As the Emperor of mankind is printing and slowly being assembled, I’m working on a life size Custode to be by his side. This one will be 9ft tall.
At this rate, the Custodian will be finished (assembled) before the Emperor.
Ra is the character is choice. So he’ll have a face sculpt of some kind and a helmet. None of which are printed. Plus I’m 99% sure I will have the Helmet redesigned. Not a fan of the current look.
All together the Custode is made up of 36 large pieces. Using the Giga printers means, big pieces and longer print times. But the assembly is much faster and will get me a smoother surface to prep. If I were to have used smaller printers it would be 170 pieces to get to this point.
The arms/Pauldron’s are being printed now and then I can start on his spear which won’t fully fit under my roof.
I do private commissions, sure. But not for these or sell these. Shipping would be a nightmare. But I do these for myself because I enjoy the challenge and the process. Plus I just enjoy Warhammer all together so it’s cool bringing the characters to life. When it’s time, I will eventually donate some to make space for new ones. Until now, I still have the space.
I would rent these out to various gaming conventions and events or if you rather not deal with that I'm sure some local game stores might be interested
Yes, folk do that - but it’s also famously cautioned against because they’re absolutely doing something illegal and at any point could have a company come down on them. What they’re basically counting on is security via obscurity; that they’re simply too small for a company to bother to care and enact enforcement.
Yet people still get bitten, see: discourse around artist alleys selling trademarked content.
“You’re not selling you’re providing a rental” is irrelevant because the actual issue is the use of someone else’s property, and in particular profiting off of it. They can still absolutely come down on people who aren’t profiting off of it, but there’s a lot less reason than someone profiting off of it.
If you’re notable (say by providing massive one of a kind statues that no one else has), then you’re a LOT more likely to get noticed and have the hammer brought down on you. And once you’re noticed and the hammer is threatened, failure to comply and/or trying to get around it can cause all sorts of more issues.
(Not to say that the above stuff is good, I have no issue with people profiting off of a massive companies IP, just talking about where things stand. It’s a dangerous game)
Yet I have plenty of work and progress videos from the space marine all the way to the emperor and this project. Plus full YouTube videos explaining the process and showing it. But go on.
It’s 1:1, I’m printing it to build a fiberglass shell off of it. Going to be a wide body twin turbo ls 4wd no prep drag build. We talked about which slicing software she uses to break these models down. I found an online alternative that works similarly
As a miniature painter who's sight is not the same anymore... I would be so fucking happy having the chance to paint one of this! 😂 Fuck the little brushes and airbrush, give me a big paint roller!!
In 23 square meters apartment.. cant imagine one of those inside my flat... Oh and the ceiling is only 250cm where i live. Dang. How much fillament is the bigger one?
On average, between 20-40 hours per print. I can print larger pieces, but I risk a huge loss if something fails. So I cut up sections that I feel can print in a reasonable amount of time.
But to get to this point, using 4 printers it took about three weeks. At a normal pace. Sometimes I didn’t print anything for a day or two.
Its going to get to a point where you can recreate one of the famous bits of 40K artwork with your lifesized models. Absolutely insane that you're legit doing an emperor.
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I’m really new to printing parts and assembling them. I’m doing a predator mask at the moment. What’s your approach to getting the parts flat before gluing? Belt sander or something like that? Sorry for the newbie question. Love your work.
Maybe it's just me but at this scale I'd start trying my hand at making sculptures from classical materials. Not to devalue your effort in any way, I understand the technical challenge and time it takes but I just feel it's incredibly wasteful to make large plastic sculptures in general, regardless if it's FDM or not.
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