Digital Kitbashing Miniatures is AWESOME (and easy)

Hey good people, thanks for dropping in - in this video I walk you through a quick digital kitbash of this Heavy Vault Mech from Geargutz as I alter and fit an alternate head, and hopefully demonstrate that bashing bits digitally is as easy or as difficult as you want it to be! The hill of skill required to climb here is not very high at all, so don't be afraid to try - it can be seriously rewarding stuff.
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[@blakejohnson5130]

You can merge the combined STLs which makes them one. Then you can hollow to your hearts content!

[@OnceinaSixSide]

That's awesome, I didn't know that's what that button was for! Thanks :D

[@herculeholmes504]

I'm struggling to keep up with the explanations in the video but I am really liking the sound of kitbashing. I'll watch it again and try to follow the steps. I want to learn Blender too, but this sounds like an easier way to dip my toe in the water.

[@blakejohnson5130]

@@herculeholmes504 Blender is an amazing tool, but, it takes a long time to master. There’s plenty of videos on how to use blender, I would start there before jumping in

[@jc7997aj]

@@herculeholmes504 pro tip make sure the tutorial you follow is using the version of blender you have. Trust me itll save some headache and frustraion.

[@Jauphrey]

Bizarre. Another video that's right on target with what I'm actively doing and was wondering about but hadn't specifically searched for. Whatever you're doing, please keep it up.

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Will do! Thanks :D

[@gossumx]

Thanks. That’s a really simple process for solving an otherwise complex problem. I’d love to see that more advanced version for printing hollow (larger) models.

[@piotrandzel5864]

7:14, If you want to print bashed models hollow, you can use blender's remesh modifier to turn them into one mesh. It's honestly really easy, I cant do anything in blender and I was able to figure it out in less than 5 minutes.

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Awesome! Thanks for the tip. Another user commented here as well that you can also use the Merge feature in 3D Builder for the same thing.

[@Falvodor]

Great video mate, your enthusiasm is infectious. I look forward to seeing more!

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Cheers!

[@warmagic9312]

Amazing video. I learned like 15 new things. I cant believe adding text is so easy. It blew my mind. You earned the sub!

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Thanks! I'm glad you got a lot out it :D

[@MrDave951]

Great video! You explained the basics quite well 👍

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Thank you!

[@danroberts007]

Nice tutorial and the results certainly look great; thanks for sharing. Any time you want to share printing knowledge, I’ll be watching! (and I love OPR gaming too)

[@OnceinaSixSide]

That's awesome, thanks! OPR games have definitely been such a huge boon for casual gamers. I should do some videos on that too, see if I can't help persuade more people to try. Definitely got some more 3D printed stuff in the works coming soon :)

[@oleww50]

Thanks for the video! Just tried MS 3d builder, great for merging files. Finally a quick and easy way to do it. 😎

[@metalmanexetreme]

thank you my man, watched a different video on how to kitbash and that made it a significantly more drawn out process (with 3 different programs) this has boosted my confidence significantly. when i get the funds i'll definitely pick up your creation (though I mainly 3d print for Fantasy games, my brother is into wargaming and would likely be thoroughly thrilled by it)

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Hey that's great! Glad to hear the video is helping people out. Yeah you can definitely dive a hell of a lot deeper with programs like Blender but honestly just getting started in 3D Builder is the way and likely for many people as far as they'll ever need to take it. Thanks for your support :)

[@SPQRKlio]

New subscriber, have started absorbing every video on your channel. I began tinkering with digital kitbashing even before I finally got a digital printer (so recently that I haven’t set it up yet), and for sure I don’t know what I don’t know about combining bits. Looking forward to learning from this and all the other videos.

[@MrHP25]

Banger of a first video. Subscribed

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Thank you kind sir!

[@redline3090]

Excellent tutorial! Thanks.

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Thanks!

[@foxhoundms9051]

Short and simple, awesome channel bro, liked, subbed, keep it up 😎👍

[@RussellWilliams736]

Thank you.. I've been using 3d builder to make digital kitbashs and I completely didn't think about using the subtract tool or the emboss tools... again thank you and you got yourself a sale on that outpost my friend!

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Thank you very much! Your support is greatly appreciated sir :) I'm really glad to hear you found some handy knowledge in this video!

[@Bobcat173rd]

I had no idea about that program, this changes everything!

[@OnceinaSixSide]

It's a gem!

