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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Teardrop World on February 11, 2016, 03:04:56 PM
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Video games are sometime inspiring, so I work since a few month on a Skyrim's parody taking place in a country surrounded by the Scheizzes Moutains. The solo home rules will be card driven, three cards to attack (horizontal slash, vertical slash and thrusting) and the corresponding three card to defend. Each character will have two gauge, one for the health and one for stamina. Each stroke given will lower the stamina depending on the weapon used. The hero choose a card (attack or defense), and a random card is drawed for the villain.
There will be cards for weapons, armours and loot, allowing an upgrade of the characters. Loot will also be used to do some alchemy, several ingredient giving a stamina or health potion (and maybe poison).
Rules are a very light draft at this time, painting and scenery are a priority.
I already made a mill at the end of the past year, and received miniatures for the T'alamort Justiciar, Umpire, Foulmehr etc...
A few peaceful citizen have been painted: a thief, Aquatarcus the bard, Bonethor the merchant, a noble and his wife, another annoying bard
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/bourgeois.jpg?w=810)
The self proclaimed masters of the Scheizz: T'alamort Justiciar
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/justiciar.jpg?w=363&h=223&crop=1)
Everybody loves spiders. When they are dead. Spiders are the Schneerim's curse. I need more of them. And bigger.
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/spider.jpg?w=648)
The mill...
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/moulin1.jpg?w=810)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/moulin3.jpg?w=810)
Only a few years should be necessary to complete this project. :D
Best regards
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Only a few years should be necessary to complete this project. :D
FANTASTIC! Don't rush the process; imagine what a life time of crafting could produce. All your pieces are BEAUTIFUL little creations. VERY WELL DONE!
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I don't know what is "Sheizrim" (looks strange in Geman this name :D ) But I will follow this thread for the mini and the scenery.
Stéphane
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I don't know what is "Sheizrim" (looks strange in Geman this name :D ) But I will follow this thread for the mini and the scenery.
Stéphane
Well, hum..... effectively this is a strange name. In the center of a fictional continent was originally a country named "Schweis", but the people living here was prisonners locked by the Alps: a rim of high mountains populated by monsters. So much poor travellers disappeared that the natives called those mountains Scheis... Scheizzes. A name evoking a great misfortune. Citizens of the countries surrounding the mountain rim called eventually Schweis "Scheizrim". In french: Bordem***e. Auf deutsch: hum.... I don't really zpeak deutzch... lol
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I think he's joking because "shit" in German is "scheisse". :p
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Here are some generic terrain piece. First, the funeral mound - bringing happiness to the heart of the lone wanderer. Is a long forgotten loot hidden beneath?
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/funerarium.jpg?w=810)
Conveniently placed to call a butler, the gong is also scaring a not so stealth thieve.
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/gong.jpg?w=648)
In every city, the dealers can sell you fresh maggots packed in fruits. Pomz is a french word, in english: Applz.
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/market2.jpg?w=648)
Beautiful monuments are scattered through Scheizrim, bringing inspiration for the bards
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/menhirs.jpg?w=810)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/ruins.jpg?w=810)
You can find sometime the entrance of a deep dark dungeon, where a woeful adventurer found his tragic end (or worst). Is the place filled with monsters, or only mundane rogues?
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/cof3.jpg?w=648)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/dunjun4.jpg?w=810)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/dunjun1.jpg?w=810)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/dunjun2.jpg?w=810)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/cof4.jpg?w=810)
The cage is made with soldered wire and copper sheet, a little bit difficult to work with. I'm actually building more cages but plan to use cardboard for the hinges, copper sheet is really hard to cut at this scale.
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God damn, your terrain does look nice.
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I love your scenery.
How do you make your books and your shelves ? They looks great.
Stéphane
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Hi,
Shelves, beds, closets, doors are made in a 3D software, then printed by a print service. I do a few adjustement then make molds and cast them in resin (beds in metal). The books are included in the 3D object, but small furniture on the shelves are added later.
Best regards
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Shelves, beds, closets, doors are made in a 3D software, then printed by a print service. I do a few adjustement then make molds and cast them in resin (beds in metal). The books are included in the 3D object, but small furniture on the shelves are added later.
You draw your own 3D files or you have Found/buy they somewhere ?
This 3D printing looks very good, We didn't see the layers.
Is it a local or internet 3D printed service you use ?
Thanks for your answers.
Stéphane
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You draw your own 3D files or you have Found/buy they somewhere ?
This 3D printing looks very good, We didn't see the layers.
Is it a local or internet 3D printed service you use ?
Thanks for your answers.
