https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3dpprofessor/printaquest
In this video, I’m tired of hearing that I can’t do the very thing I’m currently doing. Not only can FDM print minis, but more minis should be designed for FDM 3D printing because it will result in more successful prints, no matter the process. In this video I debunk the myth that FDM 3D printing can’t print gaming minis.
My last video about Slant3D was one of my biggest videos to date, for all the wrong reasons. Admittedly, the prints were disappointing, but I thought I approached it from a reasonable and forgiving standpoint. Obviously I’m not going to use Slant3D for order fulfillment, but I tried to excuse the print quality as realizing that they weren’t tooled for that sort of printing. However, apparently there was a lot of people who had pent up feelings about Slant3D and used my comment section to vent their frustrations. And once one started, it turned into a hate train. It got so bad that, despite this video out performing everything I’ve done recently, I had to take it down. It’s back up now, but the comments are turned off.
This video, however, was a direct response to many of the comments on that video. But it’s also a response to things I’ve seen for years with designers throwing designs made for pretty renders without regard to the process that they’ll be made in.
In my haste to get this video out today, I didn’t mention that many board games, including the original Hero Quest which largely inspired PrintAQuest, were also beholden to the injection molding limitations, and people love those models. It’s not about allowing designers to do whatever they want. It’s about designers overcoming those limitations.
