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Assign your post flair to the relevant game system or content. No buying, selling, or trading. Not the one you asked, buy I don't see an ethical issue if printing non GW models or your own custom one of a kind designs. Direct copies are another story. But non-GW count-as models, non-GW terrain, and weapon bits aren't an issue. Out of print GW models.
I'd print them, but only use them privately. I'd want to hunt down the real thing if going to a major event like Adepticon. The real grey area comes in. What about printing straight up copies of off the shelf models for your own private proxies? Testing before buying the real thing.
What about to practice painting or testing a color scheme? I think that's a harder call. They will probably make more money suing those companies than selling stuff on their own, so. Also, if it wasn't for many of the LGS' and of course their own stores' policy of few to no alternative models allowed in 40k/AoS, this game and the designs that are oftentimes 20 years old would have died out long ago. Now they're making stuff that is just superior to 98% of any 3rd party sellers and that's a whole other reason not to give up on GW. Don't underestimate the power of the biggest guys on the market.
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Do not host pirated content. Assign your post flair to the relevant game system or content. No buying, selling, or trading. I've heard most people on here talk about the 3d printed miniatures being bad, and it seems most of them are referring to FDM (or fused deposition modelling).
FDM is the cheaper version of 3d printing where plastic is layered. Another method of printing is SLA, where light is used to cure a resin.
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Prints made with this method are waaaay better than FDM models. Although they are still made by layering, the SLA prints are of a very high quality. In fact alot of miniature companies print their master model where the molds are made from. My personal opinion? If it looks cool go ahead.
If it's just for a proxy go ahead. And if you're using the same 3d printed army because you're too cheap to buy the mini's? I'd have no problem with 3D printed figures but a GW store probably will, since they're pushing that rule where any model you have must be something like 50%+ original GW parts, however the hell they plan on measuring that.
Depending on how hard your opponents are about having good looking models, 3D printed models often look so clunky and awkward that people don't even want them in the vicinity. But who knows, maybe you'll start a whole trend of people in your area wanting more 3D printed models or something. My understanding is it gets pushed at GW stores. Tournaments mostly run independently of GW and when they have rules about model appearance, it's almost always to make identification simpler. WYSIWYG and all. For stores, I think it's in corporate policy to keep outside products out but managers get to use their discretion when enforcing it. And I doubt most managers are stupid enough to turn away players and customers just because someone put a bolter on an Anvil Industries marine model.
I think the counter argument is one based on pragmatism and an understanding of the market. Or to put it another way: why aren't all new planes as fast as Concorde? The technology can be there but it's only one element in the equation. Is there realistically the market for high-end industrial grade 3D printing in the average home? The example I usually go for is that of the A3 printer. They exist but they're not seen in people's homes because there isn't a sufficiently good use-case for them to justify the cost. If people can't justify the cost then the demand isn't sufficient to drive further development and cost-cutting.
It's hard enough making the case for a hobbyist 3D printer in the home, let alone something that can compete with injection moulding on detail. This is the way of the future. It's going to happen, there isn't any way to stop it from happening unless they're going to start microchipping every model so you have to use legit ones in tournaments. In a way though, I think it's actually going to be a good thing, once 3d printing really takes off. It means that GW can create more stuff for each race, giving a much more diverse set of units for each race, since they'll no longer have to worry about whether they'd make a profit on the actual models. Instead of selling the models, they just have to sell the blue prints (which could be done for pennies.
Can you really say you wouldn't happily pay £1 for as many Carnifexes as you wanted, even if you could get them for free?), codexes, paints, sanding tools and stuff like that. Sure, they'd make less turnover, but they would have much lower costs as well. Sorry to be a dissenting voice but I just don't see it.
It's not just a ' though - there's some pretty solid arguments to be made against such a rosy future. Sure, they'd make less turnover, but they would have much lower costs as well.
They're publicly traded so that puts paid to that. Lowering turnover drastically would effectively be suicide with investors. Which could be done for pennies It's not in their interest to devalue their product and brand. Their current plastics could be sold for much less if we're talking about production costs after all. Once 3d printing really takes off What do you imagine that looking like? A miniatures-grade 3D printer in every home? They just have to sell the blue prints Which can be immediately illicitly distributed like codices are?
There's no realistic way of preventing their proliferation at which point the business model founders. Other industries are large enough to have other revenue streams but as you've said - they wouldn't be selling models any more. Ultimately my counter-argument is that this vision of the future is more suitable for other companies.
Access to affordable industrial-grade 3D printing and casting solutions has opened up the market for competitors. GW on the other hand have a very well established tool chain and distribution model for incredibly high quality injection-moulded plastic models. It's what they're good at and they've been doing it for decades now. We might all moan about their prices and the occasional potato-shaped design but they're good at high standard models. Furthermore whilst it's a lot faster than it was 3D printing still cannot compete on volume. It's hardly an accident that in the last twenty years 40K armies are worth half the points they were originally. The problem with everything you said is that you can't stop people 3d printing them.
GW can adapt or die and I'm personally hoping that they adapt. Sure, GW does higher quality stuff and at higher volume, but 3d printing is getting better all the time and it's going to become increasingly harder to justify spending £300 on models, when you can 3d print them for a tenner. What do you imagine that looking like? A miniatures-grade 3D printer in every home? Potentially, one day.
But inside of the next 10 years, we'll likely see every school and college have one (of varying quality) and a fair number for personal use.