r/FdmPrintedWarhammer

I’ve been busy lately working on wall designs for my terrain project, and I think I’ve finally reached the point where I need to stop the never-ending iteration process and admit that the project has hit an important milestone - the core components are essentially finished.

The pieces you see in the pictures are actual printed parts that I’d already consider release-quality. They may still need a bit of fine-tuning here and there, but the main work is done.

So far the project includes:

• 16 uniquely designed wall segments
• 3 print-in-place doors
• 1 special wall with a window (open and closed variants) just to add some fun gameplay moments
• A fully modular multi-level catwalk system

The release is getting closer and closer.

Still planned are damaged wall variants and additional props to help bring the whole setting to life.

Please let me know what you think. Any feedback is greatly appreciated and genuinely helps shape the project!

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I have been using them lately to do a Death Guard army and clear my back log. I was speed paint curious since they came out. They work ok but the minis are THIRSTY and I feel like it takes more to get the desired result. You also have to spread them fast so they don't settle. (Speed right) I'm assuming because the layer lines. If you really zoom in it does kinda make them noticable but as soon as your table distance away it looks great and saves so much time. I still have my Night Lords I'll buy from GW and spend hours/days on one figure but the speed paints can work. Priming with a thicker Rust-Oleum seems to be key. I will then usually also drybrush. Here's a great unclean one I just finished. I forced myself to be ok with it instead of going back and detailing, edge highlighting, cleaning it up and all that shit. You can do that with them though you just have to let them dry for a few hours or they can reactivate and get sloppy. The only thing here that's not speed paint is the aggrax earth shade I used in the fat folds as well as "Blood for the Blood God" effect and then the paint on the base. Bonus FDM supportless death guard as well. Obviously these are zoomed in but just hold the phone away from your face to get an idea.

Had to add this as a community rule and realized we somehow never actually had rules until today.

So I’m asking you guys: what should the rules of this sub actually be?

I’m not a professional Reddit mod. Honestly, I’ve never even been a mod before. I just felt there needed to be a place for FDM Warhammer stuff because I wanted one myself. That’s why I’m bothering you all with this now.

Thx in advance <3

C&C welcome and appreciated. This guy was a ton of fun to print and paint. Some layer lines visible, but I think the paint does a decent job hiding them

I know not the same for variety of reasons but I have $20 gundam with the more options.

I finally finished the first step of this "mad lad" project I started a while ago! I just wrapped up applying the decals (exepted on I teared) of the first company of 100 of my space knights chapter: the Knights of Brrakis.

The Knight of Brakkis are a Chapter forged by the relentless brutality of their homeworld, a realm of infinite prairies where the soil belongs to colossal, predatory earthworms. While the planet’s unstable magnetic field renders all anti-grav technology useless, the Knights do not seek to hide; they are the only beings strong enough to face the terrors rising from the deep. These warriors protect the planet’s greatest treasure: vast, natural fields of Promethium that bleed from the earth. Deploying massive columns of heavy tracked vehicles, the Chapter turns every harvest into a war zone, using the roar of their engines to bait the monsters into the open. For the Knights of Brrakis, the hunt is the only way to secure the fuel that powers the mankind war machine.

The production was quite a journey: I started the prints on an Ender 3 with a 0.4mm nozzle and finished the rest on a Bambu Lab A1 Mini using a 0.2mm nozzle. The infantry are BriteMinis’ "Space Knights" models, which I customized with some head swaps and weapons. Every thing is supporteless printed.

As for the paint job, I kept it simple with a "speed-paint" approach: cheap rattle-can primer, a few brush details, and a quick dip in wash.
Next up: painting the tracked vehicles!

0.2mm nozzle 0.08mm layerhight and alot of love (also hate)

For scale I used a 32mm Base for painting

Wanted to try and half document my journey and also say thanks to all the amazing people on here for all the help they have given,

I am almost done with printing the leg section of the warlord titan, I have been printing on both a bambu a1 mini and a prusa mk3.9s, I have been printing with a 0.4mm nozzle and 0.08mm layer height, tree supports on. 25-40% infill gyroid

A few things I have learned is that position is everything in these prints, a part that is positioned perfectly will print a million times better than a badly positioned one, also make sure when planning your warlord to add failed print and calibration prints to the amount of filament needed, I am pretty sure I lost a whole spool of filament at the start due to bad settings and print positions.

I do happen to have one question for you guys, should I assemble just the leg parts and paint it or should I wait till it's all done?

I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has, and will probably post another update once I am halfway done.

Thank you everyone for this amazing community and I hope you all have a amazing day!

Bonjourno, so you may have seen the post a few days back about me gathering thoughts on filling layer lines.

Top two suggestions were automotive primer filler and acrylic gesso.

Thank you to everyone for all of the other tips and tricks, I really appreciate it.

In my attempt I went with Mr hobby surfacer 1000 grey (2x coats) shellac 1/4 pint cut (I'm a woodworker), scrape down with a Stanley blade, 2 coats of Mr hobby surfacer mahogany 1000.

Now I don't want to put lipstick on a pig, or at least not too much, so I painted it within 4 hours and called it.

This was only ever a test of can I print and fill it reasonably enough.

The print was with. 0.4mm nozzle, layer height was 1.2mm.

No special optimisations, setting were generic for sunlu high-speed pla.

This is the first tank I've painted in 30 years, after a long ass hiatus. Anyway here's what was and what it is.

This was also a reason to hide from the from the psychophage I started painting and kind of bottled it after a long session.

(The psychophage was not printed)

Ps, oh yea are these reasonable colours for salamanders? ( I used Caliban green and scorpy green).

Always loved legged tank designs so I created a custom Spider Tank for my army. Turned out great!

After trials and travails, success!

Changing the Top Z distance to .16 (with a layer height of .08) helped a lot, Some of the STLs were defective, though, in ways that I couldn't see without zooming in on the sliced plate.

Still need to run off some backpacks, but TBH they're the least of my worries right now. These three guys are the first marines I've built in fifteen or twenty years.

A1 mini 0.2mm nozzle 0.08-0.06mm layer hight

So I’ve been trying to print these destroyers on an a1 but the arms and legs keep breaking I’m wondering if anyone has any tips on how to stop that from happening again as far as I’m aware currently it’s due to the supports

Bambu A1 Mini, using the Fat Dragon adaptive layer height profile. .08mm (adaptive) layer height, basic PLA. And... as you can see in picture 1, I'm having a damn hard time getting the support stuff off. Anyone got suggestions for part orientation, z distance, and interface spacing?

Printed out a pair of rhino and used some left over bits to detail them.