3D Printing - The Minions Have Left The Building! (Finished Project)

Hi Everyone! It is my extreme pleasure to show off the finished project of "The Despicable Me Minions!"which started here in this post.  Check out the Pics below!

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Essentially I printed the minions out in the front and back halves using Yellow ABS from 3d2Print, sanded each half down using 220 grit san paper until smooth then use the crazy glue like Acrylic/ABS cement from Tap Plastics.  I then clamped them together until completely welded/bonded together.

For the finishing aspect, I took a product called Plasti-Dip and dipped the minions up to their waist into Blue-Plastidip.  Then I use black Plasti-Dip for their boots, gloves and eye bands.  I then used a tooth pic to make the arm straps.  I then took a hobby knife cut off the Plasti-dip and created straight lines on the straps, as well as the "overall's look".  

I used a white paint on primer for the eye/s, mouth area, followed by black for the mouth interior, aluminum for the goggle/s and white for the teeth.

The final touches were to include hair, which is just waxed black string (so you can kind of style it), which I attached with the same glue as above, after drilling holes to plant the hair into.  I then used a sharpie to add on a couple of "buttons" on the pants and a logo.  The coup de grace was the placement of 12mm (two eyes) goggly-eyes and 15mm colored iris goggly eyes (which are what sells the piece in my opinion!)  

If was a lot of work but great fun!  I've already had a few ideas for improvements/expansions for this project as well as some new idea, possibly including a voice box!  :D

If you have any questions feel free to contact me, and I'll try and provide any guidance, I can, if you decide to create your own set of minions.

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Yoda, A Tie-fighter, And Some Colored T-Glase Filament!

Hey Everyone,

Just wanted to share two of my latest prints.  The first is a yoda head I printed out at 70 microns using 35mm/s print speed extruding 220c, 80c hpb, it turned out really really well.  I printed it using 3d2prints Glow n the Dark Blue abs.  Going to make it a hologram-ish like figuring with a light puck base that has been jazzed up with some star wars'y greebles.  

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The second print is a tie-fighter which i printed out in the 3d2print grey abs, i printed out at 50mm/s 235c 110c hpb.  You might be able to see that either the dirty nozzle (its has a coating of black carbon around (well burnt plastic) ) exterior left a few darker lines or there was some old filament in the nozzle and was extruded on those layers, and appear as dark bands.  This one was a bit "rougher" in quality to which I attribute to the faster speed as well as a bit of agressive sanding on the bottom halves after the fact, but can be corrected upon filling/painting/sanding/finishing, etc., the model and adding a stand.

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The last pic is of the new colored t-glase filaments, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.  I really can't wait to try a project out with these!  I might try and use the sapphire to print our the lightpipes I'm going to use with the yoda head.  All in all a good bit of fun was had ;)

Gemolishes!

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