taibhse
Active Member
Ok, Hope this is the correct section to post this into, I've recently finished a custom replica I've built based off of a robot seen in issue 595 of Invincible Iron Man. Here is a snippet of the robot from the comics.
This little guy I intended to model and 3D print rather than try and sculpt or build using woods and plastics to get the shape, I wanted a challenge and something to show off the quality of projects I can do using my 3D printer.
Everything for this little guy was modeled up in CAD as a single part rather than an assembly, I opted for this route to use solid bodies instead to differentiate actual parts rather than having to hop between multiple part files to get the geometry correct.
I made sure to keep reference material close by to try and get this guy as accurate as possible. Going from 2D drawings to a real 3D piece isnt always easy with some designs not always being possible to convert over 100% but I was happy that this guy gave no issues at all.
Don't know why these images are sideways, if only my printer (this is my printer) could print at extreme angles like this. But anyways, after all the modeling was done, I started with printing the arms, turns out they had the fastest print time.
Heres some shots of the pieces fresh off the printer, I did the fingers after and for anyone curious about the notes, I was coding and designing a social media management program for my accounts, turns out hootsuite is wwwwaaaaaayyyyyy too expensive for a budding prop and replica designer to afford monthly.
Next up for print was the mask, did this in two halves at the same time, ran out of pla mid print and failed to get the full piece, lucky enough could measure where the print ended, drop the models in simplify 3d and print the missing sections easy enough saving 10 hours of printing and wasting half a reel of plastic.
After I printed the legs, I started getting worried about the weight of this guy, I wanted to display him on a floating shelf when he was done so pictured here is me "borrowing" the weighing scales to try and estimate what the end weight would be. I had estimated a total possible weight of 4kg at this point.
As more pieces came off the printer, the scale of this guy was really becoming apparent, given the comics didn't list accurate sizes or stats for this guy, best I could do was estimate a size based on how big they where compared with peoples heads and here is a view showing the size so far compared to my head.
Unfortunately I ran out of black PLA before finishing all the pieces so switched to ABS which was 10 times harder to print at this scale in the cold weather. Luckily it worked out.
Heres some pictures of my dogs investigating what this robot is, not shown is the moment Cheeky (the name of the Black dog) rushing the robot knocking him over.
This little guy I intended to model and 3D print rather than try and sculpt or build using woods and plastics to get the shape, I wanted a challenge and something to show off the quality of projects I can do using my 3D printer.
Everything for this little guy was modeled up in CAD as a single part rather than an assembly, I opted for this route to use solid bodies instead to differentiate actual parts rather than having to hop between multiple part files to get the geometry correct.
I made sure to keep reference material close by to try and get this guy as accurate as possible. Going from 2D drawings to a real 3D piece isnt always easy with some designs not always being possible to convert over 100% but I was happy that this guy gave no issues at all.
Don't know why these images are sideways, if only my printer (this is my printer) could print at extreme angles like this. But anyways, after all the modeling was done, I started with printing the arms, turns out they had the fastest print time.
Heres some shots of the pieces fresh off the printer, I did the fingers after and for anyone curious about the notes, I was coding and designing a social media management program for my accounts, turns out hootsuite is wwwwaaaaaayyyyyy too expensive for a budding prop and replica designer to afford monthly.
Next up for print was the mask, did this in two halves at the same time, ran out of pla mid print and failed to get the full piece, lucky enough could measure where the print ended, drop the models in simplify 3d and print the missing sections easy enough saving 10 hours of printing and wasting half a reel of plastic.
After I printed the legs, I started getting worried about the weight of this guy, I wanted to display him on a floating shelf when he was done so pictured here is me "borrowing" the weighing scales to try and estimate what the end weight would be. I had estimated a total possible weight of 4kg at this point.
As more pieces came off the printer, the scale of this guy was really becoming apparent, given the comics didn't list accurate sizes or stats for this guy, best I could do was estimate a size based on how big they where compared with peoples heads and here is a view showing the size so far compared to my head.
Unfortunately I ran out of black PLA before finishing all the pieces so switched to ABS which was 10 times harder to print at this scale in the cold weather. Luckily it worked out.
Heres some pictures of my dogs investigating what this robot is, not shown is the moment Cheeky (the name of the Black dog) rushing the robot knocking him over.
