Thinking of replacing the printer pastebin with a simple blurb. Something like :
>FDM: Creality Ender 3 (Cheap) Bambu Labs A1 (Quality)
>Resin: Elegoo Mars Ultra (Small) Saturn (Large)
Thoughts?

>>97853719
Does it matter which version of mars/saturn shit or just whatever is latest or on best sale?

>>97853788
Go for the latest if you can afford it, ideally during a sale.
If money is tight, you can always look for deals on the previous "ultra" version, as differences in print quality are minimal at this point.
For example, i see the Mars 5 Ultra for 279€ while the 4 Ultra is 199. If i did not have a printer already, i would probably rather get the 4 now.

>>97853719
The industry is definitely shrinking so maybe. I would also consider adding a warning about used printers, but most people are pretty good about warning others about that.

>>97853788
Newer is usually better. The older ones get discontinued so replacing parts and screens becomes more difficult

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what is on your printer right now?

>>97853719
I am an ender 3 hater. No one should be manually levelling a bed in 2026.
I would say just buy an a1 mini or full size. They go on sale all the time and are one of the few plug and play solutions. If youre spending more than $500 do some actual research.
I dont know about resin so il let someone else critique it.

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>>97858356
Just fired up my old XYZ Pro filament printer and testing it with this.

>>97853719
Personally i think the elegoo build plate design is turbo aids.

Maybe something like Elegoo (cheap), Heygears (idiot-proof)

>new pc
>Redownload slicer
>All settings for my printers are gone

Fuck..

What should I search for if I want scans of old metal marines? I want to print a retro army.

>>97864516
Onlyscans leak

>>97865062
Where can I find this, or at least the breadcrumbs

>>97865062
Only evidence i can find of this is people saying how it got nuked.

>>97869191
It seems you are too late, and it is gone forever.

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>>97858356
some rooskie hussars, troopers only because I noticed a small failure on the prints of this particular pose when I was about to start painting them

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>>97869191
>>97869203
definitely still around

>>97869722
NTA that was requesting it but I'm in dozens of groups and even specifically looking up that one single file name isn't yielding anything. I barely do any Warhammer stuff though so maybe I'm just not in enough of the groups. I've been noticing lately like half the groups I did join got shut down or went radio silent as well.

Basic bitch question, I always see weapon STLs on cults and the like for 40k, but many of them aren't modeled with the hands. How do people usually turn that into a something a model can hold? Is there just a bunch of "empty 28mm space soldier hand" files I overlooked?

>>97870565
You can overlay them onto a hand in the slicer and merge them, it doesn't have to be an open hand. Some people just cut them and glue them

>>97853788
The Mars series have been good since the Mars 2 and the Mars 2 is a perfectly serviceable printer even now.

>>97870565
You can either do traditional kitbashing, or add a pair of hands in 3d modeling software (which is easy to do), or slap the weapon onto a whole model that you're going to print, which is also very easy.

>bought a 2.5kg roll esun PETG
Never going to make that mistake again.
I've never had issues with esun before but the 2.5kg rolls both need separate holders (and I suspect you the ones with ball bearings that cost a bit to make, the ones with just a hanger were utter shit) and they have tons of snags that it'll get stuck on that you have to go fix manually.
I even re-rolled over like a kilo to another 1kg roll which was a pain and even so both in 1kg from a 2.5kg roll wasn't that much better.
I'm only going to buy 1KG ones from now on. Better to just buy them in bulk.

>>97869722
thats some pretty fucking gay background wall paper you have there.

>>97874331
>he doesn't know

>>97869860
Then you need to join more warhammer related groups obviously. If i enter "retro secondborn", i find 10+ groups with all the stuff from that one OS leak almost 2 years ago.

>>97870871
>just cut them and glue them
I was going to mention that this was once the industry standard, and then I realized that that was like 30 fucking years ago.
>t. been in this hobby for far too long

>>97875296
You pay for premium?

