FAQ and Resources
Helpful answers to common questions and useful resource to help you
My immediate financial interest would obviously be to tell you to get one!
But, of course, life circumstances don't always permit a resin printer, which is what you generally want for printing my figures.
For my ships, I recommend FDM machines like any of Bambu's. These are designed to be easy-to-use
If, however, you're more interested in purchasing prints, you can find a list of my active Commercial Licensees here.
I have many tutorials on my YouTube channel. I can be a bit long-winded in my explanations, but 99% of the things people ask me about are covered there.
At the least I'd recommend that anyone who wants to use my Blender files please at least watch one of the recent Blender Export tutorials before asking questions - if only to save your own time in waiting on a response!
I'd like to, but I don't really have the time as the Kickstarters and Patreon constitute a full-time job. However, I will at least hear out any requests and have, in the past, done small jobs.
When I do accept a commission I will offer an initial quote based on how long I think it'll take and my hourly rate. The only condition I attach is that I retain ownership rights over the model and may sell it on the web stores. To that end I am not, at this time, interested in designing models for others' ranges.
If you have suggestions for miniatures or ranges, you're welcome to make them!
In the case of ships, I usually add suggestions made by anyone that I think have merit to the Ship Polls.
For Figures, things really depend. Anything that I think of as "big" I hold back for Kickstarters. Ranges with less mainstream appeal get relegated to the quarterly Mini Range Polls. One-off sets or expansions to existing ranges are likely to wind up as standalone releases on the Roadmap.
All the contents of my Kickstarters eventually ends up on the webstores, and that's the place to acquire items after release. The pricing of a Kickstarter is intended to reflect the fact that these are unreleased items that are in-development, and backing them early is like a speculative pre-order; a backer of an incomplete project is taking a risk, after all! Therefore this isn't a deal that's offered retroactively once the product is finished.
On a product's page on MyMiniFactory you'll see a tab labelled "Object Parts" on the right side of the screen. Clicking that will open up a dropdown menu displaying the full contents of a product.
Bundles are displayed at the top of my MyMiniFactory store (when not filtering by collection).
There is a scaling page which details all the heights of my miniatures.
For matching specific brands of mini, I recommend measuring the boots-to-eyeline height of said miniatures (but do account for base thicknesses too) and the info from the scaling page to figure out scaling settings.
You can also ask other users on the Discord. I'm not of much help since I got rid of all my metal miniatures years ago!
Please ensure you're running the latest version of Blender.
In my case, I install Blender via the Microsoft Store, meaning it is automatically updated to any new version upon release.
If a Blender file was saved on a version of Blender newer than the one you're trying to open it with, it will crash.
How to create removable "Passenger Blocks" for wargaming vehicles
While my recommendation is that folks print their crew figures as a part of their WW2 vehicles, pre-mounted in their slicers, I thought I'd experiment with making a removable passenger "block" that could be lifted in and out of a 251/C Half-track
