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tell me if you think I'm wrong but I
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believe 3D printing is the future of
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Miniatures board games and War Games
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hobbies and that future is starting
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right now last week or well about two
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weeks ago by the time you watch this I
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traveled to adepticon with artist Opus
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to help demonstrate their dry brushing
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techniques to thousands of attendees an
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adepticon is easily the largest
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miniature hobby convention in the world
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and I'll qualify that statement shortly
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and while I was there I had planned to
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make a specific type video only to
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realize I just did not have enough time
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to complete this self-imposed challenge
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within the first couple of hours so
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instead as I wandered around on my lunch
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break ruminating on what useful content
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I could bring you I began to notice just
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how big the 3D printing boom has become
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in our hobby hello guys my name is Rosa
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and this is a for videos so as I said I
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had a plan for this content I think it
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was a clever idea you see from what I've
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been told a lot of painting competition
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Elites will actually be painting their
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model up to the few hours before entry
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so I wondered if I could start a
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competition level model just hours
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before entry and that I think would have
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been a great way to show you the various
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people around a hobby event by having
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everyone get involved and use their
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products and techniques along the way
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after all I've made I went to adepticon
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videos and well nobody watches I went to
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an event video if you cared enough you
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were there and well if you weren't there
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do you really want to see what you
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missed probably not which is why I
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wanted to do a Challenge and that's a
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good way to promote the people who were
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there without actually going hey here's
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everyone who was there that's boring
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right and I did start this I got as far
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as having Dave from mini wargaming
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choose a model I had Raph from
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goonhammer build it we borrowed a knife
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from Pro arel we had Jeff from the
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painting phase choose a faction and
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Marco fron decide a color scheme and
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anaki models who do some awesome
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stencils primed it for us and when I got
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back to the artist Opus Booth to ask
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Byron to lay down some primary colors
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which he did I realized just how busy
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the booth had gotten and remembered that
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my role there was to you know help so I
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kashed the idea due to lack of time
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though I did have a two-time Slayer
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sword winner add more paint to that
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model later so I might actually auction
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it off for charity or continue running
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with the idea over a series of
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conventions I'm going to come back to
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how that progressed later for now let's
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get back to the 3D printing stuff since
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I'm now very obviously a 3D printing
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Channel not a hobby Channel aw for so
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long I've seen it suggested that the
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main benefit of 3D printing in the hobby
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space is to get Warhammer models cheaper
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But as time has gone on the community
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has mostly responded to people who print
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their models and armies with a
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resounding me whatever yeah you do you
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don't really care I'm going to keep
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buying the plastic ones cuz they're
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easier to work with carry on but there's
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no doubt the 3D printing Revolution is
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creeping around from the sides and from
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behind Games Workshop and it's working
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to attract more hobbyists at an
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increasing rate even if I myself
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initially Saw 3D printing as an
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enhancement to my Warhammer hobby as
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someone who can't sculpt it allows me to
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make more customized Space Marines but
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with less skill on my part but as time's
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gone on I've been steadily distracted
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away from Warhammer and towards some
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incredibly cool models which I just
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wouldn't find anywhere else and well
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they suit my personal tastes far more
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than what I've seen previously now for
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those of you who don't know and I said
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I'll qualify this adepticon is the
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largest miniature hobby convention in
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the world yeah I've been to bigger
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convention sure Gen Con Spiel and in
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June I'll be back at UK games Expo those
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cons are considerably larger with a
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greater number of vendors but their
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miniature adjacent cons mostly board
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games as the focus with a few miniature
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bits scattered around this con adepa con
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is about the hobby of painting
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miniatures busts and various other types
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of models in that wheelhouse and
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ballpark it's about getting models
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intended to be painted things to build
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models with things to paint models with
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and yeah that includes the obvious
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things like brushes and paints but it's
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also got other workspace tools like the
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red grass test lamp that we nicked off
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them to use to demo our booth and to me
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all of that comes before the rooms upon
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rooms of gaming tables along with all
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the people in various side rooms
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teaching painting classes I mean where
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else would you find someone cosplaying
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as Vince venturella the point is other
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events are gaming first with a bit of
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hobby thrown in the vendors Hall this is
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Hobby first and by far my favorite con
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of the year I'm exhausted I'm jetlagged
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but I loved every minute From Dawn till
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Dusk and well beyond and last year we
