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 …
Multi-part Print Contest by ToyBuilderLabs and Reddit
I’ve entered the Cymon bot into a reddit contest sponsored by ToyBuilder Labs. If you have any multi-part prints you should take some pictures and enter. http://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xcnue/toybuilderlabs_february_contest/
My Trophy on Wil Wheaton’s 3D printer
I never did print the TableTop Trophy I made. I knew it would work. The one part I had a question about I isolated and worked on until it was good. But Wil Wheaton printed it, and it looks marvelous. Whether or not this trophy will be released for others to download or whether it will be kept exclusive I …
Cymon is really real!
I am super excited to show off that Cymon, a character I created years ago as a mascot for my projects, is now a super posable toy with 17 points of articulation suitable to be a mascot for my 3D printed projects now, too. I’ve made the files available on CGTraider so you can make your own. Be warned, it’s a …
Another quick Saturday project
I’m still setting up my new workspace, and just like last Saturday I needed something. In this case it was something that doesn’t exist. Do I let that stop me? Not when a few minutes in blender will get me what I want. A little block extrusion and smooth subidviding makes a part as nice as any you could find …