Dancer Print

This weekend I finished up my Dancer print. She is built from 3 separate prints. Before assembly I used a grey primer on all the pieces, then used a semi-gloss black paint for the base, a white primer for the shirt and left the body the grey. From top to bottom she is about 5." tall. At the bottom is some progress pictures. Thanks! Please follow/subscribe!

The Big Print (so far)

I made a few model tweaks to this sculpt in ZBrush recently and then printed out this larger scale bust. It is the largest prints I have done yet! The print time on her was about 18 hours at 50 microns. She was printed in clear and then finished with Tamiya Fine Grey Primer. This print was also hollowed out some to save resin and print time. Gentle sanding on the face (3800 grit sandpaper) and basic support cleanup were done on the print as well.

Engadget+gdgt Live Boston 2013

Not the greatest photo ever but my prints showed up on the Engadget blog gallery! Mid-Left side you can see all 3 of my earlier prints in cool glass cases. They will be going to London next I believe.

Skull Final

After a second pass of cleanup I have some photos to showcase the skull print. This one came out pretty exceptional. The cleanup was pretty simple using the nail file. The primer was done on this one using a Tamiya Fine Spray Can. I think I will try doing another this time priming it using the airbrush so it does not spray on so thick (which is partially my fault, I did 2 coats of primer on this one). The next one I do I will try to make it a 1/6 scale standard as well as make the interior hollow for faster printing. I was also told by Formlabs that I should not need to print with the grey material setting while printing clear anymore to get better results, so I will be giving that a shot next as well.

Hand for scale.

Skull Print

Today I printed out a skull model with the latest form software/firmware. I printed using the highest resolution setting (25 microns instead of the default of 50 and set the material to the opaque instead of clear). I will have a follow up post for cleanup and paint in the next day or so. The print came out pretty great imo and I cannot wait to see it in matte grey. I attempted to do a time-lapse video of this but the software bugged out and failed on me. If I like the final result of the print enough I will print out a second one and record it going similar to my last video.

Happy Printing!