{"id":13213,"date":"2020-04-17T12:59:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=13213"},"modified":"2020-07-20T20:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T00:20:22","slug":"3d-printing-16-scale-heads-for-12%e2%80%b3-dolls-action-figures-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2020\/04\/17\/3d-printing-16-scale-heads-for-12%e2%80%b3-dolls-action-figures-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printing 1:6 scale heads for 12\u2033 dolls\/action figures II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years after my initial blog post<\/a> about 3D printing 1:6 scale heads for 12″ dolls and action figures, I’m at it again.<\/p>\n

After that entry, I tried preparing heads for printing and sending them to Shapeways, a professional printing service, which offered higher resolution and finishing quality than could be gotten from the local makerspace. I made the heads hollow, but I couldn’t figure out how to make neck holes. Therefore I tried manually sawing the necks open. The fine plastic of the print did not agree with my hacksaw, and I got so frustrated that I hid the project in my closet for two years.<\/p>\n

Now I’m back, highly motivated to improve my 3D printing skills, because I need a 1:6 scale likeness of Sacha Dhawan as the latest [and arguably best!!!] incarnation of the Master on Doctor Who.<\/em> I made a decent caricatured likeness of him in Daz Studio. Then I followed this approximate process to create a print-worthy Spymaster.
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Screenshot of my DigiSpymaster!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Export head + some neck from Daz Studio as OBJ.<\/p>\n

Import into Meshmixer.<\/p>\n

Resize import to desired print size.<\/p>\n

Use the following parameters on the Make Solid function to retain detail.<\/p>\n

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Use Close Cracks feature.<\/p>\n

Make Hollow with a 2mm offset.<\/p>\n

Use Plane Cut to slice off the solid bottom of the neck. Woo fuckin’ hoo! A neck hole!<\/p>\n

Export as OBJ. STL with ASCII is too large [>60GB] for Shapeways.<\/p>\n

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Exported OBJ with a fkin neckhole WOOOOOHOOOOO!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Upload to Shapeways.<\/p>\n

Resize to desired print size.<\/p>\n

Order materials! My first test is printed in Fine Detail Plastic with a regular [smooth] finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two years after my initial blog post about 3D printing 1:6 scale heads for 12″ dolls and action figures, I’m at it again. After that entry, I tried preparing heads for printing and sending them to Shapeways, a professional printing service, which offered higher resolution and finishing quality than could be gotten from the local… Continue reading 3D printing 1:6 scale heads for 12\u2033 dolls\/action figures II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[813,812],"class_list":["post-13213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3d-printing","tag-the-spymaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13220,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions\/13220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}