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I've been mulling it over for a little while, https://www.shapeways.com has some really nice pieces but they're way to expensive.

There are some Cooling towers, power plants,substations, buildings etc..

3 towers, a power plant and a couple of buildings work out the same price as a 3D printer capable of 50 micron prints!

There are masses of free files about for terrain.
I just wondered if anyone has taken the plunge (and wouldn't mind seeing the results!)

Cheers

Glenn

I've had a mate print me some stuff for 28mm d&d if that helps? Only thing I have photos off is a giant worm-thing which is probably not very useful...

See here - https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photo...

It's probably not the best example for 6mm, unless you're playing a giant monsters game

It's a *very* grainy print with big layers, which works well enough for a fantasy wurm crittur, but I wouldn't want to try anything with layers that chunky for fine terrain.

There's many finer image files out there, but it's a bit "suck it and see" from what I gather from my mate with the printer - you need to tweak, adjust, fiddle and use a decent printer with a decent original print file.

I suspect I'm preaching to the choir there

Haha not at all, I've just done a bit of internet research.
The model looks cool, i can see what you're saying that detail in a 1:285 building may not look good.
Do you know own what layer height he prints at?

Lower resolution is about 100 microns
Detailed is around 50 micorns
Super detailed (expensive printers) go to 20 microns.

I think the giant wurm was quite a grainy print, so the layers are pretty big. Think it was 100 microns (the print file details suggest 0.1 which I assume is mm, so...). The painting technique rather over emphasises them anyway (dark base colour, highlight, magic wash), a more subtle approach might minimise them.

For tiny buildings the grain might look like over the top - I suspect on larger buildings that should be a big rough it could actually help, give a bit of depth/relief to the larger blank walls for rough stone, plaster, bricks etc?

Think you'd have to give it a bash and see... and if it's not suitable for 6mm, use it for bigger stuff

Dragoman on Shapeways has piccies of actual buildings he's done - https://www.shapeways.com/shops/dragoman but I don't know how they compare to a desk top printer in quality...

I have bought some 3d printed power pylons from here: https://www.butlersprintedmodels.co.uk/

I am quite happy with them. Here they are painted.
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They're top notch

Not badly priced, either...