The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[YPU]

Hit the point right on the head there guys. CAD is a tool, and like any tool, you are going to need more than skills with that specific tool to actually make something good with it.

Or alternatively, have somebody do with good artistic sense do the initial designs, and have somebody with good CAD and engineering skills do the final work, preferably with some back and forth feedback.

[Lovejoy]

Interesting times, better learn a new trade fast!

I hear you - if the hobby ever does go purely digital, I'll find another job; I've got no interest in digital modelling at all. I like putty! 

That said, I doubt we'll see it happen... the tech is there already, I just think the will to do it on the part of customers is lacking. Already, pre-built, pre-painted models have way more success than more hobby-level stuff. Look at the success of X-wing, for example.

I think home-printing hobbyists will wind up being just another segment of the hobby, rather than a replacement. We're looking at further fragmentation, rather than a wholesale changeover, IMHO.

[FramFramson]

Old-school modelling won't go away because for all but the very largest operations (as was pointed out above, an outfit like GW can have the dies actually digitally created - no master required), you're still making a master which needs to be recast a couple times to get a production mold. It really doesn't matter how you get there - conventionally or digitally. Both can take about as long and is determined more by the skill of the sculptor with their chosen tools than anything else.

But having more tools is better and opens things up to allow more people to create minis. So it's good all round.

[voltan]

The reason I don't think 3d printed at home miniatures will take over is the simple fact I'm sure there's a lot of people like me who just enjoy building kits.

[JamesValentine]

I see the New Mortarion has been doing the rounds in his atrocious paint scheme.
and what a pile of junk it is too. certainly one to avoid.

[Andrew May]

I hear you - if the hobby ever does go purely digital, I'll find another job; I've got no interest in digital modelling at all. I like putty! 

I actually enjoy digital sculpting (I've only done some very basic stuff) but I'm not convinced it's going to be a viable long term career choice. I'm 5 years into sculpting professionally and the industry's changed so much already. I'm cautious of the time and money investment involved in going digital only to find myself without the client base I need.

[Lovejoy]

I'm cautious of the time and money investment involved in going digital only to find myself without the client base I need.

There's an endless stream of KS projects always shouting for digital... getting them to pay for it is a bit more tricky, though.

Still, there's always GW! 

[Chico]

I have a fair few 3D printed 1/56 WW2 Tanks/Trucks which I order rather than printing myself.

While the price is fantastic on the mid to low end range (£7 a Truck, £10 a Tank) the prep work needed with sandpaper or a chemical bath to remove print lines is a bloody pain in the bum, but still beats building plastic kits in my eyes.

[nic-e]

Games workshop responding to leaks with humour and good spirit!
This one made me giggle, Even if I am confused why a plauge marine admin miniature exists!



Also mortarion looks much better in the round, as is usually the case for GW miniatures. These dynamic big display figures don't do well in 2d photographs at all.
I liek the look of the little flying nurgling censor bearers at his side, I can see them being used in a skirmish warband.

[Mason]

That gave me a chuckle.

And that skull abacus really is quality!
 

[nic-e]

That gave me a chuckle.

And that skull abacus really is quality!
 

indeed,  A super human warrior, a traitor to a god, servant of the embodiment of entropy ,mutant , 10,000 year old warp dwelling murderer ...

..And his job is to conduct basic admin.
I love it.

[Dr Mathias]

That gave me a chuckle.
And that skull abacus really is quality!
 

I enjoyed it

[Daeothar]

Is the wink coming back to 40K? One can certainly hope so... 

[Predatorpt]

In other news, after seeing the Primaris Repulsor in the "flesh", I'm really going to get a couple of them. If you take their turret off, you get a nice armored anti-grav lander, perfect for 28mm figures (in this case it really seems you can fit 10 Space Marines in there, but not Primaris ones, ). And almost no skulls in sight, praise Roboute Guilliman!

[nic-e]

In other news, after seeing the Primaris Repulsor in the "flesh", I'm really going to get a couple of them. If you take their turret off, you get a nice armored anti-grav lander, perfect for 28mm figures (in this case it really seems you can fit 10 Space Marines in there, but not Primaris ones, ). And almost no skulls in sight, praise Roboute Guilliman!

if you get one could you snap a photo of the interor for me? Every review of the kit seems to go "huh, isnide detail,meh, lets look at the guns we've already seen "