>>97869722
It's so cool that shit like is is around and you can just get them 3D printed with relative ease after the company stopped making offering them.

Any recs for vampire counts STLs?

>>97879978
I like the Last Sword miniatures vampire figs, the mounted vampire standard bearer is great. Night of Cursed Vows from Heroes Infinite had a few cool characters although most of the models were too goofy for me.

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>>97858356
Vorax, files got fucking nuked again after

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Anybody know where I could get a file for the wolfen 2 from sf64? Wanted to print some up for my brother's birthday but everywhere I look only has arwings

>>97881494
Post a couple more angles of it and dimensions and I can make you one. Not because I like you bakaI have brothers too so I get the feeling

>>97881494
I tried searching "star fox wolfen 2" on thingiverse and the top 3 results were similar... not exact game rips though it might be close enough to what you are looking for

>>97881532
That'd be sick, I'll see if I can find any clearer images of it
>>97881543
Yeah I looked through them, most of them are either just the wolfen 1 or the redesign so not quite what I'm looking for

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Update. Got a long ways to go before I can print the orc side of things. Maybe I can get these painted by the end of the week

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Just printed pic related (minus the base). Custom 3d model partially kitbashed from various extracted Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 assets, and partially modeled by me. It's intended to reflect a transitional design between the ancient Horus Heresy-era ships that make up most of the Chaos fleet and the later designs of the modern Imperial Navy.

Took a couple of attempts to get the scaling right and thicken up the finer details so they wouldn't just snap off, but I like how it turned out.

just got a couple prints from a friend. worried cause i've heard of resin splosions, I'm pretty sure this one has no pockets it is a solid piece, heavier than you would assume from looking at it. I also trust my friend he's been doing this for a while. I do want to be sure however, any advice?

>>97882642
Have it sit on top of some paper towels and leave it in the sun for an afternoon or two.

>>97882642
>>97882654
Actually, just ask the friend if it was hollowed out in the slicer. Forgot to include that somehow

>>97882664
it was not hollowed out

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Are there any decent tutorials for cleaning scans in blender?

>>97882673
Then you are fine and nothing bad is going to happen.

>>97882683
awesome. thank you friend

>>97882697
Just know that if it's resin, it's going to be brittle so be careful with the thinner bits.

>>97882676
I don't use blender, but loading things into ms 3dbuilder and clicking fix is weirdly amazing at fixing hidden problems with files. You could also use some tools in it to cut out most of the sprue.

>>97882642
this only happens if models were printed hollow with no drain holes, or if the model is fucked up in some way that creates internal pockets.

I wish FDM slicers had an easy/painless way to fill in voids intended for hollow resin printing.

>>97882943
Which slicer are you using? Lychee warns you when you do that.

>>97882950
for FDM Orca

I haven't printed resin in a long while, but I used to use Chitubox. In any slicer it takes only a second to look through the sliced layers and make sure there are no islands or gaps

>>97882676
Use edit mode
Cut them of the sprues then merge together the loose vertexes, then "sand it down" using the smooth sculpt tool, works well with mold lines too
Make sure to use the decimate tool after the fact to compress the model size to around 300k faces or so to save a lot of data and they usually look pretty fine still
I've fixed a lot of models like this, hope the advice helps

>>97882981
Unironically run files through ms 3dbuilder, it's better than every slicer I've tried for fixing voids. You will still have shit that can't be fixed but thats on the creator and not you. Honestly most 3d printable file creators, myself included, don't test every file on their printer. Although I have some stuff saved about margins of error and whatnot, but no one cares.

>>97883033
I've never used the sculpting tools in blender before; smoothing make sense, but is there a way to better define the creases and crevices (e.g. where the plates overlap).

I'm left-handed, does blender kind of hurt your brain if you're left handed as well? I paint and sculpt some stuff so blender just always feels wrong even when converting to a left-handed setup because the hotkeys still favor being right handed.

