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Maybe this is why you *need* a 3d printer?

When I first got mine, I was printing 12 out of 24 hours a day (I would queue it up to print overnight, then set it printing again before going out to work in the morning). I had loads of minis. They made me happy. Then, after a little while, they made me sad. So I got rid of them.

But even though my 3d printer sits idly most of the time now, I still buy into lots of Patreon subscriptions (typically five or six a month). It scratches my itch for collecting cool stuff – but now it’s digital rather than physical; I’ve a hard drive full of cool minis for when I’m ready to paint a few. But they’re not hanging around, taking up space and constantly reminding me of how little I’ve “acheived”.

This months’ Great Grimoire release is a perfect example for me – https://www.patreon.com/greatgrimoire – I’ve absolutely no use for them in any kind of gaming, but love the idea of painting the minis up to make a cool diorama one day. If they were lumps of lead and I was paying £5/E7.00 or so per mini, the idea I had £50-or-so of pewter sitting on the desk for months on end would hurt my brain.

But now I can still “collect” minis – albeit in digital form – even when I know I’ve no intention of printing or painting any of them for quite a while. No mess, nothing hanging around making me sad, but still the dopamine hit of “ooooh new and shiny”. But when I come to print and paint, I fill the build plate with 6-8 minis and paint them all in batch over a few nights (well, I usually get at least four or five done and have even been known to throw a couple in the bin when I simply can’t be arsed with them); hobby completed, more minis than I’d normal paint in one sitting, no great piles of grey shame nagging at the back of my brain.

Get yourself a 3d printer! You won’t regret it 😉