Any chance you snapped a pic of it? I've never seen one with towers before so I'm curious what it looked like.I ran across a vintage Labyrinth with the little towers on it at a small flea market. Unfortunately I didn't have $10 to buy it at the time.
Unfortunately I didn't. that was 5 or six years agoAny chance you snapped a pic of it? I've never seen one with towers before so I'm curious what it looked like.
Wow. A newbie? It’s incredible! I would be proud to display one of those in my office. Great job!!!!With our successes hunting down Sarah's books I felt inspired to redo an older project of mine, Hoggle's bookend! The first time I made this guy was using some very blurry screenshots and Sculpey clay, and he served me well for a good few years but an upgrade is definitely in order. In the years since then better photos of the Hoggle figure have popped up thanks to the the Propstore Auctions, so that's what I based my new Hoggle off of.
Was originally gonna try for max accuracy, but eventually that fizzled out because the Propstore listing doesn't have a good profile view (And to be honest I just knew that if I tried for perfection I'd probably just burn myself out anyways, so I just went for "looks similar enough that the average person won't question it").
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Sculpted my new Hoggle in Blender, printed on my Elegoo Mars 2 Pro. I'm still a bit of a 3D printing newbie so my peg system didn't quite work out (I didn't account for light bleed/needing to make the pegs smaller than their corresponding holes), so I'm having to do a bit of finessing to try and get things to fit better.
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In hindsight I wish I tried adding a texture to the sculpt itself to match the listing photos more, but my old laptop felt like it was gonna burst into flames the more detail I added to this sculpt so I didn't want to push it by trying to add a displacement map. I think I'm gonna try and add some texture using modelling paste and see what look that gets me. If nothing else it's definitely gonna be a big improvement over my first Hoggle.
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Still got a good amount of work to do before I reveal the final bookend, but I was pretty pumped with how Hoggle turned out so I wanted to show him off. This is my first major 3D printing project so I'm pretty proud that I managed to make this guy, inaccuracies and all.
Thank you! I've had my printer since September of last year, I've primarily just used it for printing existing models I found on Thingiverse so this is the first project where I've printed a highly detailed sculpt that I also personally modelled.Wow. A newbie? It’s incredible! I would be proud to display one of those in my office. Great job!!!!
That is great. Keep up the great work.Thank you! I've had my printer since September of last year, I've primarily just used it for printing existing models I found on Thingiverse so this is the first project where I've printed a highly detailed sculpt that I also personally modelled.
I did previously model the music box and the little obelisks for my wooden Labyrinth game, but the original music box pieces I had printed by Shapeways and both they and the obelisks are such simple shapes I don't really feel like they tested my skills at all. I actually modelled those ones in Sketchup, because of how simple they were! Since getting my 3D printer I've seen been teaching myself Blender and it was a bit of a confusing mess at first but I think I'm getting the hang of it! I'd like to redo my Jareth statue one day as well, Hoggle was a good warm up for that.
Funnily enough but after posting I realised that maybe my Hoggle is a tad undersized? He's accurate to the prop store listing's dimensions but sizing him up against the books I have, feels like he's coming up a bit short. I've got more of Sarah's book collection ordered so once those come in I'll try and do a better assessment of his size, if nothing else might just mean I need to reprint him slightly bigger (Love that about 3D printing! One of the reasons why I was so jazzed to give it a go, no more agonizing over a mistake because you can just reprint and try it again).
What other books? Did you manage to track down more?I've got more of Sarah's book collection ordered
I've ordered a copy of the second Alice in Wonderland book, and I think I've also tracked down a copy of Through the Looking Glass with the slipcover! The TTLG book is coming from Amazon so it was just a stock photo for the 1984 edition, but the ISBN matched up and the seller confirmed that it has the slipcover, so I'm really hoping it's the correct one.What other books? Did you manage to track down more?
I saw that one on Amazon when I was tracking the edition down, but I was hesitant to show you as it was just a stock photo. Too bad the seller couldn’t have emailed you a photo to confirm.I've ordered a copy of the second Alice in Wonderland book, and I think I've also tracked down a copy of Through the Looking Glass with the slipcover! The TTLG book is coming from Amazon so it was just a stock photo for the 1984 edition, but the ISBN matched up and the seller confirmed that it has the slipcover, so I'm really hoping it's the correct one.
Ha, well that's totally on me, stupidly it didn't even cross my mind to request a photo from the seller. It wasn't until the book shipped that I realised that if the seller was able to confirm they had the slipcover that I probably could've (And should've) confirmed that it matched the stock image, definitely just got too excited when I found an active listing that matched! I did find another site selling copies but I'm hoping that this is the correct edition as it was a fair bit cheaper.I saw that one on Amazon when I was tracking the edition down, but I was hesitant to show you as it was just a stock photo. Too bad the seller couldn’t have emailed you a photo to confirm.
Thanks! I'm still debating reprinting him larger so progress has halted a bit while I'm mulling over another potential 20-25 hours of printing. According to the Propstore listing Hoggle should be about 6.5 inches high, which is what I printed him out at. However based on the photo of Hoggle against the books (The one we've all been staring at the last few weeks) it seems like my original Hoggle which measures at around 7.5 inches is a better fit.Great job on Hoogle! Thanks for sharing your progress and I look forward to seeing how you finish him up.
I think you are correct about the size being closer to 7.5 inches. Also, the screen cap with your measurements makes it appear that Hoggle is canted a bit to his right rather than facing straight from the book end. Perhaps an optical illusion, but I noticed the difference in profile between the screen cap and your comparison photo.
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Happy to announce that the collection is complete! I am so pumped to share the fruits of our collective labours, here's all of Sarah's books reunited once again!
Huge shout-out to everyone who contributed to identifying all of the above books. I had started trying to track these down years ago and gave up pretty soon after, so it blows my mind to see them all together.
The only book we were waiting on to identify was the Brother's Grimm one, which turned out to be this particular softcover edition. I ended up having to wait extra long for this one, because despite the initial eBay listing saying that I bought the softcover they ended up sending me a hardcover instead. So I had to track down a different seller and confirm they were actually sending me the softcover version, which finally arrived up here in Canada a short while ago.
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Also for fun, I ended up adding these two books to my collection. These don't appear in with the main group of books on Sarah's desk, but she does have them in the room (Though the Fungus book is only visible in a behind the scenes shot, to the best of my recollection anyways).
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Also happy to show off my completed Hoggle bookend! Pretty happy with how he turned out, while he's not 100% accurate to the bookend in the film it at least feels like he could be, y'know? So much better than my original bookend anyways, this new bookend makes the original one I made look like a kids arts and crafts project.
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Great job!!! Glad I could help in identifying some of those.
The Hoggle is fantastic. Are you thinking of offering a run of those?