Printing in colours that already match what you want is a great way to save time and multicolour printing is the answer!
For example, I am printing my Training Grounds Kickstarter buildings in Bone White matte filament and I will just add a streaking acrylic heavy wash cleaned off with a rag and call it good. I won’t worry about layer lines as there are textures on the print the obscure them a little; I won’t worry about priming or painting a base coat or prepping them particularly. They also look good until I print them.
When you print as much as I do or are in a rush or just don’t enjoy painting, this is such a speed hack!
What if you have multiple colours on one piece????
As I am designing this, I try to split parts into sections that make sense to be self coloured. Here the buildings are split so the main body is Bone White and the roofs and stacking pieces are Dark Brown.
The buildings are nice and clean cut but the doors are not.
The answer is to split the prints but the trick is to make them clip together or seat into each other properly. For the fox holes, I have printed the sandbags in Elegoo Latte Brown matte filament and the base in the Bambu Dark Brown. They use the same blocks as the buildings to align so they fit perfectly.
The doors even manage to have a little catch to hold the inner door into its surround. Sadly, the windows clipping has stumped me as they are so small but once in the building, they can’t fall out so the roof effectively holds them in place.
The landing zone terrain tiles can either print all as one (the totally grey tiles) or with a separate piece that you print in a different colour – I chose yellow. It doesn’t need a fancy AMS system – just two prints and two colours. These will probably need gluing to make them more robust for use but for those that want to multicolour print with their current printer – whatever it is – they can.
Fit is a little bit of trial and error. These yellow lines are a bit too loose so I will tighten up the gap and reprint another set of test pieces. However, you can see how much better the tiles look with a separate coloured printed insert.
You could just put these on the table and play without even painting!
That’s all for now but you can get these models on my Kickstarter – The Training Grounds
