pipermakes

July Work in Progress. 2

I feel like i just made one of these, but I just wanted to make another quick one:

Really want to stress the interplay between this kit and the Koi~ So for example every upper and lower leg piece here is swappable. The same will go for just about every piece between the two xD

I also absolutely had to do another swing at the tippy leg mech, so I made some *really* long legs. I love aerial mech with the dumb long pointy legs, and I tried this out with th...

July Work in Progress. 1

First round of WIP images/renders for what is tentatively being called The Mako (in my head anyway)

This is mostly a re-model of the old LionFish, but won't be replacing this kit. It will be it's own standalone mech.

So far this kit is around the same scale as the koi, but should be a little bit taller when I get done remodeling the legs, and it will have a bunch of variant parts, with everything being compatible with the Koi kit without any scaling needed~ A handful of thruste...

Plans for July~

Heyy-o, it's been a minute~ I wanted to take the last few days of May and just kind unplug (literally/figuratively) from everything after the first recovery leveled off, so I went to a couple of my favorite spots without any Cell reception (for the most part) and bungled around, while thinking about what kinda stuff I want to do~

But I'm looking forward to get back into things and I have a lot in my head that I want to do for this month, and I think I can reasonably hit on all of it. Ju...

Quick update~

I just wanted to remind everyone that there will be no release for the month of June due to a planned medical leave. You personally don't need to do anything as the patreon will be paused for that month so nothing will be charged.
Normal operations will resume July 1st~

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And a quick update on things to come for July 1st~ (and August as well) Originally for July I wanted to do O'Reilly and an actual PiperMakes Eclipse sculpt, but have thought a bit on th...

[May Release]: Betta class Light Skimmer

(Edit: Go ahead and refresh that CG&T download page, the Betta light class skimmer drone (And Plakat Monowheel) should be up now~
As usual I recommend downloading things separately so that things don't hang up
I'm excited to see what kinda wonky stuff comes outta this one there's a lot of interchangeability~

Added winglets as a last last last minute edit, and now I'm done for the month. these have been added to the CG&T folder, once the supported ones come back I'll be ad...

May going ons

So because of how I work things a month ahead as far as kit releases, this might be a bit confusing but I think it's pretty straight forward~

So I'm going to be getting a few oral based surgeries in the coming month(May) that I just got the final scheduling for back on Monday. While the original plan was to have them all done at the end of April so I'd be able to get work done on the latter half of May, that didn't work out for me, and they'll instead be taking place spread throughout ...

[April Release pt.2] GobyFrame - CardinalFish

EDIT4.12.22: CardinalFish are up on CG&T~ and a few pics of some of the testprints I did that actually got assembled. I've separated each pose to its own individual folder, you only need to add the body/head/and whichever back you want to use. I tried to make everything work regardless of the backpack, but poses like the Wukong one just look better with the 6 arms (imho) All parts are compatible with the previous two goby kits (with the exception that the Cardinal body (front or back) mig...

CardinalFish WIP

Just a quick WIP as I'm working through the rest of the CardinalFish~ I have another pose planned for this one, and then a more, generic, and then a fourth for it doin some guppy surfing.

(Compatible with all previous goby kits, so I threw together a quick "Be not afraid." mockup at the end there~)

~Pipes

GuppyV.2's up on CG&T~

Good morning everyone, it's that time again~

The April 2022 pack should be live on CG&T. As always it might take a second to show, and there's a good chance that downloads are gonna be slow today x'D Please be patient, the files aren't going anywhere~ However If the pack isn't showing up go ahead and hit that little green refresh button on your CG&T downloads page, and that should pull things in~

This one's another large kit at 100+ pieces with a ton of in...

[April Release] Guppy.V2 Emotional Support Drones

And that should be it for the really big bits kits for at least a little bit xD The Guppy drones were something I was trying to kinda nail down design wise because I really already enjoyed the current ones, so it was hard to kinda work that into something different, from the first iteration of guppy and then the calappa, I think I've refined both of them to a pretty good middle ground that I'm quite pleased with. All of these are rendered with a 30mm base (included in the fileset, flight stan...

