Where To Find Files For 3D Printing Warhammer 40k Models NOW For Beginners
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- 3D Printing for Warhammer and Warhammer 40k is super easy and in this video I show you what you need and where to get the stl files and what search terms to use. If you have been looking for space marines or adeptus custodes or some new imperial knight or chaos knight files this video should help you.
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Do you like the stuff on 3DCults and Etsy?
@@akumaking1 3d cults yes, haven't used etsy for 3d printing
@@battlebrothersam Etsy has a lot of good STLs. Want me to email you some examples?
@@akumaking1 I don't think I need anymore stls I have 3tb worth now but I'll have a check through etsy! I hope it isint just stuff ripped from cults
@@battlebrothersam did you see my email regarding the list of creators to check out?
$50 for a bottle of resin and I have an Ultramarine army; 20 customized Primaris tact marines, 10 assault, 10 terminators, a captain, 2 lieutenants, PLUS Calgar and true-scale Guilliman! I also printed off a few crusader champions to boot! For $50, at a GW store I could get a squad of what, 5 tact marines?!
For $50 you get the privilege of browsing the store and wondering how they get away with it 😂😂
@@battlebrothersam No doubt! 😆
@@MrKeech666 Do you have a link to the files? I have been trying to find good ones for ages that are scaled accurately, if you don't want to share a link thats fine but what is the best dimensions for a primaris marine.
Do you mind sharing a link?
3d printing is not the threat to Games workshop people think it is. It’s a good way to get people into the game. They buy the books, they buy the paints and they’ll buy the odd original sculpt from GW. People should calm down about the IP issues. Proxies are a normal part of the game. In a couple of years GW will be selling its own STLs with higher quality sculpts sold in store
If GW sold official STL (all their crap is 3d printed anyway before molding) I'd buy them. Even if it was like £20 for a stl of a marine.
I plan to personally 3d print am army, learn painting with them, and as I get more money and better at painting to slowly buy the official minis
Idk about others but I'd imagine if people are smart/money-conscious enough to print their own models, they're likely to just get the books for free online along with cheap paints elsewhere. They could serve as someone who generates hype and engagement as well as recommending Warhammer to their friends, but otherwise I don't think it's such a good thing for GW. Considering how out of date their methods for conducting business and operating social media account are, I don't know if they'd be smart enough/willing to move over to creating STLs.
I haven't bought official gw minis since I got mine only my black books for 30k other wise gw is dead 2 me
I wish but I don't think GW will ever allow someone to own a model they can print infinite.
If they do I So hope they do But if I'll bet they set it up like only so many prints an u have to do it on a special printer they make are/or Partnerd with as to be able an limit the prints
Another good vid brother recycling your ipa when it gets cloudy after a few uses tip in in a clear empty pop bottle and leave it in a sunny window for a day or 3. All the resin should set and sink to the bottom then carefully tip the almost clear ipa through a paper resin strainer and its good to use again until cloudy simply repeat.
Brother Chris this is great advice! I really should follow it 😂 should it be done as soon as it starts getting cloudy or is there a point where its too late?
@@battlebrothersam I do it when i notice the fine detail of my prints not as crisp as they should be the same sort of time as when you know you need to change out your ipa
@@chris-ri1zu thanks for the reply brother! I'm going to try it soon when my IPA gets too cloudy
I understand that the community wants people to search for themselves rather than "stl? stl? stl?" but i would be really nice to have a centralized form or database of the basics.
Thanks for the content king. I've been doing a lot of research because I've been wanting start playing warhammer, but this lead me to the world of 3d printing. Now I'm gearing to start 3d printing my own/building/painting armies to use to play ONE PAGE RULES GRIM DARK and any other cool minis war games out there that are minis agnostic.
Thanks brother! i'm moving more towards one page rules recently, although the new daemons rules may be tempting! you'll save a ton of money 3d printing enjoy!
I'm so OLD Hammer. I remember being young, having an ok job...and at that time i could collect every army then, nobody thought greed needed to go over the top and playing for fun was the point. GW sold out to the Suits..... I've read inside papers, where the owners were out right insulting players...nerd stereotypes. I've seen the hobby become how much can i squeeze out a wallet. A Little payback is not the end of the world. IF the price of plastic were that high, a light switch would cost $200.
