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I'm likely to put the fdm into garage but the missus wants it in the office. The fumes is a concern, but i dunno how bad fdm is supposed to be. Resin for sure is going on garage bench, with all the other shit it needs too. Depends if you live in snow or not
With FDM it all depends on what material you're using. PLA smells weirdly sweet(like syrup), if you're running the nozzle hotter than absolutely necessary you're also getting soot particulates in the air. An enclosed printer with a built in HEPA filter(as in filtering the air inside the printer like a bento box, not just a filter on the exhaust. Also need to make sure you aren't using acidic activated charcoal or it can ruin your machine) and an open window mitigates this but you can have problems with the chamber temp being too warm so it's a balancing act. PETG doesn't smell as much, but it definitely releases particulates into the air, but at least you can leave the chamber closed for the filter to do its job.

ASA and ABS fucking stink(ABS is the worse of the two), and I recall reading at least one of them discussed as releasing formaldehyde. Not that smell alone is a good indicator of toxicity(plenty of toxic shit has no smell) but even with a chamber closed, and filter, I wouldn't want to be in the room with one of these printing without a ton of ventilation.

TPU also fucking stinks however I rarely print with that and it's usually just a quick job. Dust cover for a port, small gasket for something. Shit like that. PC I've got but never found a reason/excuse to use it. Most home filament dryers can barely dry nylon/PA to any degree worth a crap(they usually just can't get the air hot enough without having hot spots within the device itself) and it's extremely sensitive to moisture problems.

All of this is also increased by not drying your filament, as damp filament basically causes microscopic steam explosions once it leaves the nozzle(in addition to messing with your print quality). An FDM printer without an enclosure, I'd be more inclined to treat it like a resin printer with anything other than PLA. You can see what I mean about the moisture issues here. It's worse because it's nylon, but this is what happens with filament with too much moisture in it. Something like the polydryer will handle up to ABS/ASA just fine as a single spool, but the 2 spool adapters you can print(don't use PLA for those) only really work on PLA/PETG because a single polydryer unit at max temperature just doesn't produce enough heat/airflow for 2 spools of ABS/ASA at once.

At least with an enclosed FDM printer, even if it doesn't have a chamber heater the bed alone will keep the interior pretty warm unless you're actually trying to use it in a garage at -25C or something.

As far as warhammer shit, I use my FDM printer for terrain, bases, rulers(deep strike gauges and shit). As much as people talk about FDM for minis, I still have yet to see one that doesn't look like shit once paint is applied even with a small nozzle and layer height, or is just super simplistic to the point of not wanting to bother putting paint on such a boring model.
 
Still kinda new to painting minis, but after trying speed paint on one of my Eldar Fire Dragon models im having a hard time seriously considering citadel again. Citadel just seems so overly complicated by comparison
There are less than a handful of citadel paints I keep at hand's reach but by now I've completely switched to AK, vallejoj or inks. Lining using oils and odorless thinners is also easier, cleaner, cheaper and definitely sharper than wrangling whatever formula Nuln Oil has turned into.
 
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Silicone nail stamps. As in stamps for women's nails.

Funnily enough, Goobertown Hobbies(who has also does his own stupid lolcow worthy shit at times) is getting ready to sell these
www.GoblinHobbies.com
Here's a video showing how they're normally used, and there's a ton of stencils made cheap in china. The only difference is goobertown's are a little more 40k/scifi specific

You can even just paint directly on the stamping pad itself and then apply it to a surface. Here's some letter stencils for nails for $7 in different fonts even https://www.amazon.com/PH-PandaHall-Stamping-Alphabet-Stainless/dp/B0DFYB44LC

I got curious if it would be possible to DIY your own plates with just a resin printer, because this is actually a neat idea in concept and shelling out 50-150 for a set of plates seems silly.

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My wife already has one of those stamping kits so plates are all I would need, gonna print this one out and test it. I have the logo extruded only .2mm into a 2mm thick plate, not really sure how deep the engraving on one of those aluminum plates go. Only thing I'm really worried about is the texture of the resin, but flat planes like this usually come out pretty smooth so it might be fine.
Should only take like 20 minutes to print and another 10 minutes to clean/cure so I may have some results in an hour or so.
 
