That guy is too cringe for me to watch,
That's why I got burned out by the culture war commentators, all they do is bitch and moan about what is wrong with modern Warhammer and GW so they get grift off of the ad money and the like. How many times do I need to hear the GW is woke and bad before I roll my eyes and move on with my day.
Oh no, the box didn't instantly sell out even though half of the warhammer grifters whine when the boxes do sell out. Why didn't it sell out?
He doesn't know wtf he's talking about with regard to 40k, GW, the stock market, etc. He's a fucking grifter. He's not even a gaming commentator/pundit. He's just Doomcock 2.0 with less focus on making 2 videos a week for the past half decade about how Kathleen Kennedy is getting fired from Lucasfilm any day now. He's not even consistent with his grift, and he's never posted a single video about anything GW related unless he can use it for his grift. These people are not worth watching or listening to for anything, because they don't care about anything other than hoping to run their mouths getting idiots into a frenzy over some shit.
I fucking hate these cunts. Spit on them and spit on every other Warhammer "influencer" on YouTube, Instagram etc.
There's plenty of other good hobby channels as well. But this Doctor Disaster shit isn't a hobby channel, isn't a 40k channel, or anything. He's just a grifter that bounces from topic to topic with no consistency about anything just to get views and farm an audience of retards.
Blackstone pretty much removed their need.
I hate to bring up the retard de jour, but is he a wannabe Quartering?
Like I said, he's a doomcock(overlord DVD) 2.0 with more variety. So in a way... maybe?
Thats worse. Press S to spit.
Is 3D printing worth the hassle, or should I pick up some of the spearhead kits?
It depends on how much space you have. Resin fumes can be harmful so if you don't have a garage you can put it in, you want some sort of grow tent and vent through a window.
If you can deal with Resin, way cheaper. I have seen a few spreadsheets where costs are analysed and the break even point is usually 2 armies or so.
It's worth noting that I have seen people print miniatures (infantry even) with FDM printers, but you need a higher end printer and it's incredibly time consuming and not really worth it for 40k armies.
Even with a high end 3d printer, FDM for minis still generally looks like shit. A bambu labs a1 mini with a .2mm nozzle is dirt cheap and can print as well as any other FDM printer on the market with a .2mm nozzle. The problem is that you're going to be limited by the nozzle size, the layer lines, and the supports needed. There is FDM filament that can be smoothed with acetone or even IPA but the problem is that will then obliterate the detail. For shit like tanks, yeah it's doable and will still take hours and hours, but for infantry? It'll look like ass. For terrain it's great.
I've seen better, but it also relies on the filament (I should have mentioned that) and it was by a mega autist that perfectly calibrated his machine, but yeah resin is still better at infantry.
Calibrating for your resin isn't all that bad as long as you stick to whatever brand/type you like the most. I kept switching resins and even mixing them to get the specific qualities I wanted before settling on one and sticking with it. Hollowing minis is usually handled pretty well by the designers, unless it's Fortress Factory, and is usually not something you need to worry about yourself.
This is true, fortunately it isn't like you need to calibrate between batches of resin. And yes most people making STLs these days have the brains to use something like uvtools to find issues before distributing the files, but it's not always the case unfortunately and is worth checking yourself if you aren't 100% sure about the source of the files.
Definitely, luckily it's easy to check in your slicer and creators are usually consistent.
This is very true, I do a lot of printing and don't regret getting into it but it always bugs me when the cultists act like it's something you can just drag and drop and everything works out just fine. That kind of misleading just wastes a ton of time and money for people and might expose them to carcinogenic fumes (have people figured out if resin is more likely to cause cancer than frozen foods yet?).
This is why i bought a bambu for fdm. Its basically click and forget until its done.