Ive got loads from a few years ago, but just getting back into with a new printer.
I paint sooooo much and can't justify more armies with the cost of things without 3D printing.
My wife fully endorses this too :D
Love the idea of 3D printing! Thinking of buying a printer to get back into the hobby after over a decade of not playing. I like having custom models, so why wouldn't I like printing custom models for my armies? And imagine the bits! 🤤
After taking over a decade off myself I'm glad I found 3d printing, I just wish it was around when I was younger lol
I'm glad I found your channel. I'm gonna get into the hobby once I move out of the apartment into a house. I've been researching and can't wait to start, make mistakes, learn and improve. Need ventilation with a new baby in the home.
Great video! love the edit of STL, stl, StL, got the files
reminded me of the gulls in finding Nemo "MINE"
I've been buying water washable resin for $30 on Amazon, first print was a dreadnought leviathan and the detail is kickass
Wow that's cheap! The leviathan dreadnought was one of my first prints as well! Good choice 😁
Can I ask where you found the STL file? I have difficulties to find 40k STL files :(
@@oldlinkjo got that STL file off of Etsy
Agreed, if they want the game to thrive, the models shouldn't cost me an arm to support the creators and engage. That's one of the things that almost made me not even bother to try playing Warhammer until my bud bought a 3D printer and we found it saved us alot.
I do have a weird question, what would be a code name for Titans?
spent the last 2 days just trying to find the model from your previous video, no luck.
GW needs to offer official 3D Files
my thoughts are, if you do 3d printing JUST for one warhammer 40k army, it might be only slightly less expensive than buying them at your LGS. However if you are doing more than just one army and a lot more things with 3d printing and also do it as a hobby, it makes a lot of sense financially. Personally, i like to collect files for 40k figures. I started with 4th edition where there are lot of pewter and just beginning with the newer plastic sets. 3d printing allows for more customization of pieces without HAVING to kitbash to get close to what you want, again IMO. also for some of the things like a thunderhawk gunship, soooooooooooo much cheaper than getting it from forgeworld. also, if you mess up a piece, you can just print a new one.
Not really a 3D printer now can be had for $100 on sale. Sunlu ABS resin is $24 per liter. $150 won't even get you a GW army unless it's second hand. Most armies worth playing in 40k are going to run $700+. I can print a entire $700+ GW army with 2 bottles of sunlu abs resin and a $100 Voxelab Proximo printer. So a savings of $500+ on the first army.
How much isopropyl alcohol do you need for each kg of resin (approximately ofc)? I'm just got a printer and 1 kg water washable resin, thinking of switching to ABS-like for more durability.
Something you didn't mention is the cost of the second printer, or the third printer, oh look a 4K with a giant print bed I need to get that, then you need an FDM for the larger terrain so might as well get 4 or 5. Now where am I going to put all these printers well I guess I need a bigger house with a shop. Now I got that but I have all this room I should get a few more 3D printers, maybe a vinyl cutter and a CNC and a Laser Cutter it never stops.... One Page Rule and Titan Forge are great ways to get some really good models.
😂😂😂😂😂 I was laughing until it hit me... I have all these same thoughts! Surely it isint weird to want 5 saturn+ sized printers and a 3d printer farm of fdm printers 😐... 😂😂 Lol that was great
I'm having trouble finding titan STL, I've found a lot of other things that are cool and I like, even a warlord titan, but I can't find the smaller ones, warlord is kind of a lot.
Hey mate you're videos got me interested in getting my first 3d printer but I just wanted to ask, do you need alot of space? And do you have any experience with fumes and other chemicals ruining a room or staining anything?
8:34 O...ooooo...OOOOOOO NOW I UNDERSTAND IT!!!
What’s your input on the Saturn 2 vs the Saturn 3?
My morals went out the window when i saw the prices for a few pieces of minis, plus i cant even get actual models in my country bcs they dont ship or sell here, and if i can its 3x more expensive than normally.
The 138gb mega file is still around if you know where to look 🤫
so where would one find this mega file?
