How 3D Printing Could Save Tabletop Time! 

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To get rid of seam-lines: Take a note from gundam models! Make it an actual seam-line, a groove. Then make the large flat connecting surface slightly recessed. That way the shrinkage will be hidden in the recessed hole, and the outer seam will look like the edge of armor that we can panel line and drybrush/edge highlight! This will also let it print much better even on printers that aren´t perfectly calibrated.

Y'kno, before I even watch this, I want to say that's a really good thumbnail, I don't care for most of the pulled faces, but this one is amazing.

"Murray's cheeky lil paint break" should be the name of a series on the channel

Since the "table top time is in trouble'" video.... you guys seem like youve had a real new spark of life to the channel! Youve been making some really good and different videos! Im very optimistic for you guys! Keep up the good work my dudes

Guys, persevere and persist! You can do it!

Love your content, this is my first comment in my RU-vid history and I’m over fifty. Hope this helps your engagement scores. Keep up the fight to survive.

I am gonna make sure to watch all your video's now! I really want you guys to be able to keep going! I am (Un)patiently waiting for the New Lucivera episode!

As a space bears backer, I'm still holding out hope for your Chaos Dino dudes. I really hope this venture helps keep the lights on, you guys are my fave creators in this warhammery space

Its crazy. Yesterday I commented on a persons Facebook comment about how most channels that do terrain crafting from scratch are dying out on RU-vid because 3D printing is becoming more and more accessible. Your channel came up in the conversation. I wake up today and BAM!! ..... a 3D printing could save our channel video pops up. Pretty much confirming the trend I have been witnessing over the last few years on this platform. Just like how the number of miniature painter channels have exploded over the last few years. Everything is becoming cheaper for the average consumer. Best of luck!!!

Glad you got the HeyGears sponsorship. I saw Fauxhammer have his paid advert video and Once in a six sided dice video as well, and needed TTT to get some of THAT SWEET SWEET MONEY!

Ooh, those deep-sea guys in the old diving suits look really cool.

Hullo TTT Team! I am truly glad that you seem to have turned a corner to keeping your channel going! I am not as sure that I am going to be following the move to 3D printing. It might be just the thing that saves you, but I truly cannot afford the huge expense as well as the learning curve for this new way of creating mini’s to paint or play with. I am still working on the kit that I got from Neil over on Real Terrain Hobbies! I wish you and all of your followers the best as you explore the new realms of creating your own mini’s with the 3D printer boom!

I’ve always been a huge proponent of 3D printing. In fact I commented on one of your videos a little while back stating that I preferred using a 3D printer to buying physical minis and was met with a pointed response. The way 3D printers have evolved makes them a really valid option for building armies and with so many different 3D model creators giving us so many great designs it’s really a no brainer.

For the guns in the turrets, you might want to put a slight pyramid profile on the guns and matching indents in the hollows for them, which would give some self-centering action. For the seam between the halves, you might want to recess the profile of the smaller rear half into the front half a bit with the outer plates giving a bit of overlap.

so glad you found a way to get back to black. I wish you the best.

You know what? I am genuinely glad I discovered and subbed to your channel after your dark time (after MajorKill video). Your Vids are a blast and I enjoy watching the craft, love and support flowing into it! I don't play tabletop, I played games years ago, and read a lot years ago.......But you scratch an itch that could have been and I live vicariously through you! So a big thank you!

It is really great to see the Zorp crew doing their own thing. You have so much drive and talent! I wish you massive success.

Happy to see you guys are branching out, I’d hate to see this channel die.

