Looking around for trackers that do stl files and/or other stuff for 3d printing. Specifically I’m hoping for rpg minis and the like but if I can find a tracker that does printable objects, I’m happy to help start a mini community.
Years ago Pirate Bay made a big deal about starting a 3D model repository, but it really didn’t catch on. Too many places to get free models already. Granted there are some places you can buy really high detail models from movies and games (is gambody still around? Will I get a strike for mentioning gambody like I did on reddit?).
If you really want to torrent 3D models, I’ll tell you what I tell everybody. qBittorrent has a very nice search function that, once set up properly, will hit a lot of public trackers straight from the interface. If you have a specific model in mind, give that a shot. Or just search for “3d model” or “STL” or whatever, and you’ll get hits.
AFAIK materialize.is is still active, but you need an invite, and I am not “in”, as it were, though I would like to be.
There’s a lot of free models out there already, and most models are created by individual artists. I encourage you to skip your coffee for a day if there’s a paid model you really want to use, as you are directly supporting members of the 3DP community, rather than some corporation.
I don’t know of any trackers, but there are Telegram groups/channels.
- STLworld
- STL Forest
Just searched on a public telegram indexer I use and found probably 20+ groups full of private STL files. Some of which would probably make GW pretty upset
Interesting! Never heard of a telegram indexer but I’d be curious to know which ones are good
Maybe indexer was the wrong word: https://tgstat.com/ is one I regularly use to find… things
Handy site, bookmarked. I don’t use Telegram because of the phone number requirement, but it’s good to keep track of what it has.
Didn’t like that requirement either, so I used another site to get a virtual phone number to authenticate. There’s a bunch, but I’ve used this site for both Telegram & Discord:
I was looking into those services too, thanks for letting me know this one worked for you!
You can’t find them on printables / thangs / thingiverse?
I’m struggling to think of a time, where a thought popped into my head of something I’d like to print, that I went to printables/thingiverse and something wasn’t there. Literally never. And I’ve thought of some pretty random shit…
