For the adventure through the sewers we’d been using cardboard tokens for Goblins. Earlier attempts to print goblins (sliced with Slic3r) failed spectacularly, but I wanted to try again slicing with Cura to see if we couldn’t get something that worked. It was a success:
The arms, legs, and weapons of these to goblin variants are extremely thin. The first print used 80% infill to strengthen the model, with a standard support line width of 0.4mm. This was difficult, bordering on impossible, to cleanup without damaging parts of the model. Subsequent prints remained at 80% infill density, but switched to a thinner support line width of 0.2mm, which made a gigantic difference at cleanup time.
The red copper PLA was perfect for skin tone, and after a small bit of detail paint the goblins are ready to go:
- Source: Goblins
- Maker: Harrison Baere
- Materials:
- Goblins: Tianse Red Copper PLA 1.75mm
- Medium Creature base: Inland Silver PLA 1.75mm
- Models:
- Goblin with mace and shield
- Medium Creature base
- Goblin with Bow and Arrow
- Print Date: 2018/01/20
- Print Time:
- Goblin with mace and shield: 1 hours 5 minutes
- Goblin with mace and shield x3: 4 hours
- Goblin with Bow and Arrow: 59 minutes
- Goblin with Bow and Arrow x3: 3 hours 30 minutes
- Estimated Print Time:
- Goblin with mace and shield: 1 hour 11 minutes
- Goblin with mace and shield x3: 4 hours 4 minutes
- Goblin with Bow and Arrow: 1 hours 3 minutes
- Goblin with Bow and Arrow x3: 3 hours 49 minutes
- Estimated Filament:
- Goblin with mace and shield: 0.7 meters
- Goblin with mace and shield x3: 2 meters
- Goblin with Bow and Arrow: 0.7 meters
- Goblin with Bow and Arrow x3: 1.8 meters
- Slicer: Cura 3
- Slicer Settings:
- 0.06mm layers
- 80% infill
- 0.2mm support line width
- Supports from build plate