Can you give me a hint where should I look for it?
And Codename for Elder ? ^^
Hey, looking for something specific, I got some friends into kill team and one of them chose salamander infiltrators. Because they are a civilian rescue unit, I want to 3d print an arm holding a wounded guardsman or civilian. Anyone have any idea if I could find one(I’m not great at designing them)
Anyone know where i can go to get the files to print me some 40k? Very new and dont knownwhere else to go to ask. Anything helps!
Misleading title. Most of the video has nothing to do with where to find files. Its about 7 mins in that you finally do. Was hoping i would find some cool places to buy files from that I didnt know about
Honestly, it's best he doesn't talk about where to find files. He's already had 4+ designers stores nuked by GW from doing just that.
geez that makes so much sense. I just recently dived into the hobby of 3d printing so im still learning the intricacies of it all. Thanks for that tip though. Ive wondered why the really good models are so hard to find@@Enojadoland
I print for fun. Never printed any 40k (yet).
GW will still get my money for all my plastic marines. I'm still a fan of building and painting marines.
But a destroyed titan for a scenery piece, or some exotic shoulder pads? If I can find a file that makes the game cool, yeah, i'm going to jump on it
Everybody wins
If you’re playing a miniature agnostic game you can really customize your little plastic men.
What kind of game?
@@battlebrothersam a game that you can use any minis you want. The world is your bivalve.
Try this in Brazil, impossible!! Even with a 3D printer it is hard
As a casual figure painter, buying the odd model from GW isn't so bad, but they sure are expensive. I mainly build 1/48 scale aircraft and 1/35 armour models and I guess for a good 1/48 aircraft kit you are looking at around £50-80. i would like the model King Brodd from GW but £130? Really?
Let me but this into context. I month ago I bought a 1/32 scale Messerschmitt 109 by a company call Zoukei Mura. It has full internal details consisting of engine, fuselage formers and internal wing structure. The engine even has the pistons moulded into the engine. Why? I don't know as they will never be seen unless you did a cross section of the engine as a kit bashing exercise. Needless detail? Yes, I think so.
Anyway my point is this kit cost £79 and will take several weeks of modelling time to construct and then there is painting time, applying decals weathering etc on top of that. So I would say its a minimum of 2 months solid modelling time, more if the mojo goes and you start something else.
King Brodd on the other hand, you can probably build in an afternoon and that includes cleaning up GW huge moulding gates. Large gates usually mean low pressure injection moulding and to be honest GW plastic is like toffee, very soft.
I guess depending on how you paint it, it might take a couple of weeks to paint to a high standard. What I am trying to put across is the £/$ per hour of modelling cost.
I am sure GW prices is why people are turning to 3D printing for proxy models. I have a basic resin printer which I got to print of detailing parts for my dios and models. I have also have printed of stuff from some companies on Patreon etc and the detail is fantastic. I am now considering getting a larger format 8K printer to get even more detail.
If GW want to increase sales then they need to reduce their prices otherwise more and more people are just going to print their own minis.
Lets face it. The details on printable minis is fine for table top gaming. Print a whole army and use GW rules to play with your mates. just don't take them to the local Warhammer shop to play with though lol.
Come on GW, the balls in your court.
Where can you find files to print the actual GW models? Is it even a thing?
Games workshop needs to lower prices or they are gonna lose the war I can't justify the price of an army when I can buy a whole 3d printer for that price
If they all have weird names, can we get a list of what each faction use lol?
Does a Mars 2 pro kill you I heard something about that
If you feed it after midnight or get it wet it might..
@@battlebrothersam thanks
Gw shluld just start doing rules and campaigns and make hige money lol
Video starts at 7:45
Well super easy yes if landing an airplane is easy, and it is - kind of.
the jump cuts and auto-focus zooming in makes it very hard to watch.
Yeah someone else mentioned it aswell lol I've calmed down on the cuts/zooming in more recent videos
I remember reading videogame message board post back in the days where people would remind others to still support their local Ebgames or Gamestop instead of purchasing games via XBL, PSN and Steam. Can you believe that? People would Strongly suggest you get dress and drive to the store and purchase your copy of X video game instead of downloading the game and never leaving your house. They feared what would happen to the Video Game industry, if everyone stopped shopping at Retail video game stores.
