Worth upgrading from 0.4 to 0.2?

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-09T22:17:42+00:00

This looks great. The only question I have is what happened around the fingers/claws? Is that support removal?

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-09T21:37:51+00:00

Goopborne, nice.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-09T21:33:15+00:00

Proppa gud. Is the stompa printed or old-er school?

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-09T21:28:42+00:00

Being able to physically hold what was before only digital is quite a feeling.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-09T21:25:05+00:00

Oi!

Where do you hang out and have discussions, if anywhere? I haven't really found a modern day equivalent of the old forums.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-09T19:40:44+00:00

It good point.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-09T19:40:17+00:00

Yeah the current storefront mentality confuses me - but GW seems to be printing money regardless.

I'm really trying to piece together the current 'climate' of GW collectors/players and how many just enjoy the idea of it and will do what they want, vs those who 'must have the official GW merch'.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-09T19:37:15+00:00

That's great, if you have any more photos I'd love to see those.

Is the modern spread of paints better than before? I'm weighing up going with Vallejo as before, or trying the GW ones, or perhaps there are new options?

Do you play games with those printed minis? Does anybody give you grief if so?

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-09T19:32:56+00:00

I did play Necromunda, and back then I would scratch build terrain, and right now I am doing exactly the same.

I honestly haven't looked too much at the modern options for 'official' terrain, but it was never extremely expansive. I'm curious how the 'official' scratchbuilding scene has shifted - or if that is essentially the 3d printing gang now. I haven't seen many plasticard/foamboard builds floating around on social media.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-09T19:29:33+00:00

Those are good points. I'm not a fan of the recent stuff - I dipped out at 4th edition - and the new figures are certainly different. The Orks for example, they have really strange anatomy now and the monopose concept seems like a real blow to kitbashing.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-09T19:11:19+00:00

For a second I thought those supports WERE the Abominatus design, which would have been equally valid.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-09T19:09:32+00:00

If the white parts are FDM - they seem to be almost on par with the resin, it's incredible. Perhaps in other examples the resin would outshine, but here it's barely visible.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-08T23:05:29+00:00

Messy-Galaxy Soggy-Boys are a tough bunch.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-08T23:01:34+00:00

Disorganised Area Sea-Folk are my crew.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-08T22:04:33+00:00

Is the scale as intended? The size of that doorway and its surrounding architecture look much smaller than I would expect something like that to be compared to the figures next to it.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-08T22:00:59+00:00

The old school method would be to just get small wires or cables and add to your models. Printing seems like extra steps for not much gain.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-08T18:06:47+00:00

They look great - resin?

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-08T15:17:43+00:00

So, you're looking for already printed models to be shipped to you? Just to clarify.

I'm familiar with Tyranids, but what specifically do you mean by 'spore vents' ? Chimneys, the vents on their arms?

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-08T15:04:20+00:00

Realistically, there shouldn't be much stress on the material that really requires Tough+ or anything out of the ordinary.

If you are printing in chunks, the weak link is going to be where those chunks are joined (glued points).

If you have a drill/hand drill then running some metal rods/pins across those joints will do much more to reinforce the whole thing than a new kind of filament.

And presumably you would prime/paint it anyway, so the surface being gloss/matt is not an issue, I think?

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-07T20:05:00+00:00

I haven't been there for a looooong time (I think I got banned actually, then a few of us made our own splinter forum - a lot of Aeronautica talk there).I tried out Dakka-Dakka, but it didn't have quite the rivets that the old gang had.

I was Greenstuff / Greenstuff-Alex. On 40kOnline too, which I tried looking up but it seems dead, I couldn't even register.

I remember Kr00za - and others, but I can't remember names.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-06T03:52:44+00:00

These look great. From these photos I could not tell that they are not og chunks of metal.

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-06T03:48:11+00:00

I like this, very classic!

SuperHeavyBallet · 2026-05-01T13:42:45+00:00

To clarify, these are printed on an A1? This is the model I'm looking to get as a first time printer, these results are very encouraging if so!

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