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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #120 on: April 02, 2015, 03:01:04 PM »
Well, keep in mind that the models are standing on 40mm round bases. Most of the details are around 0.25mm to 0.5mm (and a lot in between), meaning that these would be pretty visible.
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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #121 on: April 02, 2015, 06:09:10 PM »
Quickly made two pistols...

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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #122 on: April 03, 2015, 03:04:07 PM »
More pistols!
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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #123 on: April 04, 2015, 04:18:53 AM »
You're a model designing machine! How long do these take to make?

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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #124 on: April 04, 2015, 02:55:18 PM »
Each pistol takes about 2-3 hours to make, but I'm not 100% sure since I tend to do all sorts of other stuff at the same time
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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #125 on: April 10, 2015, 11:41:07 AM »
Started working on a new rifle...


And yes, also included a chain bayonet in there!
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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #126 on: April 16, 2015, 04:23:07 PM »
With Shapeways' latest material out there, I really can't wait to print some of these!

Here all eight pistols so far:
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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #127 on: April 16, 2015, 04:29:09 PM »
Looks like an interesting material to print with. Expensive though. Will your current designs work for it? There are some negative comments relating to that.

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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #128 on: April 16, 2015, 04:52:16 PM »
The models should already work in Frosted Ultra Detail, so Frosted Extreme Detail shouldn't be a problem.

I haven't checked all my models, but most of them seem to work just fine. The main problem with the new material seems to be the rather limited bounding box size.

I don't plan on selling these models through Shapeways though, way too expensive (like you already mentioned). However, I am curious to see if I could use their FXD to print a prototype that could then be cast in resin/metal/plastic...
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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #129 on: April 19, 2015, 03:38:57 PM »
In the meantime, a little update on my rifles:


The weapon on the bottom left is the original 'energy rifle'. The two rifles on the right are my first 'automatic rifles', they're basically the same weapon except for the chain bayonet. The ammo drum needs to be altered though. It's the one from the 'eight-shooter' pistol, but I need to tweak it a bit to represent a smaller caliber.

The rifle on the top left is a new energy weapon, I kinda imagine it as a 'light' beam cannon, basically a 40k lascannon in rifle form (a Hellgun I guess?). It has a lot of components in common with the other energy weapon. I like the idea that a lot of the tech here is rather modular and compatible, meaning that both energy weapons can exchange ones' batteries and other components if needed.

Regarding the sprue, my original idea was to have a pistols sprue with about 10 different pistols on it, and a rifle sprue with the same number. As for the sprue itself, I really love what Pig Iron Productions did with their Near Future Irregulars, so that the sprue itself can also be used in a more direct way. Maybe in this case the sprue would be more high tech shaped rubble rather than bricks.
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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #130 on: April 20, 2015, 02:24:53 AM »
That is a great idea with the sprue. A pistols sprue/rifles sprue sounds like a fairly good idea. To me, what it would come down to is how you plan on selling them- just as-is as a single sprue, or as a bundle intended to let you make full warriors (where it may be better to mix pistols and rifles on one sprue, and have an alternate mixed sprue as well).

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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #131 on: April 20, 2015, 08:47:04 AM »
I'd like to design warriors as well, but my 3d skills are seriously lacking in the human making department. So currently it's only weapons, equipment, terrain, robots, etc. for me.

The way the sprue would be configured (rifles with rifles, mix, etc) is something I still need to figure out a bit...
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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #132 on: April 20, 2015, 02:34:38 PM »
In the meantime, the beam rifle almost finished:


Next up would most likely be another bunch of automatic rifles and some shotgun like weapons.
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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #133 on: April 23, 2015, 11:39:46 PM »
Current weapon collection...
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Re: Modelling bits for 3d printing
« Reply #134 on: April 24, 2015, 02:19:14 AM »
Nice collection.
It's odd seeing unexpected design elements together, like the clip in the top left 'plasma pistol', and the bottom left 'laser-bolt-pistol'. Obviously I've been heavily influenced by GW in what to expect.