The same happened with music and napster, it's evolution and 3d printing is getting bigger everyday
I still like looking through the paints in person though 😂 edit; at my flgs because they are a single store business and actually local.
@@battlebrothersam Agreed. Something novel about it. I buy more paint when I can touch it lol
Glad it's not just me then 😂😂😂
The biggest problem I got is resin. that stuff's toxic af.
ok the camera trying to focus is really starting to bug me (5:49 minutes in) maybe the room needs to be lighter but now that ive seen it its distracting while trying to watch the video.
I've only noticed after uploading but the camera decided to record at 480p 😔 I've changed the settings to 1080p but I don't blame you it looks awful
EVERY ONE KNOWS GW STOLE the idea for WARHAMMER FANTASY FROM GYGAX's CHAINMAIL DONT YOU!
Oh.. and the Movie called ALIENS! for warhammer 40k!!
🤔Battlemace 50k with the not god king of the imperial confederation with his 20 primary sons and their Space Rangers😏
Fuck GW! Great company but way to pricey for my younger boy that loved them, this was back around 2005 and spent a lot of cash! But now have a FDM and Resin printers😀
Whats good sites to dl files? Looking to get files for Spartans, jet bikes etc mainly heavy support or fast attack vehicles I'm done with over paying on forge world
500th like whoop whoop 😂
based
Without 3d printing I wouldn't still be in the hobby buying the books from GW.
Some times if they make a cool iconic item I just can't wait to paint avatar of khian I will buy it.
iykyk. PRIME BEEF
It's a game ffs. The amount they try and charge is insulting to be honest. It's their fault if printing hurts them in any way. They could have reasonable prices, brand their own 3d printers under license and sell files. They'd make way more in the end. They're not Ferrari they need to be accessible to people or people won't even bother to check it out. If you can capture people's attention with a low barrier of entry you'll have more sales.
They must not complain.
If you can get the investment of a 3D Printer back in just 1 day of printing stuff, their pricing is wrong.
Its selfexplainatory.
Compete! Make it cheaper ffs!
People are just mad I can 3D print a mini that’s $300 and isn’t made officially anymore sorry but I’m not going to spend $300 for a single mini
The fact that there are stories circulating about a guy mortgaging his house for warhammer is proof enough they dont need our money and can F off. Its a more complicated board game that costs pennys to print and produce why should I pay more than the price of a car just to participate.
At this point, if someone buys me a bottle of resin, I will get them into the hobby with 2 custom combat patrols and keep the other half of the bottle as payment. 😂 GW get fugged.
That's a real moral at the end. Not this brainwashed commercial ideas. Imaging there was a patent on making fire.... BS
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GW should just offer stl files and stop intentionally making their clients financial interactions feel like getting fisted to the elbow
Newcomer here, totally not AGW employee, STL? STL? STL?
But for real though games workshop Delinda Est.
😂😂😂 What are you looking for James workshop?
I mean my brother spends 35 USD on a single bottle of resin and for roughly a third of the cost of that bottle not including the cost for electricity or isopropyl alcohol I have a grey knight's strike squad interceptor squad Terminator squad and a castlen crowe proxy to be a primarch equivalent for my home brew legion and the only thing I paid for is some of a bottle of resin just about half and 1.25 for the cost of super glue black gel pens to make an ink wash from scratch silver paint orange paint white paint blue paint and red paint and each of those cost $1.25 a piece the can of gloss black primer what about $6 And can of semi-gloss clear coat was about $8 so for just over $40 I have about 550 points not including the many of the months dark Angels deathwing Terminator that I repainted as a librarian that I got for free so I have 670 points and I have to say super well worth the price because minimum $60 if I were to buy the official GW models for the strike interceptor and Terminator squads each is that right there at the bare minimum is 180 another just about 40 for the character model and if I were to buy an actual librarian it would cost me another 30 USD so at what I currently have it would have cost me at absolute bare minimum with a sale price 250 for 17 models not including the price of the space wolves Horus heresy upgrade sprue for the Cyber wolf armor helmet upgrade which is like another minimum 20 or 30 usd. So for roughly 1/7 the cost I think the 3D printing and going with the cheaper paints is worth it for me at least
Also I found all the files for free on cults 3D even the storm bolter arm that I put on my deathwing Terminator librarian custom and the bases I made those out of plumbers epoxy putty using a mold that I copied of a base using blue stuff as the mold material so 7 bucks for a pretty decent size tube and I still have one third of that tube after 17 bases of 10 32 mm and 7 40 mm bases and the blue stuff thermoplastic mold making material was 15 USD but I bought that almost half a year before I even started this army so 47 for the equivalent of a 272 USD cost including models and paints yeah again definitely worth the price because you spend like $300 on the printer you have to have a computer but alone what I currently have for my army almost made up for the cost of the printer
There is no debate. If I want to make my game pieces put of wood, y'all better quiet up and appreciate the craftsmanship. If 3d printing is not allowed or frowned upon, then please don't buy bread in the store. Only get it from it's country of origin from a bakery that only employs those people. Don't make it at home and dissuade others to only buy that bread from one place.