Stéphane
3D models for printing are not modeled the same manner than other 3D: you need to have a "waterproof" model with all faces oriented to the outside. Models that you find on the web are generally not designed this way. I discovered "Blender" a few years ago, who has some feature for printing (Mesh normals, non-manifold etc.). It take a huge amount of time to draw a very simple object when you are just an amateur.
I use a printing service from the same country as the 3D sofware. You can choose the printing material, low detail is cheap but very granular (a pain to paint or to mold). High resolution material (Ultra Frosted or more) is very expensive, transparent and very good for molds.
Bookshelves, beds and closets are Ultra Frosted. Accessory shelves are with cheaper material and I used a plastic putty to cover the granularity.
Barrels are modeled by five in a row and are the most expensive 3D object I made, the cannons are at 1/100 scale, modeled according a 19th century plan (Halcon). I had a bad surprise with the cannon prints, and a modification of the object rotation has been necessary.
Best regards
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/barils.jpg?w=648)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/cannons.jpg?w=870)
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I want to live there!
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Finally snowing!!! The roads where white for the first time this winter >:( but only for one day ;D
Decided to rename my project to "Schneerim" (Snowrim in english). I wasn't aware of a special thing between english and german language ???, and less vulgarity is better.
Soo, painted a few Foulmehrs, based on ghouls. There wasn't bows and I tried a clumsy conversion.
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/foulmehr.jpg?w=870)
Painted. The result is a little bit gritty, and as the Foulmehr live only underground I'm not planning to add grass to the bases. But maybe mushrooms? If somebody have an idea on how to do such little things in 15mm???
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/falmers.jpg?w=870)
Also working on a new piece of scenery, some pictures will be on the Workbench part of the forum.
Best regards
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All looks very good.
Looking forward to following this project and seeing your first game. keep posting.
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Ah, Fantasy in 15mm, very creditable.
I wouldn't call your conversion clumsy, it's 15mm after all and that's much more fiddly than 28mm.
Concerning your question about sculpting mushrooms I can't say I did it, but if I wanted to, I'd take a piece of wire (not too thin, the one on the right archer seems to be appropriate) for the stem. I'd cut a piece long enough to serve me as a handle while sculpting. After that I'd stick the wire in somewhere (foam, cardboard, ...) until the putty of the mushrooms head has cured. With the handle you even may paint the mushroom before you fix it to the base, if you want. Well, in the end, simply cut the wire so that the mushroom remains with a stem as long as you consider it fitting and fix it to the base.
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To Shaved Dwarf:
Thank, I will try
Currently painting a Giant, a Bear and a Dragon. But these are big miniatures and it take a lot of time to have an acceptable level of painting (this is mainly why I switched to 15mm).
Just varnished a big cat native from the Scheizzes Moutain. A sabretooth cat with discrete colors similars to a tiger. The paint scheme is inspired by the model in "Skyrim", but I made it from memory and not sure of the likeness.
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/sabretoothcat.jpg?w=648)
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To Shaved Dwarf:
Thank, I will try
Currently painting a Giant, a Bear and a Dragon. But these are big miniatures and it take a lot of time to have an acceptable level of painting (this is mainly why I switched to 15mm).
Just varnished a big cat native from the Scheizzes Moutain. A sabretooth cat with discrete colors similars to a tiger. The paint scheme is inspired by the model in "Skyrim", but I made it from memory and not sure of the likeness.
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/sabretoothcat.jpg?w=648)
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/elderscrolls/images/e/ed/2sabrecats.png/revision/latest?cb=20120111122552)
Close enough :)
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A very poor english literature, certainly written by a goblin :D
Garreth was lost in this dark dungeon since one week. The thief was thirsty, but he found only stagnant and stinking water. Loosing all hopes, Garreth eventually came to a narrow passage blocked by a door. The thief had no trouble to pick the lock. Will a fountain or a well be on the other side? Garreth opened the door, his heart beating…..
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/soulpit2.jpg?w=648)
There was no fresh water but only disillusion…. As there was indeed a well, it was only filled with non appropriate specimens…
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/soulpit3.jpg?w=870)
Cheers
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Oh god! That well is seriously horrible!!
Well done (No joke intended)
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Made some flowers. It's spring soon and time for the garden ;D
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/pal3.jpg?w=810)
And the decorative stake with a Carpathian flavour
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/pal2.jpg?w=648)
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Whoa, gruesome, I like, especially the well. Let's remind the adventurers why they fight on the side they do!
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Currently working on Schneerim rules at a snail's speed. Original plan was to use this home rule
(writedd in ze french) that let you cut members and heads: https://teardropworlds.wordpress.com/category/med-fan/ (https://teardropworlds.wordpress.com/category/med-fan/) , but it was missing the Stamina mechanic of
the video game. RPG rules are a bit too complex and heavy and brewerage of home rules is quite fun,
so I went for something different. I mostly play solo and card driven games "à la" Crom or The Rule
With No Name are enjoyable (I have a bunch of THW rules, but not clearly understood them - must
improve my english Stats before :D ).
