3D printed Anguirus sculpted by Dopepope
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3D printed Anguirus sculpted by Dopepope
I'm currently printing this bad boy, digitally sculpted by Dopepope. I've had my share of troubles with this print, none of which were due to the actual model, only my printer. Parts popping loose from the build plate, a nozzle clog... it's madness, I tells ya!
I'm printing this at the default FDM size, which is listed as 1:250 scale. I still have a way to go on getting the parts printed out. Since this photo was taken, I've printed and attached the base piece of the tail. The remaining tail part is currently printing. Then I have the last 2 sections of his carapace to print, his tail spikes, and lastly the 4 pieces of the base. FDM printed on an Artillery Sidewinder X2.
I'm printing this at the default FDM size, which is listed as 1:250 scale. I still have a way to go on getting the parts printed out. Since this photo was taken, I've printed and attached the base piece of the tail. The remaining tail part is currently printing. Then I have the last 2 sections of his carapace to print, his tail spikes, and lastly the 4 pieces of the base. FDM printed on an Artillery Sidewinder X2.
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dimensions? it's excellent!
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after all the remaining pieces are finished, are you able to produce this monster fast? to be sold? price?
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That is a nice size. Gonna be a fun piece for sure.
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Re: 3D printed Anguirus sculpted by Dopepope
Oh yeah! Gonna be a bit of a learning curve as compared to resin kits. Today I had to take a heat gun to the pieces and carefully melt off fine strings of PLA plastic that the nozzle left behind while printing. In some places, it looked like Anguirus had been in a fight with Kumonga. Most of the pieces fit together almost perfectly, but in some places my printer must have been a touch off, I'll need to fill some gaps, either with Vallejo plastic putty or epoxy putty and a texture stamp for a couple of larger gaps.
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A snag has developed. The base won't print properly. I went back and looked at the digital file in my slicer, and for some reason the center of the base is flat, but there's a wavy margin surrounding the flat center. From that margin, the base slightly curves upward toward the outer edge. That upward curve is causing problems, my printer is trying to print this really fragile mesh to support it, and failing every time. I've reached out to the company's tech support to see if they can flatten the bottom out. I doubt this is something DopePope did, as I have a few other kaiju files that he sculpted, and the base bottoms are flat on all of those.
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Turns out that the stated scale was off. I'm most of the way through printing a DopePope-sculpted Showa Godzilla, and this Anguirus dwarfs it. Godzilla looks like a toddler by comparison. The Anguirus was too large, if my calculations were correct. I'm going to print a rescaled Anguirus to go with Godzilla, giving this oversized one to my brother in law to finish. Oh well, smaller figures will be easier on my shelf space, (They were both listed as 1/250 scale)
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And he will be grateful to you for his early Christmas gift!!!
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Wow. That's not even close!
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Update: Gave both to my brother in law. I could NOT get the Godzilla figure's teeth to print right in FDM at that small a scale, and I lack the display space to go larger. I'm planning on switching to a resin printer around February. I'll reprint both then, in a size that won't eat all my display space.