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Tango0119 Jun 2019 8:56 p.m. PST

Here is a campaign that offers vehicles, aircraft and walkers for the main factions of 40K-Epic in STL files and therefore at various scales.

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Andrew Walters20 Jun 2019 8:18 a.m. PST

Those are some great models and the price isn't too bad.

I am going to beat this drum again: If you want to sell an STL file show me pictures of prints and painted models. It's one thing to produce a great STL file that looks great when rendered by a computer. That doesn't mean it will print. Even with supports, etc, some shapes just do not print well. Sometimes there's so much support material that important surfaces are all scarred up by its removal. Sometimes the layers are more visible. Sometimes there is sagging, stringing, ghosting, warping, etc. The clever user can mitigate these with skill and time, depending on the printer, some STL files are much more prone to trouble and are much trickier to print.

Amazing things can be 3D printed, but the STL files have to be prepared properly. And rendered images do not reveal whether or not they've been prepared properly. When I see renders but not prints I am instantly suspicious.

I apologize to the folks who have to listen to this tirade repeatedly, but I think this is an important idea for advancing this side of our hobby. If you paid $50 USD for some STL files and spent five hours trying to print one vehicle and never got anything useful would you ever buy an STL file again?

Show us photos, not renders!

But those are good looking models (or renders, anyway), and I hope this campaign does great!

IronMike20 Jun 2019 8:58 a.m. PST

I have to agree with the above. For quite a while my attitude has been 'no pic, no purchase'. This applied back in the day when mini companies were whining about how they didn't have pictures of their products because digital cameras were 'so expensive and difficult to use!' and today when all I see is renders.

Tango0120 Jun 2019 11:42 a.m. PST

Glad you like them my friend!. (smile)

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Armand

emckinney21 Jun 2019 2:44 p.m. PST

Print of the troop carrier.

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emckinney21 Jun 2019 2:45 p.m. PST

Print of Ork battletruk.

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emckinney21 Jun 2019 2:46 p.m. PST

APC and orktankdozer prints.

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Andrew Walters24 Jun 2019 11:31 a.m. PST

There we go, those look good.

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