Working with 3D Prints

Working with 3D Printed Resin

This model is 3D printed, so there shouldn’t be much cleanup and definitely no mold lines. I’m just looking everything over for supports or print errors. Those little nubbies on the bottom don’t matter because you won’t see them.

I’m putting a mask on to sand out imperfections—with resin prints, you don’t want to breathe that dust in.

Fixing Broken Parts

With 3D printed resin, you’ve got to use super glue. This wing was broken—looks a little gnarly at the connection, but I’ve sanded it pretty flush. I got it hot with a heat gun, then bent it to follow the natural curve of the wing.

Both swords were crooked, so I got them mostly straight with heat gun work.

22 Minutes of Hobby Time

Today I had exactly 22 minutes of hobby time. Doesn’t seem like a lot, but I got all of these primed and most of the annoying build parts done—supports off, everything straightened with the heat gun, parts glued and filed together to look like one piece.

The Lesson from Two Rough Weeks

These last two weeks have been very rough, but I’ve learned so much. Sometimes I only had 10 minutes, 20 minutes. Tonight’s 22 minutes is probably the most hobby time I’ve had in two weeks.

But when I look back at all the stuff I got done—the goblin spears, half the skin, the Fantasm tonight—it’s proof that there really isn’t an excuse to skip doing the things you love. Even 5 or 10 minutes a day to refill that bucket makes a difference.

If I wasn’t down here making videos, it would have been even worse. It seems like so much to overcome when you’re in the thick of things, but afterwards I feel much better. I’m going to bed in a good mood, happy, and hopefully refreshed to get beat down again tomorrow. But it’s going to get better, and doing this hobby stuff is what keeps me going.

Transcript

Okay, time to finish these guys. >> Actually, I just primed this, so it’s probably not happening today. So, we’re going to work on this. So, this is 3D printed. Uh, so there shouldn’t be too much like cleanup and definitely no mold lines.

But, I’m just going to look everything over looking for supports or maybe just any like errors that occurred in the print. Like you can kind of see these little nubbies on the bottom, but that doesn’t really matter because you’re not going to see that uh when the print happens. So, I’m just going to go through. I’m going to put a mask on uh just because with with the resin to fix any like some of these imperfections right here, I’m going to sand it and I just don’t want to breathe that in. With 3D printed resin, you got to use super glue.

Uh so, if you watch my unboxing video, this is the wing that was broken and it looks a little uh gnarly on that connection right there, but I’ve actually sanded it uh pretty flush. And oh god, exactly one foot. Uh like on this side, you can see got it pretty solid. Um, I bent it. I got it hot with a heat gun and then I bent it so it like follows the curve of how the wing is supposed to be kind of.

I need to hit it again. Uh, just to straighten everything out a little bit, I think. Uh, but it’s doing pretty good. Um, I got the torso all cleaned up and glued. I’m going to fix the other the remaining like parts to the to the wing.

That last missing piece was like this little nub on the hilt of the sword. Wait, not help. The handle. The handle on the sword right here. I also The sword was pretty crooked, so I got both swords mostly straight.

I think I need to tweak it a little bit now that I’m looking at it on camera. Uh, so I only had uh I had let’s see, I had exactly 22 minutes of of hobby time in today. And it doesn’t seem like a lot, but I got all of these primed. And I got most of like the annoying parts of this build done. Like I got there’s a couple of supports left on the arms that are up in there that I got to get and I’ll get those uh before I go to bed.

But I got all the all the supports off. >> Uh I straightened everything out that needed the heat gun to get straight and I glued all the parts back in and just filed them together to make them look like one piece all before bed. So I’m I’m going to call that a success on a day where again like that’s the one thing I’ve learned over these last like two weeks of just being miserable. Uh these last two weeks have been very rough, but uh I just had like sometimes 10 minutes, 20 minutes. Uh I think tonight of that 22 minute mark is probably the most time I’ve had to hobby in two weeks.

But when I like look back at all the stuff I’ve got done, um I did all those goblin spears. Uh at this point, I’ve got like half of the skin done. Uh, I’ve done the fantasm tonight, which all tomorrow I just got to like do some magnets, which I like the magnet part, and gluing up the last bit together, and that guy will be ready to go. Tomorrow, I’ll actually be able to finish my blocks for the Molly crew board. And also I think tomorrow hopefully things kind of settle down and return to normal where I can yeah I get some like real hobby time in and get start start sleeping again would be pretty cool.

So uh I don’t know that’s just really what I’ve learned is just how much I can still accomplish if it’s only sometimes like five or 10 minutes a day really showed me these last two weeks that like there really isn’t an excuse to do the things you love. Like even if you got 10 minutes a day to kind of refill that bucket. Like I if I wasn’t down here making videos, uh it would have just been even worse really. So it seems like so much to do and overcome like when you’re in the thick of things, but then afterwards like I feel much better now. I’m going to go to bed like in a good mood, happy, wake up hopefully refreshed uh just to get beat down again tomorrow.

But uh I don’t know. It’s going to get better soonish and it it’s just cool doing