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Scans for planning

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 Quick post as this has worked out better than I expected.  I found a reasonable 3D Scanning App on Android - WIDAR . The App is easy to use: it shoots photos repeatedly once started.  Rather than move my phone around the object I built a temporary turntable out of a plate and a bowl.  I only got one failed scan: a Bloodcrusher from Ebay that was primed black so it must have been hard to process.  Redone with better lighting and it scanned correctly.  The photos are then uploaded to a server and processed. You need to tidy up the scan a little by erasing some areas, but once reasonably tidy you can then export to STL and import into Blender. When imported to Blender the size will vary wildly.  To bring it down to scale, I measured each base to the millimetre, then worked out the scaling co-efficient to scale down each set of polygons. A little colour, and now there's something reasonable to work with.  I will trim out the bases themselves out late...
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Planning and Designing

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I've acquired way too many daemons than I know what to do with now.  Not that I won't use most of them, but I've definitely done the "acquire minis" part of the project first, rather than anything else.  Also picked up a bag of daemon spare parts that will make good corpses or kit bashing.  I don't have everything I need yet; notably a Great Unclean One and a Keeper Of Secrets are absent, but I've got enough to get going for... Years. I've decided the entire project should be done in chapters based on how the entire piece splits into smaller units.  This is strategic, to spread around the type of tasks.  I can see it already - I'll build a wonderful base, do heaps of conversion work, then have no motivation to paint anything.  If I can interleave painting with other tasks, that should break up any monotony,  I hope.  I may also learn new things and come back and re-do some of the older pieces. Thoughts and ideas... I need to make the rank and...
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What, and Why?

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I got back into hobbying at the tail end of COVID, mainly because I wanted a pass time that didn't involve a computer. I used to paint 20 years ago, and for some reason took the plunge back in. Warcry took my interest and I got the Warcry: Catacombs game, and some paint supplies. My son and I played a few games, and he painted a little too. He was more interested in looking at the professionally painted model pictures - either in books or scrolling down Reddit.  I picked up a second hand copy of the Age Of Sigmar rulebook as I new it would have good photos, and lore. That's where the first glimmer of inspiration came from: a double page of art (pages 46-47 to be exact), depicting a giant battle between Chaos daemons. In the Age of Sigmar story, after Sigmar lost the daemons were left fighting amongst themselves. Now while the real story was a slow withdrawal and defeat over a long time, I got this idea in my head of Sigmar's sudden departure from the battlefield, leavin...
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