"I lied about 3D prints." Topic

I have always maintained that in 3D printing the solution to the piles of unpainted figures was at hand, no more piles as you printed what you wanted just in time.

I started looking for some stuff and was horrified to find lots of unpainted 3D print stuff, ARRRGH! history is repeating itself. What about you?

Yep, printed way too much. Going to be giving away nearly everything I've printed to friends, it got that ridiculous.

Never printed a 3D figure. Been tempted to buy a printer so I can. Perhaps one day.

They do make adding to the lead/plastic/resin pile way too easy.

One always needs to buy/print a "few" more than currently needed, just in case. That is a law, isn't it? Planning is good, right?

Its a combination of how easy, cheap and fun it is to print basically anything you want.

The real breakthrough will be printing in color.

Hello friend McWong73. ;-)

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Liar liar pants on fire. Time to break out the paint brush and suck it up. The easy way out is a spray can.

Actually, they can print in color, although limited on the number of colored filaments they can use at one time. Here is a link for a Prusa 3D printer showing it in action and how it works (there are other 3D printers that also print in color, but as I have a Prusa, I'm familiar with it). The below link shows printing on a single nozzle printer to get multiple colors:

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Below is a link showing a Prusa 3D printer that can print up to 4 colors using a single nozzle.

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Yeah me too. I can print it a lot faster than I can paint it.

My sympathies. I'm still selling myself out of my own hole. The problem seems to be that there is seldom a logical limit: you have to impose one on yourself, which is not easy.

I've been selling my "never to be used or finished" stuff off for a year now. Things I've discovered are that old rule sets, board games and such are sold easy, fast and for big amounts.

Miniatures, regardless of the quality of the paint job, scale or period either don't sell, or buyers offer such silly amounts that its easier to just dump the stuff off free to someone local that will use them hopefully. Hobby magazines are worthless regardless of age also.

3D being cheap, fast, focused, fill the bill going forward.

I, too, now have a large "resin pile". I really need to knuckle down and paint the medieval Chinese fleets that I printed in the Spring :)

Ah, David, if you'd stop creating such nice rule sets and then having 3D files created, I'd have at least half my piles of ships go away (smile).

Turner Miniatures (Henry Turner) link has started creating and selling British and French ironclads for the ACW period (hopefully he or someone will add steam SOL, frigates and such) to allow alternative history encounters. Might be another set of rules in there somewhere (smile).

Metal pile gone. Unpainted plastic sprues and 3D prints of miniatures and buildings getting to be large. Funny too because years ago I swore I would not ever use plastic or resin.

Oh yeah…it happens to all of us. I had to place my horde in a box, and then take a couple at a time. It's crazy as when you find a good model and it prints well and fast…you end up with eight SdKfz 222's or ten BT-7s…as an example.

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