[@spkt0r]

Thank you great content.

[@LegionaireSiggi]

Came here after your video with Gamza and I will definitely be following after seeing this video. This is exactly what I have been wanting to do for my Sludge army and I can wait to try what you have shown here.

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Cheers and good luck with your sludge army! Sounds filthy :D

[@Centurion3D]

Wow, you really help me out of a jam with this video. Make more like this please! I just subscribed. Thank you.

[@OnceinaSixSide]

That's awesome! Thank you for the sub :D

[@sh36]

YES! Free software that's not blender! Thank you so much for making this video ♥

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Aw why thank you for your comment, and happy kitbashing!

[@djhull569]

Omg thank you so much I was looking for how to do this

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Glad I could help!

[@secretcodamusic]

Great video. I need to spend more time on 3D builder. Just subscribed, looking forward to more.

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Thanks!

[@yagosantiago10]

Nice video Man, I've always done my repair to 3d print in blender, never used 3d builder for this stuff, thanks a lot

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Thanks! I generally use Blender too as it's a lot more capable a tool once you know the basics. I'm gonna do a video at some point about Blender :)

[@yagsipcc287]

Great stuff bud I also LOVE!!! The Makers Cult 🙂

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Thanks! Makers Cult is dope.

[@MrBizteck]

Danm Ive been using 3d builder for 4 years ... I always merged the STLs sometimes they were too complicated and didnt work. I never thought of just grouping then and printing.... its so simple I feel like an idiot !!! SUBBED

[@MrKorkann]

I was sad . It's been a while we haven't seen you ! . I didn't knew you could kitbash that way. Very nice . I can't wait to have some ideas now to try the thing myself

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Glad to have introduced you to the joy that is digital kitbashing! It can be really rewarding so I do hope you give it a go. Thanks for watching and I should have another battle report out this week :)

[@NoobixCube]

For us Mac and Linux users, everything you demonstrated there I guess we could do in Tinkercad. It's not the most powerful tool in the world, but if you've never made so much as a cube, you can still use Tinkercad. Except I don't think it has a planar split/cut tool, so for that you jump through the small hoop of making two copies of an object and using a cube to cut it twice.

[@OnceinaSixSide]

There's also Lychee slicer now too which recently added a planar slice tool!

[@NoobixCube]

@@OnceinaSixSide Oh cool. I use Lychee and I haven't paid any attention to the new features they've added. I mainly switched to Lychee because the community resin and printer profiles, while they overexpose a little, are reliable. That, and when a model isn't presupported, Lychee's auto supports do a good enough job when I make them dense but light. I've only used auto-supports for Battletech miniatures, but the only failures I've had were temperature related as I printed overnight. I still _check_ Lychee's work and sometimes add one or two more supports, but generally, they're good enough.

[@SlicePrintRoleplay]

A great tutorial! I normally do this with Meshmixer, but I'll definitely take a closer look at 3D Builder.

[@OnceinaSixSide]

That's awesome! I don't believe I've played around with Meshmixer before, I'll have to scope it out. Cheers for leaving a comment!

[@SlicePrintRoleplay]

@@OnceinaSixSide yeah it's got a lot of great features, but can be a bit overwhelming at times. Definitely let me know if you have any questions.

[@TheWeakenedWarrior]

Nice work. Subbed.

[@miketogwell1000]

If you load it back into 3dbuilder and use the merge option then you can print kitbashed bits hollow

[@volljoseph]

This. You can also select models and choose to "Ungroup" them. Sometimes the program will detect arms, legs, heads, weapons as separate pieces for you right out of the gate.

[@GavinTheEnchantedHunchback]

Fine, god, I bought it, you can stop now (Seriously it looks sweet AF. If the hit numbers on that Grey Knights vid are any indicator, your sacrifices to the YT algorithm gods are working. Looking forward to more!)

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Thank you! :D

[@rezza855]

thank you for showing me what is basically a very simplified and easier version of meshmixer

[@andyswarbrick7452]

Thanks, I’ve been struggling to do something like this. I’ve been trying to use Tinkercad but many files are too complex to load. +1 subscriber, looking forward to more content.

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Thank you! 3D Builder is a little gem.

