LaGG_3's Experiments in 3d printing: Tau battlesuit proxy (hexbear.net)

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Been playing around with the Dremel Digilab available at my library, hoping that I can make myself some poorhammer units. I know these detailed pieces really need to be printed on a fancy resin printer, but $4 wasn't a bad price to experiment with scale shrug-outta-hecks . I was hoping I could attempt to make some Battletech minis, too, but I'll probably need to use a resin printer for that, too

The smaller/thinner bits totally got fucked up tho lol

If anyone has any resin printer services they recommend, let me know!

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Shit, bet you can make all sorts of cool stuff with this, like garage kits?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It depends on how annoying it is to sand down the "ridges" that the FDM printer leaves. Definitely can't make any decent models at any wargaming scales, but I'm wondering what kind of larger stuff I can make with this! Ultimately, I think I'll want to get access to an SLA printer to make something that's smoother/prettier.

There's a lot of artists that make cool models for 3d printing - like the modular set I printed in this test lol. I'm thinking it could be possible to snag models from video games to convert to an OBJ or STL file.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had to dig this up from my Youtube history, but there are some things you can do. Specifically the video shows how sanding and a little "Acrylic Primer Filler" (which does exactly what it says on the tin) that can fill in some of the worst steps. Bonus is you can use that as your primer (I believe) for painting.

Then again, you can be like my old self and just be bad at painting! Then you too can slop gobs of primer/paint until it's "smooth" too!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is super helpful! I printed this with a .1 layer thickness with the hopes that it'd make the final product more detailed, but I think it caused some of the pieces to have issues. I might try a reprint at .2 and see what happens.

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