MoreRauders

In anticipation of building a Marauder army for Firefight I've been printing off a few of the larger units that I'll be needing. Fortunately the Mantic Vault has plenty of models available to print off so I've managed Stunt & Grunt bots as well as Hulks and a Mule just from the Vault. I'm planning on getting some of the head and small weapon options printed off in resin as they are a bit small for the FDM printer.

The tank is from Ace Minis and stands in for the more WW1 looking official Wolverine offered by Mantic. 

Bat out of Hell

Nozzle: 0.4mm
Layer Height: 0.08mm High Quality pre-set
Material: Bambu Matt PLA
Supports: Auto Tree with outer Brim

This months Mantic Vault had the Matsudan Grav biker model which previously had only been available in resin. I already had one but really needed a couple more for a proper squad to deploy in Firefight. So I cranked up Fusion 360 and imported all the parts in so they could be joined into one model before sending over to the printer.

In the end I popped the heads off so they could be replaced with spare ones from the infantry kit I had left over. Again the A1 has done a great job considering these are really made to be printed off on a resin printer. I did keep the model orientation upright even though it meant lots of support's on the bottom as it also meant all the marks from removing the supports are on the bottom out of sight.

Whilst I was painting up the bikes I also took the chance to paint up the Matsudan Medic Bots that I'd had printed up in resin a while back. I printed off some barrels and boxes to mount the models on as I'm not a fan of flying stands.

The Road to Success

One week into owning my 3D printer I've realised how much I still have to learn but I did manage to design and print my very first object.

In fairness it's not much but it did give me my first taste of design in Fusion 360 and you have to start somewhere :-) 

What we have is a 6" radius scoring zone for Firefight, Kings of War uses a 12" radius scoring zone so I'd need to print that out as inner and outer sections for it to fit on my print bed. In any event this is my first published design, unfortunately no downloads yet.

Other than that I've mostly been printing off road sections this week. Again I've picked up a lesson in that even though all the files come from the same pack they aren't actually all on the same level. A good lesson to learn in checking the number of layers involved in making a print. 

Most of them are of a very similar height so as I'm adding more sections I'll keep to the ones that are close in height and leave the others out of the production cycle.

Speaking of layers, today I've cranked up the detail to the smallest layer height and got some extra sandbag emplacements on the go. I will be interested to see how these compare to the resin ones I've already had printed.