{"id":14007,"date":"2023-10-13T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=14007"},"modified":"2023-10-12T14:06:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T13:06:57","slug":"3d-files-for-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2023\/10\/3d-files-for-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Files for Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some of you may remember that we used to have a shop on Shapeways where we sold a number of useful 3D items, mostly 6mm or matching our Small Scale Scenery range. We ended up closing it because various changes to the Shapeways pricing structure made most of them unaffordable and we simply didn’t sell anything. <\/p>\n

One of the things our new website allows us to do is sell files for immediate download, so we’ve decided to resurrect some of these files and sell them for printing at home. The files are sold ‘as-is’, we haven’t attempted to add printer supports to them, but they have all been successfully printed at some point or other. Some of the models are quite delicate so you’ll have to use your best judgement as to whether they best suit resin or FDM printing.<\/p>\n

Because of this we’re only charging very modest prices (although we decided not to make them free – that would simply encourage a load of people who don’t really want them to hoover up the files just because they can). And there’s also a theory that people are more likely to consume a product if they\u2019re aware of its cost; consumers feel compelled to use products they\u2019ve paid for to avoid feeling that they\u2019ve wasted their money, and we want the files to be used rather than collect metaphorical dust on a hard-drive.<\/p>\n