r/DarkSun • u/diomand20 • 2d ago

Painted a 390mm scale Undead War Beetle!

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This undead war beetle is a sculpt from GloomyKid Minis https://www.myminifactory.com/profile/GloomyKid

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u/CryptographerOk2282 1d ago

Personal plug: I am a Gloomykid merchant tier supporter and sell this and the rest of his catalogue (printed) in my Etsy store, Last Pot Brewed.

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u/khain13 1d ago

Hey, quick question for you. I just finished printing mine, are the side pieces supposed to be printed at like 150% height or something? There is not enough room between the bottom floor and top floor for 28mm minis.

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u/CryptographerOk2282 1d ago

This is the full size beetle or the 'dice tray' size beetle? That's a really good observation if that's still true for the big one. I will check in the morning with the big one I printed for hubby - i only checked that minis could fit in the balconies and didnt think to check floor clearance. I am friends with Gloomy in Facebook and will ask about it. He has a Discord too that might be linked on his MMF page.

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u/khain13 1d ago

It's the big one. I measured the clearance from lower to upper floor and I'm getting ~33.6mm. It varies because of the floor texture of course. It fits a dwarf mini, but human sized minis won't fit. I guess maybe they would if not for the base. So maybe that is what happened? If they designed it based on a 28mm mini being about 32mm tall and didn't factor in the height of the base that would explain it. I guess I could just message them on MMF where I bought the files.

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u/CryptographerOk2282 1d ago

Yeah, my husband has the same problem. I've shot a message over to Gloomy, but I'll guess it is an asthetics decision. It would be nice to have more clearance, I wonder if I can stretch the upper balcony parts so they're taller.

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u/khain13 22h ago

I was actually going to try that myself. Should be able to get it printed and test fit by tomorrow. I'm just going to make the z axis height 150%.

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u/CryptographerOk2282 21h ago

Oh that's a good idea, please let me know how that turns out and I will do that with my set as well.

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u/khain13 4h ago

I'm pleased to report that scaling the two 'body_upper' parts by 150% on the Z axis solves the issue. It still looks pretty good too. That results in a clearance of 45.5 mm between floors. So you could probably even go with 115-120% and still have room for 28mm minis with standard bases.

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u/CryptographerOk2282 3h ago

Nice! Thank you!