Yeah. All those issues you had with your 2d printer jamming and not connecting to the pc add a dimension and toxicity and fire hazards
That's 3d printing. It's a pain in the ass. Worth it if you really love customising your 3d model army just so, or love digital sculpting, but yeah most people end up not using theirs.
Part of that is model painters having a spending problem anyway. But part of it is that 3d printing just is not fun, its perpetually at the 'hobbiest' tier in terms of quality and hassle. You can at least buy a 2d printer that just works but you are expected to have to fix and troubleshoot and deal with all sorts of shit for your 3d printer. It aint fun. It's work, and I immensely dislike it.
But F-me, those minis are ugly. Horrendous. Like out of the 90s. You can very easily get 200x better from 500 different patreons or minifactory 'tribes'. And the skilled-ish painter (looking on their insta, they aint great, but above average) couldnt even save them, I'd hate to see what they look like by joe-average painter.
Tech issues weren't the problem for us. It was the material quality. You just get to the point where it's not worth printing a phone case rather than buying one for example.
Strength issues are intended. It's part of the US govts gun blueprint honeypot. But, using the phone case example, you can't print you own Otterbox without jumping through hoops to get actual tensile strength.
sometimes all you need is dollar store junk, but specifically modeled to your needs... which effectively makes it not dollar store junk. also, you don't actually need to go to a dollar store, waste half an hour looking for the right thing in their pile of crap, and possibly interact with their less than mentally stable customers.
in my experience even basic pla or petg prints are way stronger than cheap chinesium crap. because you actually use your brain when you model them, unlike chinese crap designers.
got myself a printer several moths ago and that thing is never idle more than a couple days. either I need some custom crap around the house, or my wife needs some decorative thingy, or my daughter wants a toy(and would you look at that, there's a new pink pla spool to try out).
I dont make dollar store junk? I make a lot of weird stuff around the house that are specifically for the niche uses like sorting out items as i want them to be sorted, game inserts, wall decorations, wall organisers etc.
How breakable they are depends on what material you're using and what printing settings you're using. Sure they're not going to be metal or injection moulded plastic strong but for some items they dont need to be
What's the point in making cheap breakable junk that is cheaper to buy?
You seem to be confused as to what 3d printers are for. They're not going to outperform mass-production injection molded for price. If it is something you can readily buy, it's not something that you should be 3d printing.
3d printing is for making things that are not commercially available: hard to find parts, custom parts, prototypes.
What's the point in a home-ink jet printer if the quality is so much less than the quality of National Geographic?
Because sometimes, you want to print something besides a 1:1 copy of something from the newsstand. Likewise, it would be cost-prohibitive (not to mention retarded) to contract someone to spin up a photogravure press so you could make a pristine copy of a utility bill for your filing cabinet.
Idk these days. It's been a while. Not buying cheap material for the 3D printer ended up being difficult.
Yeah. All those issues you had with your 2d printer jamming and not connecting to the pc add a dimension and toxicity and fire hazards
That's 3d printing. It's a pain in the ass. Worth it if you really love customising your 3d model army just so, or love digital sculpting, but yeah most people end up not using theirs.
Part of that is model painters having a spending problem anyway. But part of it is that 3d printing just is not fun, its perpetually at the 'hobbiest' tier in terms of quality and hassle. You can at least buy a 2d printer that just works but you are expected to have to fix and troubleshoot and deal with all sorts of shit for your 3d printer. It aint fun. It's work, and I immensely dislike it.
But F-me, those minis are ugly. Horrendous. Like out of the 90s. You can very easily get 200x better from 500 different patreons or minifactory 'tribes'. And the skilled-ish painter (looking on their insta, they aint great, but above average) couldnt even save them, I'd hate to see what they look like by joe-average painter.
Depends on the printer. I've pretty much never had issues with my prusas but I've had issues with nearly every other brand
Tech issues weren't the problem for us. It was the material quality. You just get to the point where it's not worth printing a phone case rather than buying one for example.
Strength issues are intended. It's part of the US govts gun blueprint honeypot. But, using the phone case example, you can't print you own Otterbox without jumping through hoops to get actual tensile strength.
? I've bought lots of cheap pla. My current fave is like 12 bucks usd on sale regularly
To make dollar store junk? What's the point in making cheap breakable junk that is cheaper to buy?
Never played Warhammer 40k, eh?
sometimes all you need is dollar store junk, but specifically modeled to your needs... which effectively makes it not dollar store junk. also, you don't actually need to go to a dollar store, waste half an hour looking for the right thing in their pile of crap, and possibly interact with their less than mentally stable customers.
in my experience even basic pla or petg prints are way stronger than cheap chinesium crap. because you actually use your brain when you model them, unlike chinese crap designers.
got myself a printer several moths ago and that thing is never idle more than a couple days. either I need some custom crap around the house, or my wife needs some decorative thingy, or my daughter wants a toy(and would you look at that, there's a new pink pla spool to try out).
I dont make dollar store junk? I make a lot of weird stuff around the house that are specifically for the niche uses like sorting out items as i want them to be sorted, game inserts, wall decorations, wall organisers etc.
How breakable they are depends on what material you're using and what printing settings you're using. Sure they're not going to be metal or injection moulded plastic strong but for some items they dont need to be
You seem to be confused as to what 3d printers are for. They're not going to outperform mass-production injection molded for price. If it is something you can readily buy, it's not something that you should be 3d printing.
3d printing is for making things that are not commercially available: hard to find parts, custom parts, prototypes.
Because sometimes, you want to print something besides a 1:1 copy of something from the newsstand. Likewise, it would be cost-prohibitive (not to mention retarded) to contract someone to spin up a photogravure press so you could make a pristine copy of a utility bill for your filing cabinet.
Manage expectations.