If you love really great model creators, you need to check out these awesome projects in our May 3D printing Patreon creators Spotlight!
There are so many great creators out there and we love what they are doing. While we can’t cover all of them (even though it would be great) we wanted to highlight some of our favorites for the month. With the price of the hobby rising, supporting alternative mini makers is a great way to save some cash and help the hobby grow.
These are all for 3D printing, so if you haven’t picked up a printer be sure to check out our recommended product list as it’s a great place to get started!
Let’s get into the creators.
May 3D Printing Patreon Creators Spotlight
We’re going to highlight some of their latest projects, but obviously, this is just going to be a sample of what they have to offer. So if you like what you see, be sure to click the header and go check out everything they have to offer. If you love 3D printing projects, you can see more here.
Avatars of War – Legendary Heroes
This is an extremely affordable Patreon and also has a commercial license as well. So if you want to sell their sculpts, you can! Let’s hear a little from them about the project:
Hello, my name is Felix Paniagua, a passionate miniatures sculptor from Barcelona, Spain. After working both freelance and in-house for ten years for several companies in the miniatures industry (Games Workshop and Privateer Press among others) I decided to start a personal project to create a personal line of fantasy miniatures. To this end, I founded my own company in 2006, Avatars of War.
At Avatars of War, we have been since then creating and producing some of the most heroic and iconic fantasy miniatures heroes in the hobby. During these 15 years, we have assembled an unmatched creative dream-team, composed of the best sculptors, designers, and mold makers in the industry, and we have manufactured in metal, resin, or plastic, a bit more than one million miniatures!
Nowadays we are one of the industry’s most veteran and liked the range of miniatures, and thousands of gamers and collectors around the world have chosen an Avatars of War miniature to command their fantasy armies on the tabletop. Be brutish Orcs, proud Dwarves, wise Elves, courageous Men, or evil forces of Chaos, you will have a hard time finding an army or a cabinet somewhere without an Avatars of War miniature in it.
3Dartdigital
This project is always coming out with some wild files that are unlike anything else out there. If you want some amazing unique files, you really have to give them another look! Let’s hear what they have to say about the project:
Join our Patreon, and you will get a package of STL printable models each month, hand-crafted by our brilliant and talented artists. These models are intended for role-playing games, wargames, or hobbyists everywhere! Each model is a labor of love, born from the combined imagination and effort of our team. In addition to getting supported and non-supported models, keep in mind we test our models on our own 3D printers, ensuring quality and reducing the chances that you will have a failed print. We want you to enjoy your 3D printing as much as possible!
Each model is part of the World of Serath, a place with its own nations, races, and deities. The world teems with storytelling opportunities and artistic expression. Each set of models is a small part of a much larger faction, woven into a narrative story. As a patron, YOU will get to decide the outcome of each narrative, influencing the direction of the overall story, and, in turn, what we ultimately end up designing for you.
Bulwark Gaming
If you love all things Orcs, then this is the project you have to back! Every month they release some of the coolest orky files on the market, so you’d be crazy to not take advantage of the project! Let’s hear what they have to say about it:
Welcome to the best-stocked Mek WorkShop for all your WAAAGGHHH needz.
Started mid-2020, Bulwark designs outstandingly detailed models for the War-Bosses of the gaming community. Working in close collaboration with our Patreons, we engage with our followers through the process, sharing exclusive Work-in-progress previews and also offering support in handling and printing the files via our Patreon-only discord chat.
We release a new, unique model at the beginning of every month, along with a series of alternate parts that allow you to make the model your own -but we don’t stop there, at the END of every month, we also release upgrades so you can add even more distinguishing features to your TRUKKZ, CHOPPAZ ’N’ BOYZ.
That does it for this month’s spotlight, now be sure to go check them all out and show them some love!
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About the Author: Travis Pasch
Travis Pasch
Job Title: Head Writer & Editor
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About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
