I had just acquired some Red Copper Tianse PLA, had recently begun seriously perusing the Scan the World collection on MyMiniFactory, and the house felt like it needed a decent Buddha statue – lucky for me I found a scan of the Great Buddha at Kamakura, Japan. This Buddha is shaped such that minimal supports were required during…
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Charging Bull
We spent a few years working on Wall Street when we lived in New York City, and would occasionally walk through Bowling Green and see Charging Bull. I find this statue interesting for a few reasons: the financial mindset that drove early Wall Street, and the corruption (or logical conclusion) of that mindset into a one of profit-at-all-costs,…
Bestiary – Goblins
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: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices)…
Bestiary – Bulette
Minions of a dangerous foe have a captive Bulette barely contained in a cage deep in the Undermountain. Nearly berserk with rage, the Bulette is likely as dangerous to the captors as to the adventurers. Post print this model was relative easy to clean up, with support material holding up the bulk of the body: View this post…
Doll House Dining set
A piece of doll-house scale furniture broke as the kids were cavorting around the living room – the project for the morning became designing a replacement, as well as a chair to go with the table. The table is modeled after our dining room table: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) The…
Bestiary – Manticore
A Manticore joins the bestiary of interesting (and quite dangerous) creatures queued up for the adventurers. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) The manticore is modeled as five separate pieces. Cleaning up printed sections took a fair amount of effort, as did filing down the wing joints to properly attach…
Glowing Moon
I’ve seen a lot of 3D printed glowing moons for sale on various Etsy shops, and all over Instagram, and wanted to print one for the 10 year old for Christmas. After a few failed moon prints I finally found a design that would work. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) Pre-scaled…
High Detail Printing – Great Buddha
The Scan the World collection on MyMiniFactory has some great pieces spanning world history. For a number of reasons, this scan of the Great Buddha at Kamakura caught my eye. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) I did two test prints with this model, working for the first time with…