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used 3D printing Ted by some to be the
beginning of the end of Games Workshop
is there any truth to that or is it just
too early to tell after trying out some
3D printed bits that we bought in a
previous video today we're going to have
a little competition who can make the
most black Templar
black Templar Jeff who can only use
Games Workshop parts or myself who can
also use those but I'm also going to
have access to a 3D printer and anything
that I can get off of it we don't have
forever to make this video so we're
going to try and see what we can do in
about a day spoiler alert for myself
takes quite a bit longer the black
Templars zealots massively long Crusades
killers of the witch the heretic and the
mutant but most of all very Snappy
dresses as Marines go we use the
Templars as a template for our little
competition here of 3D printed Parts
versus Games Workshop Parts they're the
ideal ones to use they have so many
interesting things candles tabards
chains books you name it though the ones
that we thought would really test what
we could both do when it came to
modeling in an effort to keep Games
Workshop and business their fate rests
on my shoulders I'm going to attempt to
make marines that are battle line ready
using games workshops black Templar
range some people may say Jeff you're
cheating cuz you're already starting
from a Templar base this is true to give
this a real competition I would really
be starting with an intercessor but why
would you when you've already got a
10-man squad which have got tabards and
chains on guns all the things you need
so I got to work I started clipping them
out and trying to find just the right
bits to make the perfect looking
crusading
Maniac so as you can see the parts are a
complete mix I've used some pieces from
the Crusader squad for the main body I
then went and found a very cool head in
the sword Brethren kit and then things
that you must have being your Lantern
your holy hand grenades of antiock and
the big fire on his back all came from
The Sword Brethren kit I had this guy
ready to hunt B and decapitate a witch
in than an hour so I'm team Printing and
if I'm perfectly honest I feel well out
of my depths here I've been put off 3D
printing in the past by watching a lot
of videos and sort of realizing that I
don't have the time or or drive to get
into another hobby I want it to be
easier for me to do but as look would
have it uniformation got in touch and
they very kindly sent us the GK 2 which
which has an incredible reputation for
being a very accessible printer they
also sent a washing station and a curing
box as well so again thank you so much
for your information for sending this to
us but before I play with any of these
cool pieces a kit I'm going to have to
find something that I can print off of
it and I also think I'm going to phone a
friend here to get some
help because I think I need it for the
stls I've decided to use the etal
Pilgrim bits from grow TI Studios
downloaded them from my manufactory for
about 60 quid perfect Gothic bits so my
main questions as I rapidly approach
having to print
something what resin is best to use do I
need to do any test prints calibration
type stuff generally just how does it
all work well as I mentioned I phoned a
friend and they know
what they're doing it's Ross from fa
hammer and I think he knows a thing or
two about 3D printing you can watch his
full technical really good review of the
gk2 just up there he very kindly bought
me some of his wargamer resin from what
I gather it's been formulated to look
and feel like GW plastic something as
wargamers we're all very familiar with
it cleans up nicely great quality all
that good stuff and one of the first
things we did was uh put this sort of
magnetized air filter on the back of of
the printer absolutely amazing feature
keeps all the smells and the fumes away
so printing in the office amazing and
then started to level the build plate
that was surprisingly straight forward
folded up some Little Bits of Paper a
couple of times few twists and turns
with an allen key and you keep playing
and tweaking until you can't pull them
out we just followed a YouTube tutorial
and it was dead easy poured in the resin
got this great great little feature so
you know when it's full and you can't
overfill it I mean I guess you could but
you'd have to really really want to I
got chitu box installed on my PC Ross
sent me this PDF with like the print
settings for his resin and the gk2 and
all I had to do was just install that so
he's done all the testing with the resin
and this printer he just sent me the
file fed it in job done this does feel
almost too easy now it's dragging the
stls into chitu box which does take a
little while making sure everything kind
of overlaps on the bases but not with
the models you want to fill the plate
apparently so you got to get it done
didn't have any software crashes awesome
and then it's time to see how much all
of this will cost me in resin okay so
I've been in chy box for the first time
and I've loaded up my build plate uh I
think I've probably put about five or
six upgrade spru worth of stuff on the
plate which if I was going to buy that
from Games Workshop that would be about
150 quid something like that so I'm
going to hit this slice button and um
I'm going to see how much it's going to
cost me in resin I'm quite excited uh I
don't think it's going to be 150
quid
um I think it will
be
30 let's find out it's
475 close it
