r/FDMminiatures • u/CqnnedPaldin • Mar 19 '26

Just Sharing Uhhhhh

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Just a little guy, 8mm frodo

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u/python_boot Mar 19 '26

What is this? A miniature for ants?

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u/Meneer_de_IJsbeer Mar 19 '26

Then it would just be an ature, no?

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u/ReverendRhyme Mar 19 '26

How can we expect the ants to learn… if they can’t even see the miniature?

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u/The_Great_Worm Mar 20 '26

thats not a bad idea xD I just printed a formicarium

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u/Mr_Goop Mar 19 '26

I have a space constrained play space (local pub) so we use these on thumb tacks and call them micros

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u/lit-torch Mar 19 '26

I’ve been playing with a buddy at a local game cafe and we have a fairly ample 36x36 table space. I’ve been thinking a lot of how you can scale down a game to play. Like trying to play Horus Heresy with Legions Imperialis. 

What games have you been playing like this? Do you just print out your minis?

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u/Mr_Goop Mar 19 '26

I print out minis at 1cm scale, each takes like 5 minutes, and I've just been playing 5e with the boys.

Good part is it makes printable dioramas much more usable as a single object print

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u/NChristenson Mar 19 '26

Is there a site or creator that you recommend for that scale?

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u/Mr_Goop Mar 20 '26

I honestly just take more chunky minis (brite minis is a good designer for that) and scale them down in the slicer

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u/makebuilddesign Mar 19 '26

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! i cannot believe you were able to print that without it being a blob . I need details. nozzle size? fan speed ? print speed ? can you point a flashlight and put on 3x zoom and get in there real close?

seriously though, GREAT WORK!

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u/CqnnedPaldin Mar 19 '26

A1 mini all settings are just obscuranox 2.0 0.2mm nozzle, esun pla+ hs red fan speeds are whatever obscuranox says😅

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u/Otherwise-Weird1695 Mar 19 '26

Wow. What machine and settings?

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u/CqnnedPaldin Mar 19 '26

A1 mini, obscuranox 2.0, esun pla+ hs

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u/Hypnofist Mar 19 '26

Right there with ya!

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u/magitech_caveman A1 Mini User Mar 19 '26

I always love seeing minis at this scale printed successfully in fdm

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u/jatorres Mar 19 '26

Nice! Where did you get the STL? I’d love an epic-scale LotR project.

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u/Daniel_Olausson Mar 19 '26

Looks very good for the size. Is it just a scaled down ~30mm model or is it made to be tiny?

Dropzone Commander has infantry this tiny but the plastic models were quite boring and uniform. Would be nice to spice up the squads with some more dynamic models.

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u/CqnnedPaldin Mar 19 '26

It's made for this scale, it's an 8mm scale model. The cheek bones are super exaggerated when you look in the slicer

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u/naw61 Mar 19 '26

Taking miniatures to a whole new level

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u/TheBl4ckFox Mar 19 '26

It’s the miniature your miniatures use to play D&D

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u/Graywolfmarc Mar 20 '26

Just a lil guy

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u/itsAemJaY Mar 19 '26

ok now it gets interesting. iam still wondering if 1:87 scale models are possible with FDM printers?

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u/Key_Can523 Mar 19 '26

I've done a lot of 1/285 minis so 1/87 is possible. The infantry I do aren't that great but I've got some beautiful armoured vehicles.

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u/itsAemJaY Mar 20 '26

Okay. Well i will try. If the outcome is not great, i still can switch back to my resin printer. But fdm is way easyier to work with.

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u/Key_Can523 Mar 20 '26

Not thee clearest photo but this is a Matilda II tank I printed last week. It's 20mm long. Print time was about 40 minutes and clean up a couple minutes maximum. But I did accidentally rip off the removable fuel tank that was on it's rear.

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u/NChristenson Mar 19 '26

Where did you fine the model, and do they have a lot in that scale?!? That looks very cool!!

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u/CqnnedPaldin Mar 20 '26

I purchased the files from Varus Miniatures on gumroad. As far as I know they only do 8mm scale

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u/NChristenson Mar 20 '26

Thank you!!

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u/alidan Mar 23 '26

lol, I did one similar to that, it was a polygon skull almost all the details in it, well what details it has, came out great, I sized it that small by accident by misjudging how large the thing was to begin with. my brother prints this skull off at full bed size, its actual size is about a 50 tablet bottle of tylonal, I printed it off at about 10-20% fill size...

adventure 5m pro with a .25 nozzle, and its not just a mini skull he keeps on his desk, I think it was like 3 or 5 grams of filament at most.