>>97457112
You anons have no idea how much I want the CAD files from the gw to be somehow leaked and converted into stls.

I need a good model scanning and 3d scan cleaning to stl service so much it is unreal since I started seeing posts asking about it.

>>97457112
Warhammer is like Pokemon currently, prices and variety risen but quality and quantity drops.

>>97457112
I'm really glad I never got into Warhammer.

>>97457621
Are you ok?

>>97457621
this but unironically

>>97457508
This is not /b/, anon

>>97457662
hes 100% right. I don't know a single straight white male who still consooms Slophammer or Jew Workshop products, its almost all brownoids and troons.

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>>97457162
The GW files are in the wild. Do a little hunting in your favorite pirate and sharing sites and you can collect them all.

>>97457621
Peak schizo posting

>>97457876
Sounds like bullshit, but I kinda believe it

>this thread again.
seriously if it isnt about custodes its about this necron. how fucking bored are you.

Make the rules broken for a month and a horde of losers will buy 3 of them at once.

>>97457855
What does that have to do with what I said.

>>97458248
My bad, the post was made for >>97457621

>>97458482
No worries, I was just puzzled.

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>>97458218
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt7tjc7mQbw&pp=ygUpZGlzY291cnNlIG1pbmlhdHVyZXMgd2FyaGFtbWVyIG1vZGVsIGxlYWvSBwkJfAoBhyohjO8%3D

>>97459092
This is a man, right?

>>97457621
Rent free lmao

>>97461929
Maybe, could go either way. That would actually be better than just being a tragically unattractive woman though.

>>97459092
Damn where does one go to even get started in looking for those?
I have the app associated with piracy of stls but even then I never heard of this.

>>97457621
This is one of those posts where it's so over the top you can't tell if it's ironic, a false flag, or a genuine schizo break.

>>97457162
I hate how 3d printed models aren't tournament legal
I printed a War Eagle battalion because I didn't want to spend 240$ on it and one of the people at my local game store didn't want to play against my team and it escalated to me being soft-banned from a local game store I've been going to for 12 years
The owner of the store told me to let it go but the new generation of players won't

>>97462056
You don't, it's a clickbait headline. What actually happened (this was months ago) was that someone bundled up a bunch of facsimilies and a few scans, that were already available, into one download and GW caught wind and nuked it.
If you still want to go looking for them, get the telegram app and start looking for groups.

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prob be $25 like festus

>>97462315
>I hate how 3d printed models aren't tournament legal
Who the fuck do you think runs the tournament scene?

>>97461929
That was what I was wondering too

>>97462315
They hate to see someone not raped by kikes

>>97457621
Quality posts like this are why I keep coming to this fine gentlemen's discussion forum.

>>97462315
>I hate how 3d printed models aren't tournament legal

And they never will while GW has a say in it.
The solution is to launch a separate tournament network that has no connnection to GW and explicitly allows 3D prints (or just proxying your whole army with legos, why not?).
>but that's hard
Yes. That's the only way though. GW will never, ever allow non-GW stuff in their tournaments.

>>97458234
>seriously if it isnt about custodes its about this necron. how fucking bored are you.

Actually I'm pretty sure it's about the sheer insanity of how a small piece of plastic that doesn't even look good costs a hundred euros. The correct price tag for that would be one dollar and even then GW would make a 50% profit.

>>97457860
So you don't know straight white males. Kinda weird to advertise your rampant interracial homosexuality like this, but you do you.

>>97462315
Still not as bad as wysiwyg shitters that will ban you for kitbashing.

>>97457621
10/10 post

>>97457621
simple as

>>97462315
Play in better tournaments.

>>97457621
Every flag really, REALLY needs flags.
Also a flag filter

Awww why’d they remove the post

>>97462315
Consumers gonna consume and go to bat for the multi-billion dollar company. Thus it has always been and thus it shall ever be.

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>>97457112
This pushes up against what the market will bear even in edge cases like myself.

I paint slowly but try and do everything relatively well, I buy maybe 1-2 GW boxes a year. It isn't really 'worth' my buying a 3D printer as I'll never get enough use out of it to justify the setup time and learning curve. I'm not poor so even an hour or two setting the thing up and messing with it is worth more than just dropping an extra £30 on a GW box. It might work out cheaper to print, but I suspect neglect (I.E. not getting used that often) would mean it breaks, and the hours I spend learning to work the thing would mean it's more economical for me to just do extra hours at work and buy from GW.

