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Entry Title – Printing for a project – Display and Dissapointment
Entry Type – Terrain, Walls, Floor Tiles.
Name of Piece – Of Displays and Disappointment
Printer Type – FDM Printer Ender3 S1Pro
STL/3D File – Various all by one amazing artist – AlmostPainted – https://cults3d.com/en/users/AlmostPainted/3d-models
Material of Construction – TECBEARS PLA Plus Filament White and Black
Print Specific Details – 0.2mm Nozzle/ Bed Temp – 70 °C Start, 60 °C During / Print Temp – 230 °C start, 220 °C during. The majority of the prints had variable layers active to increase print speed.
Description, Advice and More Details – My progress thus far can be found in my first project here on OTT, and it’s going great. I wanted to make some interior terrain prints to beautify some acrylic display cases I had chosen. I happened across a lovely set of spaceship tiles and wall designs all by the same artist, and immediately started to print like wild. I’m not sure about the hours so far, but it’s definitely taken a good few days of daily repeat printings. I have had relatively few issues, some minor differences in the apparent melt point of the white filament vs the black, but it doesn’t appear to have printed with any great difficulty, just perhaps a little more stringing. I’m assuming one was getting a bit moist. I adjusted the print temp to compensate. So far, I have printed most of the back wall and floor tiles, done some mocking up of the design; just a few are yet to be printed. I need advice on scaling and working with these 3D design tools, so over my head, some of the scale squishing is pretty evident in some of the walls and tiles, something to work on with the next display case. I also think I have some calibrations to make on my printer and some maintenance. I’ve been using it pretty much as I received it, and I’m sure it can give me some better results. I’ve got the point starting the priming, so fingers crossed for some painting soon.