>>97883036
Voids in FDM printing at least don't work the same way. It leads to a weaker part with unnecessarily long print times. People designing miniatures don't do this, but I've read that industrial designers for printing will manually add internal support structures beyond the standard infill, watermarks, and other internal geometry that ends up hidden in the final print but has some effect on the part.

>>97883084
blender hurts everyone. Every professional 3d artist I've ever known had a personalized cheat sheet of blender hotkeys on or near their desk.

>>97883092
Thanks for that. Blender legitimately makes my brain hurt even after spending time shifting everything to "left handed mode" which is terrible. Everything I've tried in it just feels wrong. Whereas CAD software works for me even with a righthand setup.

>>97882734
I've had my share of experience with resin doing warhammer crap. thanks for the warning though

>>97883117
Happy to help. I would link some contacts to help more but I'm not sure if it is allowed any more

>>97883070
Yes the "crease polish" and "crease sharp" on the sculpt menu
I don't recommend using sharp at all unless the model you're working with is like 1 million+ faces or something, crease polish usually works fine if you're just trying to define details a bit or like outline drill holes for gun barrels etc

>>97883036
>most 3d printable file creators, myself included, don't test every file on their printer
Given the number of obviously unprintable (or deeply flawed) stl's I find on the usual sites on a regular basis, I have no doubt that this is true, but why do you guys do this? Honest question. A lot of this shit hasn't even been run through 3D Builder to fix the obvious errors, never mind tested on an actual printer. I can understand a talented 3D modeler not knowing the difference between modeling and printing and going for aesthetically pleasing but geometrically suboptimal designs, but some of these are embarrassingly fucked up...like, parts not actually attached to one another, pieces way too thin to ever print successfully, 10,000 open edges, etc. I'm not complaining about people giving me free shit (even if it's shit that I have to go and fix, if it can be fixed) but I'm confused about the lack of pride in one's work - again, even if it's being given out for free to strangers. (Especially if it's being given out for free to strangers. People that know me personally will still think highly of me if I fuck something up every once in a while, but a stranger will not. Some people may not care about their reputations but I care about mine.)

I'm not mad, but I am curious. Can you explain this for us? Why go through the trouble of making it and then release it into the wild without knowing whether or not it's any good, or even satisfactory for that matter?

>>97884302
Because making it is fun, and the rest is irrelevant. Especially if it gets bought regardless. 95% of all files won't get printed anyways.

>>97884302
Personally I can only be motivated to design stuff that I actually want to play with. So I always print out and paint everything I put up on MMF. The supports may only be auto supports with some tweaks, but I know they work, and I know the sculpt works.

Yeah

>>97885018
That's fair, and there is a small number of others with this approach too. But for the vast majority of STL files, you never see pics of printed stuff, and certainly not from the creators.

>>97884415
Bit of a shit answer, but I appreciate it nonetheless.
>it gets bought regardless
Pressing x to doubt.
>>97885018
That's more how I think. If I can't get it to print, it doesn't get released until I can. I'd be too embarrassed to put my name on something that doesn't work.
>>97885090
Shit, it's not unusual to see a preview on Cults showing a screencap of the STL in 3D Builder, complete with the pretty red square around it showing that it's broken. Then you download it, check it in 3D Build, and find out that it's still broken. Like, what are we doing here? You took the time and effort to make multiple previews and upload them all, but clicking literally two tabs before doing all that was just too much fucking work?

It's like bringing a dish to a potluck and telling everyone, "Yeah, I don't know if this tastes any good or not and it might give you food poisoning, but it's free, so you're welcome." Fuck that. Take a little pride in your work.

>>97889950
Well, I've also run my model through all the repair programs until lychee gave it a clean bill of health, only for one of my customers to complain that they still got the error message. That's why I always upload with a pic of the finished print, both painted and bare resin, so you know that the model works.

