April Update - Monthly Round Up

 Things have changed a bit over the last month and the world seems to have gone crazy. I hope you all have enough toilet roll and are staying safe. Hopefully the madness starts subsiding soon and things can get back to normal. In the meantime, here's April.

March Content - Now Expired

Gunnhild turned out to be a really fun model and I'm very happy with the results. Now that March is done she will be available on my Gumroad store and available at a 30% discount to Patrons of all pledge levels.  

Poll Winner: Katsumi

Katsumi takes the poll. I'm really looking forward to working on this as I have plans to add a lot of fine embroidery details to the clothing. She might be a challenge to chop up into pieces but we'll see how that goes when it comes to it. She'll be sculpted throughout April and released in May. 

Model of the Month: Claudia, Ranger of the Apocalypse

Claudia will be available on April 3rd (or earlier depending on completion of the Patreon billing cycle).Claudia was a really pleasurable sculpt and she came together nice and easily. I had a good time adding in little details like the seams of her jacket and all the buckles and straps and the creating a massively modified SCAR-H assault rifle. I set her on a post apocalyptic Terminator themed (gotta keep the 80s vibe) base with some spent high calibre bullet casings and some robotic pieces. I'm providing fully print ready pre-supported STLs for this one for the first time. I've adopted a new workflow that now means you no longer have to add your own vent holes and I've also included 2 plate packing diagrams. One is optimized to give you sections of the model you can work on while the rest prints, while the other is optimized for print time.  The diagrams contain some information such as layer count and estimated resin usage (resin usage should be taken with a grain of salt as it's a slicer estimation). 

Trove Update: Murder Crow (100 Patrons)

Having reached just over 100 patrons last month I released the Murder Crow to the trove. It's quite a large model overall so it might be worth scaling it down by 5 or 10% but that's up to you. The parts should fit the most common printer form factors at 100% scale, but be aware it's a hefty chunk of resin.Note: Pre-supported files for this model require vent holes to be added (they were done before bringing in my new workflow).  

Usual Content - Introducing Sync

As usual the rest of the content is done and will be available on April 3rd (or earlier depending on the Patreon billing cycle). Renders, poll sketches and work in progress shots will be available via Google Drive but also via Sync.  Seems there's always going to be a problem with one or the other for some folks so I'm going to use both Google Drive and Sync. Content is mirrored across both so it's up to you guys to use whichever service suits you best.

Thanks and a favour

First off, thanks again to all of my Patrons. Each month we're seeing new folks hopping on board and each one is helping me get closer to the dream of doing this full time. Though I do have a favour to ask. I'm awful at self promotion and social media. I'm very much a word of mouth kinda guy when it comes to promotion and I rely heavily on you guys to spread the word of my work around. I am extremely thankful to those of you who share my work around as you're pretty much solely responsible for my marketing. The favour I'd like to ask is that you continue doing so. Spread the word however you can, I appreciate everything and anything you can do.With that said, I hope you enjoy your April and try to stay safe and well.