While yes there are times were its detrimental to work in a controlled environment, if you understand what causes things to happen you can rig the results in your favor.

Pro Tip: Calibrate and actually Learn how your 3d printers work people. Full sized piece for a Wolverine Cowl printed with very very minimal supports on an Elegoo Jupiter in sub 50°F weather.

Learn the material properties and mechanical functions of your printers and you can do no wrong.

While this video is not really the best quality, friendly reminder to not be afraid to mix your paints and layers to get the effect you want.

Clearcoat is your friend, a savepoint, and a great buffer.

These were done quite some time ago, and were only shared in the discord I believe. But love what Leo has done with all his characters (Yui & Liv specifically) and have been using these helmets for paint testing.

Wish I had more good photos but over time these babies have been caked up

Bit of gold and bit of rose gold color theory testing on my Yui paint testers from @leosaurusr3x.bsky.social

The Skeleton Crew team thinks they're slick

When I was first recommended the Createx Transparents line of print it was right around the time I just bought my Jupiter. So like any sane person I decided to print up a very large Glavenus to test out some of the colors and blending.

References references references. While its fun to get inspired by others work when propmaking, always have a fallback of direct physical/photo references.

Even better if you can get something like what the person inspiring you used.

Find out that I had my blender renders setup wrong so they weren't using my full gpu. Fixed now they're much faster 🙃

One of these days I'll actually make a cosplay/bust of you. I swear 😅

#destiny2

First post here. Not much to share, but I make and paint stuff... I guess...