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rbandrewsBecause you're probably curious.
Here we have a small model of a 3d printer, printed on a 3d printer. How meta! This thing is maybe 4 inches tall.
These guys are my Mississippi Queen pieces. Two dice fit in the square holes, one for speed and one for coal. I printed this for a fair comparison of the two printers, mine and TX/RX's. Mine is on the left; you can't really make it out except in person but theirs is a lot more blobby and stringy. Theirs required a lot of post-printing work to even look that good; mine all I did was break the raft off.
This useless little container I knocked together in ten minutes to have something to give Sacha tomorrow. I didn't expect the small error in the model (the walls aren't uniform thickness because I can't trigonometry) to show up in the print, but it hindsight I should have. Oh well, the nonuniformity actually looks kinda cool. I'd like to compare this to my pill case (giant seam up the side, huge layers, a hackerspace reject) but I left it at work. Oh well.
Here we have a small model of a 3d printer, printed on a 3d printer. How meta! This thing is maybe 4 inches tall.
These guys are my Mississippi Queen pieces. Two dice fit in the square holes, one for speed and one for coal. I printed this for a fair comparison of the two printers, mine and TX/RX's. Mine is on the left; you can't really make it out except in person but theirs is a lot more blobby and stringy. Theirs required a lot of post-printing work to even look that good; mine all I did was break the raft off.
This useless little container I knocked together in ten minutes to have something to give Sacha tomorrow. I didn't expect the small error in the model (the walls aren't uniform thickness because I can't trigonometry) to show up in the print, but it hindsight I should have. Oh well, the nonuniformity actually looks kinda cool. I'd like to compare this to my pill case (giant seam up the side, huge layers, a hackerspace reject) but I left it at work. Oh well.
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Date: 2012-08-15 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-15 06:58 pm (UTC)I'm proud of the MS Queen ones too. They fit small d6s (the kind that come in the cubes) perfectly. Two colors, one for speed and one for coal, and they don't roll around or become unstickered like the wheels do. I thought about making the back part have two recessions for passengers but it makes it too big to fit on a hex.
I think these things are going to be: 1. the greatest tool for board game prototypes since the index card, and 2. the death knell for Games Workshop. Anyone who is willing to spend months painting minis is also willing to spend months tinkering with a printer to make a hundred orcs for pennies. I am actually thinking about not even using the minis that came with Space Hulk and instead just printing my own pieces.