Waiting for paint to dry in the hobby room has been driving me mental, so I hijacked the kitchen table and have been trying out my new 3D Printer.
Re-winding back for a minute, I’ve been waiting for 3D printers to come down to a reasonable price and they finally did (3D printer on Amazon) so £380 isn’t quite down to a cheap paper printer yet but there getting there, and it’s less than the few thousand when this technology was invented.
Anyhoo so done my first test print and watching it print really reminds me of the replicators in Star Trek that I watched as a teenager, but the detail even on this ‘cheap’ printer is remarkable. The print was of a bird inside a cage, but it’s just 28mm (1″) tall.
3D render of print
Wide shot of the cage
And the tiny bird inside
Nick
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Nice print for a first try. As for the printers prices, totally agree with you that they lowered so that now having you own desktop 3d printer is not an utopia at all. I’ll keep checking you blog for more posts. You can see some of my Space Marine 3D print models by hitting the link.