Tag: 3d Printing

  • Magic Tournament – Trophy update

    Magic Tournament – Trophy update

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    Halfling13

    With our upcoming Magic the Gathering Tournament, scheduled for November 21, I need to finalize my plans for the victory trophy.  I posted a picture many weeks ago of the progress with painting – this is a 3d printed model that I am hand-painting.  However, I have been procrastinating since then and only recently worked…

  • The paint rack (partial)

    The paint rack (partial)

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    Halfling13

    First half of the paint rack project is together, consisting of 3 printed sections.  Obviously still need to sort an organize the colors themselves, but wanted to collect what I have so far together.  I am still working on the rest of the stands, and likely will need a lift of some sort for the…

  • Printer Update

    Printer Update

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    Halfling13

    Upgrades are in place, and the printer is (fingers crossed) working reliably and well – the past several days I have been finishing up a larger project printing paint bottle racks for storage of my painting set.  It requires several trays, and each tray ends up printing for about 36 hours, which is certainly a…

  • A dead fan

    A dead fan

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    Halfling13

    My earlier post regarding the all-metal hotend was a bit premature.  In truth, the metal hotend and parts are working great.  In some ways, perhaps a bit too great.  As a result, I have been getting what I have concluded to be a lot of heat-creep into the extruder motor itself.  I have tried a…

  • Filament Choices

    Filament Choices

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    Halfling13

    As I have been getting further and further into 3d printing, I have been experimenting with a number of different colors and brands of filament.  In general, I have not found much significant different in quality for PLA between options, but for consistency, I have been tending towards the same ones each time.  If curious,…

  • Printer repairs

    Printer repairs

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    Halfling13

    Ran into another problem with the printer over the weekend, when it started having challenges printing reliably.  In each case, it would run for 15-30 minutes, and then jam, and stop extruding.  After cancelling, I could clear the jam and get the extruder going again, but with the next attempt, the same would happen.

  • Printing variety

    Printing variety

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    Halfling13

    Had a number of recent projects this week that have been working the printer quite a bit.  Not only am I working on my first printing and painting video, but I have been collecting a number of time lapse videos for other projects.  The wife also tasked me with me with making a Boy Scout…

  • Video content

    Video content

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    Halfling13

    Still struggling to find a format for the creation of YouTube content, after numerous challenges and setbacks.  I have found that game play videos are simply too long and involved to make good content – they are rather dull to watch, take forever to edit down, and I don’t have the gear to make them…