3d printed head I've been experimenting with.

[tylerh]

Im blown away that you were able to get a print that nice off a maker bot! Nice work!!!

[noelani72]

thanks!
You betcha Tyler - it was a long road getting results like this off the Makerbot.
I saw your Thing and Clive heads, great job. If you want me to give them a try, I have a Dropbox account if you want to drop the STL files in there.

This reeves head came out of the printer nice, but I did do some final prep.
The sanding method is great, and most of you have heard me complaining about the inability of sanding this PLA because it just gums up and melts.
A little sanding (meh, 10-15 minutes max eyeballing things) a few shots of sandable primer, dry time, another 3-5mins sanding, couple more shots of primer and you see what it resulted as.

I'll probably mold this head it turned out so good.
However, the goal is to not have the need to do all this work - I have to because it's an extrusion style printer at 100micron layers. Ridges are going to be seen, but my method reduces them if not eliminates them.

[Chris]

It sounds complicated but you can't argue with the results. That head is stunning. I have to go back and look at it again it's so cool.

[David Lee]

Dang Chad! I just saw this... >in my best Fran Trarkenton voice<

[nobody]

Chad, now that you've started these great heads, there's no reason we can't have a Romita Parker head finally is there?

[Chris]

Chad, now that you've started these great heads, there's no reason we can't have a Romita Parker head finally is there?

I'm surprised that there hasn't been one let alone a bunch. The closest I've seen is that composite Spiderman/Parker head.

Until then: "You're Heisenberg aren't you?"

[ScottA]

Most impressive.

[noelani72]

only took me a year, but finally put this head to use.
I did mold it in silicone and made a resin head. Now that it is painted, I can see I could have polished the custom neck a bit better.

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[BATMAN89]

The head looks perfect!

[comicmike]

supreme work

[ZombieJimC]

Amazing!!! Not sure how this 3D printing stuff works but, that Superman looks Great!!

[Mego Milk]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jquest]

Nice!! Would love to see the final painted head!!

[noelani72]

Nice!! Would love to see the final painted head!!

thanks!
http://megomuseum.com/community/show...er-Reeve-style

[j.chris.beynon]

Brilliant!

Did you use Mudbox to render it?...I just started my subscription to Mudbox today and any advice you could offer would be appreciated!...the lynda.com tutorials are somewhat dry and unbelievably slow paced...I've already dozed off a couple of times and I'm still in the Getting Started section...