Civs foray into his own plastic addiction
3d printing for the win
So ive been 3d printing parts from the reptilian overlords militia set and using up the spares from my empite state troop to create more troops.. sourcing some heads from puppets war that look like hardy worshippers of Ulric ive managed to double up my empire army. now they need some shields. Turns out 3d printing is once again to the rescue. i have sourced a shield stl and turns out you can drag jpeg images into microsoft 3d builder and it creates 3d images out of it! drop the 3d image onto the shield stl and hit the intersect option and it curves the design to the shape of the shield. my mind is blown! ive created some shields now with designs taken from the empire heraldry book and have them printing out. if all works my state troops will all have shields with designs taken straight from the middenheim heraldry section. i need to look at how i can apply this to banners next and see if thats an option. im very excited about this!!!
These are the designs ive done in 3d builder
The physical prints turned out well
Test on a state trooper, might scale down a little After printing i have decided to make the design on the shield less pronouonced, currenty its the same depth as the shield. Have rejigged the designs and am going to put another run on tonight and see how that looks.
Hopefully get more than a handful of shields off the print since the cold has made printing really problematic.
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