SmartCheetah
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Howdy bois!
I hope I'm not posting this in a wrong part of the forums, but if true - please, just move this post to the proper ones.
So, I'm currently working on another 3d printing project for my PnP campaigns. I got few years of experience in that field, but my first minis were basicly whole characters (as most minis out there) which wasn't satisfying to paint or use. I made some bucks on 'em, but there are too many great creators basicly shitting out minis day by day. Such competition made me go another way.
As I love both Battle Brothers and Rising Lords, I decided to try going similiar way - most importantly to cut the awful process of positiong whole models. While modelling only top half of the characters, I can spend more time on modelling and sculpting, creating 2-3 times more figurines.
Arms and sometimes hips are the only thing I need to position now, and those aren't as painful as legs were. In case of heads - I plan to make them fully modular, so as people print those fuckers, they can glue any head they want (Space marines style)
Equipment as weapons (with hands) will be exchangable as well, and I do plan to model things like bags/purses/quivers and so on. But first things first.
I need some feedback to know if something like this would be a good starting point and If I should continue going this way. I heard mostly positive opinions about it so far and people said that they would definitely use them in their PnP sessions - provided that they'd be able to get a big pack of different, customizable pawns at once (and that's what I'm aiming for, instead of thousand of small releases)
Another advantage of going this way is an ability to sit a figurine on a mount (instead of using another figurine to show when your character is mounted/dismounted) - I'd show my WiP of a horse figurine in a while so you can process how this will work.
Those are going to fit Warhammer/Witcher and most of the dark/"semi-realistic" fantasy settings. I don't plan anything sci-fi yet.
So here is an WiP of the first prototype. Exchangable head and exchangable hands+weapon. The base is a placeholder so I could tell how it would look like on something.
Remember that it's 32mm scale, so a lot of fine details will be lost when 3d printing. That's why I don't bother too much about wrinkles, veins and other sheit.
EDIT: That's the dude on -hour and half- horse scuplt. I'm thinking about something like this exactly - so you can put the pawn on the horse. Don't judge the animal. I rushed it and didn't want to waste time on saddle for now.
And a different head I made long time ago. One of my first models and definitely different style, lel.
No test prints yet, but I'm sure it'd look fine. Got a lot of experience in resin 3d printing.
Any feedback/questions and ideas are appreciated.
I hope I'm not posting this in a wrong part of the forums, but if true - please, just move this post to the proper ones.
So, I'm currently working on another 3d printing project for my PnP campaigns. I got few years of experience in that field, but my first minis were basicly whole characters (as most minis out there) which wasn't satisfying to paint or use. I made some bucks on 'em, but there are too many great creators basicly shitting out minis day by day. Such competition made me go another way.
As I love both Battle Brothers and Rising Lords, I decided to try going similiar way - most importantly to cut the awful process of positiong whole models. While modelling only top half of the characters, I can spend more time on modelling and sculpting, creating 2-3 times more figurines.
Arms and sometimes hips are the only thing I need to position now, and those aren't as painful as legs were. In case of heads - I plan to make them fully modular, so as people print those fuckers, they can glue any head they want (Space marines style)
Equipment as weapons (with hands) will be exchangable as well, and I do plan to model things like bags/purses/quivers and so on. But first things first.
I need some feedback to know if something like this would be a good starting point and If I should continue going this way. I heard mostly positive opinions about it so far and people said that they would definitely use them in their PnP sessions - provided that they'd be able to get a big pack of different, customizable pawns at once (and that's what I'm aiming for, instead of thousand of small releases)
Another advantage of going this way is an ability to sit a figurine on a mount (instead of using another figurine to show when your character is mounted/dismounted) - I'd show my WiP of a horse figurine in a while so you can process how this will work.
Those are going to fit Warhammer/Witcher and most of the dark/"semi-realistic" fantasy settings. I don't plan anything sci-fi yet.
So here is an WiP of the first prototype. Exchangable head and exchangable hands+weapon. The base is a placeholder so I could tell how it would look like on something.
Remember that it's 32mm scale, so a lot of fine details will be lost when 3d printing. That's why I don't bother too much about wrinkles, veins and other sheit.
EDIT: That's the dude on -hour and half- horse scuplt. I'm thinking about something like this exactly - so you can put the pawn on the horse. Don't judge the animal. I rushed it and didn't want to waste time on saddle for now.
And a different head I made long time ago. One of my first models and definitely different style, lel.
No test prints yet, but I'm sure it'd look fine. Got a lot of experience in resin 3d printing.
Any feedback/questions and ideas are appreciated.
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