who checked my spelling reviewing my descrption of the process.
Total time without counting 16 hours of modeling and 1 hour of repair the printer
-6 hours preparing the model to print. -13 hours printing the lower body and head. -5 hours smoothing the lower body and head -11 hours printing the upper body and tail. -1 hour printing the hockey stick -5 hours smoothing 3 parts (upper body, tail, staff/stick) -2 hours base painting -4 hours printing the base -2 hours smoothing the base -5 hours base painting -7 hours of final paint job
Total work time on the figure (not including 3d modeling) = 61 hours
interesting that your taking this rout. but i do have one question as a fellow 3d printer user.
Providing this figure is something you would like to resell why finish it this .. is it a proof of concept?
i'd of shifted to making molds a few steps back.
ya sure adds a little more time to the initial prep and still leavs some finishing work but you skip the print time and 90% of the cleanup leading you right into the finishing work.
lets you sell them a bit cheeper and you can assimbly line finished product. insted of one figure you have 20 or 30 of them.
or 5-10 of them ya get my drift. :p
plus you have so many material choises to use in the molds.
note i don't do figurs all that often and the few i do are genrily for table top games w/me/friends that someone else has modled and put up for us to use but i've done gears parts housings exct. more my style not having good vision to model any more (man i gota finish referbing my printer poor thing is sitting on the kitchen table half apart.
Started that hoping to cut down on the wire spaghetti just to find out i cant see the blasted crimp jaws well enough to get good connections for the dupont plugs. i ether over or under crimp them IF i can even line it up enough to crimp :p
i'm on the verge of saying bugger neet and splice the wires into pre crimped ends ;p
atleast it'll be functioning again. All this hoopla becos i wanted to make it neeter and make it easer to remove and clean the hotend. and swap the hotend.
interesting that your taking this rout. but i do have one question as a fellow 3d printer user. Pro
Yeah. of course, that works in the case that if I decide sell something in big numbers, which is not the case of this figure because was a commissioned personalized work.. (the character's owner is the same commissioner)..
If I decide produce some merchandizing of my own comic (little tails) i'll have to give it a try to silicone molds ^^
Yeah. of course, that works in the case that if I decide sell something in big numbers, which is no
Theres alot more than silicone for mold making ... alot easer to use if a bit more expinsive for the mix (you save in non faild works) till ya get used to the cheeper stuffs anyway.
note i'm talking the molding meterial not the molded meterial example you dont want to make a silicone item in a silicone mold it would stick :) i've had good luck with an algenate type stuff (it's blue) items in nylon resin and acrylic
all tho i did mess up one day and my poor mold got desolved by my solution dont remember what i was making ended up having to use silicone as my mold.
Theres alot more than silicone for mold making ... alot easer to use if a bit more expinsive for the
