Warhammer Quest (1995) Rebuilt

I’ve been 3D printing now for two weeks and I have learned a lot. You can read up on things beforehand all you want and until you experience it you don’t really know. Resin for example. I underestimated how brittle it was. This skeleton was barely touched on the sword and it snapped off easily. Asking around the OnePageRules Discord I asked if I was over exposing my UV curing process and found out that is a myth that continues to go around. Always double check what someone says on Reddit! XD But yeah you can’t expose a print to too much UV. The source of my brittleness is in the chemistry of what is used for water washable resins. This also was another beginner’s trap I fell down. I thought I’d save some money, time, and hassle by using water washable resin. Nope. I now have a gallon jug of resin water I’m waiting to evaporate before I can evaporate some more. Water also doesn’t seem to wash as long or as well as Isopropyl Alcohol does.

So this week I ordered some Sunlu Labs ABS-like resin on the recommendation of the OPR 3D printing community and will be giving that a try when it and my IPA shows up. Hopefully both together by this weekend but we will see. Here is an example of the differences with the resin types, imagine water washable resin before standard resin where it breaks right away.

Quite the difference. Will be interesting to see if I can get close to durability of hard plastic kits as that is what I am used to. I had spent the weekend basing and adding magnets to the bases for storage that would be easier on the brittle weapons. Now I’ve stopped everything to work in the new resin. I don’t know what this means for the models I’ve already printed but I don’t feel comfortable painting them. Just handling them for the photo I had this weapon snap off at the joint.

So what do I do with the leftover resin that I currently have? I’m going to use it on some bigger monster models and other practice prints. I have some Giant Bats that I’m going to reduce by 50% scale and I’ve heard going that far never goes well. On the other hand I’ve been seeing some of the OPR folks scaling current models down to Epic scale which is crazy. If the prints don’t come out right at least it was with my remaining water washable than the ABS like stuff.

It would be easy to take a defeatist attitude on this but I’m using it as a learning experience. Like I wrote earlier I had read that resin was brittle but experiencing how brittle for my tastes and handling had to be done. At least I learned only two KG of resin in and not all the way to painted models at the table. I’m sure I have much more to learn along the way and I’ll be sharing those lessons in this project as I work my way through the rest of the bestiary. Before I wrap up this entry have a look at some ratmen I picked up from OPR during their 10 year anniversary, these will be clan rats and I have the rest of the range to be the skaven I need to complete the set. More to share after this weekend, until then happy hobby time everyone!