Painting FDM miniatures to prove the haters wrong

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[LifeguardLeroy]

As someone who makes and sells STLs, the more printers that can print minis the better. haha

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when the sword broke mid-brushstroke i was like “yup, been there”

[mrzel]

I live in an apartment. I have children. I considered resin printing and after watching many videos I ordered a A1 mini. As much as I would love the extra fine details, 2 feet away on a table top and my shitty paint job is probably fine.

Last session i used lego figures.

[awldune]

It's nice the one guy has a bib so he can eat a big plate of ribs without taking his armor off 👍

[Ceiling_Gato]

It's amazing how the 3D printing community somehow doesn't realize that many of us live in apartments and don't have facilities for resin storage and printing

[Aisaaax]

Also fwiw if you FDM print an army and paint it - it will always look better than unpainted GW plastic that 70% of people play with.😮

[aaronmcclain]

I laughed when you basically squirted the mini. I feel like you were going out of the way to show the complainers more things that will grind their gears. I just can't imagine you doing that normally.

[JmccallT]

whilst the quailty of the FDM models isnt for me because I come at the hobby from the painting side so I love a crisp canvas to work on, I love you telling others to fuck off

[napalmmachete]

Spraying speedpaint directly onto the minis was a baller move

[OmegaLittleBob]

You'd think people would be excited that FDM printers are improving so much. But people are weird.

[boateye]

you have the most chaotic painting style lmao. The speedpaint directly on the model gave me a conniption in the best way possible! Also, i forgot that these were FDM minis be the time you got the basecoats on.

Should you submit an FDM printed mini to a painting competition? hell no. but at tabletop distance, the paint makes the layer lines disappear.

[jeremoople]

I feel like social media, especially YouTube, has eroded the concept of “good enough” in many people’s minds. Yes, resin printers can generally print fine detail on miniatures better than FDM, but the degree of difference is small enough to not matter to the vast majority of people.

[vagabondprime]

I really WANT FDM quality to improve as much as it has, I have developed liver disease and simply cannot work with resin anymore, so FDM is the only way I can continue to print at home! Nice work!

[Xyleth]

As someone who took stick in the last comment thread for agreeing with your premise, THANK YOU for making this follow up! Those do look amazing :)

[andyvanhout]

Applying speed paint directly from the dropper bottle directly on to the mini??!! No two thin coats?! Speed paints! Gasp! Pearl clutching! Horror! Bad man paint wrong bad. /s

Keep up the awesome work, I love the videos, screw the haters. The models and and paint jobs look great!

As far as super glue, for anyone following along and reading Youtube comments my biggest tip is to use baking soda as an accelerant. I'd rather do that rather than soldering, but that's just me.

[smokebeard.]

You hit a great point in that FDM is a low barrier of entry for people to get started. I got started in 3D printing minis with an Ender3 years ago. I still have some of those minis. They are certainly serviceable for tabletop games. And certainly a lot less mess than resin printing.

[jmsmoriarty]

3:46 the freaking spider under the thinning plate, Jesus Christ I respect Australians for living with it

[TheUndeadslayer]

Painting FDM miniatures is basically the way you hide the layer lines. Also, FDM is really good for vehicles.

[SunburntHands]

They look great. I'd rather see these on the table than an official but unpainted army, and I'd definitely rather see an army of these than see someone priced out of the hobby.

[NaPatman]

I appreciate how much emphasis you put on resin printing SAFELY

So many people I know just raw-dog a resin printer in their kitchen or something and I'm just like... dude I spent more on the paper towels, gloves, respirators, etc. than the printer itself (cheapo on sale but still)