"Recommended Printing service USA." Topic

Hi all, do you have a reliable source you can recommend for printing 18mm Napoleonics. I need someone with experience scaling down STL files and using resins that offer reasonable toughness to survive tabletop battles. I am looking at having Artillery pieces printed and need fine detail. I had initially thought of going to a local 3D print shop but realize now experience is key.
Thanks for any pointers.
Regards.
Alan.

Check Etsy. I have had vendors scale up and down with great results. Sorry none of their shop names come to mind.

I second Etsy shops. Most will do custom work as far as scaling prints up/down, that they already have and make.

There is a rubber-like resin which can be used for printing miniatures. The trick is to find someone who will use it, and of course, how much they will charge.

Apparently, a mixture of the brittle, less expensive resins, along with the expensive, rubber-like resin, will work. Something like 70 % brittle/30% rubber-like, is good. I would shop for a 50-50 mix, personally. All of the resin 3D figures I've bought, have proven very brittle, and nearly every one has broken off at the ankles: 28mm figures…

I am swearing off 3D printed mini's, for the foreseeable future, due to the brittleness of miniatures making mine, at least, unusable for gaming. Cheers!

I'm looking for a company that will create the file and print the item for me. Any recommendations?

Why muck around?

A Google search of "18mm Napoleonic artillery" immediately shows AB and Eureka.

Why manufacture what is already available?

Besides, they still have to post them to you, so it's likely having new ones manufactured will just take more time and likely cost more money.

Check their sites, you'll probably even find a few other items to buy at the same time.

I really don't get this 3d printing fad.

Don't over complicate things for yourself.

You could have had them in the Post by now.

Fad…lol.

Your laughter echos with this bubble, please stop.

As far as home printing, the fad will, fade.

Marketing will see to that.

Like streaming, getting all the companies on board with one thing is like herding cats.

Most people just buy from shops or mail order.

Take GW, most people aren't looking for a non GW marine, or even a specific shoulder pad they don't sell.

Home 3d printing isn't a rattly box with a warhammer sticker on it.

Even if companies did jump on board, they would end up going proprietary and you'd need their printer and plastic. Like what happened to steaming.

It's likely anout as cheap for GW to ship spools of plastic as it is sprues.

I'd say doubly so with the old world using existing moulds. Which is its own point, as its success (and followers like VOID, and no doubt many to follow, X starship troopers!) proves people prefer "traditional" figures over 3d prints.

I'm sure there are people printing not TOW armies, but most are buying them or using "old" figures.

Anyway, plenty of points left unsaid.