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You should learn to make molds so people like me can buy your new improved deamoneete/witch elf...

Got myself a Photon, so I thought I'd work on another Keeper to try it out and see what kind of results I can get. Just need to rig and pose this one, then I can try different ways to cut it for printing.

Looks great, but if you want to make her at mini scale, you probably should thicken the details a bit, so that they turn out better defined.

Intense looking keeper! Reminds me of some demon that could be out of Hellraiser! Keep it up!

Whats your army list youre going for?

Just modelling for now.

Got everything modeled and I was super exited to start finally printing. Then the test cube owned me.

I thought for sure I'd break the mask cutting its supports so I printed three, but the first one I attempted came off just fine. Extra parts! So I've since redone the supports for the head shown here, there are far less and they're a lot better placed and sized for removal. Either way, I see theres going to be some sanding and cleaning up of the model before priming, but nothing seriously flawed in the result. I uv unwrapped the model before rigging, so I can later create a material to use as a template for filigree and other details to print separately after deformation. Seeing that the mask actually printed, I'll be going ahead with that modeling also.

Great print so far! I've been excited to see how she comes out, not disappointed in the least

I concur with Boss, very interesting project. Seeing something you enjoy slowly take shape in your hands is a wonderful thing. How small is the mask? I have a Photon and have many prints under my belt. Resin is more durable, even at small sizes, than it seems but that mask has a lot of thin bits. Impressed it came out so well.

Wow, fantastic work with that sculpt! I'm currently on non organic stuff, so consider me impressed

The breaks in the test model look like the z axis isn't moving smoothly, though I guess you fixed that given your pretty head. It looks like you could possibly get some smoother prints by making the layer heights smaller and by adjusting the angle of the head?

Thanks for the input.
The mask is about .22mm thickness throughout, overall 14.9mm x, 8.73mm z and 6.53mm y. So its not really that small, its just thin and tricky to cut from the supports. I'm trying even smaller supports atm at .1mm just to see if I can make removal easier.
I'm pretty sure the issues I was having with the test cube had a lot to do with the fact that it's designed for a different resin. The seeming failure of an entire layer was repeated on a second test cube, although at a different height, so that seemed to rule out a physical issue with the Z rod. I then reformatted the USB and printed one of my own meshes and it seemed to come out ok, so I honestly haven't made a third attempt at the test cube.
I'm printing everything at .02mm layer height and orienting the mesh so its getting as much of the Z axis as possible. I'm not sure what else I can do to improve resolution, but I'm definitely open to suggestions. The plate I have working atm is a 39 hour job so yeah lol.

39 hours? Wow, that's a loooong print! I think the longest I've ever had was 9 hours for a very tall tree.

The only reason I mentioned the z-axis was that I had a similar oddity happen on mine. It wasn't always in the same place, but every now and then one of the layers would be offset and create a break like that. On smaller models it meant that half the print ended up a smear on the bottom of the resin tank, but on larger or more complex models it ended up with bits missing. It was a lump of thing grease that was slowly being pushed up and down the thread, hence it being in random places each print. It also caused a bit of juddering, which made the layers more obvious in places.

Thanks that makes sense! I'd better look over this thing again carefully when this print finishes.

I had a similar experience early on with my Photon. Turns out there was both a lump of grease and the z-rod (z-axis lead screw, to be more accurate) was slightly warped from the manufacturer. I know customer support is hit-and-miss with many of these 3D printer manufacturers, but after a lot of back and forth with Anycubic they sent me a proper z-rod. Hopefully your troubles are not that bad.

Fantastic work, both the sculpt and the painting! Are you considering sharing the STL?

 rayphoton wrote:
I say this with the utmost respect. You do great green stuff boobs. Would you be willing to do a tutorial?

Was about to comment the same, great skill sculpting T&A! The 3d printing is also impressive.

Still a lot to work on. Its being held together with blutack here so the joints look worse then they actually are. =)

So I primed it then noticed I pretty much skipped sanding the sword arm.
I need to make a few changes and print again anyway, so oh well. I can imagine it would be that much easier to miss these things with a less opaque resin.

Finishing the skin. I'm going to attempt to use masking fluid so i can lazily airbrush the outfit! On the higher resolution print I'm definitely going to be spending a lot more time sanding the model.

Oh. That's pretty. And this is the low res print?

Yeah this one is .04


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That winsor and newton masking fluid worked out nicely for me, I'll just have to be more careful with it next time. For the outfit so far I've gone from a glossy black up to iron warriors, then glazed over that with a mix of eidolon purple clear and deathshroud clear. I think I should go a little darker than this with the glaze, or maybe keep the metallic highlights on the under painting smaller. Next I need to figure out the silver areas and the claws and hooves.

She's looking really excellent with paint Also lol at this being the low res, tester one!

What a nice project. And impressive quality!

All about that purple. Looks amazing, especially for a test run.

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'm working on dialing in the exposure settings and supports for Siriya Blue now, and these .02 resolution prints are around 35 hours each so pray for my sanity.

Calling the test print done. Still waiting on that Siriya Blue to show up, and in the meantime I'm going through and editing supports that were wonky.


And the eyes wide shut looking version

A daemon that knows how to accessorize. Nice. Can we get a comparison with the older version?

Really nice work! glad you darkened the pallet, you moved her from the Moulin rouge back to the eye of terror
Where do you get the prints done?

 youwashock wrote:
Can we get a comparison with the older version?

This is the same test print, I just finished painting it. I'm waiting on some Siriya Blue to get here, but I'll post side by side comparisons to show the difference in resolution and material.

I meant the version from page 1. Jazz hands, no sword.