Building terrain, sculpting models or bits, and making the types of things that just help your hobby life be a little easier.
To me, 3D printing is a technical substitute to several artistic pursuits in the hobby.
We’re going to ignore the “To make counterfeit models” reason to 3D print, because I think it’s both a disservice to 3D printing’s role in the hobby, and also illegal. Future installments will get more into the weeds about those choices.Īlso – if you want a more conversational approach to some of this, the latest release for Lost to the Nails is myself, Brian Harvey and Carl Tuttle discussing this. For this installment, we’ll be covering the “Why?” of 3D printing – what appeal does it have for wargamers – as well as some of the basics of deciding what kind of 3D printer you want. So this is a start of a series that is going to attempt, at least, to provide that. This blog has covered 3D printing in the wargaming hobby before – is it a threat to the hobby? The promised future? But while there are a lot of opinions about 3D printing in the hobby, I’ve found there’s not a whole lot of resources in going over the basics of getting started, what you need, etc.
