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School of Magic

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A magical 3D scenery with its accessories and characters printable in STL

Hi everyone!Here is School of Magic, hera’stone’s new project on kickstarter. A magical 3D scenery with its accessories and characters printable in STL 

http://kck.st/4580loX

Story


On an ordinary end of summer day an eleven years old boy recuperates some letters.
He notices that one of them is addressed to him.
Because of it he is pervaded by a mixture of amazement and happiness.
The words on that piece of paper will change his miserable life. A new world is named, in which magic rules everything.
Both children and adults are waiting for that same moment.
The dream of going to study in a school of magic can be compensated by School of Magic, a 3D scenario complete with accessories and characters.
Have I made you curious?
Well, let’s see all the articles in detail:


It is composed of two floors:

 It can transform itself into different rooms because of the disposition of the elements. It can become a classroom or a big canteen for example.


Dormitories are usually on the upper floors.


An open air passage.


A castle can’t exist without a tower.


Two is better than one.


As the main structure it can become a classroom or a library for example. It depends on the disposition of the elements inside it.


Accessories are a must! A lot of them will be in the campaign soon.



A school can’t be a school without teachers and students. So let’s meet them.

The best ones that a student can have:

A wizard with a strong personality. He is also a valiant warrior.


She is strict, but at the same time she is affectionate to her students.


He has class…and he loves to tell jokes.


Grumpy and mysterious, a dark aura around him.


From the most nerdy to the most lazy:

He likes to get into trouble.


He loves to fly.


…just wise…


During the kickstarter I’ll collect your requests for the creation of new dice towers to be implemented in the campaign.
Your support and your interaction with this kickstarter will be my stimulus in creating stretch goals, so don’t forget to share the project with your friends and on your social networks.
All stretch goals are FREE!!!

Surprise!
A lot of extra wizards as first add on.

And some dragons as second add on.
The wizards’ enemies.

An add on ( with and without rights) about my Argh! Give me a Beer! campaign is included in this kickstarter. Click on the following image to find more about it.

New to Kickstarter? Never used Kickstarter before? No problem! The number of people pledging to tabletop games projects is growing all the time making the projects bigger day by day. I’m glad to have you on board!
Becoming a backer is very simple. Just follow these steps:
Step 1: Look through the banners at the top right corner of this page and click on the reward level you’d like to receive. You will also be able to insert some add-ons to your rewards.
Step 2: Select which country you live in, then click ‘Continue’.
Step 3: Finish filling out your information on the following page.
Step 4: Click ‘Pledge’ and you’re done!

-If you already own a 3D printer, it’s cheap and also funny, you will print unique and incredible quality models.
-If you don’t own a 3D printer, it can be an opportunity to buy one! Costs for a printer are already low and accessible to anyone. You can still use a service like: 3D hub, shapeways, or any other that the net are crowding.
-No shipping cost! Anywhere in the universe, you just download the files and print! -You can print it as many times as you want, for you and your friends.
-You can decide any printing dimension, from miniatures to titan sculptures!
PLEASE NOTE – This Kickstarter is for digital files (STLs) to make all these items on your own home 3D printer – these are not physical goods **
**Not all the articles are supported **
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Mimic In uniform

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New kickstarter

http://kck.st/47RBxnA

The team was losing yet another game on the field.

The last position in the standings with 0 points is now a constant, and the fans were fed up, as was everyone else, coach and staff.

These guys here are just good-for-nothing players! slappers!

Even the helmets couldn’t take it anymore to see that heartbreak! wait, like the helmets? and yes the helmets! and they were the ones who could see everything from there, in the middle of the field, so they decided to 

take matters into their own hands.

The fed-up helmets woke up revealing themselves to be monsters! they instantly devoured the players (few will regret them) and immediately took their place on the field.

The opposing team a little unprepared a little intimidated, took the blow and our monsters began to score one goal after another!

The crowd is in a frenzy! the coach…wait they also devoured the coach, some spectators…and maybe even some opponents, but oops, the thing is that the game was a success, with a landslide victory!

The championship from now on will be a different story! Sharpen your teeth because you don’t mess with the Mimics in Uniform!

Our crazy idea derived from our previous history is to create a team that can be used for any species (or almost any species).

Helmets have watched their failed masters play for years, learning role and style of play (and hopefully doing it a little better too).

So if the master had been an orc blitzer, now his helmet will play like an orc blitzzer.

Or could his unfortunate master have been a poor throwing elf? the mimic will have learned his role perfectly anyway!!!

It doesn’t matter if you want to do halfling, goblin, orc or human.

With a skillful excuse you can play this team any way you like!

Let us now go on to introduce all the “players” of this monstrous fantasy football team.

At your disposal different roles to be able to adapt to the various species.

