32mm 3D printing - posted by Dirk Heinsius, 12 June 2021

On the painting table. 32mm 3D printed Halbardier. 

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Russell Briant

For the joy of painting a great figure, or a game system participant Dirk?

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  Dirk Heinsius

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  Russell Briant just for the fun of it, plus O'm starting to get sick of painting Persians

  

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  Vincent Cholewa

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  Russell Briant snap! Exactly what I was going to ask.

  

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Dirk Heinsius

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For those interested in 3D printed figures, I would give this miniature 4/5 for detail nice pose and good detail, but hard to tell without a fully visible face.

The down side is that there is a LOT of cleanup on these guys, and this batch doesn't appear to have cured fully, which means that a day after painting, they've gone slightly glossy. I'm trying another washed in Isopropyl Alcohol, which should fix this problem, but it's yet another step with the figures.

They are of course cheap, and are making me wonder about the feasibility of getting a 3D printer.

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  This is how the "raw" figures come, which highlights what I mean by cleanup.

  

  

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  Vincent Cholewa

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  Dirk Heinsius alien tentacles!

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• Peter Munn

  A couple of minutes in hot water and the supports usally come off very cleanly, Initially I did not know that and cured them before tying to remove supports which mad them a nightmare to get off without breaking the figures.

  

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