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My 3D printed Kreon vests arrived on Christmas Eve (Merry Christmas!), so I took some time tonight to have my generic Autobot troopers do some modelling.


Reflector:


Mini-bots (Brawn, Gears, and "full car hood"):




Backpack hoods (good for Throttlebots, battlechargers, or just to beef up a bot or con):


Huffer hood:




Autobots (Sunstreaker, Hound, and the Prowlvest):

some of these certainly came out better than others. I really like the Hound chest, for example, and the Reflector chests. Prowl came out a bit on the flat side and the Huffer hood looks massive! XD Still though it's true to character. In your email you mentioned the bit of midriff showing and it looks like it's equal to the thickness of the material going across the top of the torso. Just double check the measurement of the inside of the chest pieces to make sure they match the torso measurement. I assume that the outside measurement is what matches, but that's just a guess.

It's so exciting when you get something in the mail that YOU designed and thought up isn't it?? I find myself forsaking my other hobbies/tasks in favor of continuing with this custom design work. Looks like I'm going to have to hurry up and finish some stuff so I can keep up with "Tresob and Wulongti's Kustom Kreon Korner"

wulongti wrote:some of these certainly came out better than others. I really like the Hound chest, for example, and the Reflector chests. Prowl came out a bit on the flat side and the Huffer hood looks massive! XD Still though it's true to character. In your email you mentioned the bit of midriff showing and it looks like it's equal to the thickness of the material going across the top of the torso. Just double check the measurement of the inside of the chest pieces to make sure they match the torso measurement. I assume that the outside measurement is what matches, but that's just a guess.

It's so exciting when you get something in the mail that YOU designed and thought up isn't it?? I find myself forsaking my other hobbies/tasks in favor of continuing with this custom design work. Looks like I'm going to have to hurry up and finish some stuff so I can keep up with "Tresob and Wulongti's Kustom Kreon Korner"

Thanks! Hound and Reflector came out the best in my opinion as well. I'm thinking of making some of the car-roofs project out a little further so their windows can pop more. The angles on the Gears vest might have been a little too subtle, so they blurred together a bit. I figure if someone with better painting skills could get their hands on these, the details would be more visible.

The chest-pieces should be consistent in thickness (for some reason I started cutting the chest-pieces down to 11.5 mm from 13mm, which is what led to the short midriffs). I did curve the tops of the chest pieces, which might be what you are noticing...I didn't like having the sharp corners at the top for some reason. The neckbrace is not as wide as the whole Kreon torso, although the chest-piece is.

Hound's vest had a weird thickness problem along the front of his neck brace which makes his chest a little loose. Can't figure out what caused it. Might have been a hiccup in the printer.

I have no idea if any of that makes sense. I find harder to type in three-dimensions than to draw in them now.

weird w/ the hound vest. I guess you'll know when you reorder the part along w/ the modified others. projecting out the car hoods more is a good idea, though you go too far and you'll end up w/ something akin to the Halo Minimates. lol

just shooting from the hip here, but when viewing your model in sketchup, maybe turning off lines might help you see how well the detail will translate. I haven't done too much requiring a lot of detail yet, but that's my thought at any rate.

Just ordered these

Can't wait till they arrive

Dough-bot wrote:Just ordered these

Can't wait till they arrive

That's really cool! Definitely give me a full report on how they turn out for you.

So...uhm...anyone have recommendations on painting these things? I dropped by a craft store today (I was the conspicuously male customer) but had no idea what I was looking at when I went to the acrylics aisle. Reading on the Interwebs leads me to conclude I should be coating these vests with a primer and then using a very tiny brush with watered down acrylics. Anyone have recommendations on what kind of primer I should be picking up? Any other tips or strategies?

Tresob wrote:So...uhm...anyone have recommendations on painting these things? I dropped by a craft store today (I was the conspicuously male customer) but had no idea what I was looking at when I went to the acrylics aisle. Reading on the Interwebs leads me to conclude I should be coating these vests with a primer and then using a very tiny brush with watered down acrylics. Anyone have recommendations on what kind of primer I should be picking up? Any other tips or strategies?

these two fine fellows were painted up using paint markers.



I found that the initial application of paint did tend to bleed through the material. additional applications did not though. Of course, you'll want to use an old toothbrush to really clean your parts first of any support material. After that I've heard good things of giving a clear coat first to prime. I've also heard that some folks use Future floor polish or clear nail polish to prime it and that using this gives the final painted product a much smoother texture. Haven't tried it myself yet, but that's the rumor.

a quick romp through google revealed the following:

http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/painting3dprintedsls

wulongti wrote:

Tresob wrote:So...uhm...anyone have recommendations on painting these things? I dropped by a craft store today (I was the conspicuously male customer) but had no idea what I was looking at when I went to the acrylics aisle. Reading on the Interwebs leads me to conclude I should be coating these vests with a primer and then using a very tiny brush with watered down acrylics. Anyone have recommendations on what kind of primer I should be picking up? Any other tips or strategies?

these two fine fellows were painted up using paint markers.



I found that the initial application of paint did tend to bleed through the material. additional applications did not though. Of course, you'll want to use an old toothbrush to really clean your parts first of any support material. After that I've heard good things of giving a clear coat first to prime. I've also heard that some folks use Future floor polish or clear nail polish to prime it and that using this gives the final painted product a much smoother texture. Haven't tried it myself yet, but that's the rumor.

a quick romp through google revealed the following:

http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/painting3dprintedsls

Cool. Are you putting some kind of sealer over the paint markers? What keeps them from chipping and/or leaving marks on furniture?

I haven't put any sealer on them at all, but then they don't get a whole lot of play time. I've found that the silver paint will rub off but normal colors soak into the material. I may try using Ritt dye on my next set, though that won't do anything for the texture