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[timchubbKeymaster 3166xp 1]

Well if we’re cheating with me first as all of there covers are sing along songs here are my faves

[sundancer 42900xp 3]

Sunday, the day to make stupid stuff… I made a YouTube video XD

Enjoy!

[timchubbKeymaster 3166xp 0]

interesting vid, one suggestion though would be to drop your BGM by -2dB approx, sounds fine on my headset, but shitty fullrange laptop speakers made parts hard to hear, that or bandpass the treble and bass down a notch

Dont undertand digtal pre-orders at all, but i tend to preorder things when i have spare cash so i dont have to remember to budget for it at release or when rockstar release a new game, as you know its going to be rocking horse shit to find in a shop for a few weeks after launch

[oriskany 60771xp 1]

You always put more effort into your YouTube thumbnails then I do on any other media related thing XD

Thanks very much, @sundancer !  😀

 

[oriskany 60771xp 2]

Some videos posted recently, 15mm tabletop “Lets Play” game videos:

 

[limburger 21668xp 1]

@sundancer I’d argue that even with physical goods you should not need to pre-order.
It’s not like the new consoles are ‘limited edition’.

The worst part of the pre-order culture that I’ve seen / heard of is people pre-ordering stuff and the shop cancelling the pre-order …

What’s the point of using pre-orders to make an accurate estimate of the production run when you’re not going to use that info ?
Nintendo has pulled that stunt several times …
And even the new console pre-orders apparently suffered from this and then blamed the manufacturer for not supplying them …
(I suspect the #1 reason being that these are not pre-orders but customer-bait … )

 

[blinky465 17027xp 4]

So I left my resin printer for over a month. I put the vat on a radiator for ten minutes this morning, as it was cold and almost like treacle. But other than that, and giving it a quick stir, I didn’t really do anything to the printer. I didn’t even bother to re-level the print bed! Just went for it, to see how things turn out….

Three hours later and I had a plateful of Bretonnian (type characters) from Dragon Forest (those dudes doing the 10mm armies that have featured on this site a few times recently).

If anyone is still unsure about an entry-level (or “relatively cheap” resin printer) you can’t go far wrong with an AnyCubic Photon! Each time I take the prints off my print bed, I’m pleasantly surprised by this brilliant little machine.

I’m not sure how to base my horses. I’m working on 1.5″ squares (that’s not negotiable). I’m not sure whether to go with squares of 1.5″ square 2mm mdf and put four horses per base

or whether to go for a slightly smaller base and have three in a line, to create a slightly more “regimented” look

Just at the minute, I’m leaning towards the three-minis-per-base layout. Maybe I’ll go for a slightly more “rag-bag” layout for the next army (that has just come off the printer)….

The quality and detail of these “stag riders” is incredible. It’s not easy to see on pink resin. I’ll wait ’til it’s a bit warmer in the morning and take them outside for a blast of black primer and some white zenith to see if we can’t get those details to be a little more visible…

@sundancer – as for resin “going bad”? I’m not sure. I’ve had some cheap stuff off fleabay with a “best before” date some two years ago and it still printed perfectly well. And as for leaving it in the vat? Well, I’d be quite comfortable printing with resin up to six weeks old – because I just did!

[timchubbKeymaster 3166xp 1]

@limburger artificial scarcity is a total sham, just look at apple shifting stock away from areas with high preorders.  It’s just a marketing stunt now, unfortunately the great unwashed assume preorders are there to help plan initial demand and allocation, but it’s just to gauge how effective the hype machine has been.  Worst bit is that it’s the retailer who ends up in the cross hairs even though they are at the mercy of the supplier gw are great at stiffing small retailers with less stock than preorders they have taken mainly to drive traffic to there webstore or ensure that they have stock by reallocating stock from retail to web

Console scarcity is mainly down to piss poor systems in place being blasted with bots, got bloody lucky to get my series x on all access and that was after trying and failing to get a preorders and dealing with klarna based credit report damage arse holes!!

 

[timchubbKeymaster 3166xp 1]

@blinky465 as far as I know its just muppets leaving photo resins under led lights or by a window that causes it to go bad.

Sorely tempted to get a photon myself but think I’d better wait till I move and have a workshop again instead of a home office crammed to bursting already lol that and I then have space for the mini lathe and the cnc mill and my screen printing rig all setup at once instead of one at a Time.

Do you think photoresin could be screen printed, wondering if it could be used as a soldermask/conformal coating…

[scribbs 14506xp 0]

@blinky465 Warmaster was on 40x20mm bases, with the cavalry mounted in two strips each of two figures in a single line.

I think I like your 1.5 inch squares more. Personally, I would go for just the three models per base and keep them as a line. That could be bias as I do something similar for my Napoleonics.

[limburger 21668xp 0]

@timchubb

It sucks that we can’t sue corporations for being scummy with their ‘pre orders’ …

And the less said about scalpers the better.

I bet that companies could do more to stop scalpers, but given that scalpers pretty much guarantee a sale with zero need to do any after sales service they have no incentive to fix that. It’s probably why Sony likes to boast about record sales when in reality they’re merely counting units shipped to retail instead of products actually in use by consumers.

I wonder if anyone has used their resin printer to prepare circuit boards.
At school we had to expose them to uv-light and then use an acid to ‘create’ the circuit.
Using a 3D printer with it’s UV source and screen could skip part of that proces …

 

[blinky465 17027xp 0]

I used my photon to create a pcb mask before etching in ferric chloride. It worked, but was quite fiddly. Double-sided tape to stick the copper board to the print plate, then obviously re-level with the added thickness. I usually have my first layer at 70 seconds and print three layers.

But turning a pcb layout into an svg, then extruding (in Blender) to create a 3d model to get an .stl, then slicing to create a bitmap to send to the photon, then aborting after a couple of layers (after all, once the first layer or two has stuck, your mask is done) – it’s a lot of messing about…. if there was any way of loading a bitmap as a “sliced layer” to avoid all those steps (there has to be, since the Photon file validator lets you edit bitmaps after slicing) it might be feasible.

I tried it. It worked. But 70 sec exposure meant a trace of less than 0.4mm was difficult to acheive. So I went back to my usual method of painting the copper clad board in black paint (to create a solid mask) then etching the pcb design off the paint using a laser cutter and could get traces down to 0.3mm again.

Cleaning the double-sided tape off my print plate afterwards wasn’t a fun job. And finding a perfectly flat board wasn’t easy either.

[timchubbKeymaster 3166xp 1]

I’ve taken to cutting acetate sprayed black on my vinyl cutter to create pcb artwork with a positive photo resist works fine for through hole, anything with a pin pitch < 0.3mm I just get fabbed in China for a few £

Was thinking of using printing resin  more for spot repairs, such as when electrolytic caps have leaked and corroded (do quite a few retro console mods and recaps hard to buy a mega drive these days where the caps are not bad, and mega CD is virtually guaranteed to be bad and needing a chunk of work on the psu and logic boards) I usually use glass paint but takes ages to dry and often remains tacky, and I don’t do enough for the repair pens to not have dried up by time I next use them…

[danlee 22433xp 4]

The thread really is on fire this week!

 

I finished my first batch of terrain crate stuff. https://www.beastsofwar.com/project-entry/1611981/

 

[crazyredcoatParticipant 13642xp 1]

I’ve decided on my next project. Going to get started on my British Field Medic for Bolt Action. Just need one small modification to give him a greenstuff arm band, but that shouldn’t be too hard even for my inexperienced sculpting skills. 😛

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