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I never understood the hatred GW and FLGS have for people playing in the store. I get their logic. If you aren't spending money you're just wearing out the carpet, but people want to talk and play games.
It's not that they hate it, it's that from a business standpoint it doesn't make money. Space that players take up is space that can't be used for merchandising. It's an added cost because you'll need to rent out a location large enough to accommodate everyone. It's more maintenance, especially for wargaming, that need playmats and terrain. This is why some stores want to charge for table time. The store still has to pay to keep the lights on, and the rent for the building. People aren't buying models and paints every week, and there's no guarantee you'll buy an overpriced can of soda from them instead of the dollar store down the road.

However, I think some store owners might forget how important it is to make your store look busy. If someone walks in off the street you want them to see tables full and start ogling the pretty models and all the dice throwing. It draws people in and your players will make a customer for you. Even if they are already set on trying Warhammer you want them to feel confident that there will be other people they can play with, or to help them learn to paint. It build confidence in their purchase, and trust in your brand. If there are loads of people in your store then it must be a good place to shop or no one would show up. That being said I do understand that this is essentially paying the store back in "exposure" rather than any real money. For some stores it just doesn't cover their expenses.
I thought people liked AoS?
They do now. They didn't when it replaced Warhammer Fantasy. It took a wrecking ball to a well loved system, turned it on its head, had a lot of bad rules and fucked with the lore. I don't follow it that closely but those were all of the complaints. It took GW some time to work out the issues. Now we're a few editions in, The Old World is back, and I think the people who really didn't like AoS are long gone so you only have the new blood who actually like AoS.
Caste system, cow hooves, blue skin like some hindu gods. Yeah, the T'au are fucking space indians.
I take this as a personal attack on my character. The T'au are way too clean and too few in number to be space pajeets. Their technology actually works. If anything humanity is closer to space indians. They live in shit, are pseudo religious, breed like cockroaches, and have no regard for any other culture or race. Their technology is barely functional or understood, and they only manage to survive because they breed faster than disease or workplace fatalities can kill them.
 
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I got curious if it would be possible to DIY your own plates with just a resin printer, because this is actually a neat idea in concept and shelling out 50-150 for a set of plates seems silly.


My wife already has one of those stamping kits so plates are all I would need, gonna print this one out and test it. I have the logo extruded only .2mm into a 2mm thick plate, not really sure how deep the engraving on one of those aluminum plates go. Only thing I'm really worried about is the texture of the resin, but flat planes like this usually come out pretty smooth so it might be fine.
Should only take like 20 minutes to print and another 10 minutes to clean/cure so I may have some results in an hour or so.

I won't bother posting a picture because I only got about half the logo to stamp. But its successful in principle.

First test indicates that this would depend on a lot of variables being just right when printing.

Definitely need to print something like this on a fresh FEP, too much texture comes through if you have any dings in the film like mine.

Also probably need to tinker with exposure settings to get as much detail out of the image as possible, as well as set the extrusion depth a little deeper. The wider areas of the logo came out but the pointed parts around the beak and bottom were pretty much completely lost.

Looking forward to tinkering more with this tomorrow and some fresh FEPs being delivered
 
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I take this as a personal attack on my character. The T'au are way too clean and too few in number to be space pajeets. Their technology actually works. If anything humanity is closer to space indians. They live in shit, are pseudo religious, breed like cockroaches, and have no regard for any other culture or race. Their technology is barely functional or understood, and they only manage to survive because they breed faster than disease or workplace fatalities can kill them.
What do you think the T'au were doing before the ethereals stepped in and got them in line?

I won't bother posting a picture because I only got about half the logo to stamp. But its successful in principle.

First test indicates that this would depend on a lot of variables being just right when printing.

Definitely need to print something like this on a fresh FEP, too much texture comes through if you have any dings in the film like mine.

