EBard Shapeways: Generals & Admirals for each faction for sale now!

Tall Paul

EBard,

––WELCOME! It’s really good to see you posting here on A&A.Org !

----I’ve been spreading the good word of your A&A unit designs on Shapeways for quite a while now here on Org. I’ve bought dozens of EBards designs, everything from Aircraft of many types to Facilities like Air or Naval Bases, and his custom-designed Naval Shipyards, too.
Thanks again for your excellent designs that compliment what we’re ALL trying to do with this game;….Have FUN!

Tall Paul

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georgemak1

Amazing sculps Ill be placing an order soon.

Tall Paul

Guys

@koba:

He has nice stuff that’s for sure. BTW, his capital city pieces look good too.

––I couldn’t agree more! Shown below are some pics of EBard’s Capitals after they’ve been painted. I hope you enjoy them.
––I’ve bought literally dozens of EBard’s designs and I’m EXTREMELY HAPPY with them! They’re all very detailed and durable, too. Everyone should “check out” his designs on Shapeways if they haven’t already done so.

Tall Paul

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Imperious Leader

Do they have any fortification pieces or coastal forts available? I need them for my Great War Game ( my playtest copy)

EBard5

For rules for the leaders, I’m thinking they should allow you to re-roll one to three dice each battle or even each round of battle. That to me says that the leader has the potential to impact a battle in a meaningful way, but it is not a guarantee of victory, nor should it rule out the possibility of a leaderless enemy beating you through better luck (i.e. roll of the dice). This also allows for different levels of leaders if you so desire; for instance, maybe Patton lets you re-roll two dice each battle while Eisenhower gives you three re-rolls. I intentionally tried to provide multiple sculpts where possible so that this sort of rule would be possible.

Imperious Leader, if you can share what sort of fortification or coastal fort you are looking for I’d be happy to try to make it. Please send me a private message over on the Shapeways site and we can talk specifics (it’s easier for me if the conversation happens there as it keeps all model design related talk in one place that I can refer back to when I’m doing the actual work).

Tall Paul, I’d love to see what the rest of the capitals look like painted! I haven’t gotten around to painting my own set yet, though I’m hoping to in the next few weeks.

Thanks,
EBard

Young Grasshopper

Just quickly, if I wanted 10,000 Qty of a small plastic token… is shapways a good place for that, or is it cheaper to go with a plastic mold and have it manufactured traditionaly?

EBard5

I would definitely not go to Shapeways for something like that. It is very hard to get per-unit costs low at Shapeways due to the way they charge you both material volume and handling fees ($1.50 per model piece on WSF and $5 per set on FUD, I think). I tried once to produce something similar to what you are describing and it was very cost prohibitive.

Bottom line: Shapeways is awesome for a few custom pieces, but for large scale production there are better options out there.

EBard

General 6 Stars

Instead of rolling dice for leaders, you could put a sticky number under each leader and thats his value. Like Patton can be worth a 5. He will boost 5 pieces +1 on attack and defense every round of combat. I do this in one of my games and that I want to try in another 39 game. All leaders have different values and you have to start with inf first to boost. The leaders have A and D values for themselves too. Once you lose the leader, thats it and you can’t buy anymore. You start game with a certain amount of leaders ( Generals ).
The US and Japan have 2 navy ( Adm ) leaders each also.

georgemak1

I ended up buying the global set leaders, I already painted them. The detail on the sculps isnt anything extraordinary, but they look nice, and you can use them in the game as leaders. The only bad thing they all came in a zip bag, and it was really hard to tell which sculp for each country. I think the naval leaders are all the same sculp.

georgemak1

Japanese, chinese, french and Italian leaders

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georgemak1

British and German

John Brown

George, those are really cool looking! great paint job on those. :-D

Tall Paul

@EBard519:

Tall Paul, I’d love to see what the rest of the capitals look like painted! I haven’t gotten around to painting my own set yet, though I’m hoping to in the next few weeks.
––The best & easiest way would be to give you a “link” to my INFRASTRUCTURE thread here on .Org where the pics are located. They begin with the Anzac Capital at response #66. If you scroll along you’ll find pics of all of the ones completed so far,….as well as many other of your designs such as the Naval & Air Bases. I hope you enjoy them and let me say a big THANK YOU to you for your wonderful designs.

INFRASTRUCTURE
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=26834.0
ENTIRE SET
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=29550.0

Tall Paul
Thanks,
EBard

toblerone77

Nice stuff Ebard!

For those interested I have looked extensively into plastics for the hobbyist. Mid range 3D printers can be the ultimate tool in customization. To clear up some ideas, 3D printing is mostly used for prototyping. High level mass production is prohibitively expensive via 3D printing but cuts down on prototyping costs or is useful in single, low quantiy and or specialized parts or tools.

Overseas injection molding is the way to produce large quantities. If you have a prototype you can have a mold made for mass production but that’s is costly. To recoup the cost of the molds, mass quantities must be produced and sold.

For those looking to make tokens there are home laser etching machines available.

I’d encourage others to research these topics. I believe it is the future of hobby/gaming.

EBard5

@georgemak1:

I ended up buying the global set leaders, I already painted them. The detail on the sculps isnt anything extraordinary, but they look nice, and you can use them in the game as leaders. The only bad thing they all came in a zip bag, and it was really hard to tell which sculp for each country. I think the naval leaders are all the same sculp.

Thanks for sharing the photos! Yes, there was an initial problem with the global set naval leaders sculpts; there were supposed to be three different sculpts (dress whites, dress blues, and Japanese admirals) but instead only two made it into the set (dress whites and Japanese admirals). I fixed that about three or four weeks ago as soon as I discovered the problem, so any future sales will receive the proper set. I’m sorry for the mix-up on your order! And yes, I agree it is hard to tell the pieces apart when they are received from Shapeways. I’ve thought about putting some sort of nation or unit identifier on the bottom of the base, but am waiting to see if sales or interest picks up on them before I spend any more time or money on them; thus far sales to anyone not named EBard have been very underwhelming, which doesn’t entirely surprise me given Shapeways costs and the need to paint the pieces.

EBard

Vital Signs

Re: EBard Shapeways: Generals & Admirals for each faction for sale now!

Hello Ebard - I tried going to your store on Shapeways to place an order an noticed Shapeways is now out of business! Is there any chance you have opened a new store on a different website for your Axis and Allies pieces? Also, is there any chance you might develop a set of cities pieces for the new North Africa game? Thank you Ebard - James

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