Nice video, I really enjoy seeing some behind the scenes design and manufacturing. I'm slowly trying to get my own game and miniatures up and running as a bit of a part time business, so its incredibly helpful seeing some of the challenges that come with turning personal hobby into a product. ❤

Nice to see tht TtT will go one, you are one of my favorite hobby channels. Tips for the models: - before removing the supports, put the model into hot tap water for a few seconds. The supports will go of easy and leave almost no support marks - For the connection part, maybe add some panels which lay over the "connection line", so they hide part of it and break up the straight line downwards. - maybe add pre-done cutouts for magnets, puppetswear has it on some models and it's amazing! Also one thing I really hate at tank models is this "one big body to print", I prefer having sub-parts (top, side, bottom, like in model kits). Why? faster to print (especially if you manage to make them be able to lay flat on the print bed), if there is a print error you don't waste so much resin, easier to print (less supports etc.) and easier to customize). As a bonus the model is lighter (even if you hollow the "block) and you have space for some LED tech^^. Maybe something to consider. :)

You both look so happy right now. Love the models 😊😊😊

Having run a kickstarter (albeit smaller and less diverse in terms of the model types) I can totally sympathise with the monumental task of transforming into a manufacturing company overnight. I think you guys have done an amazing job and can’t wait for the next KS.

Fantastic concept art. Love Murray's Cheeky Lil Paint Break❤

One thing that would help get everything to seat in a very specific orientation is to use tapered mating surfaces and have a bit of clearance in the depth for the female side - then that tank gun can just be pushed in as far as it will go and that taper takes up any variation in the fit, so it will always want to lock to pointing squarely forward, and as long as all the parts are from the same batches every one should look perfectly identical. That said I'd not actually want that in this case myself - being able to glue things square is fine, but there are plenty of times you want some variety for visual interest, and guns shouldn't be fixed in respect to their turret anyway, no elevation control means your doomed if your opponent finds a small hill to park on etc. Another trick to get a good repeatable look for things like that tank hull joint can be seen in common use on injection moulded consumer product cases - easy one most of us will have to look at is taking the back off your video game controller - the way one part lips inside the others leaving a small but deliberate seam can hide quite a bit of error.

I LOVE how the aircraft is a VTOL model and makes so much sense for mountain operations!

For that flatbed tank seam-line - i would take inspiration from flatbed trucks make a visible gap, add some bolting in the interior of the bed to make it seem like the bed is interchangeable with different parts.

im so glad there is a chance for this channel to come back, lets help them!

the 20,000 leagues under the sea concept look awesome!! I love the space bears but 20,000 leagues under the sea is one of my favourite books so looking forward to support the kickstarter

This is incredibly cool to see, and Im excited to see it come to fruition! Cheers Tabletop Time, crew!

Dude, I NEVER understand Murray's painting style, but holy hell I love what it looks like. I wish I could mimic it, but hot damn.

If possible, I'd recommend a couple of options for the snowmobile. Have the steering portion adjustable so that it can be posed in dramatic skids or jumps. Maybe a spare out stretched arm that could have the rider leaning to the side to swipe with club or chainsword as they run down foes.

I love how the space bears tanks/vehicles look like absolute units! Battle fridges in the best way!! Also… that new Kickstarter in the works 🥵

I wish the best for you guys! I can see you're definitely trying to make the channel work. And I think this might be a way to do it. Good job!

Them nautilus guard are freaking awesome!

Wanted to drop in a comment - this is an interesting pivot and my fingers are crossed for y'all! All the designs look really cool (I'm partial to the rockabilly one, not something I've seen a lot of before). Also just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed last episode, it looked like y'all were having a blast. And very happy to see Murray in the studio again this time around!

These look awesome! Nice to see some of the backend of the sculpting process. These results definitely make me miss resin printing.

I did a Space Bears Audio Drama. Wanted to hint at other factions but didn't know if you had any plans. Had some characters refer to Squids. Might do a story with the Divers and have Squids be a term the bears refer to them as. Or maybe the Divers and control Squids. Definitely looking at the other factions list for story ideas.

I do hope you guys continue to find alternative ways to fund yourselves so that your RU-vid videos can be purely for fun and entertainment (for yourselves as well as us!), and not have to be so tailored to making something you hope will please the algorithm. It’s nice to see your passion un-stifled!

