Over the years crosslances studio has created hundreds and hundreds of miniatures, fantasy, historical, sci,fi, steampunk, dedicated to board games, wargames or fantasy football.
In short really a lot,and for a wide variety of tastes.
But don’t all these miniatures now deserve a worthy inbasing?
We believe that it is just about time.
In this campaign you will find many thematic bases to be able to set our miniatures!
find out more: http://kck.st/3YeKbKn
Today we want to show you two campaigns in which we are collaborating as sculptors:
The first one represents something very different from our usual, in fact it is not about 3d files for once but real physical objects.
We have in fact sculpted little Fantasy Charms for Elena Grazzini bijoux.
This is a completely new product and we need all your support, if you can share and/or pledge even just 1€.
Maybe it could be a beautiful gift idea?
secondly, the fantastic hera’stone kickstarter campaign is coming to an end in which we have sculpted so many organisers, the add-ons unlocked in this campaign are really a lot and definitely worth a last look.
COLLABORATION WITH HERA?STONE
A collection of 3D boxes composed of internal compartments that hold the various elements for your board games.
“A disordered desk is equivalent to a disordered mind.”
I’m not someone who normally generalizes, but I share the notion that organization and order are very important.
“Precise” I am called by those who know me. I have always considered that definition a compliment.
This quality has caused the idea of particular boxes come to my mind.
Magic organizers is the campaign planned to help especially the fans of board games in organizing the elements (cards, dice, miniatures) of various games.
How? Through thematic division and the fact that every box is composed of specific modular compartments.
Have I made you curious?
Let’s see them in detail.
Good morning,
Here is the new release for May!
Our elemental-themed work continues, this time it is the turn of the element of water.
Avaible on patreon e MMF:
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Finally, our new project has been launched.
The third episode of “The Scenic Library” booknooks to be 3d printed. They will make your library unique.
Lots of designs to discover!
On the basis of the success of previous campaigns about booknooks, Crosslances studio finally returns with a new proposal on the subject.
A deeper study of both the booknooks structure and the filament printing has resulted a better quality product.
PLEASE NOTE – This Kickstarter is for digital files (STLs) to make all these items on your own home 3D printer – these are not physical goods **
Our new design has the classic front and back frame structure and four side bars available in various lengths to fit your bookshelf.
This time we have created slightly slanted hooks to secure the structure better.
But not only that: we have added the possibility of printing a wrapper so that you can close your booknooks.
We have learned through experience to create sculptures which don’t need supports, and we have significantly improved the quality of our sculptures.
Now we introduce all our models, divided by theme and commitment.
Booknooks MODELS
Before we begin, two important reports for you:
And here are the exciting new models in this series!
The images show 3D renderings which reproduce the final effect of all the booknooks.
There are also schematics which show the parts of the booknook that need to be printed.
The generic pieces of the structure are red. These pieces are the same for all the booknooks.
The pieces to make that specific booknook are white.
Today is Valentine’s Day, the holiday of lovers.
Coincidentally, today is also the day of our release!
So what could be better than gifting your sweetheart with a team of little killer teddy bears?
Aren’t they tenderness?
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An exciting new kickstarter project from our contributor Hera’stone.
This time a set of modular steampunk soldiers compatible with some popular wargames!
But come find out more by clicking l link!
«Don’t let the fear of death conquer your courage».
Men or aliens? Human or machines?
They are ready to sacrifice their own lives.
They are the Steam Marines.
Warriors who come from a hard training.
They are characterized by a majestic and frightening appearance. Shoulder straps, helmets, big packs, and weapons are some components of their armory.
Let’s see them in details:
But first of all there are two important reports for you:
Premise: heads, shoulder straps and packs are compatible with the most popular wargames.
During the kickstarter I’ll collect your requests for the creation of new pieces about Steam Marines to be implemented in the campaign.
Your support and your interaction with this kickstarter will be my stimulus in creating stretch goals, so don’t forget to share the project with your friends and on your social networks.
All stretch goals are FREE!!!
A magical 3D scenery with its accessories and characters printable in STL
| Hi everyone!Here is School of Magic, hera’stone’s new project on kickstarter. A magical 3D scenery with its accessories and characters printable in STL http://kck.st/4580loX |
The team was losing yet another game on the field.
The last position in the standings with 0 points is now a constant, and the fans were fed up, as was everyone else, coach and staff.
These guys here are just good-for-nothing players! slappers!
Even the helmets couldn’t take it anymore to see that heartbreak! wait, like the helmets? and yes the helmets! and they were the ones who could see everything from there, in the middle of the field, so they decided to
take matters into their own hands.
The fed-up helmets woke up revealing themselves to be monsters! they instantly devoured the players (few will regret them) and immediately took their place on the field.
The opposing team a little unprepared a little intimidated, took the blow and our monsters began to score one goal after another!