It's our warhammer not geedubs brother how can "poorhammer" pieces made from cardboard be ok but not 3d printed pieces
I don't understand why games workshop don't just have a subscription service or sell the files themselves. The amount they charge for everything is extortionate.
If I wanted to get into the hobby now I couldn't afford it. With a family to support I don't have a lot of spare cash. If, hypothetically, I were to 3d print the models though they would start getting money from me for the books and such. This is money they wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
Fortunately I have 2 armies bought before I had a family and before 3d printing... Therefore I would just need to buy the books if I wanted to get back into it.
I just want to get a 3d printer so I can get better at painting my miniatures
File talk starts 7:45
thx
Legend
My god man I was about to comment the same thing.
legend thank you so much!
Someone hook me up plz
10:07 - Games Workshop does not own the hobby, like they think they do. They provide models, paints, and rulebooks, along with various accessories. That's about it. The hobby belongs to the people. So yeah, keep on 3D printing brother! Thank you for service!
In all honesty 3d printing miniatures is very addictive, and this is the true hidden cost of 3d printing... In one hand this is a dream come true if you realise the potential to print whatever scenery, proxy- cool miniature your heart desires but on another you have to keep in check your urge to continuously printing armies and create a huge pile of unpainted miniatures. I always like to watch videos like yours. Keep it up
Thanks! Funny enough that's how this channel started originally I just kept printing and never painted so thought I might aswell document it in some way lol. Your right it is addictive I think it could be a little more addictive than plastic crack 😁
@@battlebrothersam truth be told I personally believe that the bigger cost of 3d printing is the constant need to print more and more. The possibilities a 3d printer opens for your miniatures games are endless. Dice, measures, terrain, tokens, miniatures you can truly print whatever your heart desires.
@@ΙωάννηςΜπουντούρης yup...I can print a squad of marines for $2, a large boss for $5, or even a Knight for $20....however I'm also subbed to 3-5 patreons every month and am building 10+ armies now....I don't have a problem, I can stop whenever I want.....*scratches arm nervously*
@@demon1103When you go to tournaments, can people tell your army is printed, or are they indistinguishable from the real thing?
@@Jacen777 I don't go to tournaments (actually don't even play atm due to personal reasons), as of now I just collect/paint.
Mine are very distinguishable from the real thing however due to the fact that I print proxies instead of 1:1 copies usually.
I also don't put in the extra effort to avoid layer lines & fix support marks, so certain surfaces are occasionally noticeable when looked at closely.
Remember the music industry in the late 90s and early 00s when they fought against transitioning to digital music and fought to keep CDs relevant?
Sure, they won the court cases, but they lost the overall war, as you can't stop technological progress.
GW doesn't seem to have learned anything from history, and seem to be going down the same path.
If they switched to also selling printable files, they could make easy profits, by passing the manufacturing costs on to consumers, cutting out shipping and storage costs, and focus on creating content, rather than wasting money on lawyers to prop up a dying business model.