Also probably need to tinker with exposure settings to get as much detail out of the image as possible, as well as set the extrusion depth a little deeper. The wider areas of the logo came out but the pointed parts around the beak and bottom were pretty much completely lost.

Looking forward to tinkering more with this tomorrow and some fresh FEPs being delivered
Sounds like a decent project to be able to do a few stamps on things like tanks and shields instead of having to freehand or use decals. Long term I'd question how well it could hold up to the paint you're using and whatever you're using to clean off the paint. If you really want to go hardcore with unit markings(guard army or whatever) there are some places out there that will make them out of stainless for you, when I looked a couple weeks ago it was like $30 for a single plate and then another $8 per duplicate plate after that. Makes sense because they're either doing it with a laser, or electrolysis with a vinyl mask over the steel.

Keep us posted because I'm genuinely curious how it works out.
 
Bambu A1 does plain ol' PLA as the cost for the other machines starts getting a little silly. I would get the P1S or X but ill probs need to vent it out the window properly with other materials. And honestly, don't know if I would need anything other than PLA. Not educated enough on materials and pros/cons. I just know I shouldnt huff it like Horus and Chaos juice.

I've been tempted to 3d print stamps, plates and rollers with it too as the applications are pretty endless. Yeah it wont last forever, but will still take a while to deteriorate.
 
Bambu A1 does plain ol' PLA as the cost for the other machines starts getting a little silly. I would get the P1S or X but ill probs need to vent it out the window properly with other materials. And honestly, don't know if I would need anything other than PLA. Not educated enough on materials and pros/cons. I just know I shouldnt huff it like Horus and Chaos juice.

I've been tempted to 3d print stamps, plates and rollers with it too as the applications are pretty endless. Yeah it wont last forever, but will still take a while to deteriorate.
You can still buy/build an enclosure for an A1, just makes it take up more space and at that point you can use more materials. My reason for avoiding PLA at times is that the car can get hot enough to warp it in the summer (around 55-60C, PETG generally does better around 65-70C. If you're not concerned with that, may as well stick with PLA). ABS/ASA does a better job of taking a beating(and temp as it's heat deflection temp is usually somewhere around 100C making it a non-issue for most things). HIPS filament(same shit GW uses for minis) is available, but it usually costs 2-4x as much as the normal stuff per spool so people tend to only use it for support interface materials(because it'll dissolve in solvents that won't affect some of the other filaments).

As far as the stamps/plates/rollers for basing and terrain, yeah it'll deteriorate but just print another one for 10 cents when it does.
 
I have created something following tonight's Rogue Trader game. Please enjoy.

>High Lords of Terra bow to the Bogdanoffs
>In contact with Old Ones
>Rumored to possess Alpha+ Psyker abilities
>Control the Segmentum Obscurus
>Own Orbital Stations and Scriptorums across the Galaxy
>Direct descendants of the Pre-fall Aeldari Bloodlines
>Will bankroll the first cities in the Crone Worlds (Bogdanorragh will be the first city)
>In the process of terraforming Armaggeddon as their own personal planet
>own basically every Biologos research facility on Terra
>first designer eldar-human hybrids will be Bogdanoff Babies
>both brothers said to have 400+ IQ
>Ancient Pre-Imperial scriptures tell of two angels who will descend upon Terra and will bring an age of Enlightenment and uprecedented technological progress with them
>These are the Bodganoff twins
>They own Wraithbone R&D labs around the galaxy
>You likely have Bogdabone inside of you right now
>Every child has the mark of path of the Bogd implanted in them at birth
>The Bogdanoffs are in regular communications with the Gods Khaine and Cegorach, forwarding the word of Asuryan to the Craftworld priesthoods
>Discovered the Ark of Omen
>They learned fluent High Gothic in under a week
>Inquisitor Ravenor allows them full access to the evidence of the DAOT within the Pyramids
>Imperial Ordos entrust their Adamantine reserves with the twins. There's no adamantine in Ft. Knoxius, only Ft. Bogdanoff
>The twins are 67,000 years old, from the space-time reference point of the base Eldar
>In reality, they are timeless beings existing in all points of time and space from the big bang to the end of the universe
>They have been able to access the Black Library record since birth, and have spoken about what they saw while they were newborns
>The Bogdanoffs will guide the galaxy into a new age of wisdom, peace, and love
 
