With some long prints running, and the house low energy (as everyone is sick, but so be it), I had a chance to finish up a few Chocobos. The three Chocobos at various stages of painting: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) And two finished Chocobos: View this post on…
Category: animals
Terracotta Army – Horse
The Warrior 4 from the Terracotta Army has a companion: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) The Warrior and Horse we’re well received when the 10 year old brought them to class for a group project working session. Also printed in Red Copper PLA, the horse took significantly longer, particularly…
Bestiary – Giant Owl
I’ve been getting consistently better prints, with finer quality layers, better supports, and fewer errors, using Cura 3 for slicing, compared to Slic3r. I’ve had a number of prints that failed, or had marginal errors, when slicing and printing creatures at 28mm scale. I decided to try my luck with Cura on a Giant Owl: View this post…
Squishy Owl
The test print of the NinjaFlex went smoothly, so onto the squishy owl. This is a Christmas present for the 5 year old. A few false starts, and some fiddling with live z-tuning, and things were printing well. The first print is nearly perfect, except for the top of the head, where there are too few layers,…
Bestiary – Goblin Dog
I’m going to use Hyenas as a proxy for Goblin Dogs in this adventure. I wanted a decent sized pack, so setup a print with six copies of the small hyena: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) There was a ton of clean up for these, and being…
Bestiary – Crocodiles
The upcoming adventure through the sewers requires a creature(s) lurking in the deep, murky pools into which the sluices empty. How about crocodiles? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) Choosing crocodiles was honestly fairly round-about, given how obvious crocs-in-the-sewers should be; I spent 10 minutues paging through the Bestiary looking for…
Shark the Shark
As luck would have it, the friends from Brooklyn had another evening free. There was a cleaner print of a Sorting Hat waiting for the older of the two kids, but we’d never gotten around to printing anything for the younger kid. Four year olds have less than zero patience, which meant browsing through different…