Hello, and welcome to my little corner of 3D printing my name Is Adam and I enjoy talking about one of the hobbies I am quite dedicated to and will continue to be dedicated to it for some time, I hope. I plan to do a blog like this once a week talking about anything from 3D printing including different printers, prints I’ve done this week, and what I hope to be printing in the future.
I’ve been printing for a few years for myself and friends sometimes small pieces such as armoured shoulder plate or full battle suit, or more recently I’ve undertaken a rather large dragon for someone at my local club which I’ll talk more about soon. The majority of my printing time has been for my other hobby which is Games Workshop Warhammer 40,000 and bits and pieces of their other title Age of Sigmar. Recently I have begun leaning more heavily into printing for Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) and obtaining a licence from a studio I support via Patreon to print and sell physical prints of theirs which are absolutely perfect for the likes of DnD with plenty of references and inspiration from popular sources such as He-Man or Final Fantasy.
Currently, I run an Elegoo Saturn which is a medium-sized printer able to print in 4K resolutions meaning much better quality prints with thinner layer heights resulting in more layers, longer prints but a much better finished product which I’m more than happy with. I have started to produce prints to use at my local gaming club for some DnD adventures and they were well received and have inspired to get another type of printer for printing buildings and other sorts of large scenery to bring games to life. I’ve been eyeing up a Kick starter for a 3D printable dungeon crawler-type situation which would work perfectly for games of DnD; it’s just whether to make the plunge is the hard question.
In future instalments I will talk more about the differences between resin printers and FDM printers and what they are each capable of and the programs needed to slice and render the prints, but for this episode I will be talking about what I have been printing this week which is a commission print for a DnD dragon which I’m having to print in 4 separate pieces as the customer wished it be maxed out for size which meant putting the body into the program, maxing out the size the printer is capable of which was 172.35% of the original sculpt then adding supports and rotating the model so it would fit nicely onto the printer and then do the same for the wings, which I print separately to save time on each prints, the tail and base making it 4 prints I hollowed out the body of the dragon to save on resin and costs but forgot to do the same for the base, resulting in a large lump of resin but it’s not all doom and gloom as the weight of the base would help keep the “mini” grounded once pinned in place and I can begin painting the model for its due date in January for the explorers to stumble across and meet their ultimate fates.
I hope you have enjoyed reading this brief insight into my little hobby and it brings you back next time, wanting to learn a bit more about resin 3D printing.
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