Each figure will have a card with basic stats, a gauge board, and equipment cards. Equipment cards
can be looted when the opponents is "dead".
The Character Board:
Cheap gear set from radio controlled cars accessories. A card slot will be added, made with cardboard or plastic card.
I used cheap plastic gears allowing 50 positions. The character card will be put on the board's left
and the gauges will move accordingly to the fights cards and potions drinking.
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/jauges2.jpg?w=870)
Equipment cards with an armour dice, weapon cards with attack dice and potions cards with Health or Stamina dice. Weapons and armours will have different quality (from Rusty to Legendary) reflected by a modifier.
The fights will be a mix of cards and dices.
Three attack Move cards: Horizontal move, Vertical Move and Stab move, against three corresponding defense Move cards. Vertical moves cancel vertical move and so on.
When an attack move pass, the result of the weapon dice must be over the result of the armour dice. The difference give the number of Health points lost.
Each weapon and Move will have a Stamina value that lower the gauge.
... and painted a Giant and a Forworms Tribe (Forsworns in Skyrim).
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/gc3a9ant.jpg?w=648)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/parjures2.jpg?w=870)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/parjures1.jpg?w=870)
Cheers.
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I like the barbarians. Demonworld?
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That's lovely! I'm a big fan of 15mm & was always thinking if small scale skirmish game would work in that scale - your project proves that even tiny terrain details can be done!
Concerning mushrooms: For really small mushrooms, you could perhaps use the heads of pins...
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I like the barbarians. Demonworld?
Yeah they're Demonworld. Lovely miniatures.
I have a bunch of THW rules, but not clearly understood them - must
improve my english Stats before :D
I wouldn't worry about it too much. I think no one has an English stat high enough to understand THW rules ;)
Cracking work though. As another lover of 15mm fantasy, and Demonworld minis in particular, it's great to see your work, and especially your terrain.
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Wow! Your diligence in recreating a fantastic world is simply magnificent! I love it...please continue!
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I like the barbarians. Demonworld?
Hello, and thand thank you all for your kind comments.
Yes, it's Ral Partha. I happily mix historical and fantasy figures. Roman soldiers become the Empire, and vikings are Stormcloacks. I'll use Lizardmen as Argonian and some pretty females from Blight Heaven (Ral Partha) as the Dark Brotherhood. A hard work to do this year.
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Important laws are often displayed on stone columns that can be found everywhere in Schneerim.
This one is made of clay, but it broke due to the retraction when drying. The two resulting parts don’t have exactly the same size (retraction again), and firmly gluing the two part was not sufficient to hide the crack. I could also pretend it was intended, but accident give sometime surprising and nice results.
Some folks tell that a knight mysteriously vanished at this place, only his axe and shield where found.
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/xid-column-1.jpg?w=648)
An Elder Scroll, with a strong injunction written on it
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/xid-column-2.jpg?w=648)
Vegetation is slowly eating the old stones, causing a crack
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/xid-column-3.jpg?w=648)
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Looks good. The crack is well hidden, but the bit you do see looks great.
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Finished stairs previously in Workbench post, and a miniature of Alchimist.
The Dwarhmer are a long forgotten race in Schneerim: those dwarves were gone deep under the mountains to find gold, and nobody seen them after centuries. Only some monuments remains, but hunters sometime finds little footsteps in the snow...
The Alchimist takes me too much time to paint for a shamely result :?
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/alchimiste-1.jpg?w=648)
First Stairs, the first picture is ... hum .... errr, volontary slightly blurred so you can't see the poorly painted miniatures :D, but the second picture hurt less the eyes
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/dwstairs-b1.jpg?w=648)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/dwstairs-b2.jpg?w=648)
The second stair: A Guard of Honor
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/dwstairs-a1.jpg?w=648)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/dwstairs-a2.jpg?w=648)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/dwstairs-a3.jpg?w=648)
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Keeps getting better and better.
Love the stairs and column.
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Slow progression, painted a few Orcs and began to write the rules. It was previously planned to use cards for attack and defense with three different moves, but the first test was just not satisfying and I discarded the combat cards. Characters will have stats for Force (combat) Agility (shooting, stealth) Intelligence (detection of stealthy figures) Movement. These stats have a dice each (d4 to d12), and each character have two gauges for Health and Endurance.
Characters are equipped with weapon and armour cards, and combat is the result of the Force dice + weapon damage, against Agility dice + armour card(s). The difference of the result in favour of the attacker give the number of health points lost on the defender gauge. Each weapon use an amount of endurance point that lower the gauge. Further playtest and rule writing the next days/week.
