D&D General The Return of the Death Knight!

You might remember my sad tale of my HeroForge death knight and it’s untimely fate. Well… there’s a new chapter in the story, because the death knight is back!

HeroForge very generously reached out to me and offered to send me a replacement. I gratefully accepted (while feeling slightly guilty, as it was my dog who ate it’s predecessor).

The new death knight arrived this morning — along with a pair of other minis, who I hereby dub his minions. I think they might form a small adventuring party.

So, thank you HeroForge! You can't keep a good (evil?) death knight down! Now I just need a name for this new adventuring party!

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[Blackrat]

Wait, these are their colored plastic prints? As in no painting? That’s a quality I was not expecting!

 

[Morrus]

Wait, these are their colored plastic prints? As in no painting? That’s a quality I was not expecting!

Yeah, colour 3D printed.

 

[RealAlHazred]

The colored plastic prints are really nice. I mean, they're not going to look as good as lovingly-hand-painted, highly-detailed minis you'll see in the display cases at the hobby shop, but they're at least as good as the pre-painted ones put out by GF9 (Wizkids?). And the colors don't seem to fade much, unless of course they're consumed by canines...

 

[Fallen star]

Lord Houndstooth the returned, and his steed, Slinter. Brother Theodor, the bare-armed. Lady Spyte, the warpriestess.

 

[TarionzCousin]

That bear could be the legendary Sir Bearington.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Yeah, colour 3D printed.

How the heck are they colour printing in 3D?

 

[NotAYakk]

How the heck are they colour printing in 3D?

They 3d print it by depositing plastic that is quick-hardened (I dunno, using UV lasers), but here they deposit different colours of plastic (and I think even blends).

So instead of being a monocoloured model with paint on it, the colour can be more than skin-deep. I think they can even get some translucent plastics this way? Not certain.

 

[FrozenNorth]

Given how the death knight ended up, I was expecting a more prosaic “return”.

Ah well, this too shall pass!

 

[Seramus]

HeroForge make good minis, and they are good people.

 

[DWChancellor]

I am very curious if the colors would pop better if a shiny varnish was applied.