The crowd is in a frenzy! the coach…wait they also devoured the coach, some spectators…and maybe even some opponents, but oops, the thing is that the game was a success, with a landslide victory!
The championship from now on will be a different story! Sharpen your teeth because you don’t mess with the Mimics in Uniform!
Our crazy idea derived from our previous history is to create a team that can be used for any species (or almost any species).
Helmets have watched their failed masters play for years, learning role and style of play (and hopefully doing it a little better too).
So if the master had been an orc blitzer, now his helmet will play like an orc blitzzer.
Or could his unfortunate master have been a poor throwing elf? the mimic will have learned his role perfectly anyway!!!
It doesn’t matter if you want to do halfling, goblin, orc or human.
With a skillful excuse you can play this team any way you like!
Let us now go on to introduce all the “players” of this monstrous fantasy football team.
At your disposal different roles to be able to adapt to the various species.
As our habit, we won’t implement a precise table of stretch goals, but we will work to implement all the suggestions you send us during the campaign.
A great interaction and a great participation motivate us to create lots of sculptures as stretch goals.
ALL STRETCH GOALS ARE FREE!
New to Kickstarter? Never used Kickstarter before? No problem! The number of people pledging to tabletop games projects is growing all the time making the projects bigger day by day. We’re glad to have you on board!
Becoming a backer is very simple. Just follow these steps:
All models have been presupported (where necessary)
Several printing tests have been carried out to get the Best result possible, and we hope that you will also get an optimal result with your printers.
cross lances is committed, as always, to solving any problem you may encounter in printing, fixing the files and creating together with you an ever-improving product.
All files are available in 3 versions:
By now 3D miniatures are an established reality.
When in 2017 we launched the first kickstarter with this formula many called us heretics, avant-gardists and dreamers.
Today, just 6 years later, it is a widespread market and a reality that is increasingly entering people’s homes.
And we are proud to have been the forerunners of this new technology and therefore also on this occasion we offer our sculptures in stl version ready for your 3D printer!
Crosslances is a studio that has always had an eye on the customer, and tries in every way to assist and coddle its supporters.
Therefore, we thought it would be useful to share our experience in resin prints.
This is not meant to be a guide but a sharing of our experiences, with all our mistakes, consideration and tricks that we have learned over time and that we hope will help you too.
Creation of supports
Our files are created with the help of chitubox, a free software widely used as a slicer for a large number of resin printers.
Our current reference printer is a Phrozen sonic Mini 4k,,an inexpensive printer with excellent output, accessible to all, so ideal as an example of our tests.
Based on this we created after several print tests our support set up.
Which we share here now with you: Supports
We have been able to make supports that are able to support the many details we create, and at the same time can be detached easily.
Some considerations and advice on supports:
Some resins have such physical characteristics that they require multiple supports, sometimes even where they do not seem necessary.
This is because the supports we make are very fine to be detached easily, but this results in the structure supporting the miniature sometimes wobbling as the plate moves during Printing.
These wobbles can sometimes result in print failures because some supports break, or because they suffer slide.
This is why our models often have some larger “medium” supports placed at the lowest points of the miniature, and even sometimes an excess of the supports themselves.
This, however, while making cleaning more difficult, exponentially increases the chances of printing success.
In any case, we provide the File chitubox, so you can customize your own printing experience.
Print settings
This part is particularly difficult to be able to give precise directions.
In fact, the variables are endless.
The resin and the printer used can totally change the data, from exposure times to the retract speed of the printing plate.
What we feel like reporting based on our experience on the subject is this:
-Before printing with a new resin, or printer, do a test, you can find hundreds of them on the internet.
Repeat the test by changing the time parameters until the print looks good.
-Use a tool to calculate the delay of care.
We share it with you; it has been critical for us:
-If you have found the times and want to change the layer height, it is useful to consider increasing or decreasing the times by 15% for every 10 microns more or less.
-Sometimes the print fails and we only find the supports stuck to the print plate at the end of the process.
Often it is due to the speed of departure from the base.
Here too it depends a lot on the resin used, more or less elastic, more fragile or not.
The suggestion we give is that a slow detachment speed is not always better, on the contrary.
A slow detachment can make the eff more resistant to detach from the print, making a “glue” effect, risking breaking the finest parts, such as the tips of the supports.
Sometimes a quick and decisive detach causes the print to suddenly detach from the fep without offering any resistance.
After printing
After printing, we need to clean our miniature from resin residue and peel off the supports.
To do this we use a specially created elegoo curing station.
Inside we use an alcohol-based cleaner with which we have had very positive feedback, but isopropyl alcohol is equally suitable.
Once the piece is washed, to detach the supports we soak it in lukewarm water, this allows us to detach the supports very very easily, with just the help of our fingers, at most we help with a razor blade for the larger supports that resist.
Once the piece is cleaned, we put it back in the UV machine for 5-10 minutes and the miniature is ready!