Well, enough blabla. Time for picture.
Orcs are a common encounter in Schneerim: Robusts and happy highlanders living in an hostile environment, playing ball games with rocks and trunks, and greeting you with a nice smile
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/orcs-2.jpg?w=810)
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/orcs-1.jpg?w=810)
Best regards
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After a break, work continue on Schneerim. Basic rules written (some word badly written and hard to read ;D ).
Put some scenery on the table, some LED projectors for an unmatched ambiance, Skyrim musics for more epicness and PLAY.... re-read basic rules written, cross out those ideas and re-write and PLAY again. A complete terrain was set, but the game was stopped after only two encounters. Must redo the cards. And re-do the core rules....
Not a great battle report, maybe just some eyes candy pictures.
The terrain:
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/rpa1.jpg?w=810)
Cards setup
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/rpa9.jpg?w=810)
A giant waiting for a lost traveller, at night
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/rpa6.jpg?w=810)
The same giant, in daylight
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/rpa7.jpg?w=810)
An alchemist selling overly priced Health and Stamina potions
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/rpa2.jpg?w=810)
The hero - a thief, at the ready for his quest
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/rpa10.jpg?w=810)
Some stealth shot with a bow wipe out guards of the Surstroemcloack faction
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/rpa11.jpg?w=810)
But Mah Goths the Magos is a treat for the thief. Some good and sharp steel help Mah Goths to sleep with the worms.
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/rpa12.jpg?w=810)
Hope you like it ;)
Cheers
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Love the pictures. Very atmospheric.
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Interesting work so far! Being a 15mm lover myself i'm always happy to see people working in this splendid scale too! ^^
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Just painted some dwarves of Zu-rich, the terror of the Empire. They are known to be fine craftsmen of precision mechanism and feared crossbow sharpshooters. Legend Tell :D the story of a dwarf killing a worm in an apple at three hundred foot of distance, but witnesses says that the apple was only a few meters away on another drunken dwarf's head. The only certainty in this story is the worm, cut in half by the arrow.
One of the most glorious battle of Zu-rich dwarves is Mortgarden, a path between a lake and high mountains. The Empire sent a legion of his bravest soldier proudly marching to victory until those filthy small people throw a bunch of tree at them, crushing the Empire's dream of conquest (and the soldiers too).
A berserker, cutting a tree under the strong disapproval of a squirrel
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/nain-1.jpg?w=810)
Some proud small people
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/nain-3.jpg?w=810)
Best regards
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I had the idea to build a castle in 15mm some years ago and made made a few sketches, modular architecture and individual polystyrene "stones" glued together. Rivers flows under the bridges and the castle sketches take dust. Days on Earth have only 24 hours and there was some more important work to do. Until I discover 3D printers.
Cheap 3d printer. Too much pain and tribulations.I should have wait and take a better tool. But the result is acceptable, at 2 meters from the table. Printed and painted a small castle in two weeks. Next step: Carcassone!!!!!!! I plan to print a complete walled city, if the printer lives long enough....
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/castle.jpg?w=810)
Best regards
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Wow, that is excellent, I look forward to seeing it with figures on.
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But the result is acceptable, at 2 meters from the table.
Do you have some closer pics? :)
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That does look nice.
It would be good to see the printed pieces unpainted.
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But the result is acceptable, at 2 meters from the table.
It doesn't look too bad from here, either! :-*
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At your request, some close shots. Printed at too much high speed. Technical informations on the print here: https://teardropworlds.wordpress.com/2016/06/12/small-print-quality/ (https://teardropworlds.wordpress.com/2016/06/12/small-print-quality/)
The tower, three parts and Barbarian for measure. Should have printed slower with thinner layers. But the rivets on the door are OK.
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/i3-tower-1.jpg?w=810)
The window grate is failed, but can be quite good with higher quality settings
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/i3-tower-2.jpg?w=810)
@manic-miner: sorry, I painted the castle before taking pictures. Printed with white and grey PLA. The actual prints are with black PLA and are just black blobs on a camera shot, difficult to see the detail even under a good light. I plan to buy only grey filament once the actual rolls are used. And try to use ABS, more difficult to print but can be smoothed with aceton. PLA can be smoothed with chloroform, so I went to the drugstore and asked for three liters. Aaaaah, the facial expression of the young lady lol ;D lol , she must think I'm a serial kidnapper o_o. Chlorid-methane based solvent can be used to smooth PLA but are very dangerous for the central nervous system, it's a case of health against quality.
Bonus picture: work in progress, the blacksmith
(https://teardropworlds.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/i3-forge.jpg?w=810)
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