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  giorgis 5:34 pm on April 20, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt132 – Space Guards 

  I have so many different sci fi troops collected, but I haven’t painted any of them in the Unified Army scheme – red armor, gray uniform, brown, green or black webbing.

  Looking at the Space Guards from Brite minis, I decided they’d be a great canvas to paint on.

  Used primary magenta ink for armor and neutral gray for uniforms.

  By the way, two of the minis are printed with the Pro PLA/0.06mm versus four printed with basic PLA/0.03mm can you guess which?

  Also a Lord in the bottom with electro lance and a few Space Guards Heavy and Heavier

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

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  giorgis 6:12 pm on April 19, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Filament matters 

  

  

  Mini from Arbiter miniatures, scaled down to 15mm. ELEGOO PLA Pro Purple. Bambu Labs A1 mini with 0.2mm nozzle. 0.06mm layer height.

  So back to basics
  I got a new ELEGOO PLA Pro to test versus my ELEGOO PLA basic. After doing all relevant calibrations I tried using it with the highly fine tuned settings I had for basic (0.03mm layer height, low speeds, etc).

  The results I got were disheartening at least. I got really fine stringing like hair which would cause minor imperfections.
  I tried adjusting temperatures, retractions, z-hop, drying the filament. Nothing worked 100%.

  Then I remembered a lesson I had learned when starting 3d printing: back to basics. Whenever something doesn’t work, reset to default settings.

  I switched to the Bambu default presets for 0.06mm layer height High Quality.
  The results were amazing. Rigid printing minimal layers, no imperfections.

  My theory is that the different properties of Pro are more rigid, so it doesn’t allow the squishing of my other settings I was using for basic. However it works really well with default settings perhaps it fixes itself better together with no curling, stringing or gaps.
   
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  giorgis 12:00 am on April 19, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt131 – Space Aliens 

  Reptilians, aliens, slugs. It wouldn’t be space opera without some (more) xenos. These sculpts from Brite Minis will make great additions to my existing collection.

  I painted the reptilians green with vermillion colour armor. The slug and the alien, in simple colours. Gave the slug a yellow bottom part and satin varnish for this moist effect.

  On another note, I tried to improve my miniatures photography. Used Adobe Lightroom and my white photo box and I think I’ve gotten some better results than before.

  

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 1:25 pm on April 17, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt130 – Space Robots 

  Continuing with various robots from Brite Minis. I love the sculpts with the cloaks, I find them quite unique and fun. The robot inspector is nice too, plus a robot wizard. They can easily work as Soulless or Bots in Five Parsecs from Home., and will be a nice addition to my not-necrons (cyborgs from alternative armies).

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 6:28 pm on April 15, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt129 – Space Bandits 

  More dudes in space. Four space bandits and one adventuress from Brite Minis. The space adventuress has a small imperfection in the face during printing that I hadn’t noticed until after painting, (these minis are tiny let’s not forget), but I guess it could be a scar from a space battle with a space beast.

  

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 10:38 am on April 12, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt128 – Space Mice 

  Pookah space nice from dutchmogul/Ill Gotten Games. Two space fringers already in 18mm scale, and one space pirate from 28mm scale that I had to scale down appropriately. I also did some reposing of the pistol arm of the latter for support less printing, but the supported version turned out okay as well, so I painted both.

  

  

  

  

  

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    sopantooth 6:53 pm on April 12, 2025 Permalink | Reply

    I don’t know why space mice are cuter than space rats but they just are

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      giorgis 7:06 pm on April 12, 2025 Permalink | Reply

      I agree! These space pirates will have a hard time getting their marks to take them seriously

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  giorgis 11:49 am on April 8, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt127 – Another space crew… of sorts 

  Some more sci-fi miniatures from Brite Minis sculpts. Again printed in FDM, 15mm scale (60%), 0.03mm layer height. Printed in a Bambu Labs A1 mini with a 0.2mm nozzle and ELEGOO PLA.

  They’re a space Minotaur, a space elf, a dwarf with minigun and cloudbuster (tribute to Donald Sutherland). The last two are actually “modern” minis that can double as sci-fi.

  They’re not actually a space crew, but… they could be, and given that I painted them together as a group, here they are.

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 6:15 pm on April 6, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt126 – More Space Knights 

  Lately I’ve been printing and painting even more of sci fi miniatures. I’ve been reading Five Parsecs from Home: Tactics, and really want to get back into Unified Space. To do this, I’ll want to expand my collection with more sci fi minis and terrain, which I found recently to be a really enjoyable part of the hobby.

  I finished several different sets these past few days, but I found that photography against the white photobox background really messes up with exposure. So I printed a black photobox, hoping for some better results. Exposure and contrast is better, but the background is visible as the gloss black layer lines of the photobox reflect the light that falls on them. Nevertheless I find it looks better.

  So, Brite Minis has released a set of Space Knight riders. Since they’re modular, I took their heads and weapons, along with some from the Modular Space set, and printed five more Space Knights (and a Space Ranger).

  

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 2:50 pm on March 26, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt125 – Space Dwarves 

  …and a Space Halfling. On a quest to reclaim long stolen credits by a Space Dragon.

  Three Space Dwarves and a Space Halfling from Brite Minis. Printed in FDM, 0.03mm layer height. Love their style. Painted them in a similar style to their showcase pictures, washed with Soft Tone wash to lighten their look.

  

  

  

  

  

   
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  giorgis 3:45 pm on March 23, 2025 Permalink | Reply
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  Miniatures pt124 – Space Knights 

  3d printing miniatures is not yet an exact science. There is a lot of trial and error, and when you get some consistent results, it is imperative that you maintain the same parameters for as long as possible in order to have repeatability. I’ve been printing a whole lot of miniatures lately using the settings I’ve defined, and I think it’s about time I’ve sat down and started painting them. I’m tackling first the sci-fi theme, starting with the Brite Minis Space Knights (now available only in MMF as Brite Minis modulars are available in the patreon only on the month of release).

  I decided to go with a colour scheme similar to the one Brite Minis did on their print showcase. I’ve mixed different techniques; slap chop, layering and washes. Overkill? perhaps, but I love the end result. The armor is painted in reds (Karmine<Pyrole<Vermillion), the cloths are painted in yellows (Vermillion<Yellow/White mix), and finally some greens (Light Green<Yellow Green<Lemon Yellow), for the skin tone I went with my regular mix (Burnt Sienna<Naples Yellow Red<Naples Yellow Red Light), and some Silver for the metallics.