>>97882206
That's a wicked-looking cruiser, anon. What would that counted as if i were to stat it in the Rogue Trader rpg? Lunar-class? Dictator-class? Some other obscure variant?

>>97889950
>it gets bought regardless
>Pressing x to doubt.

What exactly makes you doubt it? You can see tribes/patreon members, and afaik both Cults and MMF also show the amount of downloads for the files (which on cults equals purchases).

There are some people spending money on even the worst stuff, and the big creators make thousands each month, regardless of what they release, because people are subscribed anyway.
It's all about pumping out 20+ models a month.
Some creators do less volume, but more quality stuff, but they do not attract the masses. But they also make some money, otherwise they would not bother to upload their stuff I assume.
I mean, sculpting as a hobby is great, and printing your own stuff is cool, but if you upload it on a public platform to actually sell.. and nobody buys it: how long would you continue to upload if there are months without purchases? Maybe that's me, but I would either stick to do it for myself, or just upload it as free downloads if I really wanted to share and spread my work. And this personal mindset makes me believe that things that get offered for money also get purchased in numbers that justify to continue.

Wait, have I just been really fucking retarded and leveled the plate completely wrong for 2 months?
Basically what I do is I put a piece of printer paper folded in half. I place it on the screen and press z=0. Then I hold it down after it beeps twice, tighten the screws diagonally and then try to pull. If I notice once side seems unbalanced, I unscrew it a bit, screw some other, unscrew one here, tighten another a bit more and then a bit more until I feel like the paper pulls out better.
Now that I think about it, if I'm not pushing down on the build plate when I do this, what exactly am I doing?
Usually I only get 2 perfect prints, sometimes zero doing it this way.

>>97891000
What are you doing indeed? You are not supposed to do this every other print.. maybe once a year or so.
Tighten the screws properly, and it will stay level

>>97879978
Highland Miniatures Transylvania line.
If I were to go back I wouldn't even print anything but their stuff aside from certain kitbashed hero units and some alternate huge monster ones like the terrorgheist.
I printed a bunch of shit that were an asspain to deal with and the weapons kept breaking like SaintDecent's Skeleton Warriors, anything by Heroes Infinite and iirc LostKingdoms stuff were all fucking annoying.
After a while you learn to tune out all the models by people that look cool in theory only and you know they haven't printed themselves which is practically a majority of 3d modelers.
If you're going to print anything with anything thin like non-chunky swords or long spear make sure to get a resin that is not just tough but flexible, that shit is going to break otherwise no questions about it.

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>need sitting/casually standing primaris for a diorama
>their monopose makes kitbashing annoying as fuck
>search for alternatives
>everyone is raving about poseable primaris stl
>hype as fuck
>completely nuked out of the face of internet by GW
James, you absolute faggot, fuck you.

>>97890698
It would be considered a later production version of the Devastation-class cruiser, the one with the broadside lance batteries and launch bays (the boxy segments along the sides towards the front). For the Rogue Trader RPG, you can find it in the Battlefleet Koronus supplement, among the Chaos ship variants on page 105 or 106 depending on which edition you've got/downloaded.

But it would be fairly easy to change the model to have gun batteries in place of the launch bays to make it into a retro-style Lunar class. I might try that when I've got some free time.

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>>97891833
No, James is not to blame. You just did not search properly.
It took me less than 2 minutes to find the file, make a screenshot and post it here.

Btw, you can literally message the creators of deleted files, if you really cant seem to find them.

>>97892197
Is that Telegram?
But yes, James is to blame for the fact that I have to install russian botnet app to even get a chance to look for it.

Why do all the warhammer stl groups lack a lot of Age of Sigmar/Fantasy models? Is 40k just that big or am I just retarded?

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Hey lads

Was printing some Battletech minis when I noticed I had a small puncture in my FEP film on my new Mars 4. It looks like a small amount of resin leaked through the puncture and cured to the screen. I tried lightly rubbing with a paper towel with IPA on it, but I'm hesitant to do anything more. How can this be dealt with short of replacing the screen?