It's like Metallica vs napster. They must think if they start planning for the future that they will have to admit defeat instead of making extra money that they wouldn't normally
I would buy their files
They could even make "citadel resin 🌈" lol
@@TheArchon1 they could even make their own branded printers and cleaner, Double down on the 3d printer realm. Hell even so basic DRM for the files. Look what steam has done and become
All I can say is thank you, and you're right; I have started to use crazy names to find files, and at the same time, I have seen many artists that are crazy talented. Yes, I spent the money on a printer, but if I can save money and print armies to share an experience with my kid, I wish I had at her age worth it!
Can you list a few space marine and imperial knight funny names?
Another advantage is for those of us that don't game - we simply enjoy painting the figures. I can scale them however I like. Marines at 130% are a joy to paint and detail. Since they aren't for tabletop pay, it's all good.
I love your videos I recently stumbeled unto them. I used to be into Warhammer 40k I would spend most my time of painting but I stopped collecting because of it being so expensive (gw increasing the prices) and at a certain point it not being accesable to me anymore. But this is getting me interested again into the hobby and also seeing what is possible with 3d printing! Great vid ☀️
STL????????????????
Literally would have no interest in Warhammer without 3d printing.
"This is stealing".
No, stealing is me going to a shop and taking a box without paying it.
The merchant loses a box, because there is only one box.
This is Jesus magic: Before there was a box, now there are two boxes.
This is nothing different from paperhammer/poorhammer/however you call it: People have been for decades using the few minis that they had to play games. My brother and I played Warhammer Fantasy with a couple of half painted miniature regiments, a couple of bare metal heroes, and tens of squares of paper with labels.
This is not even just a Warhammer thing. I have thousands of Magic cards, and still there are decks I cannot build with the cards I have, so sometimes I have one real card and 3 islands with a piece of paper inside the card protector that says that it is instead the $50 I ain't buying to test this deck.
Additionally, to put it simply: If I couldn't 3d print my Imperial Knight army, I wouldn't play Imperial Knights. So either way, GW is not getting any money from me out of the prints. However, when I 3d Print, I then take part on tournaments, I buy paints, I get people excited about their products because I talk about the game with them, etc.
I have spent more than a thousand dollars in official GW miniatures, but I am at a point in which I do not want just the basic GW models, I want to kit bash and create new things that GW does not offer. I ain't going to buy a whole ass Immolator to get the candles.
Finally, there are original models from people who put GW models to shame by the details that they have, and they charge you $20 to have as many of them as you want.
I want to get into 3d printing because I do not want to be restricted to the sometimes boring GW models.
Back in the days, GW not only allowed, but encouraged people to make their army their own. Nowadays, all the personalization you can do is choose the color scheme, or risk to be disqualifed from playing a GW tournament for not using official miniatures, even if the base if official. Ah, and in some tournaments I have seen, they did not even allow you to choose your color scheme: You could not be purple sisters and choose to be Rose. Insanity.
I forgot to say one of the main uses of 3d printing for me: I have a very, very expensive miniature, so I 3d print copies of it, I paint them all in all the combinations I was thinking about, I commit mistakes on them, and then I use that knowledge to paint my official miniature.
I used to play 40K back in the 80s and early 90s but haven't been involved outside books and video games for a long time. But awhile back I dug out a bunch of old Templars and decided to give it another go. On my wife I justified a grown man buying toys for himself by using the excuse of getting my niece and nephews into the hobby, because they're getting to that age where they could start getting in trouble, and though we do a lot of canoeing and hiking and stuff, I said I wanted to have something to do with them inside when it rains and during winter. So they were introduced to Syama Pedersen's Astartes Project, and the DOW video game series, then Baldemort and Arch and they ate up all my Horus Heresy books. In truth I was looking for a way to save myself some scratch by finding something to keep me from spending money at the bar out of sheer boredom. Then after shooting my mouth off and getting them excited, GW prices began to sink in... x4... and how pissed off my sister and my cousin were going to be at me for getting their kids hooked on plastic crack and the most expensive money pit in the entire gaming world in the form of a neverending meta. As for saving money by staying out of the Dewdrop Inn? I thought, for what this is going to end up costing me I might as well be daydrinking all week long and buying rounds... Laying down Hollywood rails on the bar and 5hi7 FFS... Then a Gamza video came up in my YT suggestions. Pretty soon I was watching all kinds of 3D printing videos and going through STL file sharing sites. Then I discovered Grimdark Future and my a55 was saved. I bought a Mars2 Pro and told the kids this is how we're starting, and if they like it and seriously want to get into it, we can play Horus Heresy and I showed them my $360 box and they all looked at me sideways and started gating off calling me a hypocrite and I said "Shut up kid and paint your damned nuns!" But seriously I'm not spending a ton of money on 9th Edition for myself and 3 kids. I'd rather get second hand 8th Edition stuff for them until 10th comes out, and we're having a ton of fun playing Poorhammer and painting our bootleg minis anyway.
