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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Now Chimp has two Bananas


When one of the items on your 3D printing fails.

It is good to be able to 3D print a lot of small items.  It saves you time.
But sometimes one of the items fails.  It doesnt stick and will ruin the rest of your prints. 

I have tried all type of solutions for this but nothing worked.  Sometimes I had to abort all of the printing loosing the good ones.

Today I solved it using the 3D pen.  I paused the printing and build an item in the place where the failed one should be with the 3D pen. 

And it worked!!.

The first time I did not build it right.




                                                                                                                The second time it worked:



New Moth Character for videogames


You can find it here:  Insects

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Monday, October 22, 2018

I am making the skeleton for Ildikko's Charles the Chimp

And here he is almost finished.



The hands and feet, long bones, hip, skeleton and torax, all with TPU.  All surrounding the PVC covered 3mm copper wires, and 1mm for the fingers.
In PLA the lower jaw with the teeth, and the eyes.  I printed some screws to hold safely the eyes to the crocheted head.  I glued the safety eyes to the PLA eyes.

I plan to upload the skeleton to CGtrader after I finish a couple of details.  I will also make the banana with pla and crochet the banana peel.

Next I am planning on making an orange chimp.

Thursday, October 11, 2018

3D pens help with crochet Amigurumis!

I am using my 3D pen not only to glue parts of my Amigurumi skeleton.  Now I found out it is useful to glue hair to the Amigurumi.  Pressing the pen while it is hot will stick together the hairs of a lock of hair.


First I applied some plastic to the crocheted body.  I pressed the pen between the stitches extruding plastic.  For this I am using black PLA.  But ABS would also work.


After gluing with plastic the hairs together I glue them to the body.  Softening the plastic with the tip of the pen while it is hot.

These were my first results:




And here is my new donkey with the previous one.   There others were bought by a brazilian guest that came to my house through Airbnb.