September News & Previews #4
A New Direction for OPR Terrain
Thank you for all of the feedback about OPR Terrain you gave us in the last community survey and the terrain specific survey we ran in July. In response we are going to be changing how we make terrain going forward.
The most important change is that we want to make the terrain easier to print on resin 3D printers. In the survey, our users overwhelmingly prefer resin 3D printing to FDM printing, so making terrain that takes advantage of the printers you already have and are comfortable using is a must.
To do this we're going to be making smaller modular terrain pieces designed specifically for resin printing and moving away from larger static buildings that needed to be sliced into parts. We want the terrain we make to look the best it possibly can and for printing it to be a great experience.
With more organic edges and modular uses in mind, these terrain pieces can be used on their own, reconfigured as needed on a table, or used together with other parts to assemble larger terrain pieces with all the detail and quality possible with resin printing.
Each terrain set is also going to be much larger than our previous terrain sets. Above you can see a preview of the Small Forest Terrain set, and instead of our usual 4 pieces, it will now include 11. There will also be more terrain sets for each theme.
You also asked for us to focus on more general terrain that can be used on a larger variety of tables, so we are going to pause production on faction specific terrain after the final release of the Blessed Sisters terrain sets. The first several terrain sets will be more broad themes, with the first theme being our forest terrain. We may return to doing faction specific terrain in the future once we've got a good variety of terrain released.
We're already incredibly excited to see the creative terrain builds you will make with these new building blocks.
September Painting Contest Voting is Now Open!
The submissions are in, and now it's time to vote for your favorites!
See all entries here:
Vote here: https://forms.gle/VyNKYY5twSd5DwT67
Good luck to all participants, may the best ones win. :D
Join us for OPR Hangout #14 on October 2nd
On the last week of every month, we’re running an OPR Hangout stream over on YouTube, where we showcase upcoming releases, sneak peeks at future content, and have a Q&A session for you to get involved. This is a relaxed stream, giving you a behind-the-scenes look at our creation process whilst chatting a bit and having some fun.
The next stream is going to be on October 2nd at 20:00 GMT / 15:00 EST / 12:00 PST.
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New Painting Video from Paintman Journeying
Also, this week Paintman Journeying paints one of the Human Empire mercenaries to be one of their characters in Age of Fantasy: Quest! If you want to try Quest, the beta is available to Tier 1 and above patrons here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/60631647
You can watch the video on his channel here: https://youtu.be/gEwQ0jX_EHU
New Concept Art Preview
At the top of the post you'll find concept art previews of some of the models coming out in November, including the debut of the Vampiric Undead!
In November, the Vampiric Undead rise from their crypts. These accursed forces are lead into battle by Vampire Lords or Ladies. Their drained Soldiers flood the field while Bat Swarms and Bat Beasts soar into the enemy back lines.
The Dwarf Guilds will continue in November as well, with the Berserker Veteran and Berserkers rushing headlong into enemy fire supported by the Dwarf Guilds Elites. And if that wasn't enough to break through enemy ranks, the Dwarf Guilds Tank sure will.
And finally, the Beastmen return with this month's Legendary Model! The Shaman Titan is a massive burning effigy controlled by a Beastman Shaman, capable of bringing fiery destruction across the battlefield.
Our 3rd Edition Sale Ends September 30th!
There are only a few more days to take advantage of our 3rd Edition MyMiniFactory sale!
With the release of the 3rd edition of our games, this is the perfect opportunity to get started with a new army, the model you've always wanted, or complete your OPR collection! To celebrate, we're having a sale on all of our models on MyMiniFactory for the month of September:
Tier 2 Patrons - 70% off All Models with the monthly discount code available here.
All Other Customers - 50% off All Models with the discount code OPR3E at checkout.
OPR MyMiniFactory Store:https://www.myminifactory.com/users/onepagerules
You can read more about the sale here on Patreon.
September Models are Still Available
If you aren't already a Tier 2 subscriber, there is still time to join and get the first Dwarf Guilds release, our Human Empire release, and our Legendary Human Empire Chimeric Summoning model!
The Human Empire and the Dwarf Guilds storm onto the battlefield for our September release! You can see all our models in our September Release Overview here. For only $10 you'll get:
1x Human Empire Legendary Model
29x Human Empire Models
57x Dwarf Guilds Models
4x Empire Fleet Models
10x Terrain Pieces
88x Themed Bases
18x Themed Game Aids
Our Welcome Pack with 22x Sci-Fi & Fantasy Models
And more!
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That's it for this week, happy wargaming!
- OPR Team
Comments (30)
I hope OPR will not abandon the idea of big terrain either. I am one of the folks that uses FDM for terrain because of cost of each piece, aslso for durability. I do print occasionally some smaller terrain in resin when it is proven too difficult to print in FDM. If possible I'd request larger terrain pieces also to be provided pre cut like it was in the case of Eternal Dynasty little buildings, provided that the models are made in one big piece before cutting for smaller prints I don't see much of an issue to provide the assembled models as an option for those that choose to use FDM printers for larger scale terrain.
