Almost like Smaug (AlikeS) and more - 3D printing.

puzi · **Joined:** Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:13 am **Posts:** 13

Hello

i would like to share with You what i did with my printer. Because the price of original Smaug is to high for me, i made my own version.
I found project of head on one site, i decided to put all together.

Start was easy.

Than lot of glue and paper.

And some of small prints to put on.

Everything on place - so... base colour.

Finishing head:

And latest photos of model. Gold finished. Head is waiting for paiting few gold coins attatched to it, becouse for now they are in skin colour.
But i'm affraid that i will ruin head when i will be painting coins

Making AlikeS took me around a year but i'm lazy so that's main reason

This year i was making also some other things.
AmonHen i made for making 3D printing a little bit more popular. It was showing on some 3D printing shows as a example

And the biggest project - still in progress.
Chamber of Mazarbul.

Ufff... long for the first post

Some of You probably buy some of my prints from fb or TLA - hope You enjoy them. Soon more of prints. If everything will go as it should be - next printings will be glowing at night

i hope

Valadorn · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2015 7:58 pm

Very sharp and detailed job, keep it up!

puzi · **Joined:** Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:13 am **Posts:** 13

And, Chamber is finally finished. Testing game will be on last day of this year

puzi · **Joined:** Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:13 am **Posts:** 13

And first game in Mazarbul, sorry for photos, but it was in mine, in darkness so the quality isn't perfect

cool game for about 2200 each side (maybe more, becouse it was last scenario to play), as You can see, chaos, chaos, chaos

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Tue Jan 05, 2016 1:47 pm

Great work on Smaug and a very clever idea which has been executed well. Nice work on the scenery as well

puzi · **Joined:** Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:13 am **Posts:** 13

More elements for Moria:

Beggining of dice tower - still in WIP

And something for myself: Key of Erebor

Angmar Orc Shaman to show scale

aranel7773 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 24, 2016 7:41 pm

that's cool, where did you get the 3d files from?

ketara · **Joined:** Tue May 26, 2015 4:32 pm **Posts:** 34

This is all really inventive and clever stuff. Are the files on shapeways?

puzi · **Joined:** Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:13 am **Posts:** 13

Most of files are on thingiverse.com, yeggi, shapeways, cgtrader and most of all --> uncle google

I was trying with models from googlesketchup but those files are sometimes to simple to use them for printing. F.eg. Orthanck in sketchup looks cool, but when i was converting it for stl lot of elements are missing.

puzi · **Joined:** Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:13 am **Posts:** 13

Something new is growing

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 9:50 pm

You don't believe in small do you.

puzi · **Joined:** Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:13 am **Posts:** 13

I'm making smaller things - lot of bases, small ruins, different things for son.
But most things that are connected to LotR/Hobbit are quite big

Smaller egzamples

Hope to put some more photos of small ruins that already finished soon.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2016 10:18 pm

Nice work. What material are you using for the ruins ?
Love the falcon

puzi · **Joined:** Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:13 am **Posts:** 13

PLA plastick -prefered, also ABS - but when it's cooling down it shrinks and on big models there is possibility to change dimensions of model and also model can crack.

puzi · **Joined:** Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:13 am **Posts:** 13

Big ruin:

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2016 10:18 am

Projects like this really do pique my interest for a 3D printer.

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2016 9:11 pm

Nice ruins.

Does the material paint very well?
How much does a 3D printer cost?

puzi · **Joined:** Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:13 am **Posts:** 13

I'm not a good painter, so for me painting f.eg. Mazarbul was ok. But the layers of printing are visible. On thiner layer result is much better - AlikeS

Well, prices of printers - depends what You need. For making ruins - the simplest type of printind - FDM - check youtube. Prices starts from 200-400GBP - for new printer, type of students machine, better printers starts from 1000GBP. Of course i'm thinking about prices in Poland

orc-archer · **Posted:** Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:17 pm

I really like your Smaug, well done!

3D printing has a lot of potential, too bad it's really expensive right now.

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2016 4:49 pm

Very interesting to see the use of new technology - I recognise components of Helm's Deep among the other items.

Almost like Smaug (AlikeS) and more - 3D printing.

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