15mm Robots - PAINTED!

[Sangennaru]

Finally got round to making my order. I'll let you know when it arrives. Not to pick a colour scheme... I think I will go for a traditional military green with bronze details. 

hehe, that's timing: i'm just having an issue now with the Shapeways team: after TWO successiful prints, now they decided that the models are no longer OK for printing. I'm now writing to them, asking to print them as they did before. They are really reasonable, i expect them to do that. However, if any trouble occurs, please write to them explaining the fact as well, because that all thing is a little upsetting...

These are wonderful.  Fantastic work.

There is a Future Wars thread about sci-fi civilian model availability around at the moment - they pop up from time to time.  I cant help but think that this technology might be a feasible way to make a cheap set of sci-fi civilians available. 

Maybe if the civilians wore hard edged mining armour or something that made them more printer friendly.  Waybe gas masks or welding goggles or something, items that reduced the need to sculpt natural looking curves.  Civilian models wouldnt necessarily have to be as detailed as actual protagonist models either. 

I dont know how feasible it is now, but its only a matter of time really I suppose.

When I look at your robots with the wide heads I keep thinking about the Phantom Menace Pit Droids.  I would love to be able to buy a set of your 'bots that were essentially robot civilians, each performing specific tasks (a bit like the old GW gretchin/grot/snotling ranges).

Its totally ridiculous, but I would particularly like to see a pair of those robots designed so that they could carry a small sheet of acrylic/perspex between them, like a pair of glaziers would carry a sheet of glass.  Then protagonists in Fist Full of Kung Fu games could smash the glass and use it as a weapon.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SheetOfGlass



Im getting a bit carried away here obviously, but take it as a compliment.  Your work on these robots has fired my imagination

Hahah, why not, my friend! "civilian" robots are in my plans, so just stay tuned! If you have any idea, just tell me, or even make a list! In a month from now i'll be in Canada without my actual workshop, so i will focus more on virtual modelling! ^_^

[YPU]

hehe, that's timing: i'm just having an issue now with the Shapeways team: after TWO successiful prints, now they decided that the models are no longer OK for printing. I'm now writing to them, asking to print them as they did before. They are really reasonable, i expect them to do that. However, if any trouble occurs, please write to them explaining the fact as well, because that all thing is a little upsetting...

Interesting. Well, if things would move along faster with my consent as buyer please let me know.

[Sangennaru]

Interesting. Well, if things would move along faster with my consent as buyer please let me know.

thanks for your help... they are really nice people but sometimes they're ... just random
For the moment i'll wait for their reply. But if there will be problems, i'll certainly ask for your support

[Sangennaru]

Meanwhile, for Cheetor:

[YPU]

Very nice, however at that pose I would expect the other guy to have his hands at belly hight as well, this is a terrible way to carry something. 

[Sangennaru]

Very nice, however at that pose I would expect the other guy to have his hands at belly hight as well, this is a terrible way to carry something. 

They are strong: the guy on the rear is just loading the menhir on the back of the front guy!

[YPU]

I got a refund for the droids with the note that they aren't printable.  I'll shoot them an email saying I am fully willing to take the risk.

[cheetor]

That was quick Sangennaru! 

If you have any idea, just tell me, or even make a list!

I will see what I can come up with.

Was there a comparison photo alongside a 28mm model somewhere in the thread that I missed?  I would like to see the 'bots alongside a space marine or something pretty familiar if possible (I would be planning to use the robots as small servant type things in 28mm).

[Sangennaru]

Hello everyone and sorry for the mild-necrothreading.

I've spent some very intense months in canada, but i'm now headed back to Italy in less than a week. One of my first priorities is to fix those robots, making them slighly chubbier to prevent any more Shapeways problems, and finally put them on the market again.

that's a slow project, but it surely has to bring some results, eventually.

thanks for the patience,
Jack

[YPU]

Glad to hear so Jack!

Looking forwards to seeing updates. I believe there were also a few requests back in this topic for variants and such? 

[Conquistador]

Hello everyone and sorry for the mild-necrothreading.

I've spent some very intense months in canada, but i'm now headed back to Italy in less than a week. One of my first priorities is to fix those robots, making them slighly chubbier to prevent any more Shapeways problems, and finally put them on the market again.

that's a slow project, but it surely has to bring some results, eventually.

thanks for the patience,
Jack

 

Gracias,

Glenn

[ShortscaleDave]

Want. Now!  My first time seeeing these, and I love 'em!

[Sangennaru]

Want. Now!  My first time seeeing these, and I love 'em!

eheh, just the time to fix a few "too thin" parts, and i'll put them on the shop again!

Here's some painted ones by Agis, anyways:



yes, they are small.

more here:
http://agisn.de/html/fuco_robots.html

[Sangennaru]

Cheers gents!

Still haven't got time to edit the 3Ds for the shop, meanwhile i thought that it would be nice to have some painted pieces. being a modeller before a painter, i wanted to have some proper bases:



First of all, here's a group of 10 soldiers. Five are primed, and for the photo purposes the look is definitely better.



and... some bikes! The whole pieces are definitely fragile, but not as much as you can think, since all the model is extremely light.

First of all a primed bike:




And then the other ones.









I hope that's enough to calm your need for robots for another few days or weeks...

Cheers
Jack

[Sangennaru]

Hi Everyone!

The first 6 robots are halfway done: Definitely WIP, but the colours are there... now the shadings and the final detailings will come!







The shapeways printing material isn't exactely the best stuff to paint on, but at the end it was not so bad i've to say.

Any impression-suggestion so far?

Soon i'll post the completely painted miniatures!

Cheers,
Jack