{"id":21232,"date":"2021-01-21T17:55:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21232"},"modified":"2021-10-29T03:05:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:05:46","slug":"news-spectre-stls-and-new-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/01\/21\/news-spectre-stls-and-new-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Spectre STLs and New Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two pieces of news regarding Spectre Miniatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay well actually three – the first being that they are still alive. Having had a chat with the team at Spectre, last year was just a whole host of misfortunes added together into a perfect storm. I’ll leave it to them to say however much they wish to but after talking to them, many of the issues in the last year (issues with models requiring more clean up than usual, a lack of stock on the site) should mostly be in the past… hopefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, lets focus on the actual news. Fitting for me seeing as I’m writing a post on it, Spectre have entered the 3d printing game. Last week they put up a pile of STL files for sale on their website for personal use. Priced pretty reasonably, these cover a wide selection of pieces from weapons to put in your HMV to scenery items and stowage. I know this is something a lot of people have asked about and it’s great to see them release them. I’m also intrigued to see what will come next – maybe the HMV turrets would be a useful addition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s important to note that they are not planning to release their vehicles through this system which… is fair. There is a lot of work and design details in their 3d modelling and STLs are an inheritably open system – selling models this way would be asking for piracy and unlicensed selling. I would like them to be sold as STLs (you can never have enough humvees) but I think the maths to make it worth doing would probably make them incredibly expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had a little play with the files I picked up. They are nice STLs but arrive unsupported, so some work may be needed. As you can see above with the hescos, the ones bought from Spectre are going to have much more detail than the one printed by an entry-level 3D printer. That said, I was impressed that the 3d printed model actually maintained some of the texture detail, such as the netting on the corners of it. If you’re willing to accept these differences, and of course have the printer to make them, then you’ll be able to crank out hesco outposts at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The STLs can be found on their website at https:\/\/www.spectreminiatures.com\/collections\/stl-files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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