Welcome to Inkbunny...

To view member-only content, create an account. ( Hide )

« older newer »

ElfenSciuridae's Gallery (578)

Lessons Learned: Wooden Edna - WIP 01

Medium (920px wide max)

Wide - use max window width - scroll to see page ⇅

Fit all of image in window

set default image size: small | medium | wide

Download (new tab)

by ElfenSciuridae

Gallery

3D Printing

« prev 23 in pool next »

+5

Welcome to St Lovejoy's, Ada Red Robin! (A Selfie)

Summer Days (Pics)

« prev 292 in pool next »

This Edna and other Edna I was creating was to be experimental, printing them out in Plastized Wood (aka Wood PLA.). Boy was this a very steep learning curve!

I put a pause in the project cause I ran out of material, but I decided to post this one up because it is the most complete of the two. In fact, she was 3D Printed at the time I posted up the 4 Ednas picture (almost a month ago!), but I ran into a lot of issues and problems with this one!

I mostly use Wood PLA to make an item either flesh colored or extremely light weight. eSun Wood PLA (used in this model) creates a light skin color, and Alfina Wood PLA (used in the other model) creates a dark skin color. If one is making dolls, this is great if one does not want to chase for flesh/skin color paints. But it is very hard to work with!

The Yellow/Gold/Cream color in the picture is the naked material.

Problem 1: It's Still Wood!
Looking at her face, it looks like she has a lot of acne. It's the material failing. Though it is Wood Pulp (almost like a paper slurry) mixed into a plastic resin (Polylactic Acid, aka PLA), it is still permeable to water. When painting her, the water in the paint reacted with the wood in the resin, causing it to swell and lump up. It should not have happened but it did. Same thing happened to her arms and panties. It happened to the sox as well, but I spent 4 days sanding the lumps down and repainted, only to sand again, which brings problem #2

Problem #2: It's Plastic Resin!
For some reason this plastic resin hardens into something that is almost impossible to sand. It is not "cuttable" by regular sandpaper, I had to use Emory Cloth; and metal files did not work either, I had to use my Diamond Files to file things down. But something about the resin used, it allows water to seep into it and react with the wood. So it is not "water proof". Not by any means!

Other PLA plastics and even other plastics like ABS and HIPS (High Impact Polystyrene - used used in car bumpers and other automotive parts) that I used I can sand and file down with regular tools with ease as needed. But this eSun Wood PLA? I swear! nothing short of powertools is one going to get any action out of it!

In fact because of the resin allowing water to seep into the wood, when I painted her base, the base warped and shrank in some areas, putting cracks into the base! So I need to make a new base for this one in the near future.

Similarly, this is the second body for this Edna because the first broke and crumpled apart during inspection. Why? Sometimes when printing, air gets into the melted resin and creates thin spots within the object. Thus when giving the object an inspection where one gives a gentle squeeze to it, the first body for this Edna broke apart.

What I should have done.
On the 3 of 4, I sprayed some ClearCoat Acrylic paint to the base surface. There the plastic smoothed out a bit, and I was able to do some touch ups before painting them. Those who got their Edna's say that I did excellent work, though I know I could have done better. My first Edna (My Edna) I painted first and then clear coated later. The differences shows. But hey! I'm learning the art and science of the craft before I can sell my services of 3D Printing! : I already have a "customer", a religious organizer who uses "Yogi Bear" like characters for his truck troupe. They go about the neighborhood preaching the bible stories though a cartoon/puppet show from the back of his truck which is set up as a stage. Children who stay for the whole show get candy and treats, and a lot of parents send their children to the show when the truck comes around the block! This person wants me to draw up characters and print them up in 3D! I told him that I'm not ready for this but will be sometime next year and it would be $300 per character (he has 4 or 5 characters he wants printed and painted). He said that it is not a problem and that he wants to sit down at the end of each stage and pay me for each section done.

But I digress. In working with other plastics, 3D Printing is easy. Working with this (eSun) Wood PLA is not. it is great for a lot of things, but not everything. Figurine and model 3D printing, issues comes up in and are hard to deal with.

