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Zap's 1:18 Scale Diorama Parts Development Thread
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10-08-2022, 09:57 AM
Zap Rowsdower
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I guess texture paint can only go so far. I have a lot of head models and textures from the civilization games that I may mess around with
Cool to see you did it. I cleaned up my knee scan using tinkercad to get uniform parts but haven'ttaken the step to make a custom knee yet, so this is inspiring
I've had this concept rolling around in my head for a few years of offering various replacement knees (with the knee pads permanently built in rather than the plug-in type Joes sometimes used) and this seemed like a great place to fire off the first test when I started the ODST project. I actually modeled the basic "figure 8" knee replacement piece before I got your scans, so this is a product of old fashioned calipers and geometric shape modeling. They print quite strong given the thickness. Printing in PLA material, the only concern is the hot water required to work the pins in and out of the legs (and the fact that it's a filament print in general, so detail is not quite as sharp as I would otherwise prefer). If this color printing at Shapeways works out well I can see myself offering up custom "painted" knees with built-in kneepads. If the color stuff doesn't turn out so great then I might still put out basic grey or black parts for people to paint up. Still cheaper than buying discontinued action figures for high-demand parts. Offering full-color heads would also be pretty cool. So many options open up if color printing works in real life the way I have it built up in my head. At this point, it's just a matter of seeing how much the reality deflates my expectations.
Because of the ODST armor, I'm also thinking about trying to build a full torso piece that is compatible with MTF waists and arms, so I can just have the full detail as part of the figure itself. I imagine I could use a classic back screw to hold it all together. The idea for this is to basically turn the whole chest armor piece into a simple replacement torso. Crack open the MTF torso and swap all parts over to the 3d-printed one. Screw the 3d printed torso together, then use it like you would the original MTF torso. Getting a good fit with the MTF waist ball would be the only hard part.
Anyway, I have big dreams in my head. We'll see how much of it gets done!
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