As someone who's painted immolators before, Contrast paints also work really well for painting stained glass while keeping it transparent! In case anyone else doesn't have inks at home.
If you go the acrylic paper route, blobbing some gloss mod podge on the window (test to make sure the ink doesn't run) will give it a good 'old glass' texture
6:06 I thought you were going to add the colour to the windows by adding the 2D print to the 3D print. You do get some free detail with hand painting, though. Is the resin strong enough to print only the black lines so you could get clearer windows?
They don't really have to be any clearer than that. Stained glass windows aren't very see-through in the first place. Their job is to let in a bit of light and to look pretty, and I'd say these ones are pretty close to what stained glass windows look like in real life.
Jen is awesome! I love her make lemonade out of lemons attitude in this video! I'm so glad she's part of Tabletop Time! Off topic: I ate a piece of Dove chocolate last night, and the quote in the wrapper reminded me of the Ironspire Chapter 1 Q&A video. I posted a picture of it on Twitter.
I think I would have maybe glued/attached the printed window to the back of the 3D printed one - would have saved a lot of time/had a more consistent colour spread! Still, amazing work! Really inspiring!
Yes! I have been waiting for this video since the first one about the cathedral. Clear acrylic paper - its so simple! Thanks so much for this I definitely want to try that out.
Amazing job on those windows! I might have to give this a go myself, though I might take the easy way out and use my laser printer. If anyone wants to give this a go themselves, I will be making the vector file for the window outlines available on our website (once I figure out a good place to leave them)
i use posca pens alot in arts and crafts, and i have a big fat square black one. i bet it would be super good for painting the stain glass frames much quicker
I think I would better enjoy the reveal if it was lit with more of a neutral lighting... The trend of adding colored lights and smoke and other stuff to the reveal of minis is detrimental imho. I want to admire it raw ;) Other than that, well done, it looks amazing!
I kinda disagree. Long ago people actually put dioramas or vignettes on for their friends and family. Perhaps the father would gather his friends on a winter night, tell a spooky tale, and then draw back the curtain to reveal a decorated corner of a room or a cabinet showing the outcome of the tale, even with mother and children in dress up! Costume had a different meaning then, you see, they called it dress up often in English. Anyway, no acting is required, and people would ooh and ahh over the still scene. Then down goes the curtain, everyone applauded. As probably the oldest person on the internet, I find the glory moments of these programs very like that, fitting of the name Diorama.
I thought for sure it was a melty window when it first came out of the printer lol. I really love how everything turned out! I think the extra time spent on the windows helped to boost the whole vibe of the project. Awesome job Jenn!
Question about Illustrator (from a newbie): Why mask the colors to the shapes instead of just "filling" the area? Awesome work and it turned out great! Thanks for sharing!
That looks so cool I can’t wait for the battle report (or kill team I don’t remember what you said) also I don’t remember who the sisters of battle would be going against and so what ever happened to Murray’s necrons
That looks brilliant! Can't wait to see the rest of it! I was hoping you'd go for all resin windows, even before you started breaking it as they'd give more realistic cracks/breaks than trying to cut the transparency printouts
Beautifully done! I'm glad youtube recommended this to me. Looking forward to watching more from your channel. Golden Demon should have a terrain category.
A friend of mine built a cathedral a couple years back and had a quite impressive looking option for stained glass. She 3D printed the metal parts for the stained glass (Between each of the individual pieces of glass, made a mold around the outer edge of it that the printed part could fit in. Primed the prints and put them in the mould, then used bits of transparent ink with clear resin to fill the panes. Having a slight tilt on the mold allowed it to have the slight deformation of old stained glass. Her Cathedral was built with the Pegasus Hobbies plastic kits, being something, originally, for split duty between fantasy and historicals along with pulp games. As a side note, for texturing the mdf, one thing you might have considered for parts of it would be some of the textured plasticard sheets, you can really speed up some of the things like that with them while adding a lot of detail.
Wait, did I stumble across an Aussie tabletop channel with good content? Instasub from a fellow Aussie (QLD). Great video! Inspired me to pull out all my MDF terrain and make something good out of it.
Alcohol ink is a fantastic way to make a transparent tint to clear resins. Whats better, is that it actually stains the resin instead of paints on top of it, so you can get some really nice effects.
Acrylic paper...? Also known to wider world as "transparency". By the way, just popping it in the paper cassette without changing settings and telling the printer what is in there could have melted the plastic and then its new machine or maintenance to change the fixing roller. But do not worry, this happens very frequently.....
For the stained glass, I think I would have clear varnished the 3D prints. Then used the ink stamp method to paint the raised lines. After that, I would use a little clear UV resin to glue the laser-printed transparency to the back.
That's a great video, thanks! I've just started making a cathedral for my imperial fist! Would it be possible to share your 3d files for the resin stained glass windows?
I don’t entirely understand this channel, is it a company that sells tabletop dios and whatnot? Because, I mean, who has all this stuff they have to make something like this? laser cutter, 3D printers etc etc. or is it more “look at all this cool stuff we can make because we have all these cool machines”, these people must come from money because who has the spare cash to just buy all this stuff for a hobby?
Mech Arena is an amazing game, but if you don't like being forced to progress really really slowly once you get some of the better mechs like the Arachnos, Panther and the Guardian, blueprints for those things are kinda rare if you are free to play
If you ever re-visit painting clear resin it would be worth a try using alcohol inks. They do a very good job of staining the resin vs laying down pigment over top of it. Not to say this didn't turn out great, it is amazing!
I would have been lazy and added the printed color transparency to the 3d print. Great job these look awesome! Probably way better painted than my lazy method. I have used the printed transparency for windows before . To add some dimension I painted over the black lines between the colors with black paint. It really added to the effect and made them look real.
Looks awesome, but a small nitpick I have is that I would've liked for the identical stained glass art pieces to have different colors or at least different orientation of colors in the background. It would add a bit more visual intrigue instead of just being clear copies of each other.
You redrew all the vector shapes again to colour them??? here's a tip: place a big rectangle behind the original, select all and just hit divide in pathfinder panel. ungroup and all done
Save a trip - select the manual feed for your paper tray. Start the print and the printer should wait for the special paper to be inserted. Unless you're chasing your ten thousand steps?
Another idea if you have a 3D printer but not a resin printer: print the 'leading' and fill the panes in with transparent colored uv resin (can buy resin and colorant at craft shops)