Thanks for sharing the peelies with us, very satisfying

So nice when the supports pop off easy.

I love the ambition and the planning of the channel future. But maybe the patreons could be having monthly prints 3-4 new miniatures every month maybe more maybe less up to you guys rather than a new kickstarter. But that would invite even more people from the hobby to subscribe with a small amount monthly and it would help a lot I think and would keep the cash flow coming.

I want this channel to be alive for years to come!

Interesting view behind the scenes of developing minis for 3D printing.

as someone who is making their own minis, with a single printer in a very small and expensive london flat. Get a "whambam flex plate" for your printer. its a metal magnetic sheet? that sticks to your build plate and lets you pop off the prints from the build plate on a flexible metal piece that you can bend and pop off the prints. It requires some dialing in but not having to remove your build plate each time saves a buttload of time.

That new faction looks phenomenal and those prints were so crispy!

I love the diving bell minis. Gives me Bioshock feels (I love that game). Anything that looks even remotely similar to the Big Daddies/Rosies can’t go wrong🤔

I like the models, they look great! Definitely interested in terrain if you’re making it! And more painting tutorials :D

The Space Bears ski mobile bike is such a great idea! It looks superb

The space bear development scene has been a lot of fun to watch. I have yet to have the opportunity to responsibily support, but im happy to be a late supporter soon! I love the idea of physical minis being sent as a rewqrd for future kickstarters, especially with the submechaniphobia guild (what are they actually called? Haha.) Id be getting them regardless, but having secured high quality print of them? Thatll certainly cover for my eventual paint job! Yall are doing great things, im glad you guys have learned so much through all of this!

Holly @#%^ that intro was one of the sickest editing vidoe intro you have ever down. Really impressive.

Second what other people have said. The trick to part gaps with resin is to design around them. Know how, roughly, you'll need to slice the thing from the beginning and design the vehicle/figure such that there are design elements that hide the joining and inevitable mismatch.

I'm loving the space bears they look amazing, but one little nit pick thing for me personally is the track for the snowmobile bike, it looks very thin I understand it is meant to be a replacement for a bike but a track that narrow I feel would just dig into the snow and get it stuck and maybe put some kind of support strut even on one side of the back tire to look like it is supporting and driving it. Again this is a personal opinion and as a whole I love the range and can't wait to see more cool mini's and projects from you guys. :)

I really enjoy stuff like this myself as a printy boi 😅 when it comes to stuff like vehicles lots of small light supports like these are much better than a bigger supports just get more pitting that xan happen with bigger supports. Looks good guys 💪🏻💪🏻

Those are some super clean sculpts and prints. Very nicely done.

Never give up! I know plenty of people would buy unsupported minis!

Been planing for a printer for ages but life always throws a wrench in the mix. This one looks nice!

Would really love to see you guys do a full 2000 pt painted army of all the KS space bear minis

That faction looks awesome.

A fun use of your test prints where all is said and done would be to put together boxes of them and challenge other creators to make something new kit bashing them.

Interesting perspective on 3D printing! It's definitely its own beast with its own idiosyncrasies to learn.

Oh hey, my actual name was in the patron shout outs and was pronounced correctly, that's fun and rare.

@Dave or Murray, I’m currently getting into painting minifigs for DnD specifically, but I enjoy watching your painting content of Warhammer figs as well. However, most of the content only provides highlights of the painting process. Would it be interesting for the channel to post the full process of painting figures? You are painting it anyways, so might as well post the full process as extra videos to boost the channel?

I really do like your videos, you really pour your heart into what you do which is inspiring.

Love seeing the Space Bears progress and they look awesome. Esepcially the snow mobile. But an STL only thing just isn't somthing I could support as I can't 3D print. If you ever sell physical minis. Hell yeah! I'll throw money at you!

