Lots of 1:72 printing!! (or Succes and Fail..)

I started to develope some addiction to this new aspect of our hobby..

 I will never stop buying happily new releases from our traditional plastic figure manufacturers, but the use of a 3d prints at home is something reelly great ..

For example, This treeman is superb (and Huge but I do not mind so much for that) ..and also extreme cheap comparign to some equivañlent plastioc or metal market version

Monsters are funny.. But you have to realize, what supposes for my conscience, to find or create any humanoid type figure that you like at any size, and rescale that inmediately to teh best approach to our 1:72 old friends..

In some hours you got totally new figures for your Universes!! Much less limits now.. Dont need to wait for monates ofr a relase and then discover that the awaited figures are too high or too small in reality.. That can be adjusted by you.. An quality of some good sculpted models is incredible.. Judge by yourselves..

Skeletons (Model form creator Highlands miniatures) 

Then after getting n contact with our admired Plastic General Jack and his generosity in providing some incredible files, I also followe dhis steps and printed som 1/72 warhammerque goblins.. Obtained size direclt from the sample is quite close to Caesar old friend, which is happily tmy favourite size for a 1/72 goblin!!

The foot types match good with othe rmembers in my collection, as well as the wolf riders (smaller than warg riders form Alliance, but it suits to me as light moutned forces. I had also some wolves in similar size)

My greensin armies will be soon reinforced...

First Company of Dwarven Vaul Wardens Finished

Hi, finished first 4 Teams of shield bearer+pike dwarf

Shields were printed in  a resin 3d pritned, Pikes from 28mm spare sprues and dwarves were recuited among Cesar , Alliance set I (theis set was good having several extra-heavy warriors and spearmen),  and Alliance Set II.

Quite happy with results!!! I had problems to find a dood colour scheme for the shield, they had to be metallic but not bright and looking heavy and quite hard to pierce...Well manufactured  and with some artistic detail,m but not very fancy always dwarvish.

The formation I obtained looks quite alive and convincing in their defensive Warfase poses...Hope to test them at some point if I make more and more dwarf units.

Naxt day more dwavish post are coming after I painted my first own 3d printed smaples.. Sadly it seems we made them too big! A new try must be done

..First new 3d own figure preview...Damn out of scale people next to Balin!! :(
 

3d Printing is the Future

 Hi colleaghes,m i am sadly so slow and underpowered last times. No painted figure in weeks.

However I made some experiments with 3d printing, thanks to my friend Gabi who purchased a powerful  resine device last month. He es becomeing an expert..

 In the practices, we got some interesing 3d files, and we achieved to produce some unedited 1:72 figures which look promising...

We got as example these nice Dwarf artillery and slayers from Patron Artist KYOUSHUNEKO MINIATURES.. Concept is for 28mm fnatasy gaming, but sclaing to 1:72 is relative easy with the software (about 73% of original size)

And here the 3d File ready to "slice" and send to printer.."Only" 2h of preparing the numeorus support stikcs needed to get the figure hanged from the roof as it "appears"during the printing process , from feet to head 

Well, first test were a little mess.. Title of this crration is "Cola Ice candy out oof the Fridge"

And then , some good products:

Azog the Orc printed in 55mm scale...Superb!!! (that was my friends reward)

And finnally my own printed dwarf babies:

Organ gun

Slayers:

I will post comparison puicturtes soon with plastic 1/72 standared figures, and hop0efully some also painted... My "pile of shame" is not getting smaller last times..

dwarves are slow (II)

Hi, very small progresses on the Vault Wardens..

I completed shields for 2 companies, each company including 4 teams of  shield warrior +Pike warrior

I gave the Pikemen really solid and sturdy weapons, taking som 28mm sparesparts from other bits i keepre..  Which really look appropiate for these kind or Warfare! 

The formation is comlpicated to create, but it gives good visual result.. The goblins will have real troubles to go trough this dwarf  steel wall

(My free advice for you:Never throw away any plastics even if it is out of scale.. it will be soemday...)

Hope to paint them any week...

Dwarves are slow....

Hi, I am really not doing much in 2021...Bit I have plenty of ideas..

I have new rulesets to test as dragón Rampante and Oathmark (this last looks very promising..)

The problem is always getting enough painted troops...

I started some converted dwarven Vault Wardens, supposed to be heavy Dwarf Warriors, organised in Teams  of two troopers: One with huge tower shield and after him another with long pole stick or pike. They are able to block tunnels and galleries with the shield and from there, Pierce wave after wave of goblin marauders...

I chose some interesting poses from Alliance dwarves and was able to get some nice 3d printed shields...

evem Looking too Big, after a cutwork they do the job..Let me introduce my first Teams of  Vault Wardens or "dwarven Mine riot units"

The 3d resin is by the way quite frágile..I did some damage on the Shields..well, war under the Mountain is probably quite harsh.

I am Also planning some units of Miners and Rangers with lighter gear.