Gloomhaven Custom Class: Bladeswarm

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I've been crafting a custom class for the boardgame Gloomhaven. I'm calling it Bladeswarm, a Harrower swarm that wears armor instead of the usual robe. The ability cards for this class are still in their early stages, but I'm thrilled with how the model has turned out, so I'm posting it now to gather comments and critiques (and for anyone who wants a printing challenge). All the arms and swords on this guy made him pretty tough to print. I did my best to make him more printable by hiding extra connection points on the swords where possible, but he still needs plenty of support material and a gentle hand when removing those supports. I've had success with generating support trees in Meshmixer after rotating the model back onto its side, as seen in the attached screenshot. I then generated tree supports and went through and touched them up by hand, based on my instincts and how it failed on previous prints. Be careful not to put too much support under the swords with the spiked round guards or the protruding blades, as those parts can easily snap off when removing support material. Then again, that's what super glue is for. I printed him with a 0.25 mm nozzle and 0.05 mm layer height. The photos are of this model after I primed him, but I didn't do any tricks with polyurethane or anything. 10/6/2019 Update: I've learned a lot since I originally made this model, so I figured that I'd take another stab at it (no pun intended!). The new model is extremely challenging to print (as you can see from the support structure that I had to build for him), so I'm going to leave the original one in here too. I think this model is pushing the limits of my FDM printer; I'd love to see a resin print if anyone makes one! As always, the .blend file and pre-supported .obj (the one that I used to print it on my Prusa mk3 with a .25 mm nozzle) for this model are available to my patrons at https://patreon.com/VirtuallyJason. If you appreciate my work and have a few dollars to spare each month, please consider joining!