Indelible Ink Stuido - some painting what I gone and done...

apart from not being too hard to turn an STL print into metal by making a mould, you can print in metal.. not on a resin printer but.. you can get metal filament for a FDM.. how good it is? 50-50.

While I'll be the first to say there are a few good 3d sculptors who can do faux oldhammer style in 3D, there... is till a difference.
 
Brother Meredith said:
Again, more idiosyncratic old skool sculpts created with 3d design software. Why do we continue to dismiss the medium out of hand on here?
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I don't really have issues with digital sculpting, I know why people do it. It just doesn't interest me as a practice and I have zero inclination to make it a part of MY hobby. Nothing to say it can't be a part of YOURS. There's plenty wrong with the migration of everything into the digital realm, making toy soldiers that way is the least of a whole gamut of problems. :grin:
 
Brother Meredith said:
Again, more idiosyncratic old skool sculpts created with 3d design software. Why do we continue to dismiss the medium out of hand on here?
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I think it's getting better, both in terms of what's available and in terms of the reception here. But if you want to know why we have dismissed it historically? I figure it's a combination of some of us slowly getting older and idealizing the old stuff, with a reluctance to adopt what was, at least at first, some pretty dodgy stuff. To be fair, there's still quite a lot of uninspiring digitial sculpting out there, even if there's also some very nice stuff. There's also quite a lot more stuff in newer styles, which can be off-putting. Sure, there's some great stuff on thingiverse or etsy, but you have to wade through a lot of dreck to find it.

A friend of mine brings his old-school digital stuff to my house all the time, and I'm happy to throw down with or against his asthmatic space pirates or skeletons. Or his crazy robots and mouse marines. But it's taken me a long time to consider adding the stuff to my own collection. To some extent I suppose I wanted to see it first, which is sometimes harder to do with digital sculpts. Sure, I'm buying stuff cast up from greens on similar information, but I have more experience that the folks making it know what they're doing, and that it will size up okay with what I've got and so forth, so it doesn't feel as risky.

Anyway, I do think it's getting better, and I'm personally getting more willing to buy the stuff now. (To be fair, I bought and painted WWII 3D printed ships ten or fifteen years ago now. Of Thai navy and French colonial Vietnamese stuff nobody was going to cast.)
 
Jack-O-Lantern Gang

Pumpkin-headed minis from a maker that escapes me, along with a kitbash of a Bob Olley zombie and a Stargrave/Frostgrave minis, the last two with heads sculpted by Nikki Chatwin of Sprue Goblin Games.

I kitbashed this gang last Halloween and didn't get round to painting them, so I wanted to make a point of getting the job done this year and before the big day too.

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