#3d printed spare parts

[3d-incredible]

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[alicenpai]

the shadow and her living doll 🌹🌼 print for montreal otakuthon! come see me at next week from aug 11-13 ✌

you can grab it as a print here if you so wish ! WIPs & other thoughts under the cut

shadows house is such a fantastic series & i wholeheartedly recommend it... the story delves into super dark horror elements but doesn't present itself as a story with no hope. hope must be found and then tenaciously gripped with all one's heart, much like pandora's box. it tickles the victorian gothic part of my brain forever imprinted on me since i was 14 haha...

in the first draft i had marionette strings hanging above the characters (kinda reminds me of Erased.. since I just finished rewatching that ahaha...) & shadow puppet hands on the sides, almost as if gripping each character. i decided against it in the end, to let the characters shine in the spotlight (literally).

i also wanted a more active or lively pose, but kept in line with the stiff victorian portrait style, caused by long camera exposure times. i'm not sure if that worked out better bc i'm unsure if this drawing is interesting to people wahahaha.

initially i also wanted more of a dollhouse theme, but each draft got more and more muddy, so i decided to save it for another day (i'm around ch 90 in the manga, so probably a good call to save a more complex idea until i'm all caught up)

^ quick 5 min style test i posted recently! in that post i stated that i wanted to streamline and simplify my art style more, especially after the recent bunch of illustrations i did in the past winter that took way too long to complete, at the sake of my health.

im continually looking for areas to simplify more in my art, but one of the areas i will NOT skimp on is depicting fabric!!!!!

what also helped was working on my sense of structure in my spare time, so that i could be better at depicting form without relying so much on shading to show 3d forms. i love colouring, but i need to be working smarter, not harder from now on. using 100000 shades and highlights is just not feasible anymore wahaha.

in this drawing i loosened up with the bg and kept it rough, inspired by the wonderful xeroxed bgs of 101 dalmatians, and only implied details, rather than actually rendering all of them.

the tldr is that i draw too slowly i just would like to be able to make more drawings more often!!

[cryptic-forge]

since all new 3d printing & photography is still in limbo, a throwback! this is the first doll i ever made. she is from a couple of years back, though a more precise grip on the timeline is lost to me.

i had a brief fascination with bjd head sculpts as a kid, and did a few frankenstein experiments on barbies, but was never really interested in dolls before. the hobby started in a flash when i happened to see a monster high custom video on youtube. i took one look at a cleaned abbey face, went "monster high face sculpts are like THAT?", and got my boots on to go to the nearest thrift store. did not find any monster high at that time, but bought a moxie girlz doll, and came home to make this.

the spider butt is insulation foam and clay, and the legs are worbla over a thick metal wire, which allows them to bend surprisingly well. also, the tattoos are patterns cut out of my childhood satin pajamas, which is an excellent example how a lot of my material storage may be Old As Balls, but eventually compelling things will have their use.

the arms are super charming when i look at them now; a relic from a time when i didn't just have a bin of spare doll parts to get new arms from. i thought about swapping them out now, but i think i'll keep her as she is, as documentation. the harness i do need to retie though, as i did not know shibari back then and it Could Be Much Better now that i do.

all told, i've made about 80 fashion doll customs. most of them have never been photographed, but i'll do some more throwback dollposting when me and/or my partner get time & motivation to take pictures.

[hewkii]

Acht (Dedf1sh) Cosplay Rundown

feel free to copy or take inspiration :]

assembly instructions and print settings/materials for 3d printed parts are on thingiverse (headphones) (other parts)

models designed by me are in brackets in the materials list

Hat/Tentacles

black trucker hat with blank white front panel

[dedstencil.stl]

fabric paint

shiny indigo fabric

less shiny white fabric

glow-in-the-dark pigment powder

polyfill

metal marbles (to weight the ends so they hang properly)

two of [octosucc.obj] in different sizes

acrylic paint

conveniently enough i've had this hat hanging on my door for years. i got it with N from pokemon in mind but i never actually did that cosplay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

here are the sketches i based my patterns on (1 square=1 cm). don't forget to add seam tolerances

