The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no

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• MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honesty they are pretty average for prepainted miniatures. Painted miniatures at this scale is just not something that’s easy to do or cheap.

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which is surprising in this day and age.

    Laser scanning is possible, 6-axis milling machines exist and on a subminiature scale.

    Why is there no 6-axis painting machine? I understand there are 3D printers that can do this, but 3D printing costs more than just making a die (or reusing a similar die from another model) at a certain scale.

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    • UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Money. 6-axis isn’t cheap to run or maintain, especially at this scale with the desired precision. Add in the inherent issues of working with a variety of paint colors (especially aerosolized), subtract the ability to mask features from over spray. Their prices would have to make Warhammer look bargain bin in order to recoup the costs of the machine, maintenance and consumables.

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve seen worse.

  But I don’t mean that as a compliment.

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• DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  As an aside, how hard would it be to extract the games 3d assets and make my own STLs of the characters to print?

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• TallonMetroid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is that supposed to be Shart? Wow, they did her dirty, holy shit.

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• 7355608@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As someone who has had to paint mini faces before, this isn’t aweful, not great by any means but could have been much worse. They definitely need to thin their paints, probably use a smaller brush, and go slower. But in the person would painted this’ defense, faces are so hard to do well, and even harder to fix if you fuck it up.

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Those are ok-ish for your own stuff if you don’t care too much. If you want to sell a product you have to do better.

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Thin your paints” Image

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    • 7355608@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Or I shall thin your ranks”

      Image

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  • Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This has got to be machine printed right? They’re no worse than Wizard’s usual minis, but yeah they always suck. The biggest problem IMO is the sculpt, they look like they’re made out of mud. I assume it has to do with the rubber they use. I don’t know, I’m way too spoiled by printing my own to consider buying something that looks this bad.

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    • 7355608@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Their plastic/resin is garbage, and you’re right that the sculpts are flawed, especially in the finder details. I bet if they tried this in metal it would have worked out better.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think about half of them are pretty awful. And painting aside, I wouldn’t have recognized Gale (guy with the beard) if not for the context

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh, these are like, an industrial product. I thought everyone was just shitting on something a fan sent in.

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• cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reminds me of when people share pictures of fast food ads versus the actual food you get served.

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• ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Judero lookin’ asses

  (Judero is actually an amazing game and a work of art. Go play it, if you like the idea of a game made fully in clay + spare pieces laying around the creator’s house)

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    This is exactly what I was reminded of. It looks like a clay doll.

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• leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  reminds me of that ecce homo restoration

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  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Didn’t realise the town had cashed in on that incredible fuckup, fair play.

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The only one that actually looks bad is the one at the top of the article. The others look fine.

  The one of the red woman (I haven’t played the game so no idea who is who) looks like it might be bad, but the pictures are also terrible so it’s impossible to say.

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• orenj@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can’t tell (and didn’t read the article lol), is the first one supposed to be Shart, and the second one Withers?

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