[BFG] 3D Printed Grey Knight Fleet Project (Small Craft Update!)

[Lord Borak]

All those side panels need is the same patterning as the other ships and it will be fine. The little detail in the armour on the forward edge but to break things up would help no end.

The Launch bays are fine I think. You need to make them so that they are visibly launch bays at a quick glance. The last thing people want to do is have to study a model closely just to see what it's weapons are. Plus, its 40k. Why wouldn't they have grand arches?

[MetalCoreKnight]

All those side panels need is the same patterning as the other ships and it will be fine. The little detail in the armour on the forward edge but to break things up would help no end.

Yeah, I'll be taking a stab at it tomorrow for sure!

Why wouldn't they have grand arches?

Glad to see someone else has the same thoughts on 40k and arches! xD

[MetalCoreKnight]

Here we go, old side panel on the left and new one on the Right, how's it look?

[Lord Borak]

Much better!

[Stormwind]

It's looking good to me.

[marell le fou]

Yep, i like it too.

[MetalCoreKnight]

Thanks guys! A bit more tweaking of the panel and then on to re-doing all of my sprues! xD

[MetalCoreKnight]

Well, spent a good portion of today going over all my sprues. The Escorts only needed part placement/orientation tweaking which wasn't too bad, although I did combine the Hunters into 2 sprues instead of 4. The Strike Cruiser needed a bit more work, had the updated panels for the Bombardment Prow and the new Main hull and Broadsides that needed to be replaced with the new version that accept magnets to allow for switching between broadsides and hangar bays and last but not least replacing the dorsal mounted Bombardment Cannon/Lance with magnetizable versions.

The Fruits of my labours;

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Of course, the whole point of this was to accommodate Shapeways new pricing for Frosted Ultra Detail. So how'd it go? well so far I'm looking at about an average of 39% price reduction compared to what they were listed at under the previous pricing scheme. I'm still waiting to see if/how the forthcoming ability to set a specific Printing Orientation affects pricings before I settle on anything specific for prices but to be honest.....so far so good it seems!

[Stormwind]

omg they look gorgeous.

[MetalCoreKnight]

Thanks! Now I just have to do the part my wallet hates, ordering one of everything......again! xD

[marell le fou]

Courage, it's very satisfying for you and us at the end, i guess.

[Lord Borak]

Out of curiosity, do you get these cast up in resin once the shapeways have done their thing? If you are mass producing them it will be a cheaper alternative and you can always whack them up on ebay to break even.

The Company I use to get my stuff is really good and pretty well priced.

[MetalCoreKnight]

Out of curiosity, do you get these cast up in resin once the shapeways have done their thing? If you are mass producing them it will be a cheaper alternative and you can always whack them up on ebay to break even.

The Company I use to get my stuff is really good and pretty well priced.

I dunno, I never really designed them with Resin Casting in mind so I'm sure there are all kinds of awkward overhangs and such I never really accounted for, plus so far I'm still the only one to have bought any of them! xD I'll see how things go, I'll be moving these over to my main Shapeways shop and doing better "marketing" for them and we'll see how it goes.

If I was going to get some stuff cast I'd probably end up doing my Proxy War stuff once I start/finish a ruleset for them.

[MetalCoreKnight]

I've come to realize that I haven't done any "proper" fleet pictures recently so I decided to rectify that!










Also did finally get all my new prints in, unfortunately I made a wee mistake so I'll need to do some modifying to make them work but I will get to them! It does mean I have 13 more ships to paint! Almost doubling my current fleet! I'm also still working on a potential Battle Barge model but that's a bit more of a long term project for now.

[Malika]

Awesome stuff! How about some ordnance?