Tag: 3d Printing
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Star Wars: X-Wing organization
My recent game of X-Wing with my son got me inspired to start designing and testing an organization tray, similar to my design for Armada. Basically, just a way to keep the cards organized with the tokens, since the game has a lot of little pieces. My goal is to have something simple for each…
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Star Wars: Legion Terrain – Turbo Laser Tower
Finished a fairly massive print today of an Imperial Turbo Laser Tower, scaled for Star Wars: Legion. This was actually my second attempt at the main tower piece – the first one ended up running my spool of filament dry at about 98%. Total print time was 3 hours and 40 minutes for the top…
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The Paint Rack – Completed
The printer has been running for long hours, but I finally have the overall paint rack completed. Each section holds 20 paint bottles, and ran on the printer for about 25 hours. For the back row, I customized a riser piece to match the design, and bring them up to the same slope – each…
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Magic Tournament – Trophy update
With our upcoming Magic the Gathering Tournament, scheduled for November 21, I need to finalize my plans for the victory trophy. I posted a picture many weeks ago of the progress with painting – this is a 3d printed model that I am hand-painting. However, I have been procrastinating since then and only recently worked…
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The paint rack (partial)
First half of the paint rack project is together, consisting of 3 printed sections. Obviously still need to sort an organize the colors themselves, but wanted to collect what I have so far together. I am still working on the rest of the stands, and likely will need a lift of some sort for the…
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Printer Update
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Upgrades are in place, and the printer is (fingers crossed) working reliably and well – the past several days I have been finishing up a larger project printing paint bottle racks for storage of my painting set. It requires several trays, and each tray ends up printing for about 36 hours, which is certainly a…
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Filament Choices
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As I have been getting further and further into 3d printing, I have been experimenting with a number of different colors and brands of filament. In general, I have not found much significant different in quality for PLA between options, but for consistency, I have been tending towards the same ones each time. If curious,…