Squirrel Squabble is a print and play game on board game geek that I’ve been wanting trying to try out. Unfortunately with any print and play game I have this compelling desire to improve it, either the process of making or the game itself. In this case I limited my meddling to a 3D printed version of the game. I …
White wizard needs food
Between fighting my clogged extruder (flossing hasn’t been entirely effective) I’ve managed to squeeze out my latest modeling project, a wizard to add to my 1″ minis set. I need to use the better camera when I take pictures. This time I did a cloth sim on the robe again, and this time it worked better than on the assassin. …
Floss regularly
My printing this weekend ground to a halt. I think my nozzles are gunked up again. Searching through the old blog’s archives it seems this last happened in March of last year, so I’ve been going for a year on these nozzles. But this time, instead of buying new nozzles I decided to clean the old ones out. I know …
Introducing Cymon’s Designs
Not to be too subtle about it, it’s time to announce Cymon’s Designs, a showcase of my 3D modeling and design work, as well as contact info and a neat business card hat will hopefully drive new work to me. If I can afford to grow my 3D printing endeavors, that’d be great. If they could pay the bills outright, …
Hang ’em high
Storing and using filament is a bit of a problem for me. That is to say I haven’t found an elegant solution to storing and using my filament that I like yet so most of the time they sit in the boxes they were shipped in on the floor next to my Makerbot. I’ve kind of always wanted to have …
Busted prints tearing up the heater block… again
It seems like every couple of months some print becomes unstuck and wraps itself around the print head, getting stuck to the ceramic tape wrap. Removing the blob destroys the insulation. Last time I wrapped the whole thing with a metal tape that I thought ABS would stick to less than it sticks to kapton. But in this case the print …
My Assassin doesn’t seem to have survived
That’s supposed to be an assissin with a mask on and a dagger sticking out of it’s cloak. At 2″ tall it kinda looks that way. But at 1″ I’m not sure it worked out. I tried to do a little cloth sim on the cloak, but it ended disastrously. In the end I went with a little mesh editing …
New logo for Cymon’s Designs
I wanted to do a dual color design 3D printed logo for Cymon’s Designs. (Have I mentioned Cymon’s Designs yet? Well, more about that coming later.) But when I did a simple design it seemed a bit… boring. So I decided to play with it a bit and make each letter something different. The C is a spiral. The Y …
Anyone want a golden idol?
I’ve finally printed and painted a gold idol from Spelunky that is just the gold idol, no loop for a charm, so that I will have something for when I decide to post the model on CGTraider. Only problem is… I don’t need a gold idol sitting around. So I’ve thrown it up on Etsy. Anyone want a Gold Idol? …
Clearly a cleric… or bishop
Next in my series of mini humanoid figurines is a bishop or cleric figure. Like the knight this is designed to be printed only 1″ tall, but will have more detail shown at 2″ tall. I’m actually really surprised how much detail makes it through at 2″. Making this model involved learning cloth simulations (the green part in the image …