I would suspect this won't last long and GW lawyers are probably limbering up to take this down right now but it's a interesting application for 3d printers making these types of models.
Once 3D printers get to a high enough resolution to do sprues this sort of stuff could become very interesting...GW charge so much for their models that home manufacture would be very tempting.
It'd be interesting to see this model against an original, looks a little skinny to me, but still pretty close!
Submitted by babychaos on Sat, 2010-12-18 15:26
At the moment the sort of resolution a I've heard of on an enthusiast printer is about 0.2 mm
that's missleading though as often the relatively cheap nature of the drive screws will introduce wobble that will throw things off for any really fine detail. Some of the newer designs compensate for this so print quality is improving all the time.
they probably modified the model to make it easier to print since there are limitations to what can be printed
it will be interesting to see how legal challenges to this sort of thing progress and I would think people like GW will be the first of many to be caught on the cutting edge of this technology
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Once 3D printers get to a high enough resolution to do sprues this sort of stuff could become very interesting...GW charge so much for their models that home manufacture would be very tempting.
It'd be interesting to see this model against an original, looks a little skinny to me, but still pretty close!
At the moment the sort of resolution a I've heard of on an enthusiast printer is about 0.2 mm
that's missleading though as often the relatively cheap nature of the drive screws will introduce wobble that will throw things off for any really fine detail. Some of the newer designs compensate for this so print quality is improving all the time.
they probably modified the model to make it easier to print since there are limitations to what can be printed
it will be interesting to see how legal challenges to this sort of thing progress and I would think people like GW will be the first of many to be caught on the cutting edge of this technology