When as soon as I get some $$$ and buy some material (ClearCoat Acrylic Paint, Acetone, etc.), I'll finish up this Edna and see how it looks. As is, it needs a lot of clean up. And a new base.
- - - - - - - - - -

Edna (c)

krezz

Edna 3D Plans (c)

bbmbbf

This 3D Printed Edna by

ElfenSciuridae

, eSun Wood PLA and Tronxy X1 3D Printer

Keywords

female 1,004,776, fox 232,819, female/solo 63,987, vixen 27,223, 3d model 2,255, plastic 516, 3d print 198, 3d printed 27, 3d figurine 1

Details

Type: Picture/Pinup

Published: 5 years, 4 months ago

Rating: General

MD5 Hash for Page 1... Show Find Identical Posts [?]

Stats

130 views

4 favorites

22 comments

BBCode Tags Show [?]

22 Comments on this Submission

Leave a Comment...

TheGroundedAviator

5 years, 4 months ago

link

Try wearing a suit made of this stuff (or something similar)? Brigitte Helm did in the 1927 film Metropolis.

ElfenSciuridae

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ TheGroundedAviator

LOL! The things we do for art! Right?

Yeah. Somethings are just deliberately made to be hard - and not in material hardness, but the amount of work one has to do to get it done!

TheGroundedAviator

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ ElfenSciuridae

And that film is regarded as a work of art, in fact I think it's the highest or at least of the highest grossing silent films ever and certainly the most influential having inspired everything from Star Wars too Final Fantasy 7!

Hey keep it up you'll get there! You have the resources and the skill too do it and the opportunity is before you. Anyway what's wrong with her with acne? At her age we all get it too some degree. And the gold colour of the stuff makes her look like she's out for something special.

ElfenSciuridae

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ TheGroundedAviator

That is true, that film pioneered in many special effects which are still used today.

Many thanks for the kind words!

Her arms are supposed to be orange with pink forearms and hands, Skirt in blue and Polo Shirt in white with blue trim. Lets see how she turns out in the end. Maybe I'll make another one and keep the clothing gold when after I get more material to work with.

TheGroundedAviator

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ ElfenSciuridae

Lord of The Rings is one, I remember seeing the sets that Jackson used the same mirror tricks on!

No problem, no creator but love too support the creative in whatever way I can!

Ending her outfit with white knee socks and black Mary Jane shoes (had too look up!), a basic girls school uniform from Japan right? Well I'm sure she's been on a few cute dates or formal events before? And I've seen some other art where she had a casual outfit.

ElfenSciuridae

5 years, 4 months ago

link

Edited 5 years, 4 months ago by Owner

@ TheGroundedAviator

It is a "basic" School Uniform for many areas. Here in NYC, Catholic School and many Public Schools have it (especially during the Spring/summer months), a warmer uniform is used (longer skirt, Sweater, wool-like tights and Uggs-like Boots), and where

krezz

and

bbmbbf

come from (Central/South America) and many places around the world, this is a standard uniform for girls in most schools. Japan "made" the uniform famous because of their anime, which is strange. Girls did not went to school with boys and did not wore a uniform before WWII, but after WWII they end up doing both. Indirectly it was part of the treaty - the population must go to school and achieve a high school education at minimum. This was to "Americanize" the Japanese but it turned out better for them, as now the average Japanese adult is a college graduate and we in the USA struggle getting into college. Anime makes the uniform "uniform" - all one set of colors and styles, in truth the uniform is based on the school colors, which could be anything. The school Azumanga Dioh is in has a Red top with brown skirt in the winter uniform with a light blue top and dark grey skirt for the Spring uniform - is probably the only Anime I know that breaks away from the anime standard of dark blue and white.

EDIT: The school I taught in NYC had a Red/Green/White Plaid skirt with a white or light green or pink shirt. The color combo sound gaudy but it seemed to work out in the pattern they had it in.

