About 4 years ago, I created Crazy Manga Girl Doll from Thingiverse ( https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2540584 ), and painted it accordingly. It turned out so great that my nieces and nephews want as many of them as possible. On occasion, I had made a few for my friend’s children, but when my nieces and nephews came to visit, a couple of them would disappear off the drying shelf! So I have to make more. LOL!
What is the attraction to this doll? I do not know. But with Filament 3D printing, they can be a bit rough here and there with standard options. I can (and have) printed a couple with a finer nozzle (a .20mm nozzle) and they had came out finer and more detailed. But to get to that resolution meant a lot of experimenting with setting and almost 4X the wait to print the whole doll as to print finer it has to print slower. So what usually took 2 hours to print 1 doll with a .40mm nozzle and standard settings, takes almost 10 or more hours to get the finer output.
But I continued to print them and paint them. I do not know what it the fascination with this doll, but many want them. And it is just the doll. Add-ons like a Letter Pin for her chest, an umbrella or Super Large Sunflower – those things are not wanted for some reason. I find that rather odd.
So recently I for a resin printer, and though there was some problems with it initially (had to get it exchanged because the LCD Shutter inside was broken), it printed things rather well. So I decided to print a Crazy Manga Girl doll. I expected the surfaces to be smooth. But the joint connections are rather tight, that I did not expect. Also, there were some issues with parts coming off the bed as they broke as I tried to pry them off and had to glue then together with crazy glue. Both of her boots and one of the joints of her upper arm broke when trying to pry them off the bed. But I like the results thus far on this one. Currently I am doing on in white to see how it looks. The Resin Printer takes about 4 hours to print a set of parts and there are two sets so about 8 hours total for a complete doll;
Set 1: skirt, forearms, hands and boots. Set 2: head, body, thighs, and upper arms. (wings are missing and had to use a borrowed set)
Note: The Blue Wings are from spare parts, as I forgot to add them to the print file... LOL!
This one will be on my work table to study. But it being the X-Mas season, somebody is going to make her disappear with the others I will be making. I swear, if they want it, they should ask for it. The worst I can say is “No.”
Just did one set with the skirt and I'm having problems with the skirt sticking as it is adding extra pressure acting like a suction cup against the plate. That is how this grey one broke, you should be able to see a small nick and a crack at the bottom of the skirt, that is where it broke and I glued it with the Thick Gel Krazy Glue for putting the glue where I want it and how much (Hint: Just a smear along inside the crack, not a bead).
I'm also using Water Washable Resin and not the Pure Resin as the Pure Resin is hell to work with and you need the purest alcohol to clean up with and you need to send it to a sanitation facility. This stuff just needs water to clean and you can flush it down the toilet; though I'm sure many flush the Pure Resin too when they are not supposed too. Water Washable Resin feels like hard rubber - like a hockey puck. Pure Resin hardens to hard plastic.
Thank you but the credit must go the printer! :^D Just did one set with the skirt and I'm having pr
