3D printing

Jamie

Jamie

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Happy Sunday everyone

Last month @Brother Meredith and I got into a discussion and I ended up printing the printable scenery dwarf airship for him.

I think 3D printed miniatures are the work of Nurgle and should be condemned by all right thinking Oldhammerers. However for scenery and other big stuff I have had some good outcomes.

However, I now have a Prusa XL which very rarely gets used so I am offering it to the community as a resource. If you don’t have a printer and would like something printed let me know. This isn’t to make money it’s not a commercial service FDM printing £20 a KG plus postage to cover my costs.
 

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Can you print individual miniature files as well? There's a couple of commercial STLs about that I'd like but I don't own a printer, plus I'm nearly 50 so its all looking increasingly like witchcraft.
 
FDM isn't really suitable for individual miniatures - for that you need resin - which I hate printing with and no longer have a resin printer. they are horrible smelly messy things
 
Just goes to show how little I know really. FDM is filament isn't it? I think I may have to bite the bullet and buy a printer myself*

*I hate printers, have always struggled with the paper ones, god only knows how I'll cope with resin.
 
you can use the high grade resin but the cheap stuff (which is what way too many miniature sellers use) is just not worth it on the whole. The amount of figures I got from ones were I though they were cast resin, or sometimes it was just a nice model, which have brakes and various repairs...
 
ManicMan said:
you can use the high grade resin but the cheap stuff (which is what way too many miniature sellers use) is just not worth it on the whole. The amount of figures I got from ones were I though they were cast resin, or sometimes it was just a nice model, which have brakes and various repairs...
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casting resin and printing resin are very different things
 
Yep. Very much so. (like one of UV based).

Cast resin is much stronger and really, the companies might be better off just printing one and making a silicone mould. Depending on your resin of choice, it's both cheaper and quicker, with better results.. but I guess it takes a bit more skill to do the mould.
 
The robots we sell in metal at OSM the sets of 3 were 3 printed - the prints were then cast in resin for mastering - then we put them in mould and got metal minis. We won't do that again - it was when we were going through our Hobgoblin Hobbies phase but they are nice models and 3d sculpting is good for robots, tanks and buildings - not good for living things in my opinion - at least not compared to getting Kev to play with green stuff
 
while some peoples sculptor of course will vary and I can name a dozen or so which can happily fight for 'best' (personally, I would more say each have there own field they are best at), is there much better then getting Kev with some green stuff?
 
There is some more flexible resin used for 3d printing, but does cost more… Some companies are starting to design minis for FDM printing & supports too.
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oh, you have been able to get minis for FDM for years. Nylon filaments, even metal filaments. in a way, ABS is better for Minis when it comes to FDM BUT I don't like it at all, it's harder to print (higher temps) and the main issue is to sand, your best with a vapor treatment. But of course, you remove alot of detail. Like the old Resin coating for FDM prints. It makes them nice and smooth by basically polyfilling between layer lines, but at the same time, you reduce detail alot as that's the nature of sanding.

It's kinda a trade-off due to the medium. But you have been able to do good (by many standards) minis with FDM for years. I've done a few for when it's something that it's acceptable for. Alot of the design wise is like with Metal or some plastics in that you need to avoid small thin parts, be careful with underhangs, work out the right axis to work on etc. Also getting the right print settings. There are some weird printing hacks around.
 
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