3D Printing Possibilities and Limitations for Gaming

jeb wrote: I want cube trays/racks for games like ECLIPSE and TERRAFORMING MARS where you have to keep track of shit on a flat surface using cubes. A little overlay with indentations in it to hold those fuckers in place.

www.thingiverse.com/thing:500632

stoic wrote: A useful item for miniature painting. I've been using old pill bottles, but, perhaps, I'll print this.

www.thingiverse.com/thing:2432144

What's the little arm for that looks a little like a street light?

quozl wrote:

stoic wrote: A useful item for miniature painting. I've been using old pill bottles, but, perhaps, I'll print this.

www.thingiverse.com/thing:2432144

What's the little arm for that looks a little like a street light?

Apparently, you use that little arm to prop up and steady your hand for difficult areas while painting the miniature.

I thought it was for the mini to hang itself in shame after I got done painting it.

Tried twice to print the Nexus Ops monolith. The print starts out fine, then comes loose from the bed and the nozzle starts dragging it around. Apparently this problem can be solved with hairspray. My printer doesn't have a heated bed, which also helps with this problem.

Perhaps I should take a bat to my 3D printer, Office Space-style.

hotseatgames wrote: Tried twice to print the Nexus Ops monolith. The print starts out fine, then comes loose from the bed and the nozzle starts dragging it around. Apparently this problem can be solved with hairspray. My printer doesn't have a heated bed, which also helps with this problem.

Perhaps I should take a bat to my 3D printer, Office Space-style.

That sucks. I guess the home-based technology still has bugs. Can you send the file to your public library like I did?

I don't know if my library has that service.

hotseatgames wrote: Tried twice to print the Nexus Ops monolith. The print starts out fine, then comes loose from the bed and the nozzle starts dragging it around. Apparently this problem can be solved with hairspray. My printer doesn't have a heated bed, which also helps with this problem.

Perhaps I should take a bat to my 3D printer, Office Space-style.

Take a piece of glass, hit it with hair spray, then use blinder clips to hold it to your base. It is the cheapest easiest fix to that problem.

Or, get a heated bed for a hundred bucks.

Now, I’ve decided to hold off on any 3D printing until the tech for sintering has become cheap enough.

newatlas.com/desktop-metal-3d-printing/50654/

On this topic, I thought that this was an interesting concept. It's a miniature tabletop war game designed around 3D printing by the author of Gama World. It's called World War Tesla.

www.fatdragongames.com/fdgfiles/

www.wargamevault.com/product/229787/Worl...er-Set?view_as_pub=1

geekdad.com/2018/01/geek-links-new-wargame-world-war-tesla/

stoic wrote: On this topic, I thought that this was an interesting concept. It's a miniature tabletop war game designed around 3D printing by the author of Gama World. It's called Word War Tesla.

www.fatdragongames.com/fdgfiles/

www.wargamevault.com/product/229787/Worl...er-Set?view_as_pub=1

geekdad.com/2018/01/geek-links-new-wargame-world-war-tesla/

Wargame vault has it for 50 percent off ($10.00). I have access to industrial printers at my university, and consumer grade machines at the library. Tempting

I really need to consider not getting a tenth guitar or another amp and instead investing in a 3D printer. I’m just not sure that the quality is good enough at this point (in the ~500$ range) to merit getting one.

cranberries wrote:

stoic wrote: On this topic, I thought that this was an interesting concept. It's a miniature tabletop war game designed around 3D printing by the author of Gama World. It's called Word War Tesla.

www.fatdragongames.com/fdgfiles/

www.wargamevault.com/product/229787/Worl...er-Set?view_as_pub=1

geekdad.com/2018/01/geek-links-new-wargame-world-war-tesla/

Wargame vault has it for 50 percent off ($10.00). I have access to industrial printers at my university, and consumer grade machines at the library. Tempting

There is some killer golden-age Sci Fi art for this title. Worth a visit just to see their stuff.

I think this is going to be a major portion of the hobby in a decade or so. I could see much of boardgaming becoming either IP-purchase-only or purchase a base game and then purchase printable add-ons. It will put hobby gaming back into a cottage industry (which it has been at a dead run from over the last five years) and bring the cost of entry down to impulse-buy prices. As it stands most game boxes are running $50-$80, a game like this, if it has the goods, can be in-hand for 20% of that.

When 3-D printers go color this will be a really viable option. Zero shipping costs, zero setup, zero inventory.

Sagrilarus wrote: When 3-D printers go color this will be a really viable option. Zero shipping costs, zero setup, zero inventory.

What do you mean? They already print in color.

He means in true color where you can print a preprinted Miniature, for all intents and purposes.

At least that’s how I read it.