3d printing is going to be the death of Games Workshop. How can they compete with this sort of quality?

3d printing is going to be the death of Games Workshop. How can they compete with this sort of quality?

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People still buy BL novels and GW fluff books dude. Not everyone cares about quality.

You need a good 3D model, a decent printer, and the knowhow of how to get a good print out of your printer to get anywhere near GW quality right now, yeah.

Still, there's a decent portion of the market that would settle for "good enough" just to have models they can play the game with friends with that 3D-printing threatens right now. Probably only a small portion of GW's current market, though, since most of them wouldn't have gotten into the hobby to begin with.

Actually, IF 3D printing pulled those people in, third-party pirating could actually HELP GW since it could act as a gateway to buying the more-detailed models.

People meme about this a lot, and for the moment they are right, I don't want that ugly ass dreadnought. However, like all technology, it is just a matter of time.

Once a 3d printer that has sufficient quality comes to the sub 1k mark, piracy of GW minis will fucking explode.

>Still, there's a decent portion of the market that would settle for "good enough" just to have models they can play the game with friends with that 3D-printing threatens right now.

not really.
Traditionally cast counterfeits are cheaper and have been available for years (as well as being much xloaer to GW quality). 3D printing isn't going to be more than small niche of counterfeit minis and isn't a threat to GW.

They'll switch back to pewter.

>Once a 3d printer that has sufficient quality comes to the sub 1k mark, piracy of GW minis will fucking explode
nah. theres still the issue of needing to know how to 3d sculpt.
Besides that making your own copies of GW minis has been easily and cheaply available for decades and hasnt threatened GW. Another more expensive and more involved method being available isn't going to change anything

Memes aside, it's pretty much impossible to make a bad looking dreadnought

It depends on whether 3D printing itself becomes mainstream. Counterfeits require a modicum of effort to procure and require having the model shipped to you, often from somewhere overseas.

However, if you ALREADY own a 3D printer, procuring a pirated 3D model is comes with significantly less risk, more ease, less waiting, and no having to give anyone your shipping adress. So there's a lower bar of interest someone needs to pass before they're willing to give it a shot.

In other words, if 3D printing suddenly becomes a thing everyone starts doing, you'll see a proportionate uptick int he amount of people willing to try out the hobby with pirated models since the barrier to getting them significantly lowers.

Look how much more detailed it is than GW's plain and smooth models. All the stepping ridges will pick up drybrushing nicely!

true.
Though there is also the issue of getting the 3D files to print.
For now at least people with the 3D sculpting ability to copy a GW mini aren't wasting their time on doing that, they're sculpting original minis that they can actually sell and make money from.

>For now at least people with the 3D sculpting ability to copy a GW mini aren't wasting their time on doing that, they're sculpting original minis that they can actually sell and make money from.

That's true, but all it takes is one person to make one model of good quality meant to be printed- even if they try to sell it it'll probably show up on a torrent site like pirate bay in short order.

It's going to be many years until there's a 3D printer anyone can buy for $300 or less that also has a high enough resolution to be completely smooth to the naked eye or after light sanding.

That's the minimum level you need to be at to overthrow traditional production.

nah. it needs to be of the level where it doesn't need finishing at all if it wants to compete.
Having to sand it off or something at the end is going to destroy all your fine details.

You don't need your own printer, you can use a public one, such as at a school or library.

You don't use the printer for a smooth finish - you polish it yourself or put it in the Polysher machine.

You don't need to be super high quality when you have a super low price. Veeky Forums lives in the hobbyist bubble, normies are looking for cheap fun and don't want to spend $60 for a pack of five muhreens. Pic related is an old print but most normies would be happy using it, I think. And it hasn't even been through the Polysher.

3D printing is very much reliant on the quality of the model (which is already solved, you just shouldn't use shit tier models like OP) and the quality of the printer, which is only getting better. Today's single-filament Cartesian printers are going to look like the Model T.

Of course, resin printers are more or less already there but they are more rare and expensive.

>You don't need your own printer, you can use a public one, such as at a school or library.

People barely do this for fucking paper, they're not going to do it for plastic models that take forever to print. The library won't even stock that shit because it costs money for the "ink" and if you charge money to print nobody will use it, like the paper.

>You don't need to be super high quality when you have a super low price.

Quality is all that matters in the hobby. Otherwise you might as well play with coins. Most of your arguments are dumb.

The image you posted looks like shit and I wouldn't use it if you paid me, because I am not a poorfag.

Something like a tank might be feasible pretty soon with a bunch of nice flat easily sandable surfaces. But can you imagine trying to 3d print a fucking lord of change or something? Kek, fuck that.

Yeah just like how pirating killed the porn and film industry
You utter mollusk

>You utter mollusk

10/10 insult, wish I could give you a monetary tip for using unique insults. I like "you orangutan" myself.

But that one solely applies to Jeremy Clarkson.

M8 the porn industry is fucking dying. The amount of amateur content that is both produced and viewed over the last few years has skyrocketed.

Why do idiots make up shit that's so easy to disprove now that we have internet and google?

howbigarethey.com/porn-industry/

I printed a ton of Heroes of the Storm Starcraft guys, enough to make a huge WH40K proxy army. So that's whatever $hundred that I don't need to spend. The problem is no store would let me bring these.