Also, lesson learned, will look into a screen protector before I start printing again.

>>97892965
You may be boned.

But resin is vulnerable to heat. Bring some water to a simmer on the stove, dip a sponge or rage in it, and place it on the cured resin blob. After a few minutes, you may be able to dislodge it with your fingernail or a plastic scraper.

>>97893008
>or rage
I meant rag. But you may be raging.

>>97893008
Worst case scenario is a $110 screen replacement, which sucks but isn't intolerable.

>>97892965
Happened to me once. As dumb as it sounds try dampening it slightly with IPA and scratch it off with your fingernail. Worked for me.

>>97892965
Resin softens after sufficient time in IPA.
When I strip paint off abs-like they start feeling very slightly bend-y after about 30-60 minutes.
I'd also invest in a plastic scraper and use it with extreme care.

>>97892965
Plastic razor blade.

>>97893197
This!
Another part to help is is to soak a paper towel and leave that on the stain, as the liquid by itself evaporates too fast.

>>97891000
that sounds like a real PITA. IDK about the Mars auto level plates, but the spring loaded ones on the 1-5 are braindead easy (2 screws; unscrew both to unlock the plate, auto home, retighten).

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Learning to do proper sculpty stuff for making my own troops, this shit is hard!

>>97893878
Looks good. How much time did it consume?

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>>97894082
Haven't the foggiest, started over a few times and also fucked with different versions of his proportions and stuff.

I'm trying to decide on another practise project rn.

>>97858356
>>97858356
The amerilabs test model. I haven't printed for over half a year due to cold temperatures, but I have 2kg of resin I just opened and I'm going to be doing a big print production wave while the weather is between too cold and too hot.

Once I get my settings correct, I'll be making 5 Raveners, 5 Genestealers, a Broodlord, a Mawloc, 10 Battle Sisters, and 2 Mortifiers. If weather is still nice I'll decide what else to do after that.

>>97882206
gee bill how come mom lets your ship have 2 skulls

>>97892965
>>97893008
>>97893197
Update on this: I emailed elegoo and it turns out the Mars 4 has a built in screen protector I can remove. Elegoo support guy recommended that rather than buy a new separate one, I cut an FEP sheet to size and use that to replace it.

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Damn, didn't download nearly enough stuff when i had the chance.

>>97898394
>get telefaggotgram they said

>>97898312
But did you try any of our advice?

>>97898394
uh oh...

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>>97898394
Well that sucks.
What app will be the successor to that app for the piracy/preservation of STLs/models?

>>97898394
>>97900972
All of my shit and massive stash are working fine so gee I don't know, maybe don't do it out in the open in massive public groups like an idiot?
If they can't find you they can't claim you, crazy idea I know
Vetting and privacy are an unknown concept to some people on there

>>97899454
I tried the rubbing IPA on it but that didn't do much, and then Elegoo got back to me with info about the FEP.

Do you guys just have dedicated rooms for your resin printers? Every FAQ I've read/Google Ai acts like the room you have this thing in is going to become an innate carcinogen, even with ventilation to the outside.

Why is it so hard to find a goddamn gridfinity generator that actually generates the size you're looking for, I had to go through 3 of them before I actually managed to print one that fit my drawer and it still took some fiddling

>>97902205
I put mine in my wife's room ;)

>>97902205
I put it in my garage, i also keep the area ventilated and wear a respirator when i work around it. I think it's better to be safe and get more protection than needed than to risk getting permanent effects on my wellbeing just because i want to be lazy.

>>97902464
Oh, if it were simply a matter of the effort that wouldn't be a huge issue. The closest analogue I have to a garage in this shitty rental is a giant unfinished basement, but that's where my laundry and deep freezer are.
The only way it'd have any sort of dedicated room is with a tent outside.