What Are You Painting Now?

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This is Efreet, a transport VTOL aircraft designed for Infinity by Antenocitis Workshop. I took part in its Kickstarter back way when, and bought .stl files instead of resin model (which BTW has not been delivered yet, couple of years after the campaign).

I printed this model twice on Prusa I3 Mk3 (on this one however I reprinted the landing gear and sensor pods on Elegoo Mars), first was left at my previous gaming club and it serves there well and second is shown below.

Decals on this one are designed (ex. O12 logo and “nose art”) and printed by me.

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@shingen That looks great! If you don’t mind me asking what’s the quality of the print like? I’d heard the Antenocitis prints were recommended for a resin printer.

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Cheers @seldon9, IIRC which may not be the case as I printed this ca. 10 months ago I went with general .3 mm with .2 in more sloped areas. You can still see quite pronounced printing texture on some parts even after hours of sanding I put into it (see the back of those weird hatches on the top).

As for AW files, well… those guys are pros and they surely have access to professional resin printers, all the files I bought from them (and I also went all in on their next KS which was only about .stls) are top quality, but both printing and assembly of printed models are challenging to say the least. Efreet is 20 parts (some variants within them), two of them too big for any hobby size SLA.

Now I’m thinking about printing Azure dragon which is 36 parts, at least 5 of them too big for my Elegoo and translucent canopy being a real challenge  (maybe I’ll vacuum-form it, old school…). So the bottom line is: models are top quality and very cool looking, but printing and assembling them are hobby in themselves.

 

EDIT:

Oh, and about being recommended for SLA, sure they come out best in this technology, but with my purchases I received both hollowed and solid files (for the biggest parts), and as you can see actually printed most of them on FDM.

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Many thanks for your response. It’s very informative.

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Picked up the Battletech: A Game of Armoured Combat box last week and I’ve paint up my first battlemech a few days ago. The 25 tonne Commando scout mech.

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Finished painting my Malice RPG Starter Set, available at Secret Weapon Miniatures.
Sculpted by Dark Arts Miniatures. Their Chaos Bases and Terrain KS ends in a few days.

SWM:http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=137_138
DAM: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1787010870/the-temple-of-chaos-quickstarter-resin-bases-and-terrain

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I have had a busy few weeks painting many things!  I’m most proud of my newest Oathsworn miniatures, though.  I saw there was another Burrows and Badgers Kickstarter on and decided I had to get these done before I was allowed to buy anymore.

New Frostgrave recruits, reporting for duty!  I have 1 warband at the minute, but instead of only having 10 miniatures, I have about 15 and I sub in different models for different roles.  Here are the new guys getting talent spotted by Morellius at the local tavern.

 

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Some progress

 

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Some Gotham city chronicles stuff I finished up this week.

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I love casual look of this girl, I wanted her since CB first shown her.

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At the break of dawn…

Panzer IV Ausführung J (1/56; Rubicon Models), tank commander (28mm; Tabletop Basement) and tank rider (28mm; Warlord Games)

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I finished off the Iron Boss from Artel W, and the Fox Box Comms Gobbo  Project here with more pics.  He comes off the diorama on a 50mm base ready for play.

 

I help run a tuck shop for the kids at my karate class and we have in some sweets that come with temporary tattoos and its got me thinking, are they the same as waterslide transfers?  Could we puck up some cheap temp tats and apply them to out vehicles, or terrain as graffiti and be fine?  Would varnish dissolve them or something?  I know they are going to be too big for putting on shoulder pads, but might this be a cheap (Free if you’re stealing from kids) alternative source of transfers?

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The Queen of Malifica from Creature Caster:

It’s not a small model:

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I finished assembling my Tratoria for Wolsung.  I’ve also finished a couple other kits as well.  More pictures of all of them and the steps to reach completion can be found on my Project Blog; https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1223909/#snav   Now I’ve started work on a Warehouse that I finished the painting on Friday night.

 

 

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