gt350pony66
Master Member
Any of you know of another place besides Shapeways to get stuff?
Are they Tony's (308 Bits)?- I have been looking at those and wonder how they look in person.
I just bought some Aries 1B figures from them and they're nice.
Are they Tony's (308 Bits)?- I have been looking at those and wonder how they look in person.
Never heard about wax supports. Time to conduct some research.
Yeah, that was a real drag. It has changed, for better and for worse.The problem I find with the Shapeways printing wax supports is sometimes one side of a figure would be rough where the wax was, while the parts not in the wax will be perfectly smooth, It really sucks when it winds up going through a fine detail area
Yeah, that was a real drag. It has changed, for better and for worse.
The previous "fine detail" plastic used a translucent colourless resin with wax that was only used to support the print at the bottom, resulting in the issue you describe.
They then switched to "grey fine detail" and clear. I found the grey was pretty decent. It puts wax all the way around the model, yielding a consistent texture, rather than just at the bottom. But the grey process wax wasn't as rough as the previous translucent process in my test print, so that was fine. The main issue was faint print lines that need lightly removing.
They have now switched to a "tan fine detail". I'm not sure about this move. It's a dirty yellow plastic that seems to be way more brittle and easily broken, which sucks. Worse, the wax on the test print I did was much rougher than the grey, though still less rough than the translucent.
Ho hum.