Have you guys ever thought of doing a collab with Mid Winter Minis? You two are my favourite and I always hoped for it... just a friendly suggestion 😂

This makes me want jet ski outriders for my pirate Space Marines

Awesome video! Space bears look amazing! I would love to 3d print, just being able to afford one, is my problem. I really really hope that the 3d printing it helps support the channel, Just keep going with it, and the new consistent thumbnails are i think working!

Very nice! Love the idea of expanding out the business

When Dave was holding the tank. It looked like it had some warp on the bottom

Love the new concepts

3D printers have certainly changed my life. 6 weeks ago I'd never had one, now I have 5 and a couple hundred thousand more views haha.

All praise be to the Dave!

It might be a good idea to get the track on the snow mobile widened by a considerable amount. The track is what the sled uses to get power to the ground. To my eye it looks very slow due to how narrow it is. It looked like there is plenty of room under it to almost double the existing size of the track. it would make it look so badass then. Really awesome models otherwise. Just my $0.02.

Can 1000% recommend the extended Nerdforge collab video, especially if you enjoy Jazza being a chaos gremlin. 😈😈😈

would love to 3d print.... just need more time to paint models.. maybe I'll invest in a small one. love your videos.

can't wait to see the full 20k under the sea army, hope it does become the 3rd pillar

Keep up the good work! And good to diversify your income streams - plus love the product and mini development videos 💪

After your “in trouble” video, I thought I would support you guys as you are in the same state as me, buy buying some bits and bobs from your shop but $59 postage on a $60 order…doubling the price, then no reply to my email, killed that. Glad you have a sponsor but maybe work on the other stuff as well.

Cooperation with onceinasixside when?

If you guys got partners to print some of your new projects, like Only Games for on demand printing, or Wargames Atlantic for a plastic release, I'd be really interested in what you have coming. I don't have a 3D printer, and I have no plans to buy one for a long time, so if projects like the space bears could be available officially in resin or plastic via a partner, that'd open things up for more hobbyists like myself to support you!

That Space Bears bike looks awesome. The ski concept would go good with Space Wolves also🤔. The flying machine😁 is also looking promising. Do you have a size for it yet? Keep up the great work. Murray keep the puns coming buddy they were great.

Always nice to see actual prints rather than renders.

So glad I have taken up 3d printing... instead of a massive pile of grey plastic that I'll never get to painting ... I have a massive pile of STLs on my hard drive that I'll never get to printing.... but they take up much less room!!

My god those underwater fighters look so blooy good, would a resin printer be enough for them?

Loving the sketch style on the new factions, reminding me slightly of Jamie Hewletts stuff, in a good way :)

@tabletop time you should 100% remove supports pre cure when in hot water and it will reduce/ remove any pock marks from supports.

Top video as always. I hope the channel is finding its feet again ❤️

New model range looks very cool!

Dave: Warhammer Fantasy Battle. Wait what!!!!

Ooh, I backed the Space Bears and this new project looks awesome!

The HeyGears looks like a great add to the print farm.

Cant wait to see that world ttt is working on. Honestly i hope theirs a tribe of rag tag raiders/ scavengers as their my favourite.

Couple of questions for y’all. When you guys do the full release for the Space Bears, will you guys release a lore book? Also, will you guys release printed minis in sets or anything like that? And one last question, when you’re done with the Space Bears, will you guys release Samurai Tau? Because I have a new found love for the Tau.

I like the snowcat spacebear tank!

Not wanting to rain on your parade, but you guys might want to take a look at Megzike's Dredge Marines, pretty much the same concept than your second kickstarter

Hey! Seeing the primark 3D print, what about the statue hall of all the primarks you mentioned in this video? Is it still a plan in the making? 🙏

hey so i want to support you guys because i really like your content, but is it better to get the late backer thing so you get the money now, or wait till the full launch so you end up with more money?

I like the ski-bikes as I could incorporate them into my Space Wolves but without a pricing index and because I do not own a 3d printer might be looking at actual built models

Awesome models.