Headphones

full details on thingiverse (mudmouth not included)

Arms

mesh bolero with built-in gloves

rit dye

fabric paint

10 of [finger_claw_vase.stl] in varying sizes

i wear claws under the gloves, but sometimes i'll wind up taking them off after a while since they can get uncomfortable and they make it hard to use my phone :/

Bracelet

[acht_bangle_vase.stl]

acrylic paint

glow-in-the-dark pigment powder

glossy clear coat

a cut up mello yello bottle

packing tape

eva foam

Misc. Doodads

red mirror shades

color chips

necklace chain

[acht_tag_jelleton.stl]

[acht_tag_ident.stl]

[acht_tag_hook.obj]

did you know that acht gives eight a mobility chip in the trailer but a power chip in the actual game? bc i didn't notice until after i'd already finished making the mobility one. so i've got a spare chip i guess

the dogtags were kind of a spur-of-the-moment creative liberty. i had the jelleton one sitting around from some experiments with composite filaments, and while i was brainstorming a way to incorporate acht's cool fish hook into the cosplay without needing to actually get my ears pierced it all sorta clicked together. i made the ident tag shortly afterwards and swiftly forgot what the text says :P

the rest of it

dress tunic thingy

metal eyelets

red string

camo pants

combat boots

i skimped on accuracy in favor of comfort for the lower half ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the dress is more of a shirt, i added comfy pants bc i hate wearing colored tights (or god forbid painting my thighs green), and shorter boots bc more accurate ones are expensive as hell. plus any heel higher than this makes walking feel like playing qwop (skill issue). speaking of which does it bug anybody else how long acht's feet are on their in-game model or is that just me

idk if it counts as part of the cosplay but i also add a leather jacket when my arms get cold. i think it goes hard

To-Do:

ink the shaved streaks onto the hairnet

swap out the red leather cord for something less stiff

see if beans would work better than marbles

hand bandages?

single pointy tooth?

make a pre-sanitized version so i don't have to scrub off face paint every time

[renegaderoxy]

RG Gundam Epyon!

Wow, what a wonderful kit! Building this one was relatively straightforward and pleasant. There’s a LOT of undergating in this kit, which helps keep it clear of nib marks, but can be very challenging to remove at times due to the small scale of a 1/144 kit.

This was my first time doing water slide decals, and WOW was it tedious at first. After much trial and error, I got into a bit of a flow with it and it became easier. The payoff is terrific, too!

I used matte spray on this one to seal in the decals as I’m unsure of how safe they are after they dry. I wasn’t taking chances after accidentally wiping off the water slides half a dozen times throughout the detailing…

I really recommend this kit! It’s a bit pricey for an RG, but the engineering of the parts and ease of assembly make it so worth it. And look how great it looks! It can even transform into a goddamned twin-headed dragon, which I didn’t do because I was afraid of fucking up any single atom of the model after building.

If you can believe it, that whip/tail attachment on the arm is ONE ENTIRE PIECE you clip directly off the runner. If you’re newer to the hobby, you may want to skip applying EVERY detail sticker that comes in the kit, as you’d be doing >100 applications.

Epyon is not very balanced with the wings and giant sword attached. The mounting bracket for the stand attaches to the backpack, which puts it at an odd angle for non-adjustable stands (I snapped a peg off of a 3D printed one my girlfriend made me before taking the final pic…). If you have patience when trying to make it balance or a spare Action Base 5 lying around, go for it!

Build cutting and assembly took about 18 hours. Panel lining took another hour. The rest was all water slide decal application. (＞人＜;)

Total hours: 25

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime,

Knowing as we do that the DJD exists to root out cowardice and treason in the Decepticon ranks, has any version of that group been tasked with eliminating the most treasonous coward of the all, Air Commander Starscream? What's their track record in the task, multiversally speaking?

