Some more previews, this time blenders while I'm waiting to get my camera fixed. The pictures with my phone were too poor quality to share, so we wait.

These look like they are too thin in places to print. Did they come out ok?

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Well sort of, they did print, but I have a feeling they are going to bee too flimsy to handle even if I can somehow get them loose from the supports without breaking them. I knew this might happen, it was a bit of a test really. If you want a normal looking guy in epic scale, make the model look like Conan, if you want a beefed up Conan kind of guy make him look like the michelin man in your modelling software. :/

Hopefully some pictures later today, not the blenders but other stuff I have gotten done lately.

Some overdue pictures as promised.

More.

And more.

Was one of those things by the dreadnoughts in the lats picture actually the throne of something or other from the Sisters of Battle range?
It kind of looks like it.

Also, great stuff. It seems the clear resin is giving great detail, even though it seems to have caused some miscast issues in the past.

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Thanks, it is indeed the throne of something or other. I was planning to call it The Stomping Thrown of Awesomeness! But your name is better, as I can never recall what was it the throne of anyways. I had some problems importing the model so I had to get it hips form somewhere else and the inqui is a preacher acting as a replacement. The sword didn't print but otherwise it turned out ok, even the banners and poles that I didn't expect to print. The transparent resin prints ok, but it's hard to take pictures out of, as the camera doesn't know where to focus. I tried to focus mostly on the table just before the model with mixed results.

Have you tried moulding them in metal from the casts? I have never tried moulding 3d printing plastic what sort of temperature can it take, it might be a way of resolving the snapping issue?
I only mention it as these are all fantastic!

Hit them with a black wash before taking pictures. Works for white metal so I'd expect the same here

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Yeah, it's frustrating how poorly FUD photographs. We want to see the goodness.

Thanks. The snapping really isn't a big issue, it only happens when I zap the model with lots of UV. I do it to harden models that have not cured properly. UV or no UV it doesn't really help to bits that are just too thin to begin with. Printed resin can be softened with hot water and bent up to a point, then cooled in a fridge to set it. This sort of works, but the problem is that when heated again it tends to revert to it's original shape. I did this a couple of times with the robodragon wing and I didn't get it right the first time so I did it again, ending up with a bit wavy wing. I then added some putty and did some filing at it came out ok. Of course the right way of doing it would be to thicken the wing in the first place in the model before printing.
As to heating PLA or ABS I haven't tried it, my guess would be that if you have thin enough bit for it to work it probably didn't print properly to be of any use or it would snap with or without heating.

I was thinking about doing some bots in the near future. You know those lovable little grot screens for bigger stompers. We had a game where a formation of 3xstompas, 3xGnauts and 3xbig dreads were taking a beating mainly from knights and marine flyers. It would have been nice to have something soak up the damage. The dread in the end is just for scale.