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[clowns0up-felix]

Hero of time

Stained glass on its own under the cut bc I like how it turned out ^.^

[santaricotta]

✨Festa Del Mare✨

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[switchingdesires]

Friendly reminder for girls (especially hot nerdy girls) to bully boys (especially me) more often!!! 🥺

[brushandbravery]

Because a lot of people liked the other post about the Glavenus project, I thought I‘d go into detail about how I made the figurine!

After I had found a model that was detailed enough, I threw it through my slicer to get an estimate for the size of the model and the duration of the print. The model was pretty large and had to be printed in parts, taking up over 30 hours of print time.

Next, I assembled the model to prepare it for priming. Priming is a necessary step where a foundational layer of paint is applied that sticks to the model and that you can paint on. I did this twice, once in black, once in white from above, to simulate the position of a light source for shading later.

I had to chose a color palette. My friend really loves the deviant version, Hellblade Glavenus. So I went with dark blue and darker shades of red. Next was the base layer of paint. I generally like this step the least, since you don’t really get very satisfying results at first. Only in the later steps the paint job really comes together.

Next, I started the objectively most fun step: Drybrushing. With drybrushing, you can bring out highlights very well in models with sharp topography, which the Glavenus had a lot of. Especially in big models. It is also a pretty forgiving technique for clumsy people like me. I kept highlighting with the drybrush until I was happy with the result and went on to the detail work. Here I painted teeth, claws, eyes and everything else that needed special attention. Usually I would also do edge highlighting, but the drybrushing largely took care of that.

When that was done, I applied a protective layer of varnish, which also gave the model the glossy look which really made the colors pop. I then glued the Glavenus onto the base (which I had primed, based and drybrushed separately).

Overall it was a very fun experience that I learned a lot from. Today, I would do a couple things differently, but I am overall very happy with how the result turned out. And my friend was too, which was the most important thing. In total I finished the entire project from start to end in exactly a week.

[fearlicitysstuff]

My paint wall continues to grow. Six hours to print each layer. Then the paint holders another two horus. It's taking its time

[soichi-senpai]

The 0.2 nozzle turned out absolutely gorgeous!

Of course, I was hesitant to remove the supports…

But there was no other way. It was worth it.

The author is awesome! )

[cezanne-tures]

[nano-core-armory]

Sci-Fantasy Colt Walker

Commission work This is my first 3D-Print commission and is based on the sketch I did previously. Painting the wood was somewhat a challenge, but I think it turned out pretty well. I probably could have made the metal a bit more metally, but this has its own charm as well. Overall I'm super happy with how this turned out and I hope I can share more commissions like this in the future! I am finally comfortable enough to offer this as a service as well, but I will disclose that in my new pricing sheet soon as well. Feel free to write me a note if you are interested in your own prop for now though! Do not use this design without permission.