Of Printing and Painting.

So having got a 3D printer for birthday/Christmas/Father's day present I have been testing it out. One of the first things I printed was a figure from Heroforge to see if it was possible to 3D print character figures for games, mostly RPG's (and no I don't mean anti tank grenades). The results were dissappointing.

However after much reading and watching (Youtube has a small amount of instructional gold on it) I have mucked about with the settings a bit and the results are below. Both are from Artisan Guild who as far as I know only do .stl files. Anyway, here they are...

Alvar on Thunderbeak.

Alvar is from Artisan Guild's Dwarf set from a couple of months ago. I got these through their Pateron group.  Each month they have a survey on what sort of figures people want the following month and in each there is a hero figure. Also each month there is a prize for painting the hero figure up. Needless to say I am yet to win.

Overall I am happy with Alvar but the printing of his mount got a little rough on the right side of the head for some reason. Oh, I am printing on a Flashforge Adventurer 3 FDM printer. The model is a single piece.

Vesdra on Gorefang.

This time they modeled mount and rider separately, which makes painting soo much easier. They also did a free-standing version of Vesdra (which I still need to finish) so I had the idea of being able dismount Gorefang. To that end both models have small (3mm) rare earth magnets in them which holds Vesdra fairly well to Gorefang's back.

And for a complete change of pace...

The German 17cm Kanone 18. Model by Tigerace1945 (I think) found on Thingiverse. Printed at 20mm scale. I should now do a 21cm Morser 18 to go with it and complete the heavy artillery batallion.

Reaching for the Stars.

Ok so I haven't actually done all of this this month. This has been a long time printing and then painting with only the current form done.

So I am an RPG group that plays Starfinder, and sometimes we need a spaceship. The Starship III came along at just the right time and so viola, here is our spaceship.

If we upgrade the ship I might print out new bits that can be added or swapped in, hence the comment about its current form. I might also go back and touch up a few details.

Anyway, enjoy.

The Bridge.

Pilot and Navigator stations.

Roof of the Bridge.

Living quarters ...

... with full amenities.

Engineering and the Main Hold.

One of the engines.