ArkhamForge Blog

I am a very lazy person. I’d rather hurt myself carrying four bags of groceries than to walk two times, or I can spend an afternoon calculating what way would cost me the least effort when it could have been finished so much earlier if I just picked either way. This searching for the path of least resistance still haunts me, even with 3d printing. What is more work (and as a second criteria; wat looks better)? Printing a multiple part sculpt or printing it as one whole? Printing multi-part prints means you can easily reposition the parts and have as few supports as possible, but you need to make the pieces fit precisely, and you need to fill up the seams. On the other hand, a whole part sculpt doesn’t need the fitting and seam-repairing, but might have more scarring from the supports. I decided I wanted to find it out for myself, so I set out to print one sculpt as multi-part and one. But first I needed a sculpt. Lucky for me, an opportunity opened up. As a long time follower of Danny Herrero’s YouTube channel and a very satisfied backer of his first Kickstarter campaign, I didn’t hesitate to pledge his second campaign: The Lost Adventures. I was especially interested in the extra bosses that came available and could be voted in. I had my mind set on this one boss that I liked above all the others. The Hill Giant by David Whitaker. I like to use Giants, but since most monster art depicts Hill Giants as dumb hillbillies (yes, I blame the pun), they never felt very attractive to use as a threatening monster. Que David, with his excellent sculpt, who made me fall in love with Hill Giants again. So, when the sculpt was released around the time that I was looking for this project, I knew which miniature I would pick.