"TO STL ARTISTS" Topic

PLEASE!!! Stop making models with all the fingers wide open, they always break!!

PLEASE !! Stop making models where all the teeth in the inside of the mouth all need indiviually supported!!

PLEASE!! Stop making models where each scale has to be individually supported

PLEASE!! STOP making models with swords that are true to life thickness just scaled down to 28mm!!!

PLEASE!! Stop attaching wings to creatures ( like fairies for instance) where the huge wing is attached with a paper thin attachment point where the wing is guaranteed to break off!!

PLEASE!! Stop thinking that something designed for 55 mm ( which almost nobody in the wargaming industry uses for wargaming, actually looks good at 28mm!

PLEASE remember that 28mm is a standard size, and support you models so they print at 28mm not just that they print at 35mm! which almost nobody games with! It is very easy to scale something up, but difficult to scale a miniature down, especially if presupported!!

PLEASE !! Actually Print your model and look at them and ask you self can this survive someone actually touching it!!
fix all your mistakes before you post them!!

PLEASE THINK OF WHAT YOUR MAKING AND HOW IT IS GOING TO BE USED! AND REMEMBER IT HAS TO SURVIVE TO BE USEFUL NOT JUST LOOK PRETTY ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN!!! THERE IS A REASON GAME MANUFACTURERS MADE THINGS HEROIC!

THINK ABOUT WHAT YOUR MAKING AND WHAT IT IS BEING MADE FOR!!!!

SORRY FOR SHOUTING BUT, HOLY COW MAN!!! PRINT YOUR STUFF AND FIX THE PROBLEMS!!!!! BEFORE YOU GIVE AWAY FOR FREE OR WORSE SELL THEM TO PEOPLE!!!!

I like it when they beg for mercy.
I like it, but I don't give in to it.
In fact, it's even more fun not to give in when they beg for mercy.

On a less serious note, I thought people buy the STLs, because the models look cool and they could be gone by tomorrow, but don't print them out at all, but collect them neatly organized on some hard drive to print out at some undefined point in the future.
Just like they do with their "real" figures.
A virtual pile-of-shame/mountain-of-bytes of sorts.

Another advantage is that they wouldn't have any trouble with the 3d printing or the use of the figures.
And their heirs would also have less trouble with the estate.
Think about it, only advantages.

@Albus ditto

:-)

Amen Albus !

I'm done buying 3-D printed models.
way too delicate. If something breaks (unavoidable if gamed with) there is very little chance of being able to glue it back on correctly …just too tiny an area of contact and too brittle of material in the first place…it'll just break again…and ditto for trying to fix with pinning.
At least with metal one can usually bend back into shape or pin the pieces together with paperclips or sewing pin shafts. And with plastic breaks, one can glue-melt the pieces back together reasonably well with plastic glue and if needed pinning. Extruded plastic is at lest stronger than this crappy 3-D resin peolple are printing with.
And dont get me started on the the 3-D printing line artefacts of topographic lines on the minis' surfaces . They show up under washes and dry brushing . grrr

Why rant about something you don't want and even worse when you paid nothing g for it? Buy from a reputable source and you may get your Herts desire. Next you will be complaining they are not heavy enough.

If all else fails offers them an increased price to print out your figures in a tough resin.

Better still put your paintbrush down pick up a keyboard and design your own perfect mini. You could even commission your own minis created to your own specification.

PLEASE!!! Stop making unnecessary complaints!

There are models that fit your description.
Some just do not. Most, I assume, as individual tastes rarely are a global majority.

Go to a tradersight like thingyverse, cults3d or myminifactory and look at those that fit your description. There are also many companies around that are not on such sites and that offer splendid files for printable tabletop armies and characters that would sink on these sights because they are way to chunky.

If you do not 3d print youreself, this post is of no meaning to you.

I print for my self, I do not buy prints from someone else.

I wrote this to artists, who are selling STL.

The hope of this post is that by tiny chance artists of STL's would read this and increase the quality of their STL's.

There are some artists who do wonderful art, but their stuff is absolutely nu-usable for what it is meant to be used as.
Its like if you you bought a car, a wonderful car, and you got it home and you found out that the tires were only 1/16th of a inch thick, and the rims are designed so that there is no way to put normal tires on the rims, and now the car is essentially non useable.

Things have to be survivable, and it is not always easy to know what the problems are until you actually trying to print it.

I have spent some 500$ in the last half year on printable files, and printed tons of them. I probably spent more on resin…
I also have used a variety of tools, foremost blender, to adjust these files for better results.

I simply do not expect a miniatures created with realistic proportions or even 75mm scale in mind to print out in 28mm. If I want them, I go in and make it thicker. I have probably spent hours to thicken the legs of horses and weapons over the last weeks.

If the artist claims it is for 28mm printout, then you have any right to complain, though. Some stuff is simply off. Avoid these artists.

Also most of them are not historians and don't seem to care.