Where do you design your miniatures? I've used HeroForge a couple of times and just found Eldritch-foundry, although I'm not sure how good it is. What do you use? What do you think are the benefits of the one that you use over the others?
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I use heroforge, specifically their monthly packs, for medium and small mass minis like bandits and goblins. You get five different models, each as a coloured unity.3d file, an STL with a base, and an STL without a base. You can usually print about 12 to 14 in a single print bed of a mars 2 sized resin printer and they come out really nice.
For larger minis, I use Lord of the Print on MyMiniatureFactory which I print myself on my fdm printer. The quality doesn't come out as good as the renders, you really need to print in resin for that, but it's good enough and is a lot more cost effective, especially when you're printing something really big like a roc or tarrasque.
With HeroForge, I only seemed to get three, the figure with the base, one without the base and then just the base? Also, do you angle the prints or just put them stragiht on the bed?
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Ah I do, it just wasn't showing properly on the way I accessed the folder for some reason.
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is myminiaturefactory just premade stuff? No custom ones like HF?
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I've just bought one, a resin printer. It's not difficult, just quite a bit of work dialing in the settings. Once those are done, it's pretty easy so long as you're reasonably competent with computers. That's if you can get the STLs for what you're printing using HeroForge or otherwise just getting them. Actual original files are more of an issue to design. If you want to chat about it and my experience, feel free to message me or start a new thread and we can chat. It's not difficult, once you understand the theory behind it.
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I think something that's useful to know is you don't really need to know how to model to make your own custom minis, at least not to anything approaching an advanced level. Kitbashing 3D models is fairly easy (much more so than doing it with plastic kits)
I keep wanting to pick up a 3d printer and learn how to build the mini collection without just looking and finding miniatures like I have been.
But I keep worrying that the 3d printer would be hard to use or at least learn how to use lol, so I haven't crossed that bridge yet.
Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games (game company almost as old as D&D) recently got into personal 3-D printing and wrote up a blog I linked in another thread a while back:
You may want to check out these entries from Steve Jackson's blogs (Steve Jackson owns one of the oldest brands in TTRPG and tabletop gaming, started producing back in the earliest days of TTRPG ... he's got decades of experience in the hobby especially on the production side of things and is really big on quality ... so you might find his experiences as someone with big industry experience getting into 3d printing for his own personal army making interesting:
The existence of plant based resins has me mulling over 3-D printing, but hasn't completely sold me and I don't know if I could justify the energy cost, also having safe ventilated space is apparently a factor and I don't know if I want to dedicate space to that as opposed to some sort of other media and less materials intensive media production space.
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Where do you design your miniatures? I've used HeroForge a couple of times and just found Eldritch-foundry, although I'm not sure how good it is. What do you use? What do you think are the benefits of the one that you use over the others?
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
I use heroforge, specifically their monthly packs, for medium and small mass minis like bandits and goblins. You get five different models, each as a coloured unity.3d file, an STL with a base, and an STL without a base. You can usually print about 12 to 14 in a single print bed of a mars 2 sized resin printer and they come out really nice.
For larger minis, I use Lord of the Print on MyMiniatureFactory which I print myself on my fdm printer. The quality doesn't come out as good as the renders, you really need to print in resin for that, but it's good enough and is a lot more cost effective, especially when you're printing something really big like a roc or tarrasque.
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
With HeroForge, I only seemed to get three, the figure with the base, one without the base and then just the base? Also, do you angle the prints or just put them stragiht on the bed?
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When I get them printed, they're usually angled slightly. And you should have a unity.3d file as part of the pack, it's strange that you don't.
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
Ah I do, it just wasn't showing properly on the way I accessed the folder for some reason.
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is myminiaturefactory just premade stuff? No custom ones like HF?
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No custom stuff, but you can kitbash stuff in blender
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
I keep wanting to pick up a 3d printer and learn how to build the mini collection without just looking and finding miniatures like I have been.
But I keep worrying that the 3d printer would be hard to use or at least learn how to use lol, so I haven't crossed that bridge yet.
I've just bought one, a resin printer. It's not difficult, just quite a bit of work dialing in the settings. Once those are done, it's pretty easy so long as you're reasonably competent with computers. That's if you can get the STLs for what you're printing using HeroForge or otherwise just getting them. Actual original files are more of an issue to design. If you want to chat about it and my experience, feel free to message me or start a new thread and we can chat. It's not difficult, once you understand the theory behind it.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
I think something that's useful to know is you don't really need to know how to model to make your own custom minis, at least not to anything approaching an advanced level. Kitbashing 3D models is fairly easy (much more so than doing it with plastic kits)
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games (game company almost as old as D&D) recently got into personal 3-D printing and wrote up a blog I linked in another thread a while back:
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.