Most of us would happily pay for the official models if they just made them a reasonable price. Their pricing structure is the most unethical thing here
Games workshop should make there own 3D files to print for a fair price
GW and fair prices rarely belong in the same sentence unless there's a negation
I've spent over $40,000 in this hobbie counting paint studio game room table and everything else from GW so if I wanna print amodel or get recast I'll do just that they have got a lifetime worth of money from me.
He finally starts talking about the topic at 7:47
Ive been looking for necron models that actually look like necrons and fuck is it hard lmao
Im sorry but GW do nothing but piss on us and tell us it rain the price now is ridiculous. Ive have a much better army for a much fairer price and ive also been able to help a couple of lad who cant afford GWs prices.
I don't buy GW miniatures, at all, but to support my store, I buy video games form there and Bolt Action figures for one of my IG armies.
Haters just paid full price and got ripped off brutally and now they big mad.
GW and others provide a service but they want 350% mark price, because some folks will dish that out, good for them. but id still like to play so ima do what i got to do and not go broke. I simply wont enter any cash prize or high value tournys unless the organizers are fine with it. Some store simply want people to turn out and showing up is like all i got to offer sometimes haha.
you could play this game with stick and rocks if your really wanted to, the models just make it waay more fun.
Scanned stl files that str 1:1 are harder to get and usually cost money and you need to know were to get em ;)
I am not a conspiracy guy, but when it went to you saying “The big three are…” it went to super long unskippable ads (movie trailers so 3 minutes each) and then crashed so I had to reload…
Man I live In latam and the least expensive kit (5 damn marines) is 100 bucks + importation fees. Like, how the hell am I supposed to get started on the hobbie? I am printing this shit!
If 3rd Printing is part of your hobby and you played 2nd Ed 40k try OPR. ;)
I just want a warhound.
I love the hunt for minis 😅
Something brilliant about going down a follow hole on cults!
telegram for stl files that's
I’ll admit, I used to be against the idea, but with 3 kids, a wife, mortgage, medical bills….. I’m all for it. Had minimal success finding files, but it’s only been a month so I’m still looking. “Marine” and “Tyranid” are the ones I’m searching for. Thanks for the guidance!
It certainly helps brother
Check out one page rules. They have a set of 'alien hive' minis that while stylistically distinct from 'Nids, have all the right models to replicate a Tyranid army.
1 word 'Telegram'.
I for one welcome this new PrintHammer 420K hobby.
You are the captain leading the charge 😂
STL?
I dont get all the BS my man. Some basic paint a brush and Boom. So many people overthink this stuff end up painting NOTHING and playing no games ever.
If you’re focusing on the printing side more than the painting side then you’re not doing it right. I came back into 3D printing after several years where focusing on printing more than painting was actually the case, but today 3D printing is fairly dialed in. As long as you dial your printer with the resin your using in, you’ll get far more success than failure
It would be cool if the community and designers had like agreed terms for each set.
And then we could have a spreadsheet that has all the official sets, and then their proxy name.
It could have several different ones, as different designers would have different takes, but if I see an official set that is out of my price range, I could find what to search for.
If such a thing doesn't exist already
I was hoping you could cover what kind of ventilation you need to do this from home? I'm interested in starting, but I don't think the family would appreciate the smell.
I just would tell parts of the names of the model instead of links and let them try on all the sites,like if you wanna get a thunderhawk,just put ''potato patern'' and make some other cool discovery or maybe tell them the name of the modeler