Dear Slippery Seeker,

Surely by now you know that Starscream is hard to catch, harder to implicate, and most difficult to kill (well, for any substantial length of time)! As a result, the summary judgements you imagine aren't as common as you might think—but I will recount to you one instance where Starscream tangled with Megatron’s enforcers.

When they came for him, he didn’t even try to deny the allegations, having himself long lost track of his various misdeeds. Instead, he offered to pay Tarn off. Of course, no amount of money could buy mercy from Tarn—so instead, Starscream promised to supply the leader of the D.J.D. with enough morphcores to feed his addiction indefinitely, even producing one on the spot for him. Tarn was tempted, and appeared to seriously consider the offer… but when he sampled the morphcore, he immediately deduced that it was counterfeit, quickly 3D-printed by Swindle for this ruse of Starscream’s.

Tarn aimed his fusion cannons at Starscream’s head, but the Seeker just laughed. This cheap spare-part scam was itself only part of a subtler gambit: Starscream had recorded everything, and was prepared to transmit the footage across all Decepticon channels. That one moment of hesitation… it would have been enough to show everyone that the incipient D.J.D. were ordinary mechs, with ordinary vices, who could be bargained with. Perhaps they could have corrected that impression, with time and creativity… but Tarn knew how Megatron would react, knowing that he had given even the slightest thought to exonerating Starscream over such a trifle.

Of course, so long as the D.J.D. kept Starscream on the List, and so long as Starscream had the recording, neither could tolerate the other’s continued existence—so they agreed to delete both files, and to never again acknowledge one another going forward. But much later, the collector Agonizer came across a remaining copy of this version of the List… which leads one to wonder, if perhaps there still survives a copy of that video as well…

[titanomancy]

New year, new campaign. My group is going hard into Epic Legions Imperialis and, with the addition of a Bambu P1P to the toolbox, we're expanding our collection of very small scenery with 3d printed parts from Grimdark Terrain.

The end result was really impressive. I had written off filament deposition printing for miniatures when the higher resolution resin printers started being able to compete with store-bought a few years ago, but the level of detail with this extruded PLA is really something else. Some of the undercuts are a little ugly, but you won't be able to see them in the course of regular play.

Conceptually, this piece is a city sector-wide void shield projector akin to the palace aegis network described in Siege of Terra. The massive discharge of exotic energies originate from the elevated dish creating a toroidal field pattern - so you can't just shoot at it from the ground, necessitating its capture by infantry forces if you wish to bring it down. A much more cinematic objective marker than a spare die or token.

If you want to build your own, the list of parts can be found past the break - Rudolf at GDT does some pretty impressive scenery and deserves your support.

Titanomantic Aegis Void Shield Network Projector

#AG-059 - Argos - Megabunker Connection Peg x 8 #AG-063 - Argos - Pavaise VS Projector Coils x 4 #AG-064 - Argos - Pavaise VS Projector Dish x 1 #AG-068 - Argos - Mega Bunker Side Pipes x 4 #AG-070 - Argos - Air Control Tower Base x 1 #AG-072 - Argos - Air Control Tower Top Connector x 1 #AG-073 - Argos - Air Control Tower Circular Balcony x 1 #AG-080 - Argos - Recessed Shield Coil x 4 #AG-083 - Argos - Makro-Bunker Base x 1 #AG-085 - Argos - Makro-Bunker Base Wall 2 x 4 #AG-091 - Argos - Makro-Bunker Pillar 1 x 4

This build utilizes parts from three separate Grimdark Terrain .STL packages; July 2021, February 2022 and November 2022. July and November are critical components for the major assemblies, but if you're stingy you can substitute the Recessed Shield Coils from February by doubling the number of #AG-063 Pavaise VS Projector Coils.

