#Resin Printer

[gooseofthevoid]

SURGE THE TENREC FIGURE/DIORAMA THING! (from the IDW Sonic comics).

Model for this is Surge the Tenrec by thekingdog over on deviantart.

I got some LED filaments recently, and was looking for something to do with them, when Surge popped up on my dash and I had this idea.

I absolutely love how this turned out, it was a tonne of fun to make. Just finding a scourge STL file was surprisingly hard. I ended up having to use a VRchat model I found.

That actually worked out really well, because I could easily pose it and apply mouth expressions, even with my limited blender knowledge.

Then I went and made that process way harder by deciding I wanted to be able to light up the eyes, meaning I needed to hollow the head, punch eyeholes out and create a tube down from the head out the foot to run wires.

After managing to get that done (had to try several times because I kept introducing slicer artifacts with my 'BOOLEAN MODIFIER IS MY FRIEND' approach), I realised the heads walls were too thin and translucent, so I had to carefully shove milliput in there without blocking up the eyeholes... and in the process didn't realise I'd covered the wire hole, and then had to carve out part of the neck and back to get access again.

Worth it all in the end though, for how dope this looks.

[irlkisukeurahara]

Finally got to 3D print the Kensei Muguruma Hollow Mask... Gotta find the wig I bought for him that disappeared and that's pretty much it before I can finally cosplay my favorite Vizard 💯💯

[fireheartedpup]

On the list of things that you need protection to work with safely, lest you develop reactions to lifesaving medical equipment: 3D printers, gel nails, toys that were marketed to children

[3liza]

i mean the truth is that we do not need and should not have all this stupid plastic clutter in or houses. no one should be producing or selling this shit. everyone make your own merchandise and charge a living hourly wage to sell it 🤷 sorry to be so simplistic about this but it's one of the results of the lack of class unity specifically in the means of production-owning creative class, who is not mentioned or dealt with by the core Marxist texts as far as I know (i asked about this earlier on here, did marx ever address in his analysis people like, for example, a professional photographer who owns a camera ans prints his own dagguereotypes? or a portrait painter or idk, independent milliner or seamstress? these people all own the means of production and do not employ anyone, and the answer from better educated people than I was that no, Marx didn't mention them), I'm not well read on this at all, there is just a big void where leftist analysis of what modern economists call "the creative class"

I'm getting off topic. my point is make your own keychains in your kitchen. it's actually not hard. you can even mass produce (on a small scale) little plastic crap if you want, with resin and a UV lamp, or a 3d printer, or a laser cutter and acrylic sheets (or just use balsa wood damn, at least its biodegradable and less tacky).

all this stuff is available to little creators AND there are hundreds of people who already own these machines who will take work for you and produce your designs. you just have to actually find them and know them and email them. that's what I mean about the class unity issue with creatives. we have no large scale union, we have no large scale class consciousness, and we're all sending our orders for little plastic crap to sweatshops instead of emailing a guy with a laser cutter in his garage and saying "hey Keith can I get uhhhhhhhhhhh 50 laser cut keychains of this twerking Diggler design I made, like how much would that cost" and he's like sure here's the work and materials cost and tbh it's always always less than i think it's going to be. you just have to do some basic arithmetic and then order shipping, and I hate order fulfillment with my life but you can actually pay or barter with someone to do that for you too. learn to delegate and then factor that into your unit cost. this is basic shit every commercial creator needs to know. they should teach you this in art school but they dont

don't give me crap about "I can't afford a laser cutter" either because I just told you to email Keith. and all these machines get sold secondhand when a manufacturer or hobbyist needs to upgrade. i got a color laser printer perfect for making zines and wheatpastes and shipping labels from a retired lesbian on capital hill for $75 and it was still full of ink. my friend gave me her 20 year old canon dslr because she just didn't need it and didn't want to bother selling it. it works fine because I spent the time finding the right drivers and shit for my computer. and card readers exist. Craigslist. Facebook marketplace. nextdoor sales section. eBay. everyone always forgets eBay. eBay lets you save searches and will email you when it finds a guy selling his vinyl plotter in your city with local pickup. I'm serious

[damniteggs]

a re-read of Friends Like These got me emotional and decided to throw my (somewhat benevolent) rottmnt oc, Charlie, at Timothy for human friend/machine shop TA support.

