualising their movement less as zombie walking and more the way the peregrine or hawk moves when they're in "hunting mode", ie the lasgun is perfectly still and gyro-locked to the target and the whole of the rest of the body is just shifting around it in small ways to keep it steady.

 Gert wrote:
I didn't actually take a close look at those until now, damn they are way creepier than the older ones.
I like it though. Fits with the idea that these are the lowest strata of Mechanicum society.

I like these guys too. A reminder of how messed up the Imperium really is. I think I'd enjoy painting them as well.

I went back and looked at the Mechanicum range again (I always liked their tanks, but don't know the models particularly well). Clearly, we are going to get the Karacnos version of the Triaros, which will be a very cool model. I wonder if the Krios will also appear in plastic?

What are the Tech-Thralls armed with? It didn't seem to say in the preview article.

Could certainly see a case for grabbing a box as the base for all the servitors you'll ever need, though.

 Dysartes wrote:
What are the Tech-Thralls armed with? It didn't seem to say in the preview article.

Could certainly see a case for grabbing a box as the base for all the servitors you'll ever need, though.

Laslocks or Mitralocks IIRC

 Dysartes wrote:
What are the Tech-Thralls armed with? It didn't seem to say in the preview article.

They look like a redesigned version of the las-lock - which I assume is meant to be a combination of a lasgun and a flintlock musket. They've even given them blade attachments which look similar to an 18th century bayonet.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
What are the Tech-Thralls armed with? It didn't seem to say in the preview article.

Could certainly see a case for grabbing a box as the base for all the servitors you'll ever need, though.

Laslocks or Mitralocks IIRC

If I recall correctly, they can’t take Mitralocks in 2nd edition. Just Laslocks now.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
What are the Tech-Thralls armed with? It didn't seem to say in the preview article.

Could certainly see a case for grabbing a box as the base for all the servitors you'll ever need, though.

Laslocks or Mitralocks IIRC

If I recall correctly, they can’t take Mitralocks in 2nd edition. Just Laslocks now.

Mitralock Thralls are in the Legacies PDF so I doubt they will come with them.

I plan on 2 boxes.