Friday, 17 February 2017

3D-printing – a cool dungeon from Printable Scenery

I finally had my 3D-printer, a M3D, repaired and finally set up in my hobby-corner in the garage. It also got a dedicated computer to feed it 3D-files.
So, it is finally working more or less 24 hours a day all week long. Yay!
Printable Scenery had a smashing kickstarter on Indiegogo last fall  It’s a modular dungeon thingie where you print out your floors, walls and whatnot and connect them with clips. Simply brilliant!
I’ve had the printer working for a week chugging out these parts and yesterday we used them in our just started Dungeons & Dragons campaign. It was a success with much oohing and aahing from the players.
So if you have a 3D-printer or have an idea about getting yourself one and fancy dungeon crawls this is really a no-brainer. I cannot recommend it enough (and Printable Scenery’s got a lot of other cool stuff too). Check them out for all that printable goodness.
I guess you will see a lot of 3D-stuff here in the future.
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26 comments:

  1. Laffe17 February 2017 at 08:22

    So, they look fabulous and I'm really interested in this 3D-printing malarkey.

    But I'm hearing a lot of people having to repair the printers. Are they fragile, do they clog up, or what is breaking on them? Is it costly to fix?

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    1. Joakim Ström17 February 2017 at 08:26

      My M3D had the motor that extrudes the filament just give up. No problem though, as I returned it to the shop I bought it in (Kjell & Co) and they fixed it, free of charge as it was within warranty. Took less than a week.
      So a word of advice might be to shop locally to be able to get that sort of service.

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    2. Laffe17 February 2017 at 11:03

      Wise words. So maybe some day in the future.

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    3. Joakim Ström17 February 2017 at 11:10

      I got mine at Kjell & Co. Clas Ohlsson have a slightly larger one now, a bit more expensive, though.
      You know you need one, and this weekend is the right time for a purchase :-D

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    4. Laffe17 February 2017 at 11:17

      I know I need one. But not this weekend...

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  2. Frank O Donnell17 February 2017 at 08:37

    That is very cool, how long before your printing your own model's I wonder ?

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    1. Joakim Ström17 February 2017 at 08:49

      not yet, but we're getting closer all the time. This is a really cool technology.

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    2. Thomas Nissvik17 February 2017 at 11:42

      Listening to M&M podcast and Mr Whithacker who is a big fan of 3D printers talked about new releases that surprised him, and he was expecting fast progress!

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    3. Joakim Ström17 February 2017 at 12:11

      Yeah, that was a good summary of the state of the industry.

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  3. Unknown17 February 2017 at 08:40

    Looks great ! nice work

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    1. Joakim Ström17 February 2017 at 08:52

      Thanks Matt, and welcome to the blog.
      Oh, and thanks for Printable Scenery!

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  4. Hobbyworker17 February 2017 at 09:16

    awesome job looks great!

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    1. Joakim Ström17 February 2017 at 09:33

      Thanks. It really does.
      Just got a small mausoleum off the printer. Great stuff, indeed.

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  5. Darryl Hunt17 February 2017 at 10:13

    I am very jealous, would love to have a 3D printer, the dungeon sections look smashing Joakim, are you going to invest in the Rampage castle files?

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    1. Joakim Ström17 February 2017 at 10:35

      I just might have... :-)
      The thing with 3D-printers now is that the smaller models are getting rather cheap. I can get the M3D for 3000 SEK, around $300, now, which I think is affordable.

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  6. Mallius Vane17 February 2017 at 10:21

    Great looking pieces! Also very jealous. One day...

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  7. Diplomatist17 February 2017 at 11:23

    Those look fantastic. No wonder your players were impressed!

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    1. Joakim Ström17 February 2017 at 12:12

      A very fast paint-job on them with household paints. Base tone, very heavy first semi-dry-brush with a lighter hue and a final drybrush with a much lighter colour.
      Done in next to no time.

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  8. Ivor Evans17 February 2017 at 12:32

    Wow! Looks fantastic Joakim! Ironically I've been going back and forth the last 3 days about either buying some Hirst Arts molds or buying a few Sally 4th kits, for upcoming underground spy-fi laboratory type games - never even thought about 3D printing. I guess more to think about...

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    1. Joakim Ström17 February 2017 at 14:42

      I borrowed some Hirst Arts moulds from a friend and a couple of weeks later I bought this printer. Needless to say the moulds have seen limited use :-)
      Everything has its uses, though.

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  9. Gary18 February 2017 at 14:39

    Really nice Joakim. I have been kicking around the idea of purchasing a 3D printer. Looking forward to see more of you creations.

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    1. Joakim Ström18 February 2017 at 15:48

      Hi Gary!
      The printer is chugging along so you wil lcertainly see much more. Very pleased with everything so far.

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    2. Thomas Nissvik20 February 2017 at 09:18

      Gary, something to factor in is where you live.
      Jocke and I were talking about this during the Build Day. If Jocke spends a few weeks printing dungeon walls, the cost of the material is offset by what the postage alone would have cost if ordering resin terrain from UK...and that's the cheapest shipping alternative.

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  10. Ptr19 February 2017 at 00:44

    Very nice models and also a very nice report.I would like to know more about this project of yours and maybe I also can help you with AutoCAD-files because I work with engineering and 3D-graphics on a daily basis.I am also planning to buy a 3D-printer of my own and the model you are writing about is very interessting.Please send me a e-mail if you are interessted to huggochslag snabela at gmail.

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