dropshipbob wrote:
First up is a Kickstarter figures (all grey) from the Heavy Water line. This was my first Kickstarter and to say I'm disappointed is an understatement. First I paid for 3D print files and I couldn't find anyone to print them for months! Got them printed only to find the guy who made the files forgot to add in the freaking hinges for the elbows and knees! So....now I have to cobble those parts together myself. Probably won't be funding a Kickstarter ever again.
i was watching out for that kickstarter, since empiretoyworks had it's ship to preview and it looked pretty cool. when it finally opened up - the figures were not very good designs. the faces were terrible. the bodies were very thin. "brittle" and "crumbling apart" were the words that came to mind when i finally saw everything together.
i ended up not backing it, the ship itself wasnt worth it because i have so many other kickstarters i've backed from miniwargaming to upscale ships to 1:18. i wouldnt NOT back something just because of one kickstarter was no good.
i have a couple bad experiences with kickstarter:
-3d models: it's my fault, because i shouldnt have backed it to begin with because the creator didnt disclose it's wargaming size, and my intention was always to upscale to 1:18. it was going to end up 7ft tall and 2ft wide. had i known that sooner, i would have saved 50 bucks. which for what that project was was about 5x more than it was actually worth.
-another action figure kickstarter.
not everyone is the same. if i passed after being so sour with them i'd never have backed callsign: longbow.
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It is official, 3D printed figures are NOT worth the time or money.
it depends on who printed it for you too, what their settings are. i print with an fdm printer and for what i want i get really good results. there are guys in facebook groups printing o-ring figures and they're pretty well made. it's the cost that is what hurts them (60-100+ bucks); and if you commission your paint that's another 150 bucks on top. no figure is worth 300 bucks. like i said, i have an fdm because im too lazy for the additional finishing work from a resin print and i get results i am happy with - and i am SUPER critical about my projects. im sure you went with someone that prints 1:18 scale figures already though.
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I put most of it together tonight after cobbling the elbow and knee joints. Most of the areas around those joints are so thin they broke. The shoulder, hip and neck joints are not tight enough and the arms, legs and head flop around a bit. I could take them off and build them up with super glue, but then I risk breaking THOSE parts due to excessive wear and tear. Also, the peg that was supposed to join the upper torso to the abdomen broke off inside the torso (I knew this was going to happen), so now I have to fix THAT as well.
the heavy water figures in particular, looking at them in the campaign they were destined to have all the problems you pointed out anyway. i would not be surprised that a ton of people have these files they cant do anything with because they're so brittle looking. you can see in most of their pictures the poor quality of their advertising prints were. it was bad. lots of print warts that werent sanded off. i think i even saw where a printed part wasnt a complete piece but cant find that image - hard to describe but where a ball would fit into a socket, the socket didnt look like it was a full socket and had a gap. anyway, i've dumped on this kickstarter enough. it needed a lot of polish, but it also looked like only one guy that was kind of doing the figure stuff as a "hey neat" thing for his comic book that was actually the project he wanted to do.
for anyone wanting to know what heavy water is/was
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/he ... and-comics