However it's getting to the point that for a centerpiece mini it's literally cheaper to just buy a 3d printer. I want a Mastadon for my marines for instance. Even if I buy a printer (£150), lose a full 8-hour work day with prep (£170), use it to make the Mastadon, then toss the entire thing, a 3d printer is *still* more economical than buying a Mastadon from GW for £426. With something like a Stormbird that calculation is even worse, I could spend a week on the thing and it'd still be worth it.

>>97468216
cool model. what is it?

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>>97468353
An apothecary for our blood bowl league.

>>97459092
Not giving the tranny a watch but
AFAIK what leaked were the full catalog of a scan group not the original files from GW I think it was scanpass

>>97462315
It is understandable that you'd get frowned upon or even banned by the LGS/competitive scene staff because you're basically circumventing paying them, what if everyone started 3D printing and the store or company went out of business?

>>97462678
>The solution is to launch a separate tournament network that has no connnection to GW and explicitly allows 3D prints (or just proxying your whole army with legos, why not?).
at that point why even play with the shitty 40k rules? it would just be another random miniature agnostic alternative wargame with a dozen players (which 40k players would never even glance at due to brand loyalty)

>>97469002
the "with the shitty 40k rules" part avoids the "with a dozen players" part.

>>97459092
This troon is full of shit. It wasn't GW's files that was leaked.

>>97469384
However it was already established that 40kiddies will throw a tantrum and refuse to play if you circumvented paying tribute to GW

>>97468998
>what if everyone started 3D printing and the store or company went out of business?

I REALLY don't see how that's my problem. Once the rules and the playerbase exist, I don't think I need GW or their 10 times overpriced models for anything. All they do is harm me.

>>97469002
40k is the best tournament balanced miniature wargame on the market. why run a tournament with anything else?

>>97462315
Don't tell them you printed them yourself, tell them you bought what looked like a good deal on ebay, with no sign of the fact that it was not legit in the listing, and now that you have it and painted it suddenly you're not allowed to play with the plastic you paid money for because it wasn't made by the people that everyone else bought the plastic from.

>>97474264
Nice sob story but they still won't let you play though. Would work for friendlies mind you.

>>97459092
Would

>>97474264

Don't lie. People will never believe a lie if it didn't come from the television.

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>>97457112
40k only exists so paypiggies fund the superior game, Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game. Thank you piggies.

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>>97474929
For me, it's shieldmaiden Olwyn.

>>97457162
GW employees leak all the time. So wouldn't surprise me. They give staff access to shared drives with development files inside them, completely unrelated departments have access to each others files.

>>97462315
>tournaments
you made your bed

>>97457112
Warhammer isnt even close to a particularly expensive hobby.

>>97478723
This is true, but it doesn't stop being charged £82 for a single relatively sparse plastic sprue from feeling like a bad deal.

I remember watching a video of a former employee, he said the majority of the cost is Box not plastic inside which I thought was crazy. Not sure if it holds any truth, but it would be crazy that images on cardboard is another reason a tabletop game is so expansive.

>>97481597
The combined cost of the box and model is so cheap that it's basically negligible, the real expense in making a plastic model is the mould used to make it. Those things are incredibly expensive, especially for ones that can do the kind of sharp detail that GW prides itself on.

>>97478723
It's on the very expensive end of the relatively cheap hobby. Similiarly how you can but millions into, say, sailing, but that doesn't mean you have to.

>>97468216
consider that 3d printing more than an economic asset is a whole new hobby per se

>>97477209
Good old corporate cybersecurity
Principle of least privilege? Nah, give the intern for marketing access to the model folder and make him do tons of work that we technically shouldn't be asking him to do for free.
The models leaked again? How could this happen!!!!????

>>97485655
Yeah literally
>>97481597
Like the other anon said, molds are expensive but once you got them that's it. The rest is distribution, marketing and labour costs. They must be bleeding money on retail space.
>>97478723
Are your examples of comparison going to be very obvious rich hobbies like golf or motorsport? Nice bait

>>97462315
>3d printed models aren't tournament legal
in australia at least the last thing stopping anybody giving a fuck about 3rd party minis was GW dropping prize support for independent tournaments through the mid-late 2000s
your problem is probably more that it was an event at a store

>>97459092
stop linking troons