Cuboids: Orc release

I've been working on a new project for those with FDM printers that want to print something other than terrain. My concept was to have simple, but characterful, minis that are easy to store (by design) and can be scaled up and down for whatever type of game you're playing.

I've gone through a couple of iterations but I believe I have a something worthy now.

**drumroll**

THE CUBOIDS

The following models have all been printed on a stock Creality Ender-3 V2 3D Printer using Fat Dragon Game's cura profiles.

They can be printed at 28mm for skirmish and RPG games, but you can also go bigger (terrain/boardgame pieces) as well as lower (mass block pushing games).

I made fantasy weapons as well as a couple of scifi weapons (as proof of concept) to see how they would look like and intend to expand the options in the future.

With these, I really wanted to fix an itch that seemed to be impossible to scratch: Simple printable miniatures for wargaming. I like to paint miniatures but sometimes I find it bothersome to paint ultra detailed minis just for a game I might not even like in the end. 

Resin printing is great at going against the grain of normal proper minis, but I find the post processing not a fun step. Not to mention that most 28/32/35mm releases nowadays are so detailed that makes the scaling down pretty much impossible. 

On a more personal note, the main drive for this were 2 fun projects:

The Greenskins Blockers

As some of my previous posts on here may attest, I like Blood Bowl, and I always wanted to have some minis with a little more of a "toy factor" to play with my board game brethren who always seem very disinterested at the prospect of playing miniature games. They're easy to paint, easy to distinguish and most importantly, easy to store. The labels are not that good I admit and I really need to fix that in the future.

Hordes of the Things and other block pushing games

I really like to imagine fantasy armies, but metal and resin costs are not conductive for that. Because of the inherent scalability of these minis, I can just print a batch of them while at work and come home to a bunch of HOTT units of 15mm'ish warriors.

As a proof of concept I made these two armies:

The Troll Wardens

Wild Boar Clan

 

Each of these armies (bases included) were printed in two days while I was at work and lazily painted over the weekend. I'm still struggling with elephant foot on my printer and it shows the lower the scale I go, but I still am very happy with the results.

I'm now working on humans but for now, you can get the orcs, weapons and mounts here:

Gumroad Store

 

Warhammer Underworlds: Hrothgorn's Mantrappers

Last warband painted. As usual, I tend to get a little impatient when near the finishing line, and while acceptable, these miniatures deserve a better paint job imo.

Forest basing tutorial and reusing failed 3D prints.

Some issues with gcode left me with a couple of failed 3d prints.

 

More gobbos and orcs

Something Green in the bushes

After having so much fun hacking away the savage orcs bits for my Shades of Gork project, I finally got to work on the proper kit.

Tried to get a little funky with the bases.

Two Big Stabbas:

Unit of Savage Orruks:

By the end of last year I was also given the opportunity to swap my Warmachine/Hordes stuff for a huge haul (300+) of Warhammer Fantasy orcs & goblin minis (most from battle for skull pass). I took the plunge and after evaluating the depressing amount of time I need to paint everything, I got these done.

Unit of Grot Spider Riders:

 Expect more gobbos next time.

Bloodbowl Zedek's Weirdozers, Team and Troll Conversion

After playing some time with the skaven, I ended up buying the bloodbowl core box. These are the orcs with a Zedek's weirdlads paintscheme.

The Shades of Gork - Spirit Hosts conversion from Savage Orcs

By the dawn of twilight, on the orders of Count Eisen Neergaard the vargheists came. 

Hundreds of the bloodthirsty beasts fell from the skies making the holy grounds tremble as they awkwardly pound the floor in which the tribe of the Holy Rok settled.

The Orruks tried to fight but they were unprepared and, for once, outnumbered. Slaughtered and devoured by the famished beasts, their settlement was reduced to rubble, everything but the solid ground that the greenskins worshiped survived, 

The souls of Orruks however kept bound to their worshiped place of power were not gone, and Nagash desiring them, conjured their essence into existence, but His grasp is not total as the force of the WAAAAAGH is strong enough to waver His commands. 

Led by the old tribe shamans now turned wraiths, they roam the land, terrorizing villages and fighting in Nagash armies and their kin alike.