[velvetvexations]

If we're still doing fun and semi-obscure hobbies/hyperfixations/special interests here are a few things I've been into lately:

Sound engineering and mixing - I've just started needing to do it for myself for a larger project I'm working on and I knew it'd be interesting, but it's more fun than I thought it'd be even if it is almost as tedious as I feared. I just learned the vowel trick for figuring out where to start with EQ adjustments and it feels like I just unlocked the secrets of the universe. I'm still super new into it and don't know a lot but...I honestly kind of hope I DON'T get too into it, because it might end up distracting me from a lot of the rest of the project and most of my role in said project is live performance lmao - but getting my vocals to sit ALMOST right in a recorded song without anyone else's direct help for the first time was so exciting it felt like a whole new world opened up.

Dollmaking! I make my own BJDs - bodies, clothes, eyes, all from nothing; the only thing I regularly buy mostly made is wigs and even those I usually do a lot of alteration on, or sometimes even just make out of wefts or braiding hair if the length/texture/part position/cap size combination I need is too hard to find. For the face and body sculpting, I do that digitally and 3D print them in resin. My bin of spare parts and the half-finished ones I always have at least one of lying around also make my house really fun to visit at night if you like horror lmao--

Speaking of, just 3D printing in general is something I have a strong interest in. I'm hoping to get the money together to move to a larger space in the coming years so I have the room to expand my fleet of 3D printers.

The funny thing is, none of them seem particularly problematic on their face...but just like anything like that, you would be AMAZED at how much drama goes on about them. It honestly helps me keep tumblr fandom drama in perspective when I see people pulling "you wouldn't download a car" logic to call someone a monster about doll body construction being SLIGHTLY too similar to some brand or another's (like, there are only so many ways you can do double ball joints!) or say you're a bad person degrading the hobby for thinking anything you could 3D print at home is remotely high quality enough to Count(TM) (like even if that were true maybe stop using the cheapest standard resin you can find then? Skill issue), or getting weirdly xenophobic about 3D printer brands, or acting like EQing someone's voice to make them sound more like they want to sound like with regards to gender is some kind of great evil and literally the same as companies trying to make us think there's something wrong with us if we don't look like airbrushed supermodels. At least I haven't personally been in the immediate blast radius of one of the SURPRISINGLY MANY supply seller death faking scandals that happen from time to time in the specialty fiber and textiles sector...

The Lithuanian 3D printer monopoly is destroying this country.

[3d-incredible]

Three important sectors will use 3D-printed spare parts

The automotive manufacturing and spare parts industries can benefit from the innovative and cost-effective technology known as additive manufacturing, or 3D printing. like the railroad, automotive, and aviation industries. 3D-printed parts perform better than conventionally manufactured parts in many critical and high-load application requirements.

Read the full blog here: https://3dincredible.com/three-major-industries-to-embrace-3d-printed-spare-parts-aviation-automotive-railways/

[cyberneticatoms]

no way is that IAN DUTTON..they’re a 28-year-old SYNTH notoriously known for being MONOTONE & PEDANTIC but there are some people who have seen them being PERCEPTIVE & DIPLOMATIC. if you ask me, they remind me a lot of crunching up ice cubes, a shelf of methodically categorized books, and piercing eyes, but that could just be because they’re considered the SILENT OBSERVER around town. just keep an eye on them  &  see if their true colors shine through..

↳ 𝚀𝚄𝙸𝙲𝙺 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝚃𝚂

NAME: Ian Mark Dutton NICKNAMES: Confused for Ike DATE OF BIRTH: June 30th (28) HEIGHT: 6'1 AFFILIATION: Neutral  OCCUPATION: VIP Bartender at The Obelisk FACECLAIM: Chay Suede

