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Sites For and Experiences With tabletop miniature STLs? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyone know of any good sites for (good) STLs of the popular tabletop/wargaming miniatures?

And, more importantly, anyone have any good experiences with them? My gut would be that the vast majority are pointless in FDM and require the granularity of resin. But I have also seen some wild prints that take advantage of ridiculously thin layer sizes to have insane detail. And, if it isn't a complete fool's errand, this would be a fun set of projects to fine tune both my printing ability and my painting skills.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

print with supports, but removing supports from such thin, fragile bits of a model is nigh impossible without doing damage

Removing resin supports is worse, if anything.

They leave little bumps where they're cut off that you have to then try to VERY VERY gently sand off without bending or breaking said fiddly models.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, that is true of all miniatures and model kits. It is generally less noticeable if you are dealing with injection molded sprues as a good pair of nippers can get you most of the way. But it is still good to have some sandpaper to touch things up.

Hell, I use an old pair of nippers to remove supports and overhangs from a lot of my "normal" prints.

... and now I am really curious what a 3d printed runner would be. Might do a proof of concept/experiment in onshape.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

My comment was more FDM vs resin support removal, and that it's not like resin is all sunshine and rainbows.

If anything, modern tree supports for FDM have fixed the giant-blob-of-plastic problem with supports you'd previously get on smaller models, where you'd end up with, uh, well, a giant blob of plastic stuck to an arm or a sword or whatever.

Still not fantastic, but until someone figures out antigravity, it's what it is.