REPLICATOR 2 FIRST PRINT ( SORT OF )

Right then !

Here we go.

After multiple failed prints of my little figure I finally got to the bottom of the problem. There was nothing wrong with printer it was the model I had created ! ( quelle surprise )

I had merged all of the sub-tools used to create my figure but the internal geometry was still there so the machine was trying to print three objects in the same place and getting blocked up.

Got some help on what to do from the Zbrush forum and after dyna-meshing had a file that would print !

Whoopee. Ive been waiting ages to see this little fucker in the flesh.

So this is with the supports picked off and with a coat of high build primer.

 And this is him straight of the printer with supports picked off.

He's only 80mm tall and when I dyna-meshed I lost a lot of detail but i'm happy to see him for real !

And here he is on the replicator 2. Wasn't actually expecting the print to work so only managed to get this shot of the build about ten minutes from the end when I went to check and see how it was getting on !

Any way as usual I am stupidly busy on a new film so i'm sure I won't be posting every couple of days but i am definitely going to get a couple of bits done before christmas so keep checking in if ya wanna see more and how the clean up goes on  my little chappie. ( oo - er missus ).

Also if anyone one gets to the bottom of this post.......

Come up with a good name for him and i'll send ya one once i've done the resin casts.

Tutty bye for now.

GUESS WHO'S BACK !

Holy crap ! So that was a far longer absence than I was expecting !

So........ I sold the Cubify Cube ! Got back the money I paid for it which is nice.

Had a good half an hour chat with the new owner and passed on any advice I could. Which was mainly that your prints will fail now and again and for no fathomable reason.

The idea was to get a new one straight away but kept deliberating ( and going on holiday's ) and so here we are at the end of 2014. But ! I got a new machine, a second hand replicator 2  for pretty much the same price I got the Cube.

I love second hand shit !

So I have had it a couple of day's now and printed the obligatory nut and bolt which I won't bore you with as I'm sure you have all seen them before.

Been playing around with Zbrush this year as I want to start making collectible toys.

I started out my career as a sculptor making premium collectibles but then moved over to propmaking and then Special Effects in films  but always did enjoy the sculpting side.

I just never had the time to do my own stuff or the space but have been looking at the progress of home printing and thought it would be a good ( mess free ) way of getting back in to it.

Any hoo....

Here he is.

And here he is in red wax just because some people prefer him in that colour !

He was done in Zbrush months ago but I had major problems printing him.
I thought it was the printer playing up and every weekend I would have another little play but no matter what the print would always fail just after the feet.

Finally figured out that the internal geometry was still there inside for the individual components and after some help from the guys on the Zbrush forum got around to printing it.

It went from being a 3 hour print that would always fail to a 1 and a half hour print once it was dynameshed.

Which was nice !

I'll post the print and clean up photo's in the next blog !