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One of the hottest tech news stories of the last couple of days is that The Pirate Bay has begun hosting 3D models suitable for the new range of inexpensive 3D printers (they’re calling them “physibles“). Reporter Michael Rundle on The Huffington Post hit the story from a gamer angle on Wednesday, pointing out that the earliest hosted files already included a model for a Warhammer 40k figure.
Games Workshop wouldn’t comment on the situation. But what about you? Any thoughts on how this might affect the miniatures business?
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I think before people pirate these such 3D sculpture models – there will be a huge array of desktop printable stuff. As soon as they clock on to the fact that many boardgames can be simply rattled off in a house-hold printer there will be more and more boardgames popping up on there.
At the moment it’s mostly 3d renderings of optical illusions and simple figures with one Warhammer Figure. Soon we might start seeing things like;
“BOARDGAMES_FFG_Back_Catalogue&Promos.zip”
What will this do to the industry?
Back in the day we would make our own 40K models or draw and cut out hand made cardboard figures with there own stands.
Anything to off set the cost of buying a new army. Was it a problem then?
I think creating your own components or figures can only be a good thing for the hobby, unfortunately there will always be lawyers and accountants who will see things differently.