April Work in Progress .3

I'll add an update to this when I wrap up the recon drones but this is the full set of bits for the base drones and should allow you to make a ton of variants. (all of the aerial bottoms are slotted for a 2mm acrylic rod excluding the bottom with the fin which will be left up to you to decide how you want to fit it. I will not be making flight bases for these. The resin printed ones are more fragile then standard flying bases which are already fragile, and there are a ton of...

April Work in Progress .2

Just another quick update as I work through these drones. There are a lot of drones I'm realizing, and the amount of top/bottom combinations is going to be intense.

I think I have about 5 or 6 more drones to go xD

~Pipes

April Work in Progress .1

Working through the drone builder, with aerial and terrestrial variants~ Each drone is focused around a bottom half (aerial/terrestrial), a core (with a top half magnet), and a top half (function, and magnet). This is kinda like a culmination of the Guppy drone and Calappa drone. I've alos got a core specifically for attaching to the existing drone mount on the Cichlid/TriggerFish. and when the drone disembarks, you can pop it off and attach it to it's based lower half~

So far I've go...

RailFists (Previously GrabbyHands)

Edit Edit: RailFist's are up on CG&T and have been added to the March2022 Fileset~
~Pipes
(You will need the CommanderFrame or KoiMech Kits for this, it's just an add-on fileset with just the fists)

Edit: Wrapped up the RailFists. Added a handful of commonly found PiperMakes hand poses, a fired rail lower arm, and one pose to replace the UwU hands which did not want to work with these guys. (Not having a wrist joint messes...

Goby Frame [Watchman Variant]

EDIT 3.3.22: Well, it's almost that time~

I'm working on uploading the Watchman Goby pack **AS BEFORE** Don not try to download this all at once. It's not a challenge. The download will fail and you will be sad x'D It is *very* large, a handful of gigs. total. 

That said, I'm really psyched to have both the FireFish and Watchman Gobies out now, because the shear amount of interplay between the two kits should make for some really rad squads I think~ and I'm excited as always ...

Mar. Work in Progress .1

I'm actually a good chunk into March so far. Working on getting all teh bits together for the watchman before I start running individual pre-poses - handheld sensors/grenades/etc. and all the legs to work through.

A slimmed down Firefish goby, similar, but different~
I started working through this thinking, I definitely wouldn't have nearly as many pieces as the Initial goby pack, but the way things are going, I was uh...a little off on that assumption xD But hey, more options is mo...

Double buying files

Hey guys, bit of an odd ask but if you're a current patron for the month, please don't buy the monthly fileset on CG&T if you're subbed for that month.

It got CG&T a bit confused and was causing issues with some peoples downloads being tripped up by them kinda double dipping the fileset.
There will be a few checks and things added to CG&T to ensure that you don't buy something you're already supposed to have from the months fileset, which should mitiga...

Partnership with GodForgeMinis

For those of you that watched the stream with TableTopTitans, and the folks on my discord, you're already at least a little aware of this.

I've partnered up with God Forge Minis to offer most of my 3d kits as purchasable physical kits. This has been something that I've wanted to set up for a while, and was a personal goal of mine for 2022, so I'm really excited about being able to get things on that rolling.
It wil...

Tabletop Titans: Battle Report Trailer

So I am so very excited to be able to promote this a bit to you, my lovely patrons. Tabletop Titans implied a little bit ago that they'd be premiering a mostly PiperMakes force in the future but I had no idea it would be for the launch.

I'll be tuning in tomorrow, and I hope some of you do as well if you've ever wanted to see some of my figures in action.

I am very excited.
~Pipes

Feb. Announcements~

EDIT 2/3/22: The Goby Fileset is now up on CG&T
(Do not try to download the entire fileset at once, it will fail. (Probably))
~Pipes

Hey! It's that time of the month where I talk a lot of words at everybody about this month and maybe next. 

And first I just want to uh...welcome all the new people that have joined up in the past two months this kinda grew a whole lot in a fairly short amount of time. (A little more then 600 and ch...

