Weekender: Printable Scenery Interview – The Future Of Terrain Building?
May 28, 2016 by warzan
Welcome to The Weekender where we're getting stuck into a great interview with Printable Scenery about the evolution of 3D Printing within the industry and more.
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- AvP - Youngbloods, Facehuggers & Sentry Guns
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News Time
Now it's time to get stuck into the news.
- Ridend Duke - New models ride into battle for Tor Gaming's Relics.
- Panzerfauste Battle Moles - Troglodytes mount up on Battle Moles and the Dwarves get a Bear!
- Guild Ball Hunters - Learn about Warren's fear of bears...
- Battle Foam's Silver Tower Trays - Keep your new heroes and dungeon crawling monsters safe.
- Blood Bowl Contents - Take a look at what's inside the new set from Games Workshop.
- Mitosis Miniatures' Goblyn - A nifty model and a novel concept for future sales of the miniature.
What did we miss?
Printable Scenery Interview
We got to sit down with Mat Barker from Printable Scenery to talk about their new Apocalypse Ruins Kickstarter as well as much more besides.
With the direction the industry is going in this style of creation where you hand the reins over to the customer is becoming a lot more popular (and viable).
Kickstarter Time
What's been on Kickstarter?
- CheekZ: A Hamster Battle Game - A simple card game with plenty of innuendos.
- FAITH: A Garden In Hell RPG - An utterly brilliant looking Sci-Fi world packed with interesting races and amazing artwork!
If you come and join us for XLBS on Sunday you might be in with a chance of winning a 32mm Miniature from FAITH!
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Happy Bank holiday weekend everyone.
Happy Weekend! Our holiday was last weekend but still happy for it!
Happy weekend.. @warzan has to push the buttons? What could possibly go wrong?
Cheekz looks like a fun game with tongue in cheek innuendos. Tongue in cheek? Uuuuggghhhh
It sure does!
Great weekender. Good to see the 3d printed topic back on the show. The interview was very good and the scenery they produce is great. As someone who has always loved making scenery and now has a cheap 3d printer, I can say the hobby is enhanced by having it. I can now design things that I would not normally be able to make in the quality and detail I can now. I can design the models so that they are easier to paint and now that I know the limitations of 3d printing I can design the models to… Read more »
Happy weekend
great show.
Love the way Warren keeps playing with his wedding ring, you will get used to it mate 🙂
Lol im constantly fiddling with it!!
My Ring
My Wedding Ring (the lengths you gotta go to around here lol) 😉
And yes i know im one of the main culprits! 🙂
Too late… we’ve caught you doing all three over time!
To me a couple of weeks to get used to my ring. Congratulations on the wedding.
It’s the (long) weekend! Time to put a couple of Frostgrave teams together for Monday, finish some Guildball painting and prime the…
…OK, one job at a time!
The Badger hat has clearly not been peed on as the pelt is intact!
The use of urine in leather tanning was to remove the fur from the hide. You now had the leather and lots of loose fur which if short and fine enough could now be used mashed and compressed to make felt.
Mercury was discovered, in a similar manner to what Warren so eloquently describes, to be more effective at hair removal,i; can also corrupt the brain’s structure of leading to a form of dementia.
Maybe Johnny Depp has a medical excuse?
http://corrosion-doctors.org/Elements-Toxic/Mercury-mad-hatter.htm
Thanks for the mention on the Weekender. Seems live you were filming this @warzan – while we were streaming live at the school. I made a huge blog update the other day about our Space Mission: Immigration project. This was not a war game, no rules for fighting. Because boys will take over games and destroy stuff if there’s rules for it. The game awarded diplomacy, trade agreements and such more than anything. A big thanks to all my wonderful colleagues who said “sure, go for it”. They made some amazing workshops for all the students thoughout the week. There… Read more »
Great job mate, a great idea and looks like areal effort to put together but for all the right reasons! Hats off to you sir
Excellent stuff – where were you when I was at school?
…I know – probably a figment of your mother’s imagination in another scholl somewhere…
Yay! a mention always brightens my Saturday. WRT 3D printing, I’m glad Mat from Printable Scenery echoed my feelings about it all. There are some expensive machines out there and they’ve been around for a long time so they are high quality, but don’t feel like they are a necessity because there are unknown companies making machines that are much cheaper but have nearly as a quality print. Weirdly, the best machines in this category are dependant on where you come from in the world, because shipping is a huge cost, and so I can’t suggest one brand. And Warren,… Read more »
I did the last Kick-starter with Printable Scenery and, Yes the models do look amazing when printed. I’m not sure what the fuss is about the technology though….. click on the stl file…. look at it in the 3d slicer….. then press print…. for me its as easy as that.
I was looking at the printable scenery kickstarter wondering what sort of 3d printer i would need but having seen the interview i think im going to take the plunge with a wanhao. Does anyone have any experience with it? It’ll be my first printer so would it be suitable?
