@blinky465 I tend to play massive games from Kickstarters. Tainted Grail is a great solo-player grim fantasy RPG. A campaign is about 30 hours of gameplay split into two hour sessions.

I really like the game play of Kingdom Death Monster, although playing one campaign took me a year, playing one session per week, four to five hours per…[Read more]

if it looks alright, then where is the issue?

My thoughts exactly! When only my minis are out on the tabletop, you don’t even notice the “scale creep”.
I guess if I were to take them and try to play a game against someone else, my minis would appear overly “chunky” or out-of-scale. But compared to themselves, they look just fine to me (and since…[Read more]

I have been experimenting with some 3D prints on my FDM Ender 3 S1 Pro, which I only recently procured (my first 3D printer), now quite a few years out of launch. I’m sure there are better results to be had with other models. Still, I have been really impressed with the quality of some of the prints, but getting some of the finer detail, even with…[Read more]

@blinky465 These days the hobby for me is just painting and solo board gaming. So if a model isn’t for a board game, I generally 3D print stuff for me to paint. I’ll buy a model if I particularly want it.

how may of you are printing your own minis now?

Only 2D paper standees.

Fixed focal length is an age thing. If you are close to 50 your eyeballs start to harden and they have trouble looking at details. Printing minis bigger might be the solution for now but your vision will get worse with time. So in 10 years you’ll be printing garden gnome size…[Read more]

Ok. On a completely different topic – how may of you are printing your own minis now?
(I’ve not bought a plastic mini for many, many years now).

I’ve a confession to make.
Ever since I realised my eyes now have a “fixed focal length” (I used to be awesome at close-up work but now I find I have to hold things a specific distance away, and anything…[Read more]