u/AmberlightYan

I've been experimenting with printing minis for a while and I think set my printer up as well as I can, yet still I don't get prints as clean as some that are showcased here. Layer lines are fairly sharp and visible even on 0,05 height and 0,2 nozzle.

So perhaps it is the filament that is lacking. Are there any specific types of filament best suited for making minis?

Edit: do non-standard filaments like Silk make any difference, or do they just add extra complications?

I played just a few games and in cases where I had to go first I felt at a severe disadvantage.

If I try being aggressive and score objectives I take heavy losses because Eldar units are ridiculously squishy and can't take a hit.

If I play it safe and just reposition my units then I don't get to score anything and if I am not careful enough, risk getting my units exposed to enemy fire anyway (in latest game Lord of Change got to Deep Strike on the first turn in a position where it could see a little bit of my Fire Prism and deleted it immediately).

The advise I've seen talk about using low-value units to draw out the opponent but do we really have "chaff" units to do so? Even Guardians are 100 units for 10 soldiers that die as easily as Imperial Guardsmen at nearly half the price per head.

Edit: speaking about 1000 points games.

I've been looking at some 3D models for extra effects for Eldar weapons and it had a Shuriken Cannon shoot giant ninja stars. And the Wasp walker has a shuriken cannon belt-fed with similar ninja stars.

Which frustrates me to no end as this is very much not how the weapon is described in the lore. If anything it sounds much like Mass Effect guns: an acceleration field launches thin slices of dense material at hypervelocity. So it is a shuriken in the sense that it is a flat projectile, but it is extremely thin projectile, not a giant ass ninja star!

I guess the thing on the Wasp's cannon can be smaller slabs that are star-shaped, and then each one is sliced into several dozen individual shots. But anyhow, taking the "shuriken" part too literally is a poor design choice.

Just ranting.

EDIT: Good responses all, I concede that I am wrong regarding official lore. But my issue stands, it looks like a silly ninja star. The flat projectile could have a myriad of cool and interesting shapes, but instead its stars from a cool ninja corner shop.