Predator Bust With Hair (35mb)

cults3d

The Predator Bust! (finally with hair!) Well, this was a fun project... about a week spent getting the hair just right, and that was even after borrowing a low poly hair from Google, which only had two sides of a triangle for each hair piece (useless), so I used the snake hook tool to copy the hair in ZBrush and pull it around the low poly one, strand by strand, and just made my own over-the-top version. While I did make the model, I have to say that I had some help along the way - that's for sure! But then again, tentacle hair as it turns out isn't that hard to do; more the actual flow of the hair - over shoulders and not touching it at the same time! I'll eventually have it all as one bust piece, but how to print it will be the hard part. Right now, there's only one way to print this well: upside down. Please check out the photos for it on the build plate directly after print - a little messy, but not many supports at all. I wanted virtually zero supports for the hair; otherwise, you'd just break them all. The hair is off to the side because this will eventually go on the second piece of the puzzle: a really detailed chest piece (note the hole in the base of the neck - still working on the chest). I figure this will be hard enough for some to print... so if you can print this part, the chest will be a walk in the park. If I can print it on a $1,000 Flashforge printer, then you can do it on your $3,000 MakerBot. Please read the instructions for printing advice. p.s And yes, I did break one hair during the painting process - but it was one small hair from underneath the back and wasn't noticed, so I didn't even bother to glue it back on; nothing in the painted shot was broken off or fixed. I tried many different ways, but at maximum build height, it's a good 5-6 hour build. At 10cm high (which is the printed test), it's 4.5 hours using two shells at 0% infill. I suggest no infill because of the hair - there's enough hair to cool the layers while it prints each one; as you can see, my very first test run was good enough to print and paint. Total time: Print/Paint = 6 hours (4.5 print/1.5 paint)