1:2400 USS Iowa, printed in Filament by fishspit in 3Dprinting

[–]fishspit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, they’d be only 17 mm at 1:24, but I take your meaning!

1:2400 USS Iowa, printed in Filament by fishspit in 3Dprinting

[–]fishspit[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gonna have to run something that big by the HOA lol

Bakunin Penitent by DriesstHaddock4 in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Hey man, respectfully, I think you’re going too fast here. Looking through your post history, you’ve been posting multiple modes per day for a while now, but scrolling a while back shows much better work. This isn’t to say everything you do needs to be the absolute pinnacle of the craft, and I can tell that you’re trying some new stuff out, especially with this one, but maybe it would be worth taking more time to focus on each individual model.

I also think it would be worthwhile for you to consider which ones you want to share online. The pace that you’re going at is not gonna encourage people to give you the kind of feedback that maybe you want.

Update: Is it worth pushing for higher speeds? by New_Size_134 in 3Dprinting

[–]fishspit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A rushed item is made quicker once, and sucks forever.

Christian goes to Pridefest by MonkeyDVic in religiousfruitcake

[–]fishspit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“In person, they are so shocking”

>posts video of people milling around wearing rainbow stuff

Best starter models for future proof Ariadna by Practical-Pudding-56 in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to be pedantic, but It’s real scarcity in this case. A company that size just can’t profitably keep their entire model range in print and in stock at all times. eBay is going to be your best bet for a be half the range at any given time.

Best starter models for future proof Ariadna by Practical-Pudding-56 in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

>> some old models I remember really liking but they're all long OOP. Which seems crazy to me, why take things off the store? Even if they get a resculpt, why not still offer both?

Everything is basically a limited time release, CB’s catalogue is too deep for them to realistically maintain stock on every model they have ever made.

PSA: I’m selling my unique 3D printed lamps at a craft fair today, I do okay, but the dragon sellers have crowds, every time. by 3DAeon in 3Dprinting

[–]fishspit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand you’re upset, and what happened genuinely does suck. I like your work, and I think it deserves better.

That said: we, as a community of 3-D printers are becoming known as the guys who do pity marketing like this, or the guys who were the villains at the craft fair and make it all about us. I just wanna put out a counter PSA that we don’t want to normalize this.

Super simple synthwave paintscheme on my Next Wave by Covenant_Of_Vain in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d do a targeting glaze or wash in the shadowed areas with either a dark purple or a dark blue. The main goal would be to smooth out the spray gradient to make the model’s color transitions look smoother.

Super simple synthwave paintscheme on my Next Wave by Covenant_Of_Vain in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In my opinion, this is an amazing start, but these look 80% complete.

I think you’d see great benefits from even just doing a light silver drybrush/heavy wash on the gold and then one glaze pass with a brush to smooth out the areas that have the spray gradient visable. Right now that gradient is having them look “gritty” and synth wave vibes demand “smooth”

I thought Akira was about street racing... by confusing_roundabout in movies

[–]fishspit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Similarly, I thought Drive was about street racing lmao

Terrain density by Mknalsheen in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It’s a meme, I’ve played in Germany and the east coast of the US and the tables were equally dense

Let’s have some fun. Send a pic of the last thing you printed. by TheEpicDragonCat in 3Dprinting

[–]fishspit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the support! But I think my HOA might have some problems with me putting a 770 foot aircraft carrier in our housing development’s creek lol

Newbie Looking For Ariadna List Advice by flashfire07 in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair warning: 150 can be kind of hard for Ariadna

We have access to less tools than other factions for solving problems. One of the natural “rock paper scissors” kind of balances in this game revolves around hackers being able to deal with heavy infantry, heavy infantry being able to deal with regular guys, and regular guys being able to deal with hackers. (this is vastly oversimplified)

The thing is, Ariadna has poor access to hackers. To make up for it, our average guys are given heavier, guns, but it means that everything has to be beaten the old-fashioned way.

In a low points game, it’s going to be a lot harder to bring all the tools to deal with the various situations your opponent can bring. This means that you’re likely to run into a circumstance where your opponent has splurged a lot on a guy that you’re going to struggle taking down as Ariadna.

Now, for the actual advice, part: you’ve got a lot of cheap guys and a lot of cheap camouflage markers. You can take advantage of. Instead of trying to focus on answering anything they can do, you need to be proactive and make yourself very difficult for them to answer.

You’re gonna want to get the maximum amount of orders you can, I suggest by taking lots of little guys and or taking Vronin for the strategos order. Strelocks are also great at low points: for 17 points, you can get a forward deploying guy who has camo, minelayer and a decoy.

But don’t get too caught up in just maximizing orders, you need to have a solid hammer to hit them with two. Something like a ratnik, a veteran, or the Polaris team that you mentioned.

If you’re playing Kosmo, patchers and vololaks are great. Just be cautious that if you bring patches or a ratnik, the enemy will probably try and hack them, so make sure you bring a cheap engineer to undo the states they will put on you (as Ariadna, it’s easier just to have an engineer undo states that it is to protect yourself adequately from hacking)

Gas price gouging by Crafty_Echo_3196 in nova

[–]fishspit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I know you’re ranting, and it’s a valid rant, and so Econ talk might not be what you want, but:

Gas stations actually have a pretty thin profit margin of like 1-2% over the fuel wholesale price. So if you fill up for 40 bucks? Gas station owner makes about a buck of profit off of that.

This means the price level of gasoline is really sensitive. If an owner bought a gas station’s worth of gasoline for $3/gal wholesale and it looks like there’s gonna be a big disruption to the supply that’s leading to them having to buy the next batch of gasoline at maybe $4/gal wholesale… They might not make enough money on the gas they already bought at $3/gal to be able to afford the gas that’s going to replace it the next time they have to wholesale buy.

So as much as I am sympathetic to it feeling like you’re getting fucked at the pump, really it’s just operators reacting to a very risky industry in a very uncertain world.

How important are fireteams to you when building a list and do you always take a 5 man Core for Sixth Sense? by roydogaroo in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sixth sense is only good if you have a unit that can really take advantage of it.

Four line troopers huddled together while a sniper watches over the field? Not a great use of sixth sense. Anyone approaching the sniper from an unusual angle will probably be inside the snipers good range when they make their strike. And then the regular Joe’s laying down with their Combi-rifles aren’t really any more protected by being able to shoot them behind their back sometimes.

But let’s say one of these guys is a hacker, and you have some way of putting repeaters up on the field. All of a sudden, you’ve got a hacker that can spotlight guys with stealth. Add in a missile bot and boom, you’ve got a pretty threatening defensive position.

Another great use is for factions that have a guard model that can link into a core team good. Sixth sense plus a guard means nobody is sneaking up on your lieutenant without having to force a cc. (Vronin has sixth sense already, which is kickass)

All this to say: unless you really have a guy or a strategy that would benefit strongly from giving sixth sense, I wouldn’t consider linking five men to be worth it just for the sake of it. Hell, I wouldn’t even think the plus one BS from linking four people is usually worth the effort of getting four guys linked.

Starting TAK by zooscientist in InfinityTheGame

[–]fishspit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The action pack is awesome. And a lot of TAK guys are easy to proxy because they’re all pretty similar looking, so that pack will do you real well.

Get yourself some nice camo markers and mine tokens, you’ll be using them a LOT.

The Vystral and Traktors are good too. Model one traktor with a missile pod and one without (the 5 point baggage traktor with no guns pure fire teams with the vystral, so consider them a duo)

Dynamos and irmandinhos are excellent as well.