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Reply To: Open gaming mini license

January 6, 2021 at 10:06 pm #1594900

limburger

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GW sells character minis that you still have to assemble and paint at 20$ a piece.
Xwing ships (assembled and painted) where in a similar price range …

I’d say the only things stopping people from printing an army using heroforge is the lack of tools (it is focused on characters, not a squad of nearly identical minis), an interesting theme for armies and a volume discount to ease the pain. Heroforge themselves would only need to update their production capactiy, but they could do it (if they wanted to).

I’d say 3d printing has a much better chance of becoming a significant part of our hobby than virtual reality ever managed for videogaming. The latter never got beyond fancy techdemos, but 3D printing has more than a few companies willing to risk it as a source of income. I’m already seeing a ton miniature-focused kickstarters that are stl-file only. I’m pretty sure that if you’ve got one of the defacto standard 3D printers that those kickstarters and the various patreons are pretty risk-free (or getting there).

Heck … maybe all that we need is some sort of game/end-user focused review site that judges stf-files on their ease of use ?
(ie : does it print as advertised ? yes/no/needs tweaking)