Editing Model Alternatives (section)

==3rd Party 3D Printed==
Shapeways has a marketplace for selling 3D-printed parts at small volume.  3rd-party sellers upload the print files, and Shapeways prints them out at various levels of detail and ships them to you.  If you can't figure out the beautiful intersection between that service and the miniature wargaming community by now, [https://www.shapeways.com/marketplace/games/tabletop-wargaming then go see for yourself]!

Other competing services do exist, but Shapeways is presently the big fish.  They have lots of custom parts and armor available for larger Games Workshop kits, especially vehicles like [[Dreadnought]]s, [[Knight]]s, and [[Titan]]s.  There is even someone selling [https://www.shapeways.com/product/YPHDVXN2D/ancient-chaotic-dreadnought-extension-kit a torso expansion for the old 2nd Edition Chaos Dreadnought!]  That being said, the endless community of modelers also provides man-portable weapons, generic fantasy and sci-fi models, and basically anything else.  The only caveat is that Shapeways only has ''so much'' precision with their printers.  At small scales, those layer lines are going to really ruin your model quality, and there is nothing you or the model-maker can do about that.

All that said, if you have your own 3D printer there are plenty of websites you can download just the 3D models to print out.  Places like ''Thingiverse'' or ''cgtrader'' can help with that, or you can just make your own 3D models!

===POP Goes the Monkey===
A shop that sells ''hundreds'' of parts for infantry, though they have vehicle bits as well.  They focus on selling Space Marine upgrade kits and decorative parts, especially for the Horus Heresy line.

===Gadgets Plus===
Selling almost entirely Knight Titan parts, this shop is a good place to go if you want to get some extra armor, different weapon sculpts, or just make your $110+ USD investment in a stompy robot model stand out a bit more.  They also do Adeptus Titanicus bits.

===Trenchers Delight===
This shop sells a few industrial-looking upgrades for Armigers, and only Armigers.

===Planet Ares===
Run by a two-time Golden Demon winner, this shop just sells swap-out parts for Adeptus Mechanicus constructs.

===Dark Offering Designs===
The guy what makes the classic Dreadnought height extension kits.

===adeptus-dad===
This guy sells the parts to make a Proteus Pattern Warhound.  As in, the really old Epic-style one, but at 40K scale!

===Forpost D6===
Heads, helmets, guns, some melee weapons and tank turrets. Few miniatures.

===themakerscult===
While this user of cgtrader only sells 3D CAD files (you have to print them out yourself), the vehicle and armor designs they sell are achingly baroque. They operate on a subscription based service, so you get a selection of models periodically instead of buying individual files. They also have a rather interesting mechanical not!Tyranid line of models, which might be worth checking out.

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