Moving on from my Minitron (Megatron) cyberverse size articulated figures, and built my new Powermaster Optimini Prime! I'm hoping to build a selection of TF articulated figures that although won't transform, but will be fun! This will be up on my shapeways when I've got all the little bugs fixed and a sprue made up Love to hear some feedback guys http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=27506167&stc=1&d=1427278040
These are spot on! And I really dig how it looks like you are achieving a great look with largely simple shapes. Watch those hip joints, though. It looks like they are c-clips. The c-clips on my Reflector mini-figs hips ended up printing too loose, even though they measured for a tight fit in the render. The unpredictable margin of error is one of the problems with 3D printing. (But often easily rectified with some glue and/or sandpaper.)
Thanks guys! Yeah those hips are going to be a bit trial and error - I'm hoping the tolerance isn't going to be too bad :/ It's amazing what you can achieve with just the basic sketch up but I have to give props to those on the boards who have given me pointers! At the moment this is roughly coming in at $30 - but I'm hoping to get it down with a bit more hollowing - wish me luck!
You might find the hollowing isn't worth it in the end, but that depends on the scale. I've spent hours hollowing a piece only to find out it knocked sixty cents off of the total price. Also, if you haven't already discovered it, enlarging the scale of a piece can really help when dealing with intersecting hi-def, curved surfaces (I'm looking at that Prime helmet). I tend to see a lot of fracturing when I try to intersect at actual scale, but it is less bad when I blow up the piece, fix it, and then reduce it. I might have mentioned this already...I'm going a little senile in my middle-age.
No all this is ace! Thank you so much! I've started doing that with the next one up....Ultra Magnifius! (Getting the puns to miniature their names is half the fun!)