[@kylehawthorne8553]

Thanks for the warning on the printing solid. I was just kitbashing some minis

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Happy to hear you got some value out of it! I learned from one of the other commenters that there's a Merge function in the Edit tab of 3D builder that actually deals with the overlapping geometry, so if you want to hollow something you've kitbashed group your models then merge them and it should be okay - just be sure to double check in your slicer that everything is fine.

[@missjayspeechley9213]

Thank you for this knowledge. Thanks to you I did some digital kitbash mashup Battlemechs. The Skaro Urbanmech urbie/Dalek hybrid, and the Cyberatlas a Cyberman Atlas. They can be found on Thingiverse

[@missjayspeechley9213]

Also, check out the paint feature in 3D Builder. I found this to be a lot of fun

[@OnceinaSixSide]

That's great to hear! I don't think thingiverse has indexed them yet because I couldn't find them but I'm sure they're epic :D

[@jasonpbass]

cool video! i had no idea 3d Builder could do all that! i use c4d and meshmixer primarily, though.

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Yep! Its a handy little tool. Thanks for the comment!

[@freindlywargaming9574]

your channel is going to get popular

[@OnceinaSixSide]

That's very encouraging, thanks!

[@Pvnth-R]

Dope!

[@OnceinaSixSide]

:D

[@nasigoring1525]

Great video. I wish I saw this about 4 weeks ago... because I did a couple of parts in blender and now I have parts with tons of internal geometry and outside walls .1mm thick. Is there an easy way to take those hollow models and make them solid or am I better off just doing them again in 3D builder?

[@wariotx]

very good content, any chance for a keying tutorial? for when you need to split models in different parts

[@Ryzearn]

I know what software I'm going to be installing on my computer next

[@grimoirworkshop6623]

Check needed but I suppose 2d hollowing in lychee can handle it as it works with bitmap of each layer and not with a 3d model

[@SNDKNG]

Hey man, thanks for putting this out there. Do you have a workflow recommendation? I'm playing around a lot but after a few nasty failures I want to get more serious about validating files/checking islands/making fixes, but there's just so many pieces of software and I'm not sure how to go from one to another.

[@OnceinaSixSide]

UV Tools and your slicer of choice is all you need :) Basically slice a file, then load that file into UV Tools and click on the Issues button and it'll draw up a list of all the problems it finds and tell you what layer number they occur on.

[@SNDKNG]

@@OnceinaSixSide Thanks! What's the deal with UVTools, do I really have to install it with choco off of github?

[@OnceinaSixSide]

@@SNDKNG No there should be a regular old executable on there to download that will install it like any other piece of software.

[@thedeadfish628]

Any recommendations for Mac software?

[@Lightscribe225]

Do you have any suggestions for "poseable" models? Cause I have no idea how to even start on them

[@OnceinaSixSide]

You'll have to dive into Blender for those, here's a pretty in depth guide that should help you out :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6mwiYingbqtj9E

[@theenchiladakid1866]

Is it really kitbash if you printing custom parts

[@tomstone2080]

When you use 1 model to delete part of another model is there a way of adding a tolerance in to take account of prices not coming out perfect ?

[@tomstone2080]

And a video on how to put magnets in to models would be great

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Yep! Just scale up the cutting model slightly before subtracting it from the target model and that will give you some wiggle room.

[@tomstone2080]

@@OnceinaSixSide thanks - Been printing a lot of loot stuff and finding whoever did their supports in the welcome pack (Fantasy) was click happy - nearly impossible to get off cleanly - models breaking - lots of supports merged into one another forming a solid tower and far too many supports on bases etc

[@cabellism]

Kinda got the itch to kitbash Gundam parts now.... about to say fuck paying P-Bandai prices.

[@gazeddy]

are the minis in your intro 3d prints?

[@OnceinaSixSide]

Yep!

[@JohnClarkGaming]

Get either needs to embrace this change or accept they no longer have a monopoly on anything but the rules and kits they do sell. There is so much they could do but don't it's their fault at this point if they start losing money on kit sales.

[@nekrodex4539]

whats the track playing in minute 9:00-10:00?

[@OnceinaSixSide]

That would be one of mine! I should probably release that over on my music channel.

[@TheStonehammerFiles]

boolean in blender would make the need to print solid unnecessary as it would make the new mesh truly one piece.

[@jbumgarn]

Thank you for this video and extra thanks for not using Blender. I hate Blender.

[@evilabelincoln3787]

we're all just going to ignore the file "the emperor's giant shlong"?

[@OnceinaSixSide]

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