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3D Printed Human Scale Bolt Pistols

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3D Printed Human Scale Bolt Pistols

I’m back again after another little break until I was able to make time (and a clear table) for another big batch of photos. This time we have another pair of 1:1 prints – Bolt Pistols!

3D Printed Human Scale Bolt Pistols

3D Printed Human Scale Bolt Pistols

As with the previous prints of this type that I shared – the MK.V Godwyn Pattern Boltguns – I went with a nice metallic red and metallic green. Unlike the previous prints, the screws in the casing are just surface detail that I may paint in a bit later.

3D Printed Human Scale Bolt Pistols

3D Printed Human Scale Bolt Pistols

As you can see, even though this is a piece of “fan art”, there’s a bit of an discrepency between the size of the bolter rounds that could fit into the magazine and the barrel size. Still, given that this is a free and freely available fan art model of a toy gun from a pretty pulpy science-fantasy universe, I’m still pretty good with it – especially due to the “rule of cool”.

3D Printed Human Scale Bolt Pistols

This particular model also features a removable magazine. In lieu of gluing them in for the time being, I’ve chosen to use blu-tac to hold them in, and it’s working fine so far.

3D Printed Human Scale Bolt Pistols

3D Printed Human Scale Bolt Pistols

Thanks to Marouda for the use of her feminine hand modelling skills here. You may also notice her trigger discipline as well!

3D Printed Human Scale Bolt Pistols

3D Printed Human Scale Bolt Pistols

These were printed quite awhile ago now, and then assembled sometime later, over the Easter break. I got some of the shots not too long afterwards, but only grabbed the last couple ones I wanted yesterday. Hope you enjoyed seeing these! I’ll be back to more normal models again with my next post!

Why Not Everything Sucks!

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This morning I’ve been reading a well-written post by Sevy over on the Tiny Painted Heroes blog on the topic of “Why Does Everything Suck?” The post largely deals with hobby content on YouTube, and the majority of comments are by people in our little gang – go read the post now if you haven’t yet – then come back here! I also attempted to add a comment but WordPress decided to eat both my comment and then my attempt to rewrite it. So I’m turning it into a little bonus post here.

I personally watch a lot of YouTube. Like, a LOT. When I’m pottering around on my PC – which is a lot of the time, I’ve often got a video running on my second monitor. I watch stuff from a wide variety of content types, but the relevent stuff for this post is the gaming hobby stuff, so I’m just going to discuss that here.

The thing I find with YouTube specifically, is that it’s actually pretty easy to curate your feed. Despite how annoying it is to hear it from every content creator all of the time, clicking like and even a subscribe not only helps their channels, but it also means you’re more likely to be fed more of their stuff as well as stuff YT thinks is like their stuff – which doesn’t mean “they liked a Star Wars Legion video – feed them Warhammer” – the algorithm also looks at what people who liked that video also liked. So yes, you’ll obviously still inevitably get Warhammer fed to you, but you’ll also get more stuff of whatever niche you’ve been looking at.

So in order to cull the stuff you’re not enjoying, a thumbs-down – especially without watching the whole thing apparently works well. Another thing that helps a lot is something that appears to only work when using YouTube on a computer web browser – the “Don’t Recommend Channel” button found via the “three dots” menu.

Below you’ll find some great channels worth your time to at least check out. Some often have a GW focus but a lot are for other games or wider. This is aside from the “painting tutorial” channels like Duncan, Sorastro, Vince Venturella and Sonic Sledgehammer (which can have interesting videos as well, but aren’t really in the “hobby news/discussion” genre – or hobby-adjacent modelling channels like Night Shift.

So while TPH definitely isn’t wrong that there’s a ton of negative content out there farming angry clicks (because that’s how making money on social media works) – I’m not going to bother doing a name-and-shame here of negative channels or the ones that piss me off – they’re easy to find and this post is wanting to be a bit more positive here –

Here’s a bunch of links here that you might find interesting to dip in and out of and hopefully improve some YouTube feeds out there. Obviously not an exhaustive list, and while you’ve probably heard of a couple of these channels, they’re mostly smaller and/or niche channels that deal with more than GW/Warhammer (not Auspex, though!) I’m sure I’ve even missed a bunch of channels I personally enjoy here:

https://www.youtube.com/@The.Game.Cave.

https://www.youtube.com/@MSPaints

https://www.youtube.com/@Miniscape-wh40k

https://www.youtube.com/@OldenDemon

https://www.youtube.com/@SnipeandWib

https://www.youtube.com/@PeachyTips

https://www.youtube.com/@EonsOfBattle

https://www.youtube.com/@AllMiniaturesGreatandSmall

https://www.youtube.com/@graysquadrongaming8670

https://www.youtube.com/@ArbitorIan

https://www.youtube.com/@GuerrillaMiniatureGames

https://www.youtube.com/@LittleWarsTV

https://www.youtube.com/@ModellingforAdvantage

https://www.youtube.com/@auspextactics

https://www.youtube.com/@tabletopminions

https://www.youtube.com/@TheLegionCantina

https://www.youtube.com/@Crabbok

https://www.youtube.com/@Ninjon

https://www.youtube.com/@stahly_taleofpainters

Anyway, check out some of the channels above and see if any interest you and hopefully some of them can help to improve your hobby feed!

Did I miss any positive hobby channels that you guys recommend? If so, feel free to drop them in the comments and I’ll potentially check them out myself.