Life's been so busy, so it's been a minute since I posted around here. That being said, I recently started a new job at Formlabs and have had access to some of their incredible larger format printers.
I decided that it was time to use that to my advantage to start crossing items off of my collection wish list.
The first big item that I was able to do that with was the crystal skull. While it's far from my favorite Indy movie, I can't deny that I think it's an amazing and cool prop.
I used Formlabs biomed clear resin to print this thing. In the end, it amounted to 4.5 liters of resin used, and the finished piece weighs over 10 pounds.
I also finally got around to stuffing some of the iridescent gift wrapping plastic into the hollow cavity to give it that crystal-like brain structure.
This thing also took an incredible amount of wet-sanding and polishing to get it to where I wanted it to be, even with as clean as the print came out. I used mineral oil after all of that to polish it up.
I decided that it was time to use that to my advantage to start crossing items off of my collection wish list.
The first big item that I was able to do that with was the crystal skull. While it's far from my favorite Indy movie, I can't deny that I think it's an amazing and cool prop.
I used Formlabs biomed clear resin to print this thing. In the end, it amounted to 4.5 liters of resin used, and the finished piece weighs over 10 pounds.
I also finally got around to stuffing some of the iridescent gift wrapping plastic into the hollow cavity to give it that crystal-like brain structure.
This thing also took an incredible amount of wet-sanding and polishing to get it to where I wanted it to be, even with as clean as the print came out. I used mineral oil after all of that to polish it up.
