Excellent review! Keep on gaming and this channel will do great! And the bit about your daughter being more powerful than all your minis was hilarious!
I make mine from foam and cardboard but this idea is brilliant make it once and mould the rest any advice about the casting process u think foam can be casted
@@cjprice6105 yes foam can be casted. I made a few pieces out of modeling clay and cast those. Keep in mind though, you will probably not save much money compared to just purchasing. I purchased a 3d printer to print tiles, it was a pain in the but and each tile took hours with most of them being ruined. In the end, the cost of the 3d printer and the fdm far surpassed what I would have paid to dwarves forge. Same situation with casting. You need to buy resin (or dental plaster) and buy silicon mold pourable chemicals. These are not cheep. I probably spent $150 on these. (some came too dried out to get good molds and I didn't know any better) The good thing about the mold rubber is they will last a very long time when you get a good mold. it is not easy though. You need to worry about air bubbles and all sorts of things. I ended up buying a vacuum pump ($115) and a vacuum pot to de-gas the mold liquid, then attached an air compressor to the vacuum pot when I poured the resin into the mold to shrink any air bubbles left so they would not bee seen. This ended up working well. Unfortunately after spending all this money (probably around $1k at this point because I just got a better 3d printer) I still have not made many dungeon tiles. I should have just purchased pre-made tiles lol. I'm a dork though and would rather do some things myself so I can collect cool tools and learn things I might be able to benefit from later.
@@arrowko1921 thats the way to do it though, if you have kids and you do your own 3d models they can add there names in the bottom and stuff such as that. I think in the long run you will like your decision better.
This is truly too expensive for what is out there with 3-D printers and people willing to print things for you. Dwarven Forge is definitely on the way down.
The fact that you have to purchase metal sheets in order for these pieces to stay together is a joke. Dwarven Forge is overpriced, over hyped, and under delivers every time.
Excellent review! Keep on gaming and this channel will do great!
And the bit about your daughter being more powerful than all your minis was hilarious!
Thanks for this. I was wondering how useful a basic set would be, and this video really helped me decide on whether i wanted to invest in this or not.
Thanks for the review!
Not gonna lie, I love Dwarven Forge. But, I clicked on the video because of the HeroQuest wardrobe in the thumbnail. Lol
I got some pieces so I could make my own moulds from them. MUCH cheaper.
I make mine from foam and cardboard but this idea is brilliant make it once and mould the rest any advice about the casting process u think foam can be casted
@@cjprice6105 yes foam can be casted. I made a few pieces out of modeling clay and cast those. Keep in mind though, you will probably not save much money compared to just purchasing. I purchased a 3d printer to print tiles, it was a pain in the but and each tile took hours with most of them being ruined. In the end, the cost of the 3d printer and the fdm far surpassed what I would have paid to dwarves forge. Same situation with casting. You need to buy resin (or dental plaster) and buy silicon mold pourable chemicals. These are not cheep. I probably spent $150 on these. (some came too dried out to get good molds and I didn't know any better) The good thing about the mold rubber is they will last a very long time when you get a good mold. it is not easy though. You need to worry about air bubbles and all sorts of things. I ended up buying a vacuum pump ($115) and a vacuum pot to de-gas the mold liquid, then attached an air compressor to the vacuum pot when I poured the resin into the mold to shrink any air bubbles left so they would not bee seen. This ended up working well. Unfortunately after spending all this money (probably around $1k at this point because I just got a better 3d printer) I still have not made many dungeon tiles. I should have just purchased pre-made tiles lol. I'm a dork though and would rather do some things myself so I can collect cool tools and learn things I might be able to benefit from later.
@@arrowko1921 thats the way to do it though, if you have kids and you do your own 3d models they can add there names in the bottom and stuff such as that.
I think in the long run you will like your decision better.
Awesome but expensive
Are you still using these or would you be willing to sell them? :)
They're for sale at www.dwarvenforge.com
This is truly too expensive for what is out there with 3-D printers and people willing to print things for you. Dwarven Forge is definitely on the way down.
The fact that you have to purchase metal sheets in order for these pieces to stay together is a joke. Dwarven Forge is overpriced, over hyped, and under delivers every time.