Its taken all afternoon to finish printing. Lets see if it fits together.

Yea you heard right!

Today I am printing in wood. Yes. Wood. Wood, you know from a tree.

And my standard reference cube in wood.

By varying the temperature during the print you can give it layers.

More wood coming up 🙂

Just as things are going well and you think you have the printer set up well enough to leave it alone, is when it wont play nice.

Started quite a long print job and left it running to come back hours later to this.

Some part job didn’t adhere to the bed and came lose knocking everything else about and finally falling off.

So tried again

This time filament jammed about an hour in.

So print test cube to check but whilst clearing the last job knocked off the belt for the bed allowing it to only feed in one direction.

Finding a willing guinea pig scanned, printed and painted.

Print is about 50mm. Printing it bigger improves the detail.

Before I got the scanner I downloaded some of the scans from EdSciFest on Thingiverse to see what the quality of the print was like and if they could be painted (or at least if I was any good at painting them)

I chose this scan as it seem to have good features that would print ok and it gave me enough clues as to what the woman actually looked like originally.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:296698

Printed out looks like this

You have to be a bit careful and think about your print before you start in regards to horizontal areas that don’t have anything underneath them. I didn’t get this quite right here as her nose didn’t print.

You can see this clearer here after I added paint.

I also had no brushes and applied the paint with a piece of sponge giving her a rather odd expression. I improved a bit after I bought some brushes.