TheGroundedAviator

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ ElfenSciuridae

Yeah, I've watched too much generic anime! Yikes, NYC public schools have them?! I'm not surprised about the anime though, soo bloody much of it!
Well before that the basic education there was more militarist, not a healthy thing for children (though I'm neither pro or anti war, just militarism and kids don't mix well) and the other skills basic, you learned more depending on your social status, still a big thing there and does influence your place, albeit too a lesser degree, just better educated and some go further, like elsewhere. They did it at the expense of blue collar people though, they're importing them now! And the population is aging.

But yeah in New Zealand only the private (and rather snooty) ones do it, though there is more variation in style and the colours and patterns are varied, but am no expert.
Gaudy? I'd find it a little dizzying and I do feel sorry for their feet though, walking in those thing for long doesn't look comfortable!

ElfenSciuridae

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ TheGroundedAviator

Ha Ha! Yeah, NYC Schools have them, colors/patterns depending the school.

Japan is a messed up place socially. Since the 1860s to today trying to keep up with US Modern Society and Technologies instead of creating their own. And the US/Japan treaty of 1945 gives them protection from Russia and China for losses they want from the Nippon/Sino and Nippon/Russo wars of 1860 - 1940 in that the USA protects them from retribution. No wonder this world is so f'ed up. Se La Vie...

My girls only complained about the MaryJane shoes when they were new, but broken in - they wore them all the time, often over sneakers. When I was teaching (and doing other things), I mostly wore MC boots, which were painful when new but broken in - they were comfortable! It took about 10 days to 2 weeks to break them in, both the shoes and boots.

TheGroundedAviator

5 years, 4 months ago

link

Edited 5 years, 4 months ago by Owner

@ ElfenSciuridae

Just didn't expect it.

They are masters at adaption and reinterpretation... just like the Roman's.

Not just US, they also gained much influence from France, UK and Germany, those three were where they based much of their military.
And the US is no stranger too adopting other technology, the Wright Brothers gained much of their aeronautical theory from French and British sources that had been developing it for decades, their biggest contribution was the propeller design basically still used today. They were great though at adapting such work too the resources and designs they had at hand.
And despite Goddard's work most of the Space program was from a German base and developed whereas the Russian's had developed a firm base but was small and used German tech too boost it forward, hence the basic R-7 core stage that recently had it's first failure in over 20 years.
And our greatest engineer Willian H Pickering led JPL at the time.
I don't blame them for the retribution issue, they did drop Bubonic Plague all over them. Unit 731 I think, shockers and the US adapted that tech as it was something you'd never do! And that treaty was with us as well. Let's not delve too far though.

Makes sense, well made and broken in they should. I read some of the other comics and Edna wears pink ones casually.

ElfenSciuridae

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ TheGroundedAviator

History is such a strange subject in that many will twist to fit their ideals and lessons to teach the next generation. That being said, only a few would look at all sides of history though it can be daunting with resistance and falsehoods. At least its nice to go about it peacefully as we are here. Great info you displayed here!

krezz

has a stream every Wednesday at 6PM EST (I'm guessing it would be 6 - 8AM on your side of the world) and Saturdays at 4PM (I'm guessing 4 - 6AM on your side of the world) at https://picarto.tv/krezzman . You're welcomed to come by if you can do the time. Watch Krezzman for the Streaming Alerts to pop up.

Everyone's in Krezz's universe wear as they please outside of school, even my fanfiction branch there of. It is funny, as I use a Mac and a PC, some colors on the Mac is interpreted differently from the PC. When Edna wears her pink top (on PC), it looks purple on Mac.

TheGroundedAviator

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ ElfenSciuridae

Yeah, I've found the best tactic is wipe the slate without forgetting it, look at all the different sources and find common elements, then you find facts... worked when on a jury.
No problem on the info, it's a hobby and I used too be a flight student before I crashed and burned (figuratively). Objectively and keeping emotion out helps, but it can make you seem creepy. In the end facts are a hard thing too grasp as they are simple, basic and unemotional. Theory's and narratives must flex too facts and not the other way around regardless of how one may dislike it.

I work the night shift then, too bad.