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You can still buy/build an enclosure for an A1, just makes it take up more space and at that point you can use more materials. My reason for avoiding PLA at times is that the car can get hot enough to warp it in the summer (around 55-60C, PETG generally does better around 65-70C. If you're not concerned with that, may as well stick with PLA). ABS/ASA does a better job of taking a beating(and temp as it's heat deflection temp is usually somewhere around 100C making it a non-issue for most things). HIPS filament(same shit GW uses for minis) is available, but it usually costs 2-4x as much as the normal stuff per spool so people tend to only use it for support interface materials(because it'll dissolve in solvents that won't affect some of the other filaments).

As far as the stamps/plates/rollers for basing and terrain, yeah it'll deteriorate but just print another one for 10 cents when it does.
Even in aussie summer, it wouldnt get that hot to warp my bases and terrain imo. No way im sweating it out in the summer in a room full of nerds. But knowing my options helps. I have been very tempted to 3d print a home defence chainsword, maybe thats where the tougher materials come into it.

Maaaaaybe the $500 difference between A1 and P1S for enclosure and the chance of printing other materials is worth it, its something I'll need to think about a bit longer.
 
I've been tempted to 3d print stamps, plates and rollers with it too as the applications are pretty endless. Yeah it wont last forever, but will still take a while to deteriorate.
I backed these guys not too long ago. 10 pounds of air dry hobby clay is freaking nothing compared to other materials. Just need some hobby space to try them out.

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As for stamps, there's one out there of a greenstuff stamp that lets you stamp an infinite number of skulls on something, like a Imperial Knight armor plate.

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Unfortunately haven't found as many others as I'd like. The guys who do the first one have a MMF page up and a ton of useful ones, like ork symbols stamps or a roller for making greenstuff fur cloaks. It (and terrain) is kind of their thing.
 
I am very very tempted by that WE combat patrol in conjunction with the old combat patrol. The only reason I wont is I already have chaos trim to do.

Speaking of which, put my name down at the LGS for the EC combat patrol. Combined with the Champions of Slaanesh box, amazing start to an army.
 
I just started reading Eisenhorn because I've seen people say it's a good place to start for 40k novels.
I like it so far, but my eyes almost fell out rolling when Eisenhorn describes the 'smell of cordite' in the air.

Why do authors do this? Eisenhorn doesn't know what cordite is or what it smells like.
hell, the author doesnt even know what it smelled like. Probably nobody currently living does. It was a gunpowder only made for like 40 years at the end of the 19th century in a very specific location in England.
By his time it literally would not have existed for over 38 thousand years.

Or is this author a secret genius and it's just fitting for the theme of 'the imperium uses a bunch of ancient tech they barely understand because muh admech?'

I have doubts
BritBongs are nogun faggots and have no experience with them. Simple as.

Why do you think the Bolt Pistol is such a stupid design?
 
I am very very tempted by that WE combat patrol in conjunction with the old combat patrol. The only reason I wont is I already have chaos trim to do.

Speaking of which, put my name down at the LGS for the EC combat patrol. Combined with the Champions of Slaanesh box, amazing start to an army.
Yeah, that patrol is nice. If I hadn't already gotten in my pre-order for Flawless Blades when they went up last weekend I'd have gone for it. I'm hoping to bag a Kakophonist at my local GW this weekend. Might also grab Lucius if they have him and depending how much painting I get done this week. Fulgrim will have to wait.
 
What in the world is the point of all these different factions and chapters and successors that have fuck all info on them beyond like a single sentence like "fought in the battle of Dickshit McCunt Punter in the Smegmentum Foreskinia. Colors are quartered brown and orange. Heraldry/Insignia unknown"?

Is this shit for homebrew purposes for people too lazy to come up with a name and color scheme themselves, a retarded attempt at fluff to make the verse feel larger without having to actually come up with anything, both?
 
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