I printed this guy a few months ago for the lols after some cheeky chap released him on Cults the same day as the real deal went live on Warhammer.com.
Found him rolling around in the "to paint" drawer the other day and decided to slap some paint on him. Now he's back in the drawer since I don't play Space Marines 👍
So after recently sharing a model that I realised was mostly likely AI generated as I was painting it, some members of the sub suggested looking in to paid models on myminifactory to avoid the same thing happening in future. So I did just that and found a fantastic deal on six awesome looking giants by TPK Lab.
This is my first print from this set, a Storm Giant. Scaled to roughly Gargant size for play in Warhammer AoS. Printed at 0.05mm with a 0.2mm nozzle over about 28 hours, using Sunlu PLA+ HS 2.0. Primed with Jenolite black filler primer followed by a white spray from above and a blue spray from below.
I shared a just printed, unpainted shot of this guy a few weeks back, been working on him on and off since, called him finished last night. Excuse the rough highlights (or lowlights on the hammer), I'm usually more of a speedpaint user but decided to try some different things here.
So anyway... I downloaded the model as I thought he looked pretty cool, along with a few other giants the "creator" has shared (I've been looking for proxy giants to play in Spearhead), and even in the slicer he looked pretty legit.
But, as I was working on the model, things started to feel off. There's no definition or consistency to the detail on the armour, for example, the shoulder pads are different sizes, like the perspective of the source image has been incorporated into the 3D model, and lots of details just feel... Mushy, for want of a better word.
At the end of the day, it's a free model, nobody forced me to download and paint it and it's ended up looking pretty okay, if I may say so myself. But the thought that I've probably spent WAY more time painting this thing than the "creator" spent "modelling" it just feels wrong, and I just dunno if I can be arsed going ahead with two more of them when I'd feel kinda dirty putting them on the tabletop anyway.
This happened to anyone else?
So I guess it reached 60c+ in here today as I came home from a day out to find a few of my models have developed the brewer's droop.
Not my model - downloaded here: https://makerworld.com/models/2502814?appSharePlatform=copy
...should be labelled as AI generated content.
What says the sub?