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Pinky Demon 3D Print.

15cm tall, 12+ hours of printing, .3 layer height, 25% infill, 60mm a sec, a lot of support.

Spent a good portion of Saturday trying to get this print to work. Had about 3 failed prints before I finally nailed the support placement and settings, and then let this one run overnight.

I had to use support with varying angles, otherwise it kept failing about an inch into the print. It made it tough to remove, but it was worth the hassle to see the smaller details survive.

There’s a layer of separation along his right side from the top of the brow through to his bicep. Not sure what the cause of this is, but it can be filled easily enough.

Again, photos don’t do the print justice. You can see the veins and muscle definition clearly. For only a .3 layer height, it looks amazing.

Detail could be a lot better though, but print time would be a good 24+ hours, not including the addition of a stand.

Next time he will be posed and have some mounting pins in the feet. He’s front-heavy and won’t stand on his own.

I can’t describe how happy I am to see these prints coming to life, knowing I made it 100% myself and printed in my own home. It’s extremely satisfying!

Still fine tuning my settings, so there’s a lot of room for improvement here.

For those interested, the Simplify3D settings were 1500 layer height, 3 top and bottom layers, 3 walls / shells, 60mm a second, 5% infill (fast honeycomb), bed only support, PLA @ 195 deg noz, 50 deg bed, cooling disabled. For some reason i keep getting a Thermal Runaway issue whenever i use cooling, which stops the print and locks up my printer. Nozzle temps drops rapidly and it all locks up. Weird.

There are a few holes in places where there needs to be more internal support, because there is essentially none. For really high quality prints, ill most likely use multiple processes at different layer heights and change the infill percentage under areas that need more support, rather than increasing the infill percentage over the whole model, which will increase print times greatly.

Print time was about 6 hours, which is pretty good considering the size and level of detail.

3D printed objects always look much smoother in real life, photos tend to exaggerate the bumps

This print was just the head from an older low detail version of the Baron Of Hell model. This was a test to see if it would print okay with separate shells (eyes), once the “separate connected surfaces” option was used. It turned out pretty great considering. There has been no other cleanup or processing on this print other than the removal of the support.

I’m still working on the collectible Doomguy from the new Doom, but i swear, that model is cursed! I tried printing it 4-5 times and each time it failed for different reasons. I’ve since decided on a radical overhaul of the ball joint setup, so once im finished with that ill print it again and upload the files to Thingiverse.

I’ll be printing a high detail full-body Pinky Demon today to see if my support and print settings translate over to something with finer details. Pinky has a lot more overhangs and will require quite a bit more support, and a lot of these overhangs are fine details, so it will be a tough model to print. Fingers crossed.

My plan for full body models is to build a unique stand for each, with mounting blocks in the feet so they can stand up while posed, with no balancing issues.

I’ve got a lot to learn but its coming along nicely and im loving it so far.