Even if the clear resin isn't perfect, that is a beautiful model...really crisp considering the inceased scale.
The technology has come a long way in the last decade or so. People were at the time wittering on about it being the death knell of GW, but to be honest, it's only really with the newer generations of LCD based printers that miniatures printing has reasonably come down to the consumer level.
Print resolution will improve, no doubt, and result in sharper, clearer prints, but this one feels like it's respectively cleared the bar of "good enough".
I know the current base is temporary, but the "hovering" nature of the mini currently makes me think of the SoB mini with the Sister hovering upwards as chunks of ground follow her due to her psychic powers (I think it's a BL mini from a story about a psychic Sister? One I've not read yet).
That would be Ephrael Stern.
And yeah... I could see some kind of base with some hovering debris working quite nicely.
That did turn out really well. Makes me want to buy a 3d printer.
It's magical witchcraft.
It's actually pretty surreal to me, and I've got prior experience of materialising models out of various kinds of goo (albeit two-part chemically curing goo, rather than strange ultraviolet reactive goo).
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As an aside, although these resin printers are mostly intended for artistic tasks, there are some somewhat stronger structural resins available that can be put to use for other jobs.
And indeed, a week or three back, my brother and I found some of our old "Tomy" toy trains in the attic, which had been sitting there as the left-overs that never managed to sell at car boot sales. In order to clear the space, we decided to offer them to our uncle (who often has his grandson around, at least when not in total lockdown).
However, in the process of checking it all over, it became clear that one of the locomotives had some damaged gears, which were jumping and slipping. And how do you get replacement gears for a 25 year old toy train?
Well, these days the answer is to take some measurements, feed them into Blender's gear generator and then give those files to the 3D printer.
We're still not at the stage where it's as accessible and prevalent as in science fiction, as it remains somewhat specialist tech requiring a fair amount of technical knowledge (it's not something that I could have easily done if I didn't know Blender), but it's still impressive.