Well that's fair enough, I get the feeling she's feminine and girly but not total hardcore about it. She just likes a little more colour in her look and I don't blame her.

ElfenSciuridae

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ TheGroundedAviator

Well at 55, I'm one of the older furs here (there are a few older but that's about it), and on forced retirement. Though I did teach (computer and technology literacy), during the summer vacations I did lifeguard and work with the Parks Dept. It is there where I got hurt and had to retire in order heal. I was exposed to some chemical at work that was deliberately placed there for someone else; the person(s) who did it were arrested and are doing 15 - 20 for terrorism and a host of other charges.

Edna's a Red Fox, and with them color is everything as I remember my Nature TV Shows; which is funny as most canines are color-blind. But this is a constructed universe of characters, such handicaps do not apply and you hit Edna spot on.

TheGroundedAviator

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ ElfenSciuridae

30 and just here for a laugh mostly... and the odd talk on philosophy apparently. I was all mental health and such. Too bad, you can do stuff in a plane here you can do in the States https://.www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnwNdMpyLxM&t-3s take those back too 1918 and all they'd ask is what with the fake or blank adapted guns (storage laws, but can be legally owned), big show there in a few mothns, them and other stuff.
Odd too call that terrorism though, unless the motive was that and not a grudge act against a co-worker, then over legislation is an issue. Usually it's a form of assault. Too bad though, teaching is the highest form of learning and a dying profession.

Never seen a fox, even when in London but anthro worlds they are human animals in my book. Always found hardcore people/characters are just faking and insecure, feminine is basically her just being herself as a girl and that can be either "girly" or a "tomboy", which she is not, some of the most feminine girls/women I know are tomboys. She is girly but natural about it.

ElfenSciuridae

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ TheGroundedAviator

Red Fox (hope the link works): https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/messagemed...

Edna is indeed a girly girl though she does not act it all the time, she is just being who she is and not what she is. Not many would understand that, and worse argue the point that it proves. Of the two characters, Edna is the secure one, her older brother Edward is not. They play the role of opposites to each other. There are a lot of people out there that create characters that are rather flat compared to a MarySue/GaryStu character they created as well; they do not get the dynamics of being their gender opposite. Thus a lot of fake characters are created.

TheGroundedAviator

5 years, 4 months ago

link

Edited 5 years, 4 months ago by Owner

@ ElfenSciuridae

And they can be quite pathetic, you often see them in films now.

Interesting link. A replica just looks like it, a reproduction is it 100%.

ElfenSciuridae

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ TheGroundedAviator

"

TheGroundedAviator wrote:

30 and just here for a laugh mostly... and the odd talk on philosophy apparently. I was all mental health and such. Too bad, you can do stuff in a plane here you can do in the States https://.www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnwNdMpyLxM&t-3s take those back too 1918 and all they'd ask is what with the fake or blank adapted guns (storage laws, but can be legally owned), big show there in a few mothns, them and other stuff.

I remember this show, or something thing of it, as various members of Aerodrome Forum was involved with it in the late 1990s ( http://www.theaerodrome.com/index.php ). There was great discussions about how planes handled - the replicated ones on the show vs. the kit ones that used a modified car's 4 cylinder engine. Have not been there in while though. should drop by and see how things are going in the near future.

cesar23

5 years, 4 months ago

link

Looks cute, reminds me those shiny leotards lolis wear.

ElfenSciuridae

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ cesar23

HA HA! Only leotard colors I have seen is black, pink and white. Bathingsuits on the other hand I seen in all sorts of colors, including this one!

cesar23

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ ElfenSciuridae

Actually I did Im not sure if was on a balerina or ice ballet loli who wore it but yeah they look fucking fantastic

https://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/metallic-leotard

ElfenSciuridae

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ cesar23

I see... Things have changed since my little girls went to ballet class... LMAO!!

cesar23

5 years, 4 months ago

link

@ ElfenSciuridae

Hey at least I bet you saw some cute undies back there too X3

ElfenSciuridae

5 years, 4 months ago