3d printing – a recap
My in-house 3D printing has come to an end, at least for the time being.
In March 2022, I bought a resin printer from Anycubic in an Easter sale, and now I would like to share a recap of my experience. First of all, thank you so much to Broncofish for the help at the beginning. This made the learning curve much steeper, with no major issues, which made it such a pleasant experience right from the start.
What were the costs over the last three and a half years? In total, I spent just under one thousand dollars on the 3D printer and consumables. Here is a detailed breakdown:
Mortal Gods – Behind the scenes of a battle report
Dino and I have been talking about some things and one partially type of content that I want to give a try are battle reports.
I like producing the reviews, but it takes up a lot of time and only fills the building part of the hobby pillars, where as battle reports are documented games, which means they provide for multiple of the hobby pillars, as you do have to assemble and paint the miniatures you need for your games, get to build terrain and have a game with them.
This means the upcoming battle report is a proof of concept, to get a feel for the work load involved, the scope we're going for and to see what we might need to produce content on the level we're aiming for. And not just for Mortal Gods, but for other systems you saw and will see on here as well.
First off all, in case of the Mortal Gods battle reports, a huge thank you not only to Dino for taking care of that game, with the great article series he wrote and magnificient looking miniatures, you can see on here, but to Robert of Wolpertinger Miniatures, as he supported Dino in building the demo table and greek buildings.
Mortal Gods – Building a gaming table
Since it had been clear for a while that we wanted to do a Mortal Gods batrep, but I simply didn't have the skills to build a board myself in such a short time, I did the only logical thing in this situation: I asked a specialist!
Robert, alias Wolpertinger Miniatures, offered to build me a tabletop board on the first weekend of August. I must admit, I had my doubts as to whether this was even possible in such a short time, but Robert persisted, and so I made ample use of his expertise.
To call him skilled is an understatement, and he had already completed the structural framework for half of the board before I even arrived at his place on Friday. We ended up building the other half together.
Mortal Gods – Objective Markers
In preparation of the upcoming demo table and battle reports on Mortal Gods I supported Dino by building some object markers.
I printed the base decoration elements from this set by Edinburgh Miniature Company and a chest from the A Ghostly Odyssey set by Loot Studios and grabbed some 40mm round bases by Warlord Games. Usually my go-to plastic bases are the flat ones by Renedra, but as I wanted to have the decoration immerse more into the ground, I went with the small lipped ones by Warlord.
In total I wanted to build nine objective markers, primarely used for Mortal Gods. You'll mostly be fine with six, but I just wanted to be sure and have a bit of variation depending on the scenario.
Mortal Gods – 3d printed scatter
Having access to a 3D printer is a huge asset in our hobby, and while mine was still set up, I used it for Mortal Gods as well.
Dino initially asked me for some pieces for his demo table, so I printed two statues for him. These are items that you can easily pick up for free on Cults.
Over time, demand for additional pieces grew, so I added a few more items to my print plate.
Blood Bowl – DeathZone Fantasy Football Stock
We talked about the initial six teams of Blood Bowls 3rd edition and how those are represented in my collection, now it is time to go further and look what DeathZone brings to the table (top).
DeathZone was the expansion for Blood Bowl, adding more complexity and options to the core game. And it did this for the first time in 1987, as well as for the 3rd edition in 1994 - this is the one we're talking about. Funnily enough, the '94 release even picks up some of the initial designs, for example spotting a huge minotaur on the cover. The most current edition of Blood Bowl got its DeathZone as well.
Just like the core game we get another batch of six different teams, and a lot - honestly, a looot - of new star players. Unlike the initial batch we do not get 3 "good" and 3 "evil" teams, but a variety of rather special rosters.
July 2025 review
Now that we have entered the third quarter of this year, let's take a quick look back at July. July saw some major events.
Unfortunately, the German Stormbringer subscription has come to an end. Thank you again to Hachette for supplying us with the issues for our coverage. We enjoyed writing about it and giving it a try.
However, we won't be covering Combat Patrol here. This is not because it is not an interesting magazine, but because a lot of the content has already been covered here, especially with the extensive Warhammer 40,000 Leviathan coverage. As the German edition is published after the international one, there is little novelty value from a content creator's point of view, and we would be referring our readers to articles we published in 2023.
Blood Bowl – Fantasy Football Stock
It is time for some stock taking and to give you an idea of the size of this project and collection. I did the same for Necromunda a while back, and now it is time to do the same for Blood Bowl. And in this regards Blood Bowl is something very special, as it was my very first miniature wargame back in 1996.
I talked about my fascination about the Warhammer / Citadel miniatures of the 90s, and why Blood Bowl means so much to me as well. But let us set the scope for my own Blood Bowl journey, the Chaosbunker Blood Bowl League (CBBL).
As mentioned multiple times - the third edition of Blood Bowl was my first full contact with a Games Workshop game (I only had a Blood Angels Captain before and a few White Dwarfs), and this will provide the frame. It depends a bit on how you count the further editions - we are excluding the major update of Blood Bowl 2016 (which is current in Season 2). The third edition was re-released in 2001 and the 2002 handbook, with updated rules was subsequently packed with the boxed set, as an update.
Why does this matter? Well, due to the updates of the Living Rule Book to the rosters, some positions were changed, meaning you would need more or less of certain miniatures per team. Thus having an effect on my collection and the size or at least types of miniatures for each team. For this project I went with what the 3rd/4th edition gave me as an option and kept my orientation on this. In most cases the major changes were the costs of the positionals and Re-roll counters, rarely the quantity.
The core of this project is the German Starter Set, that I was gifted for Christmas in 1996 and still is in my possession and clearly used. This will be the backbone, along with some further additions to the upcoming content, especially the match reports. I came across a remaining stock of a store, where I picked up multiple team boxes, and lots and lots of blisters, with positionals, star players and big ones, moving me very close to completion in the early 2000s.
The core set provided you with the rosters of six different teams, three "good" ones and three "evil" ones, if you want to split them this way. And these are the ones, we are going to take a closer look upon in this article.
Army Painter – John Blanche Masterclass Volumes 1 & 2
I was quite excited when the Masterclass Volumes 1 & 2 by John Blanche were announced, and I bought them as I like the Blanchitsu style we've seen over the years, and I already had a project in mind where I could put them to use!
This is not a review, but merely an unboxing. I am going to use these items for an upcoming project and will refer to this when people ask me how I painted the miniatures.
I previously treated myself to his Voodoo Forest art book, among others, and I even had the honour of meeting him in person at BOYL (Bring Out Your Lead) in 2023. He was responsible for much of the aesthetics of Warhammer and the Grim Dark. I loved his conversion pages in the codices and army books — I'll try to recreate some of these in my retro projects. These new paints would provide a great foundation for bringing some of these ideas to life. However, as I prefer the second edition of 40k and fourth/fifth edition of WHFB in their goblin green bases and 'red phase', a project that would really thrive on that palette is Turnip!
Gaslands – 3d printed items
With the deadline on the access to my 3d printer, I am going through the different project that are in need of attention of 3d printed items. And one of the system that is on that schedule, is Gaslands!
While I do have the cars, the question is - what else do I need? I do have the upgrade sprues that Northstar offers, I have the dice and in terms of core game items, am only missing the tokens and templates.
But beyond that, I need mostly terrain:
- Barriers
- Stacks of Cars (considering just buying a cheap set of Matchbox cars and smashing them in a vice)
- Something to mark the gates / check points
- Pieces to convert the vehicles
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