off
£475 that's
ridiculous oh my God
okay I I painted this guy mainly using
paints from the AK range I went for a
quite muddy brownish look to the tabard
for most of the armor I did light gray
highlighting and metallic chips to give
it that really warning look to show that
that Crusade he's been on as really
taking its toll on me so I went in with
a couple of different shades of red to
to make him into a veteran Templar I
painted this guy in a couple of hours
whilst I was painting him Pat had to
have out besides helping trying to show
him how to use the
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printer time to hit control p and print
all sliced up just plug the USB into the
gk2 some of the USBs are kind of
notorious for being a bit unstable this
actually has some built-in storage so
dead safe dead secure get that loaded up
and just hit print uh the gk2 has its
own built-in fan heater to get the resin
up to the perfect temperature for
printing once it gets the temperature it
starts printing automatically and it was
about 6 hours for this
print so the the uh print's finished I
can
see the outline of models through the
case uh I'm going to open it up and uh
try and clean them Ross isn't here
anymore um I feel I feel a bit naked
without him uh but I'm sure I'll be fine
and if I mess anything up
um only cost me a FIV so um maybe 10
quid isn't isn't too bad uh but yes
cleaning next first time doing it see
what happens
got to wash and cure them rins them off
first and then it was into the
Ultrasonic Cleaner seemed easy
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enough and just let them drain for a bit
into the curing station did that for 10
15 minutes until they didn't feel tacky
anymore
done results of my first print really
shiny and some loss of detail after
speaking to Ross he thought they weren't
in the cleaner for long enough as there
was some sort of leftover Blobs of resin
just in the recesses of stuff obscuring
some of that detail after looking at the
cleaner I realized that I hadn't taken a
piece of foam out from under the tray so
that would have stopped it cleaning
properly I
am an idiot even though I made the
mistake with the Ultrasonic
Cleaner some of the detail is is still
actually really really good I think you
only really notice it when you compare
them to the second prints that I did
especially like on the bases the
recesses that kind of stuff you can you
can really see how much of a difference
that's made is just a lot cleaner a lot
crisper I still wanted to make something
of these so had a play and stuck a bunch
of parts on a marine torso first attempt
at my third party Black Templar I feel
like I might have overdone it a bit I've
been let loose with the freedom of 3D
printing cool bits and I'm not sure this
quite looks like a Space Marine anymore
maybe the helmet makes it a bit less
Warhammer I've also used quite a lot of
bits I've used eight on here which might
be too much is less more in this case
but if I want to use less bits also
what's the point this printer is awesome
and after making this first does my kind
of immediate thoughts are it's like
being handed the keys to a
Ferrari and only driveing to the shop
and back I don't think I'm using the
printer to its full potential
I guess is is what I'm trying to say
right then it's the end of my working
day I have a school run to go to I've
got a completed templ you looks great
he's ready to join his mates he in fact
he is ready to take the tentacle clean
off a mutant shoulder this guy looks
like a black Templar the parts are
designed to go on a black Templar I have
a whole range of them at my disposal
sitting there on spru I can take him to
a tournament and no one's going to be
looking at me going what's that thing is
that off a printer took no time to clean
up
a file and a set of Clippers I put this
guy together got him painted Pat had to
have a friend around teach him how to do
it if I'm being honest I think they went
and had a paint and then he came back
and carried on staring through the
little glass window this guy cost
8159 but he didn't really because who's
making one Templer we know there's loads
of them for that amount of money you're
going to get 15 Miniatures and also the
ability to upgrade a vehicle and turn a
generic Marine captain or left tenant
into something that looks a little bit
more like he should be in charge of your
Templar Army this guy's blantantly a
black Templar he's got a tabard he come
from a box full of things that are black
Templar there is no way you confusing
him as anything else I've got this in
the bag Games Workshop make him they
call them black Templar already so my
Nemesis in this video being Pat I've had
a look what he was doing and I've got to
say there is some great stuff there some
of the 3D parts are really really Gothic
some of them look a little bit like I
would know where to start painting them
cuz there's a lot of detail and a lot of
it's tiny but to be fair some of it I am
a bit jealous of I'd like to be having
in my Templar Army so take two hit
reprint and time to try
again cleaned up the second Bunch let
them dry for a lot longer this time gave
them a quick dab with a paper towel
before I put them into the curing
station and this time it worked way
better as I as I said so whilst I make
up my second and third attempts with the
3D printer I think my thoughts are as
follows Games Workshop obviously own all
the IP to this sort of stuff bits
companies can get close but they're