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hardly had any 3D printing related stuff
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at the event yeah a couple of creators
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like creature Caster mentioned that they
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were going to start releasing STL soon
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and since then I've been using them on
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my Channel all year this year you could
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not miss lot Studios who had one of the
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largest and by far the brightest booths
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at the whole con and they had a ton of
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their models Pro painted and out on
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display how none of these got stolen is
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beyond me it honestly gives me more
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faith in humanity and specifically our
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community than I had before and if you
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know my channel already you should know
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who loot studios are if not they are one
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of the highest value STL subscription
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platforms on the market each month they
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release both sci-fi and fantasy bundles
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with dozens of characters in both 32 and
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75 mm scale they have a load of scenery
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a prop of some kind which could be
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anything from a canh holder to a ship
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and busts of some of the main characters
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from that month too and you also get
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huge Loyalty Rewards after 3 6 9 and 12
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months too like this huge Vic mad bear
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Mech they had painted up and on display
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this was awesome and all of that comes
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for $15 a month if I play my cards right
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I will be doing some work together with
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these guys soon and I'm glad because at
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this value they really do make my job
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easier when it comes to promoting them
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you see what I mean right if you're
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after models to play with or paint or
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even just print this subscription sells
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itself and all I need to do is let
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people know it exists and despite this
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being their first year they got a really
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great spot in the Benders Hall being
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just after the monument Hobbies team and
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that's a stand which well nobody seemed
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to miss the cues on day one were
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absolutely huge look there's not a great
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link between monument and 3D printing
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except you can paint models in their
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paints and if you've seen my earlier
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videos you'll know I love their paints
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but more than anything I just wanted to
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get these guys in the video because well
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we've made really good friends with them
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over the last few cons and we've gone
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out for a couple of evening meals too
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they are an absolutely great bunch of
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people with a great product and if you
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don't believe me then go and get a
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bottle of bold titanium white then let
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me know in the comments if that didn't
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convince you to buy the whole rest of
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their range but moving on and back to 3D
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printing it was great to see onepage
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rules in attendance too now again these
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guys shouldn't need an introduction if
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you followed my channel I print one of
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their Miniatures in every video they are
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another company who offer a lowcost
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subscription model for a monthly release
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of entire forces of Miniatures for their
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Myriad of games but despite them growing
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in popularity over the last couple of
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years for their models onepage rules has
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existed long before 3D printing by
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having a brand agnostic rule set you can
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play any of their games using models
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from whatever War Game Force you've
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already been building if you and your
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mate want to play Space Marines versus
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Stormtroopers have at it if you want to
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play with paper standies or rocks do it
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now they only had a small half Booth
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this year and I think the main draw for
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them was to meet with all of the other
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creators there Yours Truly included and
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I'll have more to show on that in a
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future video as I'm currently booking my
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next plane tickets for next week having
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just arrived home 3 days ago I hope that
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next year they have a larger Booth like
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loot Studios and have some tables
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demoing their games with a variety of
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models and if I can hope I'd love to see
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them run their own version of a golden
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demon too you know for the onepage rules
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model painters but speaking of painting
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competitions creature Caster once again
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hosted the resin Beast competition at
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their booth and well there's no easy way
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to say it this was incredible Not only
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was this for creature Caster models but
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for models from some of their Partners
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too like Parabellum be arum and eldri
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Foundry both resin molded and 3D printed
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models were allowed and if you can take
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some time to tear yourself away from
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Space Marines you'll quickly find some
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of the best painted and most interesting
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models at the convention within these
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cabinets it was great to see so much
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more variety in painting competitions
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and I managed to briefly see some of the
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award ceremony before our taxi arrived
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for the plans we'd made that evening now
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I hope that next year this grows even
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bigger and there were some great prizes
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to be won too the only thing I think it
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seemed were missing were photos of the
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winners models during the ceremony and
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some trophies which I'm sure people
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would have loved to have had displayed
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at their home also in 3D printing was
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ree from my minory he was wandering
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around meeting with various people and
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creators within the industry again my
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mini Factory you know them if you like
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Minis and 3D printing it's like the
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default place you go again I'm hoping to
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work with these guys over the coming
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months so keep an eye out for that and
