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Pleasant Valley, Iowa

Well, another in a series of large kaijus. We're up to Kong now.




Some questions I know I am going to get:

How much resin did it take?: Less than you would think. ]I actually mixed 2 resins together for this print, which is why it has such a weird color in the unpainted parts. I got this maroon resin from Anycubic for free from a promotion, and it was such absolutely garbage I couldn't use it as-is - I've been slowly attritioning it down by mixing it with other colors. So, I used about half a new bottle of grey, and about half a bottle of that maroon garbage, so about a liter. Even then I am pretty sure I did some other prints prior to this so let's call it about 80% of a liter.

How much does it cost to print it?: A liter of resin is around $35, so lets say $28 or so?

Where did you get the STL from?: You can buy it on Gambody. I am not a shill for them and I get nothing for this, I just like their models.

How much does it weigh?: 968 grams. It's hollow and has a minimal internal structure to prevent deforming in print (it would also likely be impossible to print something that size solid on this kind of printer).

How tall is it?: 400mm. I wanted to scale him to be Skull Island size, but I am very bad at math and I think I got him Kong vs Godzilla size. Well, none of my Godzillas are at the right scale - they're all around 1:500 but again, I am bad at math and making them precisely scaled wasn't a goal. Lets call it "1:500 Heroic scale", which I believe spackles over a multitude of sins in the h-h-hobby.

How long did it take to print?:
About 2 days, all in. The Mono x is fast - 1.7 seconds per layer - and has a pretty big bed, so I was able to do a lot of parts at a time. The feet, shins and legs all in one 6 or 8 hour pass, something like that.

Why do you keep doing this?: In the hopes your applause and/or contempt will allow me to briefly feel something, anything.


Here are the finished images:

Spoiler:












And here are some pictures from the build process, with a little commentary:

Spoiler:
Fresh on the build plate:



The torso is as wide as the plate gets:




Post-cure:



All of the parts, printed and cured:



Here is a comparison of an SLA print compared to an FDM print. My practice has long been, at this scale, to print the entire model in FDM with the exception of the head and maybe hands. Anyway. At this scale, I think the quality between FDM and SLA is honestly comparable. The main reason I did 90% of a print in FDM is that is my prior SLA printers had much smaller beds, and were very slow. Now that I have the Mono X, the equation changes - the torso alone would have taken 3 days on my FDM printer. It's marginally more expensive to print in resin that in plastic, of course. I imagine I could have done the entire print on a single spool of filament ($20) instead of most of a bottle of resin ($35), but the only benefit of me spending all day doing a job I don't particularly like is it pays well enough I don't really have to consider if a $15 savings is worth having a print in 2 days instead of 3 weeks.



Size comparison between a D&D mini, a 40K mini, and Kong:



The most tedious part of every single big print: blending the seams. This one was not so bad - partially because a lot of the seams were already pretty tight. When the seams are tight enough, I can get by with carefully piping a little liquid resin into the crack and blasting it with a UV flashlight - very fast. But when the seams are wide enough, or have a bunch of detail that needs to be sculpted, then hours of tedious greenstuff work is the result. On my next project I am going to try mixing greenstuff and milliput as suggested in a thread here because my next print has very, very large gaps.




We all knew this was coming.













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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.

 Flinty wrote:
The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
 
   
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This is awesome in nearly every way I can measure.

The sunflower garden piece is also awesome.
   
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Pleasant Valley, Iowa

My mom hates sunflowers - she says they reminder of Triffids - so I made that right before she visited, once.

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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.

 Flinty wrote:
The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
 
   
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That's a cool Kong.

   
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Wisconsin

Did you make the original 3D model or is it one you downloaded?

   
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Fantastic work. As usual.

Every time a terrorist dies a Paratrooper gets his wings. 
   
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 ShadowsAndDust wrote:
Did you make the original 3D model or is it one you downloaded?


Pfft, I wish. I bought the model at a site called Gambody.

I can do a little bit of 3D design but nothing organic like that.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.

 Flinty wrote:
The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
 
   
 
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