As our habit, we won’t implement a precise table of stretch goals, but we will work to implement all the suggestions you send us during the campaign.

A great interaction and a great participation motivate us to create lots of sculptures as stretch goals.

ALL STRETCH GOALS ARE FREE!

New to Kickstarter? Never used Kickstarter before? No problem! The number of people pledging to tabletop games projects is growing all the time making the projects bigger day by day. We’re glad to have you on board!

Becoming a backer is very simple. Just follow these steps:

  • Step 1: Look through the banners at the top right corner of this page and click on the reward level you’d like to receive. You will also be able to insert some add-ons to your rewards.
  • Step 2: Select which country you live in, then click ‘Continue’.
  • Step 3: Finish filling out your information on the following page.
  • Step 4: Click ‘Pledge’ and you’re done!

All models have been presupported (where necessary)

Several printing tests have been carried out to get the Best result possible, and we hope that you will also get an optimal result with your printers.

cross lances is committed, as always, to solving any problem you may encounter in printing, fixing the files and creating together with you an ever-improving product.

All files are available in 3 versions:

  • Stl not supported
  • Stl supported
  • Chitubox supported

By now 3D miniatures are an established reality.

When in 2017 we launched the first kickstarter with this formula many called us heretics, avant-gardists and dreamers.

Today, just 6 years later, it is a widespread market and a reality that is increasingly entering people’s homes.

And we are proud to have been the forerunners of this new technology and therefore also on this occasion we offer our sculptures in stl version ready for your 3D printer!

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How to print our resin models

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Crosslances is a studio that has always had an eye on the customer, and tries in every way to assist and coddle its supporters.

Therefore, we thought it would be useful to share our experience in resin prints.
This is not meant to be a guide but a sharing of our experiences, with all our mistakes, consideration and tricks that we have learned over time and that we hope will help you too.

Creation of supports

Our files are created with the help of chitubox, a free software widely used as a slicer for a large number of resin printers.
Our current reference printer is a Phrozen sonic Mini 4k,,an inexpensive printer with excellent output, accessible to all, so ideal as an example of our tests.

Based on this we created after several print tests our support set up.

Which we share here now with you: Supports


We have been able to make supports that are able to support the many details we create, and at the same time can be detached easily.

Some considerations and advice on supports:

Some resins have such physical characteristics that they require multiple supports, sometimes even where they do not seem necessary.
This is because the supports we make are very fine to be detached easily, but this results in the structure supporting the miniature sometimes wobbling as the plate moves during Printing.
These wobbles can sometimes result in print failures because some supports break, or because they suffer slide.

This is why our models often have some larger “medium” supports placed at the lowest points of the miniature, and even sometimes an excess of the supports themselves.

This, however, while making cleaning more difficult, exponentially increases the chances of printing success.

In any case, we provide the File chitubox, so you can customize your own printing experience.


Print settings

This part is particularly difficult to be able to give precise directions.
In fact, the variables are endless.

The resin and the printer used can totally change the data, from exposure times to the retract speed of the printing plate.

What we feel like reporting based on our experience on the subject is this:


-Before printing with a new resin, or printer, do a test, you can find hundreds of them on the internet.
Repeat the test by changing the time parameters until the print looks good.

-Use a tool to calculate the delay of care.
We share it with you; it has been critical for us:

Calculadora-light-off-delayDownload


-If you have found the times and want to change the layer height, it is useful to consider increasing or decreasing the times by 15% for every 10 microns more or less.

-Sometimes the print fails and we only find the supports stuck to the print plate at the end of the process.
Often it is due to the speed of departure from the base.
Here too it depends a lot on the resin used, more or less elastic, more fragile or not.

The suggestion we give is that a slow detachment speed is not always better, on the contrary.
A slow detachment can make the eff more resistant to detach from the print, making a “glue” effect, risking breaking the finest parts, such as the tips of the supports.
Sometimes a quick and decisive detach causes the print to suddenly detach from the fep without offering any resistance.

an example of our print settings.


After printing

After printing, we need to clean our miniature from resin residue and peel off the supports.
To do this we use a specially created elegoo curing station.
Inside we use an alcohol-based cleaner with which we have had very positive feedback, but isopropyl alcohol is equally suitable.

Once the piece is washed, to detach the supports we soak it in lukewarm water, this allows us to detach the supports very very easily, with just the help of our fingers, at most we help with a razor blade for the larger supports that resist.

Once the piece is cleaned, we put it back in the UV machine for 5-10 minutes and the miniature is ready!








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The Scenic Calendar

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A perpetual calendar to beautify your bookshelf and desk. For 3D printing.