Economies run on supply and demand. If robotics take over all of the supply and there are no longer any jobs, and people have no disposable income, then there is no demand. Without demand, there is no need for supply. Therefore there is no need for robotics to take over supply.
that only works if you assume people need a disposable income. if there is an unlimited supply then there’s no need for disposable income to get at that stuff. the economy would have to shift to a new tradeable resource. You see this happening when products start as luxury items (high profit / low volume) then shift towards ‘commodity’ (low profit / high volume). The real danger is that with no one having to think about maintaining robotics that knowledge will be forgotten and a society that has become dependent on it will eventually crash. post scarcity society is an… Read more »
I’m referring to the dystopian scenario in which robots puts us all out of work and barring the tiny minority of super rich the rest of us starve to death. In that scenario there’d be no demand for the supply.
The rich won’t care they will own everything anyway 😉
Ohh and the rich don’t buy commodities so need for mass production maybe isn’t the same 🙂
Except toilet roll, mmmm maybe wiper robots?
Yes but everyone else will still need stuff, and businesses couldn’t use robots to manufacture those things if everyone is out of work and has no disposable income. They’d never sell anything and so couldn’t afford to pay for the robots. They’d have to hire people to do the jobs do those people could then buy things.
if robots put us “out of work” then we are free to pursue any other activity we want. That’s basically what the Utopian society in Star Trek is, except they use replicators instead of robots. The less utopian view would be that ‘putting us out of work’ would create a depraved society like in Wall-E (people too fat to move because there’s a robot for everything …) or the Eldar of 40k fame … And at that time you’ve also succeeded in creating a form of slavery … which won’t end well for us humans once those robots either develop… Read more »
Following your reasoning only one part of the system changes, but the rest will stay the same. I think that will be untrue. If there is unlimited supply there is no more need for a monetary system. The rich won’t be rich anymore, because there is nothing to define their richness.
A dystopian thing that might happen is limitations on access to the abundance of resources. If ‘the rich’ own the robots they might deny certain groups of people access to the resources to remain in control.
The whole post-scarcity discussion is even more mindbending than regular capitalist economic theory.
I don’t think making terrain will be a dying art for a long, long time. I would say that if anything 3D printing will make it more common, like they may have a roof and so on but they may just by some fur to glue to the roof to PVA on and then PVA over so that it looks like it is a thatched roof. Or in the case of the futuristic stuff they will add little bits be that the rubble, or like the scattered refuse of the town like garbage bags thrown out fridges, or whatever. Just… Read more »
What’s happened to the sound? Very low quality.
Also On @warzan ‘s lovely morbidly fun conversation about the no job future, his not talking non-sense some very smart people have thought about this. And here is their best speaker laying it out.
https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU
Personally I don’t think it will happen in that way for very very complicated reasons, but I think that is really fun to think about. Just thinking hmm that would be an interesting alternate future! (don’t go down the rabbit hole, don’t follow Alice have fun instead 😀 )
As was said, 3d printing for hobby purposes will only be a niche use of the technology – it’s been mature in other uses for a while. 10 years ago I had problems with my jaw. Eventually my head was scanned, a 3d model of some new prosthetic joints developed, 3d print produced of parts of my skull. The prosthetics were engineered and the surgeon used those and my skull print to prepare for the op. It’s not the mass production market that benefits, it is the niche and even one-offs that justifies it. At the moment I’d probably need… Read more »
Warzan…thanks for the New Zealander references… Bushwhackers and is that a golden Kiwi you had on your shirt?
Surely those hunters were based on Grizzly Adams and his pet bear called Ben, not Davy Crockett?
Great video again guys, I kind of like the chaos that comes with Warren at he helm.
I was just the trained monkey pressing buttons 😉
@warzan seems to have an unhealthy interest in the Ridend mounts!
@torgaming They are majestic 😉
Imagine a giant one charging head first at you; the power and that magnificent twitching they are renowned for… Terrifying 😀
I even don’t have a 3d printer, but I backed their first Kickstarter (then borrowed a friend’s printer and printed two of those buildings with great results).
I am totally considering backing the new Kickstarter, too.
I got an Ultimaker 2 about six months ago to try and make some proper 28mm spacecraft to fight in for Infinity and the like. I got the Printable Scenery stuff on the way and it’s really nice quality stuff. One of the most interesting things I’ve hit so far has been the process to design your own 3D meshes- I came from zero 3D design skills and picked up Blender (free) and was extruding 2D textures for instant 3D detail on surfaces within a couple of days. Getting it to print nicely is a bit more work but the… Read more »
Great post! thank you 🙂
It’s all your fault I got the Ultimaker anyway…
My 3d printed terrain, all in various states of painting
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Great show, fun to see Lloyd and Warren hosting together again.
3D printing does seem to be within grasp now, maybe next year for me.
Hi guys, I backed the earlier Printable Scenery kickstarter and the files received looks great. haven’t made the plunge yet to buy a 3d printer, mainly because of some other stuff I need to finish first but will do so in the next half year. Still undecided between the Wanhao i3 and the Original Prusa i3 MK2. On the art of terrain making, I think this is just another tool allowing you to do certain things better and faster then before. Esspecially brickwork etc.. Also it is going to be a lot easier to share files with each other and… Read more »