Tiny modular bits instead of proper decent sized fdm printable terrain? Meh.
The vampires look amazing, cant wait for them to be realised
I would love to have forest terrain without leaves. Love the direction with the terrain, while it's going to be expensive to produce a bit table I know that this is an awesome direction and am super excited to get into printing the terrain.
Those previews look stunning, and I am super happy for the new terrain direction. There are a lot of terrain specific files available everywhere, and most focus on fdm indeed, but having props and high end looking resin one is not that easy. Great job!
When they say that 'our users overwhelmingly prefer resin 3D printing to FDM printing' I hope what they mean is 'our users who print terrain overwhelming prefer resin 3D printing' and I'm definitely not convinced about what the cost for a 6'x4' table will be all in resin so I'm pretty sad to hear this announcement but OPR has a lot of good will and trust with me to do whats best for the community so I'm still a little hopeful.
I’m just going to print other terrain from other sources. It’s unfortunate however but yeah I’m not going to do a table in resin. Too bad they can’t do both.
While I mostly use my FDM printer for terrain, I do understand the need to support the majority who use resin printers for both figures and terrain. One possible tip / idea is to team up with Black Magic Crafts or similar YouTubers for a video on how to use the smaller resin pieces to make larger 'craft' terrain pieces.
Oh man Vampiric Undead will be fireee (literally and figuratively)
super excited for the Vampires! \o/
I like the collars, they remind me how the ties came to be
There are great designs, but I'm disapointed with the vampire collar.
Wow! Lots of emotions coming from this post. The concept art for November looks freaking amazing, on all counts. November, December and January are going to be super happy months for me I think. That being said, I haven't liked a lot of what's been offered this year and the main reason I kept subscribed was Legendary models and the super awesome terrain. While the new terrain looks fantastic, I'm disapointed we are losing the fantastic large terrain. I really hope that occasionally you still offer something in that scale. I use only resin printers and have been printing the big, big terrain no problems. Either way looking forward to the next few months; Dwarf Guilds and Vampires are looking fantastic!
3 cheers for resin printable terrain!!! I'm looking forward to castle, trench ect. terrain made wall by wall like a model (not a brick of money sucking resin fails) and modular so we can make it bigger and bigger. ;) ;)
I agree on the sentiment that there are a huge amount of sources for general terrain. Only OPR would have terrain that is OPR faction specific.
Oh I hope that bat beast lives up to the concept art...that is fantastic. Same with the berserkers - great work from the artist(s)!
Hope you return to faction specific terrain, general terrain is literally anywhere and everywhere to find, but I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
cant wait for the vampires!
Seeing the Dwarf Berzerkers made me go *intense gorilla noises* - ESPECIALLY the Veteran, I hope we get more big tech-mohawk options for the non-veteran units. Can't wait to print them!!! I'm not sure what to expect from the two-handed axes on the dwarfs, but pleeeeeease make them BIG!! :) Also, not sure the direction other concepts may be going, but a pose with the two-handed axe being held overhead would be a dang-nice looking pose!! Berzerkers can definitely use some aggressive poses.
kind of bummed that you will focus on smaller scatter as the big unique themed items where something I couldnt get elsewhere. Trees, rocks and scatter is available everywhere. Keen on seeing those drawings come to life, especially the gnoll thing
I actually just finished printing the Saurian Large Terrain using FDM. I do think that many of the detailed pieces would benefit from resin's details.
Fantastic update! love the resin terrain and generalized themes idea. The concept art is awesome! great work guys
I'll just like to ask that you do solid versions of things in addition to any scale-specific hollow versions. That way we can easily re-scale. This is one of the great things about your figures; that you do solid, complete versions also so those of us who like 15mm and 20mm, for example, can just re-scale and re-support, rather than having to faff around in MeshMixer or Blender sticking stl shells and so on together. Having a solid version of buildings and so on (like 3DLayeredScenery do in their KS) is really, really handy as you can have the same terrain across scales. It's amazing doing a 3-4mm town, then zooming in to 15mm for a skirmish, then to 28-32mm for a fight, all with the exact same building. Really cinematic. And gives you a total God Complex 😆.
Just subscribed this morning - the news about terrain is very exciting! Just picked up a resin printer, and it's not that big, so moving to modular terrain that is resin printer friendly and also generic is a great idea!
Sad to see us poor lot without space and money for a resin printer getting left behind. One day I hope resin doesn't require an air filter/scrubber/hazard gear so I can use one in my small living space.
You really don’t need that much space long as you have air flow
Again, for the second month I cannot open the voting form. Can you fix the link? Says the site cannot be reached. I can access all other sites and links. I was not able to vote last month as this was not fixed. I would like to vote this month.
We just tested the link again on a couple different computers, and they seem to work fine. Last month we tested it several times and got hundreds of votes - I always hate to suggest this but I think there is something wrong with your browser preventing you from accessing the form.
Well that’s unfortunate. I’d rather FDM terrain and resin for models.
That was my thought initially, but after pondering it for a bit, I'm ambivalent. Realistically, the main reason I run things on my filament printer these days is size, not cost.