Category: 3d Printing

  • Dice Tower army

    Dice Tower army

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    Halfling13

    Second of our numerous dice towers, this time painted by my son. This is the GM tower, though not exactly sure of the design aspects. The tower itself is rather large, especially with the dragon’s wings. Coloration was done entirely by my son’s choice, which turned out well, though he was frustrated a bit by…

  • First of the Dice Tower army

    First of the Dice Tower army

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    Halfling13

    One of my longer term projects has been the printing and painting of a large number of themed dice towers, as a product of a Kickstarter from Fate’s End. Although I have printed a great many towers, we only just started the painting process. With the assistance of the wife and my older son, we…

  • The Force is strong…

    The Force is strong…

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    Halfling13

    As part of our overall move, we of course had to pack everything up, and the majority of the gaming supplies ended up in storage for quite a few months. Now that we have moved in, and most has been unpacked, I was struggling a bit with my Star Wars Armada and X-Wing collection. I…

  • Dice Towers

    Dice Towers

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    Halfling13

    Following another kickstarter (Fate’s End Dice Towers), I have a growing collection of themed dice towers in 3d printer formats, ready for printing and creation. This was more of a fun collection, rather than a truly useful or practical effort – but with kickstarter, there are lots of inexpensive projects. Each design is a set…

  • Large scale project

    Large scale project

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    Halfling13

    Thanks to a recent Kickstarter (Hexton Hills), I have a new long term effort – attempting to recreate a version of the Pathfinder world map in 3d relief. Pictured is a set of sample tiles – each are 2 1/4 inch hexes, representing the dominant terrain of the location. With some simple painting and highlighting,…

  • PLA Metrics

    PLA Metrics

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    Halfling13

    Earlier this year, in an attempt to streamline my 3d printing efforts and avoid frequently changing PLA spools, I was convinced to try a large-spool format. Specifically, I opted for the 5 kg spool of grey PLA from Gizmodorks (gizmodorks.com). This was in comparison to my previous use of 1 kg spools, typically Hatchbox brand.…

  • PrusaSlicer profiles

    PrusaSlicer profiles

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    Halfling13

    As commented before, I have been working on converting to using PrusaSlicer for my 3d printing and slicing. This has the advantage of a stock, supported configuration for the i3MK3s. However, it has required quite a bit of adjustments to the configuration, in order to run “well”. I continue to have challenges with supports, especially…

  • PrusaSlicer

    PrusaSlicer

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    Halfling13

    Experimenting a bit with my 3d printing slicer program, and rapidly becoming a convert to the PrusaSlicer option. Not only is it fully supported and the “official” answer for my i3 MK3s Prusa printer, but it has some advances in the recent version that my prior option (Simplify3D) simply doesn’t have. In particular, the latest…