Leto II - God Emperor of Dune - work in progress

[blipper]

As a huge fan of the original Dune books there's a few things from the Lynch movie and books I've been wanting to realise, and for a long while Leto II, The Tyrant has fascinated me. Such a complex character from a great book. Only now with a 3d printer do I feel I can bring some iteration of his majestic grotesqueness into the tactile realm.

This will be Leto II towards the end of his transformation, his atrophied legs I may add later. I may revisit the design as there are alternative looks I'd like to explore, but this is something I can pretty much get going now as it's an old file of mine I can prepare for printing. I'm using a Peopoly Moai SLA printer which I've had for a while but only recently assembled and started exploring. So far it's been good fun.

So here's my design, how much of the detail will translate to the model will be affected by (among other factors) the scale of the piece. I'm thinking perhaps in the region of 20-25cm tall.

Leto-New_02b-wb by Jon A, on Flickr

Leto-New_05b-wb by Jon A, on Flickr

Leto-New_04b-wb by Jon A, on Flickr

Leto-New_03b-wb by Jon A, on Flickr

Leto-New_08b-wb by Jon A, on Flickr

Leto-New_07b-wb by Jon A, on Flickr

Leto-New_11b-wb by Jon A, on Flickr

Leto-New_09com-wb by Jon A, on Flickr

Leto-New_06b-wb by Jon A, on Flickr

 

[blipper]

I've separated the model into the following sections for ease of printing:

Leto-New_02sections-gd-wb by Jon A, on Flickr

There are three levels of quality the Moai will print at, for the head I chose the highest. My resin bottle says grey but unless it's a case of the pigment settling it would appear the contents are for clear resin, which as I understand doesn't print as sharply as grey, but perhaps cures faster and more evenly.

The head is 3cm tall. The details don't show well at all, so after priming I will upload hopefully a more representative image, as to the eye, it came out well.

m4 by Jon A, on Flickr

The first upper body section I had to opt for the halfway quality setting as that was going to take such a while to print:

m1 by Jon A, on Flickr

m5 by Jon A, on Flickr

m2 by Jon A, on Flickr

m3 by Jon A, on Flickr

Again, hopefully the detail will be more apparent when primed (though at this stage I don't have any intentions at this time for a more considered paint job)

 

[Britcinescribe]

That’s kind of awesome. I found the initial books hard work, but I loved “God Emperor”. Didn’t he have an antigravity sled in that to get around?

 

[blipper]

He did! An Ixian cart I think? I remember getting lost trying to design one I was happy with and gave up, but would like to return to it.

 

[kwisatz]

Huge Dune fan here, this is amazing! Looking forward to following this thread!

 

[jake88]

Love it!

 

[RedheadKevin]

Looks excellent! I like the way you resolved how his human/worm head would work.
(I have to giggle at the last picture, which looks like someone doing a Slimer cosplay.)

 

[Engage]

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