TW: child abuse, drug abuse, alcohol abuse

↳ 𝙱𝙰𝙲𝙺𝙶𝚁𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙳

❖ Ian grew up in El Paso, Texas, the older twin brother of Ike Dutton. Twin synths aren't common with the specification that a synth's mind is meant to be original. Though if you spend more than 5 minutes with the twins, it's easy enough to see that they are in fact two completely different people.  ❖ It wasn't long after they were born that their father was injured at his job. They were barely able to afford his care let alone his pain medication. Not soon after he developed an addiction, self medicating with hard drugs and alcohol.  ❖ At first his mother tried her best to keep the house stable, but eventually even she was burnt out. Joining her husband as they both sunk lower and lower into debt. It was during this time that Ike’s behavioral issues became more prominent, and Ian was the one keeping everything at home under wraps. Their parents never hesitated to mention that if CPS came they'd be separated or worse.  ❖ The only time things weren't terrible was when their oldest cousin DJ would come by and take them to their grandma's. The only time Ian was genuinely worried was when he was 8 and DJ joined the Coast Guard, losing the small bit of help they had.  ❖ It was during DJ’s first leave when he came to check on the twins that he realized how bad things had gotten for them. The twins were severely malnourished and had severe injuries that were struggling to heal. It took Ian, Ike and their mother to rip DJ off their father. One police call later and that night they were officially under their grandmother's guardianship.  ❖ Growing up, Ian viewed DJ as his father and his best friend later turned wife, Dahlia as his mother. Their other cousin Zel also grew up with them, and since he was the same age, the twins became known as the triplets. All three eventually joined the Coast Guard as well after graduation.  ❖ The plan had always been to follow DJ to Dallas when the club was opened. What wasn't expected was to gain a new little sister in Val, while he's not a fan of how spontaneous they can be, he does genuinely love them. Eventually forming a band with his siblings along with Dahlia's sister Eva, while also working as a bartender.  ❖ This is also how he met Beatrix Vos, while she was still working as an escort. The two have been in an on and off again relationship for the last couple years, with plenty of commentary from both their siblings and friends.  ❖ He, like the rest of his family, has no particular allegiance to the corporations or the mafia. If anything he thinks all have similar goals and methods, the only difference being how out in the open they operate.

↳ 𝙼𝙸𝚂𝙲

• Lives in an adjoining extension to the main Cruz-Dutton house with Zel. • In his spare time runs an online business providing 3D printed prosthetics for animals. Also makes and paints hyper realistic animal figurines and dioramas. • Part of the band Three by Five with his siblings Ike, Val and Zel, along with Eva. He and Eva briefly dated before agreeing to stay friends. He plays bass though he occasionally switches with Ike whose on drums.

[alexr-fightgames]

Rebuilt my MPress stick today!

So it came with Cherry MX Silent Reds, and I've come to the conclusion that I don't really like the feel of Silent Reds. Not to worry, the switches are swappable, very easy!

I had tried, recently, putting Speed Silver switches in there, but they actually don't work right with the MPress case since the MPress case keeps the buttons in a slightly-pressed state all the time -- the silvers were actuating randomly, no good! You need those extra couple of millimeters. I had messed around with trying to add some cut-up pieces of index cards (with the idea to move to 3D printed plastic spacers) to space out the case a bit, but that's kind of wonky.

TURNS OUT that as a fightstick-parts packrat, I had a bunch of spare Cherry MX Reds (non-silent), and I put those in there, and it works great and feels great too! It's a bit loud but I like that. Nice.

And now I've got some spare Silver switches, going to need to do something with those...

[gunner-the-great]

Adventure Force Enforcer project (mostly done)

Current stats: ~160 FPS, 450 rounds per minute, 2 x 90 dart belt and boxes

I've made some progress over the winter and spring on the reliability and accuracy of the enforcer. I also added some cosmetic flair in the form of a maxim style barrel. I don't have any internal photos at the moment but most of the progress has been on the inside. The first of the changes was to the belt itself, in comparison to it's injection molded belt the 3D printed belt is a lot heavier. Why not use the injection molded belt? I could but it doesn't hold onto anything but brand new darts verry well and it's rigidity of the linkage preventing any flex outside of the hinge's intended direction can lead to jams. So to be able to use worn darts I still want to use a 3D printed belt. To help with the belt's weight I skeletonized it somewhat making it thinner in places it can afford to be while keeping the structurally important parts the same width. This reduced the weight of the links and helps to alleviate the primary cause of jams: the empty belt links piling up on top of the loaded belt links in the box. Another modification I added was a set of two ratcheting pawls that help prevent the cam track of the sprocket from slipping backwards when the cam stud is in the middle of it's travel. This stops the chain from getting stuck if there is too much force holding the chain back causing the can stud to slip into the previous groove mid travel and prevent the chain from advancing.