Story

Our studio now warrants solid experience, ranging from the world of collectible miniatures, to resin 3d printing, to filament 3d printing, to the creation of decorative home-themed objects.

And this new project is from the latter category!

After the successes of our “the Scenic Library” campaigns with our book ends, today we bring you another item to grace your desks and bookshelves: A perpetual calendar!

PLEASE NOTE – This Kickstarter is for digital files (STLs) to make all these items on your own home 3D printer – these are not physical goods **

The project involves making 3d models that go to create a perpetual calendar.

The structure consists of six parts: a body with a cylinder, on which the 4 rotaries will be threaded that will indicate, month, number and day.

Finally, a lid for closure.

All elements are created to be printed without the aid of supports.

But not only that, we made the models in two scales, the first to please owners of more modestly sized resin printers, in fact the models have a diameter of about 73mm.

The second version, on the other hand, allows you to create a larger object, ideal for wire printers or resin printers of more generous sizes, with a diameter of about 100mm.

Thanks to its rotating rings that indicate days and months, it is possible to keep an up-to-date universal calendar.

Available with engraved or embossed numbers and letters, depending on one’s liking and ease of printing.

Let’s go now to discover the models of this campaign, there are for all tastes, from lovers of fantasy, to those of sci-fi without neglecting lovers of the steampunk world!

During the campaign, as is our custom, we will collect all your suggestions for the creation of new sculptures to be implemented in the kickstarter.

Your support and your interaction with the campaign will be our stimulus in creating stretch goals, so do not forget to share the project with your friends and on your social networks.

rotating for languages: English with alternative font, Italian, Spanish,German and French.
(The flower is just rappressentative for the rendering, the vase is empty.)
alternative without language, supports required
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Tussle for Victory

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We are finally ready!

Our new 3D printer game is ready!

A fighting and racing game with many exclusive characters!

Come and discover it on kickstarter!http://kck.st/3MFZGUk

you can find the free rules on our website:

Tussle For Victory

and by subscribing to the newsletter you will find another free character!

Storia

Welcome to an amazing new Crosslances branded competition!

Today we are here to introduce you our second 3D printing game.

After the success of Rough and Tumble, this time we want to change the game type, moving to what we can call a skirmish competition.

A no-holds-barred competition in which whoever crosses the finish line first wins, but that doesn’t exclude some surprises: fights, brawls and fouls are around the corner.

Are you ready to enter into the fray?

The game stipulates that the one who crosses the finish line first wins.

The first feature of the game is that you can draw your track!

When you were kids, how many times did you play with toy cars or with toy bricks and draw the tracks on which you could let your imagination run? We did it a lot of times!

And that’s where the game came from, from the idea of recreating those tracks, but playing them as a game with well organized rules.

You can find the rules on our website, ready to download!

Every car plays its turn and it can execute some actions: select the gear that will designate the maneuvers to execute, select the silhouette of a maneuver, place it on the board in front of the “pins” and determine the movement of the car, and finally fight and use the special abilities that every character possesses.

And off to victory!

Miniatura del video del progetto

The rules of the game are available in Italian and English, including all the cards.

In addition, we used an AI to make both cards and rules for the languages French, Spanish and German.

All RULES can be DOWNLOADED FREE from our website at:

Tussle For Victory

PLEASE NOTE – This Kickstarter is for digital files (STLs) to make all these items on your own home 3D printer – these are not physical goods **

All models have been presupported (where necessary)

Several printing tests have been carried out to get the Best result possible, and we hope that you will also get an optimal result with your printers.

Cross lances is committed, as always, to solving any problem you can encounter in printing, fixing the files and creating together with you an ever-improving product.

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XIV Century European Wars.

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Some important news for today!

Launch date set for our new game ‘Tussle for Victory’.
Mark the date Saturday 3 June!

But we still have some news:
You can unlock another add-on by signing up on our pre-launch page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crosslances/tussle-for-victory
And by sharing it with your friends.
Reach 60 followers to unlock this new character!

Finally, we would like to point out the kickstarter of Mirliton:
http://kck.st/3MUveqV

our friends for whom we sculpted this new series, available in white metal and in 28 and 15mm scale!

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Tussle For Victory

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A new racing game to be 3D printed. Between skid marks, fouls and brawls a real fight to finish first!

We are happy to announce that our new game will soon be launched!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crosslances/tussle-for-victory

After much time spent on this work, we are ready!

What is it? A racing skirmish!

But if you want to find out more, bookmark our kickstarter and get ready for the launch!

After the success of Rough and Tumble, this time we want to change the game type, moving to what we can call a skirmish competition.

A no-holds-barred competition in which whoever crosses the finish line first wins, but that doesn’t exclude some surprises: fights, brawls and fouls are around the corner.

Are you ready to enter into the fray?