GobyFrame Infantry Drone [FireFish/TigerGoby Variants]

So a question I get/got almost every week "When are you gonna do infantry models?" To which I'd always reply "I can't model fleshy stuff."

However, I can model mecha stuff, and after a while, people started suggesting I just make small mech. I mulled this over for a bit, and decided, alright let's try working at that scale.

These are the Goby Frame infantry drones. (FireFish Goby and TigerGoby variants) My answer to not being able to model organics. There's 100+ bits and oh so man...

EclipseV2.

I appreciate all the interest in the Eclipse V.2 model. Unfortunately, a part of it was a commission piece, and I only added it as a little bonus piece for the holidays exclusive to the patreon. It might make another appearance next year or as a 6 month loyalty piece, but like the DeadlyPrint commissions I've done, I'm only licensed to have it specifically available for the month that I had it up. It will not be up on my CG&T store for sale.

~Pipes

Feb Work in Progress .3

Workin' through all the bits/poses, so I wanted to post up a handful of example renders I've got up on the discord~
From CQC, weeb, shouldermount, undermount, rifle, kneeling, radomes, etc this kit's got it all xD (They don't even *use* swords.)

Is it February yet?

~Pipes

Feb Work in Progress .2

Just wanted to post this one real quick, base form for the FireFish Goby Frame is set and tested, and I can in fact make something at this scale xD

Now I get to model and pose everything else. And for anyone wondering, these guys will consist of a setup similar to the silverfish: preposed lower body/upper body/head/preposed arms/Shoulder Armor/And whatever method you use for weapon mounting (shoulder/undermount/held. The undermount/shoulder mount should be slotted for 1x1mm magnets, bu...

Feb Work in Progress .1

Working through the base form for the Goby frame (there will ultimately bee 3 variants: FirefishGoby, WatchmenGoby, and TigerGoby (these are all real fish you can google them~) I'll leave it to you to figure which is which.

This month will be a builder kit for the Firefish and Tiger variants on the goby frame.
Similar undermount/shoulder mount to the Koi, and because these'll be a bit more monopose (like the silverfish) I should be able to get some held rifles in there too. There'll...

Feb. Models

I'm doing small four (and two) armed robits this month. You should all know what that means.
If this goes well this month, I'll roll into the following month with some equally small scouting mech

Mostly as a heads up, because I was unsure of what I was gonna be doing this month.

~Pipes

January Arowana & Marlin M.A.S

So for the new year I bring to the table one of my more...ambitious projects. A battlefield commander frame that can be outfitted with either the Arowana or Marlin M.A.S (Modular Armor System. Definitely not a reference to the Zoids CAS...not at all...

And It's all magnetic. Or at least, it can be~ (there is a version of the main frame that does not have magnet slots at all, the gold disks are just details~)

It's honestly kind of hard for me to sum this kit up. There's ...

~New Year~

Everyone's making a new years blurb so I have to too, And I honestly, truly, don't know what to say here for this months wrap up. I started this project back in October of 2019, and I used to joke to my friends about being a cool kid with a patreon that had 50 people subbed to it. That was a lot, and it was more then I thought I'd ever get.
Fast forward to the end of 2021, and this community has grown to almost 1200. I can't even fathom this number. I literally don't believe it sometimes t...

Jan Work in Progres .3

Last wip post before the release. (the head is still a placeholder)
I feel like I'm gonna be a bit behind with the release of this one, but I guarantee it's gonna be worth it (granted I end up running behind at all~) This is a large kit, and it's incredibly customizable (there's a bunch of variant bits and everything between the two is interchangeable, and I want it to have all the things I wanted to have in it, because I think you'd all like that more~

I'm almost done with ...

Holiday extras Pt.2

If you're on the discord then you're already aware of this but for people who are subbed Christmas Day till the end of the month will also have this little goodie in their CG&T downloads folder~

A good while back I commissioned Minigames Miniatures to make me some fleshy bits (Because I'm rubbish at those) for me to then build some armor around. I really liked the old pinup art that exists, and I wanted to try my hand at making it, albeit, a bit more reserved,
and I think this w...