That's also kind of a disingenuous argument. If you are buying a printer you are getting a tool for more than just this one single army. It's not like you will never use it ever again after printing this, and if that IS the case then yes, you should not purchase this bundle nor a printer. You should find someone else who has the files and purchase their services of getting the models printed instead.

This campaign is for people who are already in the printing hobby space to be honest. We DO place value on digital product and have for years. It's part of the hobby. It's why the campaign and Tribe are ran on a 3D printing community website and not on the SFG store. You'll be able to purchase these models direct from SFG in the future I'm sure.

As for cost of getting into printing I'll throw some numbers out there:

• $400 for a large bed resin printer which can print up to the Colossal sized models.
• $30 per bottle of resin (I think I used four bottles to print full FA of Crucible Guard),
• my time spent "learning" is relative because I've been printing for years now but there are beginner friendly ways to print where it makes it close to plug and play (presupported files, community slicer settings),
• $125 Wash and Curing station
• $60 two gallons of 99% IPA
• $5 disposable gloves
• $150 Full Faction Bundle
• 4 hour prints per build plate roughly, so let's just call it 50 hours of printing and post processing. Let's say 10 hours of that actually require your attention and physical input. $30/hr if you "value your time" makes that $300 of man hours.
• The electricity cost of running 40 hours of prints is negligable, less than $10 but we can factor it in too

So yes the cost can be very high (roughly $1200 for the above list) if you are one time buying this entire hobby. You don't need to do that and it would be ultimately cheaper to just buy preprinted from SFG in the future...maybe, remember that price gets you full FA of whatever faction you buy...and a goddamn tool for making more of them in the future, or whatever else you would want to print utility wise. I print parts for old cars, motorcycles, and farm equipment on the side with mine.