The second thing I spent a lot of time on refining was the flywheel cage as I wanted to tighten up the cone of fire as much as possible. I spent a week or two in a bit of a cycle. Get home, test fire the blaster, adjust the model in Fusion 360, print the model at night, sleep, go to work, repeat. The end result is that the flywheels are now angled 0.7 degrees left, and a roller is added to the right side of the cage to help better center the darts to the flywheels before firing. I have also replaced the motors with OOD Krakens, this results in a slight reduction to the FPS but the flywheels do a lot less damage to the darts and they ware out slower. So I'm not destroying as many of the clubs darts. (I have also been donating some darts to help offset the dart destruction I alone am causing)

Another thing I made that's not part of the blaster itself is the two flip out tabs that loop onto my belt. They're the same dimensions as the tab at the bottom of the blaster and allow the ammo boxes to clip onto them. This way I can carry a spare belt box much easier than I could previously. Previously I was using a strap with a backpack buckle on it to loop under the attachment part of the ammo box, but that was verry finicky and ended up being verry difficult to do on the field. These little devices make reloading while standing up a possibility as before I had to set one box on the ground while attaching the other. Now with the two tabs I can remove one box, clip it on to the empty tab, unclip the loaded box from the other tab, and then load the fresh box onto the blaster.

[iwonderwh0]

I wonder how many more Zlatkos there must be. Modding androids must be a kind of a niche hobby for some people, no way in hell Zlatko was the only one doing it. They probably have the whole forums about 3d printing custom body parts and shit like that. Manuals with pictures "how to reset an android wiping memories"

Places to buy second-hand androids, spare parts and shit.

And those are (were) seen as just usual tech-geeks pre-revolution, perfectly legal things to do. If androids are viewed as computers and not actual people.

And the thing about those modders, experimenting with their androids is that thay have probably figured out that those are actually conscious for a long before CyberLife even started to worry about possible deviancy. Those people know about androids more than any other interviewed specialist for "common people".

[mrbadhairday]

Everything I make is out of fun. I don’t have the tools nor the technology those  studios have. I’m a novice- I don’t have a background in toymaking nor the experience so it’s a hobby in my spare time. All of it is run off my computer and a 3D printer my husband got for fun that we’ve both sunk countless hours into. It’s kind of strange holding something I made but it feels almost therapeutic for the little kid in me.

Overall I’m happy. Unfortunately print quality declined a bit since the temperature dropped significantly. Most parts either didn’t form properly, like the mouth, or in some cases didn’t have proper layer adhesion so there were some scrapped parts I couldn’t recover. The new joint system seems to work wonderfully and I all the pieces seem to fit nicely. But overall this is just a prototype and a great learning experience :D

Also, holy shit, I finished this in a couple of days and all off my migraine meds. Most of the time was spent printing the damn thing and I think I’ve cut and pricked myself like 40 times on the damn thorns while putting the thing together >:/

**Also, thank you to my husband for putting up with my nerdy ass and also taking some amazing pictures!

[nick-of-mauville-fix-shop]

(@wingsofachampion) Hiya! How do you fix human stuff? -Tropius

Hi Aurorava! So, for old-model Pokenavs (which I count as any Pokenav that don’t have the “Plus” monicker), most repairs boil down to having a bunch of individual spare components (bought from Devon, salvaged from other Pokenavs, or in rare cases 3D printed) and then substituting the damaged components with the spare, working ones. Luckily most components aren’t soldered, so there’s not much work or expense that goes into everything other than part replacements.

Out of curiosity, do you know what brought you from your original universe? Because Pokemon usually aren’t fluent in English here. It’s fine if you don’t want to answer though!