>Still, there's a decent portion of the market that would settle for "good enough" just to have models they can play the game with friends with that 3D-printing threatens right now.
Anyone who knows how to use a 3D printer to make minis would be smart enough to either make recasts themselves or buy them from the Chinese. Plus you need a fuckload of money to even have a 3D printer and at that point you might as well just buy GW minis. 3D printing your own wagaming minis is gonna stay a meme for at least another decade.

"You complete gibbon" is a good one, if you're of a primate persuasion.

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That was incredibly informative. Thanks, Satan.

>Plus you need a fuckload of money to even have a 3D printer
Maybe a few years ago but not anymore.
A good 3D printer kit these days costs only about $300 so for the cost of a single army you could print every army plus whatever else you cant think of.

You're not going to print anything worth using with $300.

>A good 3D printer kit costs only about $300
>good
no

Do basic research before you ignorantly contradict me. A Prusa i3 Mk2 Kit can be bought for well under 300 dollars and can print at 50 microns with a 10" square heated bed. That's amazing quality for miniatures or for any other application for that matter.

That looks like shit, moron.

>paid $300 for that garbage
>could have bought 120 new on sprue mk 3 or 4 marines on eBay for the same price

Get your eyes checked before you ignorantly shill your trash.

You'd be surprised my man. I work at a 3D printer manufacturer and schools and libraries are some of our biggest customers.

Quality is all that matters to hobbyists. Like I said, most people don't care.

Yeah, why would someone go with Blizzard's aesthetic design for a proxy army? Even Warmahordes would look better.

>pay $300 now
>never pay for models again
OR
>pay $300 now
>also pay $400 again next codex
>and then $500 after that

The problem is user, those look like total cancer. Why don't you print some Marines or something and we can judge then how good the printer is for warhams. 300 dollars goes a fucking long way on eBay so long as you can put up with the Dettol tax.

What happens if you get caught with a fake at a GW store? Do people really sperg about it?

Those look like ass, user. Sorry. You're not going to get a half decent mini quality print from anything under about $6-10k USD. Now, those high end printers are actually good for getting decent quality minis out of but there is some unique prep you will need to do with the masters to avoid getting those striations on them. We put ours in a vulcanizing press which usually destroys a printed master, but most people that are theoretically doing this won't be worried about it. Thing is, the cheapest we can get a 30mm mini printed from somebody my buddy knows in the industry is about $100 per print.

Okay, if I remember I will rent one of our high quality printers and toolheads next Friday and print this file:

thingiverse com/make:290831

Don't know if I'll be able to use the Polysher though, and I don't have any paints for it regardless so it will just be a basic gray model.

A guy at my local store got caught once, but the only reason he got caught was because the manager was picking up his models and fingerfucking them, why are managers allowed to fucking do that? Anyway, he asked the guy to leave, me and the other two guys at the store looked at each other and I said "ok I'm leaving too then" and everyone packed up and left. Was funny as fuck. Now the manager doesn't touch anyone's models.

>That's a fake model!
>Oh, is it? I got it from Ebay, and they said it was real...
The GW probably won't let you use it in their store if they think it's fake, if the owner and employees are total faggots. A decent GW should take your word for it.

>, he asked the guy to leave, me and the other two guys at the store looked at each other and I said "ok I'm leaving too then" and everyone packed up and left. Was funny as fuck. Now the manager doesn't touch anyone's models.

This is one thing 3D printers probably won't match unless you use a metal in-fill or a specialized resin printer. The internal lattice will never feel like solid plastic but you might be able to find something that feels similar.

Maybe some good PLA.

printing still has costs and almost no one buys an army for every faction.

most people just have 1 or 2 armies and get maybe a new kit each codex update that's normally several years appart.

If you're getting a printer anyway for other stuff its a viable option for terrain or maybe simple bits for conversion. If all you want is minis its not worth the money, time or significantly lower quality.

>Terrain

This is what I'm really excited about, dirt cheap gothic buildings and other GW terrain sanitised of aquilas.

You'll be able to create custom modular terrain too. I think once it gets popular someone will probably create some standard interlocking system.

>Standardised modular terrain

Hnnnnnnnng stop user my dick can only get so hard.

still cool as fuck. I'm a GW shill but what said is right. It's nigh impossible for a dread to not look fucking cool. I would not mind playing against someone who had the patience and persistence to build a 3D printed army though

Theres plenty of resources out there with premade files. In my college I used a 3d scanner to duplicate a landraider and fix it up in autocad. Posted the copy on Thingiverse and then it got taken down. kek. Left my print at the college lab when I left though.

For you 3D printers out there who don't already know of this site:
thingiverse.com/search?q=warhammer&sa=

*All the subjects on there should have gcode files ready to print on most publicly available printers. You could try your luck on makerbot for someone to print a copy for you.

Alternatively you could just download the massive 40k .stl Repo from your friendly local Torrent site. It's the one that got uploaded after the guy on Reddit got the C&D from Geedubs.

Is there a link???????

>It's nigh impossible for a dread to not look fucking cool.
And yet OP's pic related somehow managed it.