swammeyjoe | 17 Feb 2022 12:47 p.m. PST |
I've posted before about using a resin printer for 15mm miniatures and how well it works. I thought I'd post a couple pictures of some 15mm Napoleonic French Line Infantry to show folks.
– Europe Asunder French Line , upscaled to 180/195/235 x/y/z but otherwise a stock file imgur.com/a/QPPAfPG The second link, the album, also has a image showing how you can use Blender to modify the files. Originally scaled for 6mm, I found that some of the Spanish figures in particular looked a bit odd upscaled, so I modified them. Great fun. Files can be found by searching for Henry Turner or Europe Asunder. He has a Patreon and runs Kickstarters, as well as selling on the common digital marketplaces. |
Jcfrog | 17 Feb 2022 1:16 p.m. PST |
Not thrilled. The proportions are weird. |
Nick Bowler | 17 Feb 2022 1:37 p.m. PST |
The proportions are weird. The figures are scaled for 6mm, and at that scale they are great. But I agree -- upscaling them to 15mm results in massive hands and heads. But you can find 15mm and 28mm scaled figures. It works in reverse as well -- you cant downscale 15mm figurs to 6 mm, as muskets etc. become too thin. |
Albus Malum | 17 Feb 2022 3:32 p.m. PST |
I scale 10 fantasy figure up to 15mm and 28mm down to 15 ( well actually my 15mm is 18mm stuff) but anyway it work fine if you can find files that the weapons are not to thick at 10mm and not to thin when they were designed for 28mm. I sometimes play around with tne x,y, and z not always being the same. |
14Bore | 17 Feb 2022 3:36 p.m. PST |
Not terrible ( and a collector of 15-18mm Napoleonics) in a large army hardly would notice he is a little odd. If anything the muskets are way overblown |
swammeyjoe | 17 Feb 2022 3:51 p.m. PST |
Even at close inspection they hold up well. Even more so after I've put some paint on them. I've got the Blender files so I can scale individual parts to make things more "realistic" when I want. And for the price, they can't be beat. I turned out ~900 infantry for my French and Italians for one $23 USD bottle of resin, and another ~200 cavalry plus command and cannons have not even gone through half of another bottle. So around $35 USD for all that. Rounding up it's about 3 cents per infantry figure. Sure, the printer was an investment, but it paid for itself about a month after I got it (printing 28mm modern figures). |
Onomarchos | 17 Feb 2022 4:09 p.m. PST |
So Zach, what printer are you using? Mark |
14Bore | 17 Feb 2022 5:23 p.m. PST |
I would want cannons, wagons and limbers more than troops. |
Todd636 | 18 Feb 2022 5:16 a.m. PST |
Where do you get the stl's? |
swammeyjoe | 18 Feb 2022 9:31 a.m. PST |
@Mark, it's an Anycubic Mono (the original Mono, not the newer upgraded one). I got both it and the Anycubic Wash-and-Cure station for about $300 USD during the pre-Thanksgiving sale they ran. These figures print without supports and I've never had the slightest problem with a failed print. @14Bore – yep, this particular range offers all of that. I've been churning out a mix of 4lb, 6lb, and 8lb cannons for my French. @Todd636 – link |
Onomarchos | 18 Feb 2022 9:42 a.m. PST |
Wow, you really got a good deal on that bundle of Anycubic items. |
Baranovich | 18 Feb 2022 12:02 p.m. PST |
I'll tell you what. You might criticize the proportions, but for 15mm that level of detail is getting scary. They look just about as good as Warlord's Epic Scale. You could crank a bunch of those out, I would be totally satisfied with that level of detail. And the proportions don't bother me nearly as much as they bother other commenters. Dixon's 25mm miniatures are known for having heads that are out of whack with the rest of the body (too large), but that company remains very popular for military minis. |
14Bore | 18 Feb 2022 4:54 p.m. PST |
If possible would love to see the artillery |
Old Glory | 20 Feb 2022 12:43 p.m. PST |
Show them in painted units -- I wager they will look great in mass. How sturdy are the bayonets? We have so many people today showing a handful of figures they have labored days over painting them --- slobbering over the quality of the figurine--- something few of us will ever do ---- totally forgetting that the mass look of units on the table is all that matters to "WARGAMERS" --- Same reason I cannot grasp the endless grumbling about a couple millimeters here or there ???? I will never understand any of this? Same reason I actually like the look of the "Epic Scale" figures. Russ Dunaway |