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#1 Krangala

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Posted 22 August 2014 - 07:42 PM

I feel it's the future of our hobby. I saw some MEGO collectors churning out fantastic customs, and I'm sure it'd be just as easy for the LRG crowd.
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Posted 22 August 2014 - 08:06 PM

We have a few people in the community 3D printing pieces. I have teamed up with a friend to CAD'd up a few toys for me to recast up in rubber.

 

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Posted 22 August 2014 - 09:22 PM

The Rise of the Beast figures were 3D printed.
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Posted 22 August 2014 - 10:25 PM

How does THEGODBEAST create his customs?
Does he have a 3D printer?
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Posted 22 August 2014 - 10:27 PM

How does THEGODBEAST create his customs?
Does he have a 3D printer?

 

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Posted 22 August 2014 - 10:58 PM

Oh shit is that the Blaster Master tank?!
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Posted 22 August 2014 - 11:50 PM

A friend of mine is getting his Kickstarter 3D printer in September. He says I can have a go at printing some figures out that I've designed over time. The only trouble is using the software to take it from paper sketch to 3D graphic.
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Posted 23 August 2014 - 01:08 AM

I'd love to have some
Of my ideas turned into protos that I can cast.
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Posted 23 August 2014 - 01:18 AM

How does THEGODBEAST create his customs?
Does he have a 3D printer?


As far as I know, Marty does it the old fashioned way. Slinging Urethane.

Hand sculpted either himself or with a partner.

He recently did have one of his Glyos designs factory produced.
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Posted 23 August 2014 - 06:10 AM

Some day I want to teach myself 3D computer design so I can start making printed figures.


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Posted 23 August 2014 - 10:41 AM

It has been years since I did CAD, but it would come back to me quickly.
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Posted 25 August 2014 - 07:14 AM

Free CAD programs are more powerful and easier to learn than ever. Or...if you're less bound by scruples, you can always bittorrent cracked versions of higher-end programs. ;) Either way, tutorials on basically every program can be found on youtube. For example, my buddy, Ben "Prometheum5" Mininberg, taught himself Creo 2.0 almost entirely via youtube tutorials.


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Posted 26 August 2014 - 06:15 PM

I use a tablet mostly, any good cad for ipad?
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Posted 26 August 2014 - 06:39 PM

http://www.autoq3d.com/


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Posted 29 August 2014 - 06:12 AM

Heh...I love how Tekkaman Blade is one of the models in the promo video for that AutoQ3D!

 

From what I'm told, though, most tablet-based CAD systems are hard to use. That AutoQ3D looks like a fairly weak NURBS modeler, which means it could be okay...but most mesh or "polygon" modelers like Sculptris require at least one of those Wacom tablets or something like that for super-fine precision work.


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Posted 08 September 2014 - 03:30 PM

I do 3d printing. It was an essential part of prototyping BMOG, and I have started in with some MUSCLE and Battle Beast-Esq figures since full color 3d printing is starting to become viable.  You can check out my Shapeways store to see a lot of what I've done.

 

I tend to do a lot of 'extrude modelling', where you start with a simple polygon form and pull new faces out of it, adjusting them until you get what you want. The rest is smoothing, combining and manipulating individual polys. 


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Posted 11 September 2014 - 06:02 PM

Thanks to my mechnical drafting classes, I have had a couple things 3d printed. would like to get my own 3d printer some day. I should post pictures of what I've printed sometime.


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Posted 12 September 2014 - 10:27 AM

Definitely post what y'all have done here...I mean, that's what this sub-board's for!


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