Happy Father's Day gentlemen!
Hopefully your days featured at least one good board or wargame with the kids! Mine was Star Wars Clone Wars edition Risk with my eldest. A few months back, we played Star Wars FUBAR. He's getting into games. Obviously, he enjoys the miniatures and terrain more than the games... But hey, he's 10. I really have to watch out for my middle son though, he's a shark at Pente and Battleship...
Last post I mentioned making 3D printed bases for my 15mm miniatures. I'm proud to state I carried out that decision and published my first Thing on Thingiverse. In order to use my penny based 15mm infantry in Flames of Wars based games, I developed a quick and dirty 3mm x 50mm x 65mm Penny base tray for 15mm wargames (yup, its a long, but unique title) using Design Spark Mechanical from Allied Electronics and Space Claim. I highly recommend this free program for aspiring mechanical designers and those experimenting with 3D printing at home. It is an easy parametric modeler to use, especially if you have SketchUp experience. I did not align the holes or anything, so for those who are type A about how lined up their troops on a base are, these will drive you nuts. Fine, go download the native file format on Thingiverse and fix it. In fact, I made these bases public domain, use and abuse. All I ask is that you paint them up real nice and take pictures with your miniatures on them and post them were I can find them!
I also indulged in building some bases for one of my favorite Games Workshop rule sets, their Lord of the Rings based War of the Ring. Sadly, this game is no longer published by GW, but hey, I enjoyed the rules set offering and the miniatures are top notch. Too bad GW has massive cranial rectal inversion disorder at the moment. Anyway, for anyone who has the miniatures, or ones similar that need such bases, here you go: WotR Infantry & Cavalry Company Bases. With the WotR bases, I used Solidworks and lined everything up pretty square. I also left the SLDPT files there for editing. Use, abuse, have fun. Just post pictures and let me know!
No, my rant about game changing technology... 3D printers are awesome for gamers. I think miniature gamers especially should own them. You can just about print your army these days if you have the right model files. If you are a 3D CAD guy who can sculpt digitally, your print resolution and the sky are the only limits. My FDM Lulzbot Taz 5 printer only lets me get down to about .1mm (100 micron) resolution, and has thus far been unsuited to small figures. However, vehicles, bases, and other game terrain are not limited. Hopefully I can get some more stuff out there.
Hopefully your days featured at least one good board or wargame with the kids! Mine was Star Wars Clone Wars edition Risk with my eldest. A few months back, we played Star Wars FUBAR. He's getting into games. Obviously, he enjoys the miniatures and terrain more than the games... But hey, he's 10. I really have to watch out for my middle son though, he's a shark at Pente and Battleship...
Last post I mentioned making 3D printed bases for my 15mm miniatures. I'm proud to state I carried out that decision and published my first Thing on Thingiverse. In order to use my penny based 15mm infantry in Flames of Wars based games, I developed a quick and dirty 3mm x 50mm x 65mm Penny base tray for 15mm wargames (yup, its a long, but unique title) using Design Spark Mechanical from Allied Electronics and Space Claim. I highly recommend this free program for aspiring mechanical designers and those experimenting with 3D printing at home. It is an easy parametric modeler to use, especially if you have SketchUp experience. I did not align the holes or anything, so for those who are type A about how lined up their troops on a base are, these will drive you nuts. Fine, go download the native file format on Thingiverse and fix it. In fact, I made these bases public domain, use and abuse. All I ask is that you paint them up real nice and take pictures with your miniatures on them and post them were I can find them!
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| 15mm trays for 6 miniatures. |
I also indulged in building some bases for one of my favorite Games Workshop rule sets, their Lord of the Rings based War of the Ring. Sadly, this game is no longer published by GW, but hey, I enjoyed the rules set offering and the miniatures are top notch. Too bad GW has massive cranial rectal inversion disorder at the moment. Anyway, for anyone who has the miniatures, or ones similar that need such bases, here you go: WotR Infantry & Cavalry Company Bases. With the WotR bases, I used Solidworks and lined everything up pretty square. I also left the SLDPT files there for editing. Use, abuse, have fun. Just post pictures and let me know!
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| WotR Infantry and Cavalry Company Bases |
No, my rant about game changing technology... 3D printers are awesome for gamers. I think miniature gamers especially should own them. You can just about print your army these days if you have the right model files. If you are a 3D CAD guy who can sculpt digitally, your print resolution and the sky are the only limits. My FDM Lulzbot Taz 5 printer only lets me get down to about .1mm (100 micron) resolution, and has thus far been unsuited to small figures. However, vehicles, bases, and other game terrain are not limited. Hopefully I can get some more stuff out there.
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