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also well there was me I was there and I
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met so many wonderful people who knew
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the channel and came up to say hi so if
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you are going to one of these events
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don't be afraid I don't buy feel free to
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come up and say hello at any point I am
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generally a bit more on the extrovert
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side of the introvert Spectrum but
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that's the good thing about these
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conventions if you are sat at home and
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you know your hobby is being trapped in
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whatever basement or dark room you're in
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in order to paint your models well
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adepticon is the place where the
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introverts get to be extroverts we can
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talk for hours about the same thing that
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we love and enjoy every minute of it see
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it turns out you're not weird you're not
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a loner just no nobody around you cares
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about the things that matter to you
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we're all at adepticon come and join us
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anyway as I was saying I was there
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that's obvious but the relation to resin
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printing in this video was twofold one
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is that war gamer is now available in
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the US so artist Opus allowed me a whole
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corner of their Booth to promote that
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and show off models printed with it from
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all the creators I've mentioned earlier
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in this video and i' also brought some
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Space Marine heads that i' printed to do
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dry brushing demos on but these got
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taken by other artists not these
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specific ones but we had great painters
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at the booth to like Eric Swanson and
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will Han who were painting their models
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to their typical god tier standard and
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answering any questions attendees had
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and we were also joined by Neil Hollis
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for half a day for the same reason Neil
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is last year's Slayer sword winner and
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this year's gold winner for 40K single
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miniature Neil also discreetly painted
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Ross is a knob on the side of the model
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I originally planned for this video and
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he thinks it's funny but now I have an
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original Neil hollly painted model which
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I may auction off for charity haha Neil
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jokes on you seriously though Neil is
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one of the nicest guys you can meet in
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real life and honestly it is not
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difficult to Champion that man as a
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winner in the golden demon competition
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but what I also loved is back to 3D
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printing again we had Steve Garcia join
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us and I got to sit with him for almost
11:23
a whole day and pick his brain on
11:25
painting techniques while he took one of
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the 3D printed helmets and created one
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of the best and most original paint jobs
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I've ever seen including an awesome eye
11:35
reflection and all of this was freehand
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there was no reference photos nothing he
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did all this from his own memory and
11:44
experience of painting models to this
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standard wow and I can't finish this
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video without mentioning the incredible
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the awesome and the smoldering James
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Taro who joined us at the booth to
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promote his plint and if you're in the
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UK Taro model maker is pretty much the
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default place that people recommend for
12:05
model plint and whilst he AR 3D printed
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he does use prints in his production
12:10
process before parts are then cleaned
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and he creates Masters in order to resin
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cast again solid guy 10 out of 10 would
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recommend I honestly love that 3D
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printing has really started to make its
12:23
way into this Hobby and with printers
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being more accessible now than ever
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before it's growing Leaps and Bounds and
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shows no signs of slowing down already
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this niche of how to create things in
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our hobby is big enough to bring STL
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companies to events like this with some
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of the largest booths there competitions
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not only allowing but even encouraging
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the use of 3D printed models heck even
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this year's golden Demon Slayer sword
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winner has 3D scanned and printed
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components in order to create that piece
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adep toon as always was amazing and
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having done a few cons now I really need
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to thank the organizers this one for
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helping out every step of the way but I
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want to say I think 2024 is the year
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that 3D printing truly planted its flag
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in the ground and love it or hate it it
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exists now and it opens up a world of
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options at significantly more affordable
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prices than pre-produced resin or
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plastic this whole movement seems so
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relative to the same things we saw at
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the start of the digitization of music
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and video it's like being at the start
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of the MP3 or digital video revolutions
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but for Miniatures and models it's only
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going to grow and I can't wait to see
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what we get next year what do you want
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to see at events like this please let me
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know down in the comments how do you see
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the 3D printing Community growing and
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getting more normalized as we move
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forward I want to say thanks to artist
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Opus for once again having me and flying
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me to this event and the team are a
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great bunch of guys including Byron
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himself Rick from AO who went with us
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last year Ed who runs the events for AO
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and this time we would joined by Jeff
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from the painting phase and if you want
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to hear more about our time there the
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somewhat unfiltered version then please
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check out the painting phase and watch
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their video on the event thanks to you
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for watching and to our members for
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being patient as we have had a couple of
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extra long videos this month which has
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delayed things from its typical schedule
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until next time you had me at hello fa
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hammer
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out
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