Timothy is @pinetreevillain ‘s son and was only abducted momentarily for another doodle with heavy duty machinery.

PS: dealing with CNC ghosts is a mechanical engineering right of passage (and so is having a kooky TA that claims to hear the voices in their head). Might do more of Charlie later?

[mr-shockwave]

some more photos for listings, these are defective prints!! they look almost exactly the same as non defectives, but if you look realll close you might see the issue. like on the last photo, shockwaves claw is a little smaller than normal, orr middle finger soundwave with no middle finger (that ones more obvious LMAO) and almost all the smaller prints, the defect is like.. a single finger that broke off

im selling these guys in pairs for half the price, sooo prices would beee

2 50 MMs are 18$

1 50, 1 30 MM are 14$

2 30 MM are 10$

i want to do this both so i can remove extra stock, but also as a cheaper alternative to the usual prices!! even if prints are defective, i only will sell them if they can still visibly stand on their own two feet(looks and functionality wise). the current economy is my #1 enemy so im hoping these guys can be a little treat :]

ive also got defective sets of 3, i just havent taken photos of them

ive ALSO ordered 10 kg of resin ahead of time, ive just been idling around waiting for it all to deliver

every time i make one of these posts it feels like a little weekly news infodump😭😭 i love yapping abt my prints though

[3dcraftique]

[charrchan]

making him into a nitotan style mini figure :)

[ck-scribbles]

the experiment was a success

[pezhead]

Partly why I've been inactive is cause I decided to make homemade keychains for my family for Christmas~

I used the Batman vs TMNT Mikey to test out different ways to make one. Here is the first successful test and it's the only one I can share here cause some of my family follows me.

[gooseofthevoid]

Public holiday means a chance to paint something from the backlog!

Pretty happy with how this turned out for something I didn't really have a plan for when I started. I had no clue what colour I was doing for the hair until I mixed up a pink by accident and just rolled with it.

Putting the rust effect on the sword was lots of fun, it's such a cool texture.

This mini is Ninjix Crazy Paladin from Miniatures Blueprint.

[solidwater05]

[ID: A picture of handwritten blueprints for a small scale model of the Demon Core, to scale with a small screwdriver placed on top of the blueprints for reference. /End ID]

I have this tiny-ass screwdriver (5 cm long!!) so. yeah

The upper half is giving me some serious fucking trouble but it's also pretty late and it has a considerable amount of details so I'll just finish this tomorrow. Wooo Demon Core

[vixenbuck]

nothing too substantial, but I Have added Wes to my stickers and keychain/pin line!

Ko-fi Link | Etsy Link

[birb--birb]

The Pale Elf

3D print sculpted by Bulkamancer, printed in Siraya Tech grey UV Resin on my Elegoo Mars 2, and hand-painted by me! I cannot be more pleased with how he turned out 🥰

Detailed shots under the cut

Had to share all these gorgeous details, like the TEXTURES on this models are just gorgeous! All that filigree and bead detailing is raised which made painting it much easier, but still very tedious (so worth the results though). This was my first time painting a face bigger than tabletop mini scale, and boy was I intimidated. Had some friends point me to ball-jointed doll makers and learned about detailing faces with chalk pastels, so I used pastels to give his cheeks some colour, blush the tips of his ears, and make the shadows under his eyes. I could go back and add more colour/texture to his hair but I think its best if I leave it, lest I play with it too much and end up ruining things. I have to keep reminding myself that just cause I can see things in macro lens photos, doesn't mean I'm actually able to go correct those things 😅

Regardless, I'm so so happy with how he turned out, and its crazy that I can look at this and go "me!!! I PAINTED THAT!! ME!!!", and now I have a stunning model of everyones favourite lil rat bastard (affectionate) vampire mans💕

[bionicle-ramblings]

Was just talking about this with @chancetimespace

In a human AU, Vakama would own a 3D resin printer. Matau(they're dating, your honor) is usually the one to give him ideas, and most of them are food frogs

And, yes, this is directly inspired by SorrelsSouls, who makes food froggers

Matau also gets first dibs in the frogs Vakama makes and sells, because he's spoiled

[yo-snap]

there he is, AUTOPILOT is done!

Jk, he's almost there. I hope to get him done by HolMat.