always going to be an imitation I think
with these bits the shoulder pads are
absolutely my favorite the skulls
candles and capes are all sort of
secondary to that the they're a great
addition to a GW kit adding a bit of
flavor I think I still find myself going
for the bolters and the flamers and all
that kind of stuff first over these 3D
printed arms and guns and that kind of
thing you start changing too many things
it does become less sort of Warhammer
40K less black Templar I think maybe
doing this with just one or two
marines maybe was the wrong idea and
this is better suited over a larger
number of Miniatures if they've all got
cool flames on I think that would that
would look a bit better or if one in 10
backpacks were different that would look
better than every single backpack being
different if that makes sense so Games
Workshop own black Templars they decide
what they look like if you want black
Templars to look
official Games Workshop are the best
option or you can just sort of put on a
few little bits here and there but
again having all this equipment it it
feels almost like an improper use of it
to print off a little candle and stick
it on someone's backpack or something
like that but if you are a hobbyist that
really enjoys 3D printing and you've got
the time to invest into it then I think
you know absolutely using the bits on
your Miniatures and customizing them and
been able to go wild Is
Awesome The more I've done this
The more I've enjoyed it I think I the
the more I print the more I play the
more I get out of it have I made better
black Templars than Games
Workshop probably not have I had a lot
of fun and have I made some some cool
looking Marines yes I think I have so as
I mentioned previously and with my sort
of sports car misusing it analogy I feel
like that's on me for not feeling like
I'm not using this printer to its full
potential so whilst I've been building
up this second lot of Marines I've had
some full Miniatures printing in the
background and check out this orc dude
from mesg and these definitely not
killer cans this feels like I'm cooking
with gas now and using all this awesome
kit to more of its potential I might
even try and uh start printing busts and
and painting some of those Games
Workshop who and again there a bit of a
shout out to the quality of the printing
and the resin that I Ross very kindly
sent me I had a friend over to the
studio and he picked up one of these
Miniatures and said oh cool which bits
are 3D printed cuz the color is quite
similar the quality is exceptional so at
first
glance it's yeah it's really nice
building
3D printed bits with Games Workshop bits
and they look quite similar I'm more
used to having sort of white resin bits
that stick on and and you can only sort
of start to get a feel for the miniature
after it's been primed with these they
look amazing straight
away and I feel like with this sort of
orc boss with his massive Axe and his
Gro gunning on the
top this this really feels like I'm I'm
I'm getting into it now assembling this
and and seeing it and all the options
that they gave you and yeah this is
great fun I I I feel like I've I'm
starting to get bitten by the 3D
printing bug so initially we went into
this video thinking that it might be
sort of like a fun dayong competition
see what we can do with 3D printing
going to destroy Games Workshop is the
sky falling down and I think that was
probably the wrong way to go about it
this has been really great great fun all
in of itself I think the wonderful thing
about the hobby is it's almost whatever
you want it to be if you want to have
all of this and use it to print shoulder
pads awesome definitely recommend it but
if you want to print your full
Miniatures as well if you don't even
want to use it to print Miniatures and
you want to print door stops you can
just do whatever you want and I think
that freedom of having the 3D printer is
amazing so there we have it the channel
first foray into 3D printing parts for
wargaming is the sky falling down for
Games Workshop for the majority of its
customers I'm going to say no whilst
this process has been remarkably
straightforward it's
still several extra layers in a whole
bunch more time if you could just go out
and buy a plastic kit anyway all that
being said though I did have an
incredible time I think this has been
the closest you can get to hitting
contrl p and Miniatures come out of the
other end and it's been a really really
fun experience to try and get to grips
with if you love 3D printing I'm sure
Games Workshop have lost out on some
amount of money for people that print
their Miniatures instead of purchasing
from them is a printer like this how it
starts how far are we along the curve of
3D printing taking over additional
injection mod of plastic I think it's a
little bit of a way off as easy as this
was it could potentially still get a
little bit more user friendly and a bit
easier but incredible printers like the
gk2 are definitely pushing people like
me onto that curve here I am printing my
first bits of models and having a lot of
fun in the process if you have thoughts
on this I'd be really Keen to know I'm
by no means an expert and I'm just sort
of verbally diering what my experiences
have been this video started off as a
competition and honestly I've got no
idea um where we're at now a huge thank
you for watching especially if you've
made this far and again to our patrons
who make all of this possible you guys
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