Hello! Would anyone be willing to 3d print an object from thingiverse for me?
I want to make a scaled up version of the thingiverse brach dragon - to be as big as possible. While I love sanding, assembling, decorating and painting the figures, I am not up at the makerspace long enough to print a large project like this. My real talent is painting dolls, and the dragon looks like he would be super fun to paint.
We offer printing services at Polyprinter, this is a huge project if you really want to scale it up as large as possible (take the largest part and make it fit in a 9" cube). it seems like a pretty large project to ask someone to do at home without compensation.
Oooooh! This one looks fun. I’m half tempted to jump in and help just for the sake of seeing it finished.
On a side note, I find it quite curious that you include sanding in the list of the steps that you love.
My dad painted cars and did auto body work when I was a child. Most days, daddy-daughter time involved wet sanding primer coats, or sanding spot welds. i.e. “Heyyyyyy sweetie!!! who want’s to wet sand daddy’s side panel???”
well i made the poor decision to open ALL of the parts as an assembled dragon to see what the final size would be, before i opened them separately sooo the processing is going to take a bit.
i was thinking about it though, the model will be made with specific tolerances for movement, scaling it up will make those gaps larger and they might be too big
I would be concerned about that if it used rigid joints, but with the elastic connections that this one has, I’d bet that it will compensate for the difference automatically.
getting prints done at PolyPrinter would be $5 a print hour + $5 per print bed. So a 1 hour print would cost $10 and a 2 hour print would cost $15. This service covers failed prints and the cost of plastic, so the only thing you pay for is a completed part.
an alternative would be renting a PolyPrinter and printing everything yourself, renting a poly like the ones the DMS has is $350 a month, and in this case could very likely be cheaper.
I regularly leave my printer unattended at home, so you could have it printing non stop while you are at work.
Hmm. I googled online just to see if anyone had posted their print time for Braq the dragon, and they had posted that it took roughly 16 hours to print. If I bump that up to 25hrs for printing a larger model, then that would be $125.00 + $5 bed fee, which would put it to $130.00. How would the rental be cheaper? or is it drastically off?
oh i was thinking WAY bigger, also the poly is a lot faster than many of the machines on the market so the print time will vary quite a bit.
the bed cost is basically per plate of parts. lets say you printed each piece individually, youd pay $5 for each one (in this case 42 parts) +plus the print time on each.
we can definitely group the parts up to reduce plate costs and print time.
The wing size appears to be the limiting factor. I’d assume that if you max the wing out to the size of the bed, that’s how big you can get. I haven’t checked how big that is, though.