Frostgrave, Halo Ground Command and other tabletop minis

[TREX]

I sliced this file in meshmixer so it would fit on my fdm print bed. I printed it in 3 pieces. The cockpit can rotate on the neck joint. I cut and printed the lower part in parts. The file was sized at 179% of the original file. I ran the print settings at.15 layer height with 40% infill. The entire project took about 27 hrs to print. It looks like a beauty though. Printed in star wars legion scale. My legit one next to it for scale. Im printing one more right now.

[Hahma]

That's cool @TREX . Seems like a complicated process, but the results are worth it.

[TREX]

Originally Posted by Hahma

That's cool @TREX . Seems like a complicated process, but the results are worth it.

After you get the process down its not too bad. Im still figuring out the odds and ends of resin printing but I am pretty efficient with my fdm printer. The cost that it would be for me to have what I have in just Legion figures that Ive 3d printed would have costed me close to 1000 dollars if I had bought all the legitimate ones. Ive spent tons of money on legit legion figures as well but it makes it really fun to get to field combinations of troops I wouldnt otherwise get to justify having.Its also fun getting to play with different paint schemes on some of them that I wouldnt otherwise have a chance to. As far as 3d printing goes Ive printed two droid tanks, one sabre clone tank, 2 atsts(almost finished with second one) 2 atpts, 1 atrt, 2 rebel landspeeders, 1 rebel airspeeder, 3 imp occupier tanks, 2 dewbacks, 1 resin rider, a dozen rancors, 4 Imperial med droids, 8 rebel astromech droids, r2d2, 10 rebel specialist troopers, 50 clone troopers, 2 different era yodas and a baby yoda, 7 super battle droids, and two rebel fd laser turrets. Thats just for legion not counting the massive terrain stuff Ive made for it. 3D printing is a super fun hobby.

[Hahma]

I've had Lee and Clementine from The Walking Dead All Out War for a while now and finally got around to painting them. They were a con exclusive if I recall and a buddy of mine was able to get them for me, as he was going to be there a couple days before me. It was from Adepticon in Chicago a last year or the year before. Lee and Clementine are from a TWD video game that I had never played, but they seem like neat characters gamewise.

[Tornado]

Cool. Never heard of them but they look great.

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by Tornado

Cool. Never heard of them but they look great.

Thanks T! I didn't know who they were either until I had heard that they were some kind of con exclusive. I wondered what made them special and found out a little about them. But having a man and a young girl in the world of TWD seemed neat, as I have daughters and the thought of someone watching out for them if I was gone hits home.

[Tornado]

For sure. I reposted my Michonne write up with your pics. Thanks again!

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by Tornado

For sure. I reposted my Michonne write up with your pics. Thanks again!

Awesome!

[Hahma]

Prison advisor Dale (with peg leg. I didn't realize he survived to the prison in the comics and lost a leg. I've only seen the TV show).





Scott Moon. He must be a comic book only character.

[TREX]

They look great @Hahma . I'm thinking that they switched out hershel to loose a leg at the prison but I havent followed the comics either. I was just asking my wife when the last season that came out was supposed to hit netflix. Guess I'm waiting til september. I finished up what I had bought walking dead wise with the saviors. I don't have that pack that you just painted. I have the prior dale with the rifle. I haven't got alot of hobbying in the last week because I've been out sick again. Every time I go in the docs office, they jump to the conclusion that I must have Covid 19. I tell them to just give me the usual stuff that takes care of my asthma flare ups and send me on my way. I told them I'm not paying 150 dollars out of pocket so they can tell me I don't have covid. I seem to be getting better with my antibiotics and prednisone. If I had covid that would make things worse. So that is a good thing. I finished up my two newly printed ATST walkers though. The quickshade I used to weather them is setting up, then I'll hit them with a matte clearcoat spray and super glue on some scenics to the bases. After running smoothly for close to 100 hours of runtime, my fdm printer decided to get a clogged nozzle right after my resin printer went down. I just changed my FEP in the bottom of my resin tank and am doing a small test print to check it out. (28 Storm trooper Heads) I pulled out a bunch of scape customs I had rebased some 3 months ago and painted the bases up and added scenics to them. I still have about 100 or so to do. I was cleaning the mancave. I also painted up an Ogre resin print and a giant demon that I printed on the fdm printer at least a year ago. I also found some very old templar knights I painted a good three years ago. I touched up all the white on them. Back then, I washed everything and the white looked like the knights ran out of TP and used their white robes. I had picked up some brown wash and didn't know what I was doing. We'll just say they look zestfully clean now. I got my pledge manager finished up for the Ankh game from cool mini or not on kickstarter and plan to dive into painting all my CMON games to get that backlog done before the next handful of kickstarters arrive. I backed Zombicide 2.0 and Ankh, and probably wont be able to not back the Massive darkness 2 coming out here shortly. I'm at a bit of a loss on what to do with most of the figures that don't have a game, and wont be getting heroscape customs. I know I can use a ton of them in games like frostgrave, or DND, if we ever decide to play that one. I kind of want to just paint figures for games that I don't have to do the work for anymore. HS Customs were fun, but just a ton of work. So much that I didn't want to play them anymore for fun after the testing was done. I may set up and try Walking dead Call to arms playing both teams just to give it a go. Since the Covid thing my one brother in law that plays hasen't played once. He was the one who loved the walking dead one as much as I do. Hopefully this replaced part will fix my resin problem and I can get back to printing. I'm really want to print some them mandos from the tv show. The one baby yoda turned out really good before the printer went out of service.

[TREX]

Fingers crossed it stays good, after changing my FEP on my resin printer Ive had multiple perfect prints with no fails and will be shortly getting to print some mandalorians. Im going to round out my B2 army and maybe put together some arc troopers as well.

[TREX]

Originally Posted by TREX

Fingers crossed it stays good, after changing my FEP on my resin printer Ive had multiple perfect prints with no fails and will be shortly getting to print some mandalorians. Im going to round out my B2 army and maybe put together some arc troopers as well.

The perfect prints weren't there to stay but on the flip side I am getting things down better and better. Working settings and researching better ways to get supports to stick and to use less resin. I am coming to the end of my first purchased bottle of resin. That 1000mg bottle costed about 41 dollars and I was able to get 97 star wars legion sized models out of it. Granted, I did have to put some of the models together from failed prints, and did have to figure out supports and other issues. Amongst those prints is your very tiny legion sized baby yoda model @Hahma . I still have enough resin to run a few more batches until my next bottle makes it to my place on tuesday. Do you know what pose you'd like the mandalorian model in? They have some with capes, pistols, rifles, jetpacks, no jetpacks, and pretty much any other configuration you can think of on thingiverse. I'm putting together a few build plates of ones with less explosive types of rifles, pistols, and jetpacks along with one with a beskar blade to use as proxies for the mando squad coming out. I'll probably also make one with a cape to paint up like the Mando from the show to go with my baby yoda. Overall, I've decided that even though the resin printer can and will be a PITA, it is a very fun little tool. For more exclusive characters that you can't find miniatures of or expensive figures you can't go wrong with it. For run of the mill, orcs, goblins, or zombies that you can buy in board games for hordes of them they are probably the better bet that way. I may end up making my Heroscape collection whole again with the resin printer eventually. They fall into the category of expensive hard to get figures when I actually think of playing it again. When I have more time, I'm going to do a photo dump on here. Maybe even steal the wifes good camera instead of using my beat up phone. I've been having loads of fun printing and painting a bunch of cool star wars figures and even used my cricut machine to make some vinyl decals for some of my vehicles. Super fun.