Kalle Bowo

That would have been awesome, indeed but at least now I get to feel the same happiness as a grown man again I am using the Ultimaker 2+. When I bought it about a year ago it costed aroun 2.300€. From my experience I have to say if you want to have a good quality, you really need to spend a lot of money. Before settling for the UM2+ I ordered a couple of test prints from different websites made with different printers, basically the same scale model over and over again (which somehow happened to be the Hand of Nod). And the UM2+ really had the best quality. Sure, by now there are also cool machines like the Formlabs Form 2, which use stereolithography instead of fused deposition modeling, which gives even nicer results (and are also much faster!) but they are also a couple of thousand bucks more expensive Sadly, no, even though the body and the turrets are printed seperately, they are glued to the body. I haven't come up with a way to make them rotatable at this small scale. But I always have to print 2 tanks at once because this gives the molten plastic more time to cool down (printing on that small scale is really tricky, I can tell you) so there's basically always the possibility to glue one turret straight looking forward and the other one looking to the side, to give the whole thing more variation. Plus I also plan an making a larger scale Mammoth Tank which will indeed have a turret that can be rotated, even barrels that can go up and down. I already made some sketches about the functionality, but I still need to work on that.

I thought about this as well. But I believe that I would rather decrease the quality because I would lose a lot of those tiny details instead of gaining quality due to a smoother surface. I mean, just look at it, the Mammoth Tank without its antennas is 8 freakin milimeters high ^^ (with antennas 14mm). There won't be much left after the chemical smoothing but a small deformed blob. I mean, I will surely give it a try at some point when I start printing with different materials (at the moment I use PLA and I think I've heard that this acetone smoothing doesn't work with PLA) but it's not my prio one. As I said, keep in mind just how small this stuff is. It might seem on the photos as if the surfaces are super rough since you can see the layers quite clearly due to the immense zoom, but believe me, holding them in your hands in real life it's far from that. Some friends actually told me after holding this stuff in their hands "man, i'm impressed, I thought 3D printers make ugly surfaces, but yours is quite fine". To put it in perspective again, here's a photo of the last photo displayed at 100% true pixels as seen on my flatscreen monitor with the actual model in front of it ^^ I would say EVERYTHING looks rough if you zoom that much in on it

Thanks! Here's another photo of the GDI Guard Towers + Mammoth, just to give you an impression of how tiny all the stuff gets. It still baffles me that the Ultimaker can print those delicate details.

GDI Guard Towers are ready

Thank you yes, I'm planning to paint the stuff. I already got a good airbrush pistol and a couple of colors from a friend of mine but I'm still kind of avoiding to touch that stuff but yes, I want to paint it! Maybe when the Tiberian Dawn base is completed, we'll see ^^ I know the printers you are talking about, but they are not affordable for a person like you and me. I'm talking like 100.000€ or something, Plus the color actually doesn't look so nice, it's always kind of pale.

Meanwhile the Titan isn't done, here's an old photo Remembering the time when it was still warm enough to take that photo out on the balcony

Thank you very much, Monkey! For me it's an absolute nobrainer, making all that CnC stuff. I mean, I grew up with it, built a board game version, modded on Reborn, dressed as a Nod soldier at the GamesCom, it's just a part of me. Doing this stuff brings back so many great memories of childhood, friends and youth. Plus I practice 3D modeling and people appriciate that stuff. CnC still got a huge fan base out there. Making polls about the next model might be an idea. At the moment I'm simply taking notes when people are requesting stuff, for example the RA2 Soviet Missle Silo or the Nod Crawler from TT. Lot of people want to see the Mammoth Tank from TW. I think making an actuall poll wouldn't work. the "fans" of printed armies are scattered too much. Some follow me on Instagram, some on Facebook, in different forums ... I guess it would be easier to just ask on all those different platforms straight out "Hey suckers, tell me what you want, pronto" and then I just add their suggestions to my list. But yep, I thought about the TD MCV as well, I mean it's super iconic and I totally like the look ^^ the cutscene where the MCV unfolds and transforms into the ConYard is permanently burned into my brain ^^ I mean it was super cool back then, wasn't it?! cheers

Happy new year, folks! I'm back and working on something bigger this time, the GDI Titan. Modeling is nearly done. Afterwards I need to cut it into printable parts. Stay tuned! cheers, Kalle

Hey folks, do you have experience with the eSports? I am applying for a position as a designer in that scene and I need a quick crash course about that topic. Things that would be interesting to me are: - What are these things: LCS, ECS, OW, 4-pool stand? - Is there something about eSports that connects these games? League of Legends, Counter Strike GO, DOTA 2, Starcraft 2, Call of Duty, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone and World of Tanks -> If not, but you still know something about one of these games in connection with eSports, feel free to just share your personal experiences and opinions. - Maybe something like a small introduction or resume about that topic in general - Everything else that you find interesting or worth mentioning Thank you very much! cheers, Kalle

Do I look like this or what?!

Thanks! I will probably start with TS next year. I'm so close to finishing the TD set. Only the civilian hospital, GDI's Advanced Comm Center and Nod's Bio Research Lab are on the list. But I somehow just don't find the time at the moment. And then there's already Christmas next month ... curses ! ^^

I guess someone flipped a coin much german, such accurate, wow ...

Hey folks, by now I'm growing pretty tired of this damn Muslim/Koran/refugee discussion that's going on here in Germany. Well and since I consider myself a rational person who likes to make informed decisions, I thought to myself "let's read the Koran" ... "and THEN judge those refugees, muahahaaa" ... No, honestly, I'm an atheist. I believe in science and facts, in freedom, harmony, I am pro tolerance and against violence. Let's say I try to be a decent human being. Anyway, one point on my to do list was also always to read the Bible. And now might be a pretty handy time to read both and compare what they say. So to put this short: Are there any different versions of those two books, the Bible and the Koran, I should care about? I mean I have literally no idea about that, I just heard that there are different versions for example of the bible because they were translated by different people at different points in time or something. Let's say I don't want to order "Bible version 1.2" on Amazon when there's already "version 1.55 extended edition + hotfix" on the market. You know what I mean? So if there's something like a standard or go-to editon of both books, please tell me more about it cheers, Kalle PS: Please, PLEASE don't start any religious discussion down here ^^ everybody is free to believe what they want to believe. And I know many people take these things pretty seriously, so I don't want any bad blood between you guys ^^

I'd say maybe upload them somewhere, send me the link and I will have a look if they are printable out of the box or if they need much work. Thanks for the compliment and also for the offer. Your models look nice, indeed! I will ping you when I'm approaching AR2 for printing

At leats not until now. Some people already asked for the TW Mammoth Tank, one dude wanted the Soviet Nuclear Silo from RA2 ... but I'm really feeling like finishing the TD stuff first, so I got a complete collection, a finished project. But I put these wishes on a list for later. The tricky thing with jumping from game to game is also the scale of the objects. I want to build everything that way that every piece from every game fits together with the all the other pieces from the other games. By the way, why do you ask?