Nice prints, I’m looking to get some stuff done at the first of the year just for my personal collection. This looks very reasonable and high quality. 
How bad is the shipping? Is it one of those things where it fits in a certain size box for a flat rate, or is it based on distance?
thanks again guys~ here’s one we finished for a Chris recently (muppetman on ZBC).
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about 12 inches tall. 13 inches on the base maybe. did it kind of NECA/world of warcraft style with dual tone drybrushing. found a new way to drybrush with lacquers that really has that kind of choppy macfarlane look. washes were done with enamel paints and drybrushing on base I did with citadel. lacquers were mostly gaia color and gsi creos. the leg hairs/branches were made out of liquid latex (I had to make like 80 of them… one by one)… attached with avex fix-it sculpt and then painted with latex paints (so they’re rubbery and flexible… can be folded in half). prices vary~ it cost him $590 + $18 shipping. hey… if you win a zbc contest I will discount you as well~ so get zbrushin!
also attaching a picture of a helmet that illustrates the limitations of 3d printing. thats about as small as it gets. some of the stipple effects on there are tiny. smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. it’ll look much better after its cleaned up and painted~
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Rollin up on almost 1 year of Ownage! I will try to make a new website as an anniversary gift for you guys. Haven’t touched it for literally a year. But now have enough people full-time that I should go back to my actual professional which is software engineering and software architecture. I’m gonna try to make 2010 ever better for you guys o<:-) *thats my santa hat emoticon.
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weird… thanks G. fixed. it came up fine the first few times then just disappeared.
also… i printed transparent diamonds for the helmet so I’m gonna finish it with a transparent effect so you guys can see some cool stuff.
can also print flexible stuff too~
80 little branches attached, man that’s crazy. $590 is an excellent price point being that you put so much good work into it. Just the painting itself is done nicely. I assume the price reduces just a simple print, which is what I’m after. I’ll have to visit your website soon. Good freakin’ work
Way better then the won print 
That helmet is looking very good for the scale but if it were up to me
prints should get bigger and not smaller
So just in theory, would you be able to print such an helmet lifesized?
Hey, long time no talk… been busy with moving and some other things. The TMNT project is paused at the moment but Ive something else which Id like to get printed. 
Im afraid that its impossible to print, though. 
Its finished and I hope I can post it later in my thread. Ill contact you via email then.
Love the new prints you did. Dr. Root looks awesome. Great job!
Aww… the base sculpt look pretty darn good tho Moni 
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Yah we can print any size… but I have no experience painting lifesize stuff… Mainly I try to focus on PF Sideshow and Hot Toys scale stuff. Like between 10-12 inches is optimal. At lifesize, tho doable… would cost a bundle. 3d printed you’ll get some crazy detail… like noise deforms… but it would make more sense to find someone to help you CNC two halves of that helmet out of wax. Then you could join the wax back together… do some more physical sculpting to bring the detail back, and cast a real metal helmet out of pewter or bronze. Well… technically you could 3d print the helmet in wax too. If you used PIC-100 material on the perfactory machine and then cast it in metal. Still… the print wouldn’t be cheap~
the CNC part should conceivably be less than $100 (I saw someone doing some really good work of a demo man head and the mojette’s cyborg head). If I 3d printed a full size helmet… You’d be looking at like $3-$4k easy.
here’s a vid that jpsmith sent me~ fullsize bust for less than $100!
I am just amazed that if you can do lifesized objects more guys aren’t producing latex masks of all these wonderful characters. Couldn’t one take a model of a human head and reverse it out of a block, then cut the block in two, so you have each half of the mold and a reverse of the head, then output it at full size, put the two halves together and pour in the latex to make a mask? Why isn’t this being done??? I would think the possibilities for prosthetics and props are endless.
Damn, Des!! Wicked stuff! That Dr. Root is sick!! And those thin roots on the lower legs, incredible. I guess you really don’t like sleeping too much, eh?
Hey John! 
haha my fridge is full of redbull.
Here’s that little helmet on my finger. The gem was made from transparent RP material… then painted with Tamiya Clears to give it that sapphire look.
This was just a production test for a full model im doing with some real leather parts. Will update~
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here’s a Left 4 Dead tank head (actually there’s a whole figure) that I’m doing Hot Toys style (transparent mottling and pastels). its not perfect but okay for a first try~ normally for a production we have to do test paints 3-4 times until everything is spot on.
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Yeah, if you are going to emulate anyone’s paint ops, Hot Toys is the way to go.
Stop strangling the toys!
Lemo
haha it does look like that huh lemo 
here’s my 2010 take on that vampire I did awhile back for grassetti. instead of a basecoat and a simple wash like I used to do… moved over to staining the basecoat with artist oils and then doing asymmetric tinting with transparent paints.
did this one for zbc’er spacemonkey
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gonna start making a bunch of really nice bases out of rosewood or something similar so you guys can start getting bases for free as well. or maybe i should sell the bases =P dunno… but this was my first try at nice wood bases.
wooow, that last paint job is really awesome.
it’s better and better everytime !!
good job
Boy, I really love that spacemonkey reptile sculpt. Turned out so nice. All the work on here is blowing me away!
I’m curious, how has decimation master changed things for the 3D printing process? Are you able to take full advantage of the extra detail that is now possible?
Thanks for showing all the work!
Just love the service your offering.Im getting something together and will be at your site very soon.Also would like to [color=orange]hear the answer to nickz question.
This stuff is amazing
I’ve been following the 3D print thing for about 7 years… lots of samples from different machines, with the stair-stepping getting smaller and smaller each sample.
From these pics… wow, they’re almost GONE! Small enough where a bit of primer seems to fill it in. The only problem is this means actual detail is gone too.
I can’t wait to see what another 6 months brings us.
My main concern is I’m more into the hard edge models, robots, and chibi characters that need a completely smooth surface. Organic stuff is easier to hide imperfections in.
Here’s to the hope that prices will start coming down all around the industry, which is doubtful since business prototyping is still the driving force, and just like with cell phone, we’re expected to pay outrageous business prices for consumer goods and services.
It’s really great to see a few companies who understand the hobbyist or small production company.
Desmoda- Can you optimize a model to be cast, or can you cast a print and send the molds rather than a finished piece? You know, like a resin kit comes usually a torso, two legs, two arms, and some extra pieces.