Clementine Diorama

I started this print a little while ago, after finding it on Sketchfab. The artist’s name is Gokcen Yuksek and she has a certain anime style flair in her models that I find appealing.

The first model I downloaded is called Clementine, and according to the notes, she’s a young Victorian inventor who devised a machine to communicate with animals. This model stands out in that it won the grand prize for Pinshape’s Character Modelling Contest, and the prize was a Form 2 printer. The neat thing is that the model was made with 3D printing in mind. In fact it separates into some 15 pieces meant to be printed separately and then assembled.

Anyway, Cementine herself was printed at 0.05mm resolution, whereas the rest of the model was done at 0.1mm. The tubes she floats on were printed using some 2+ years old clear, which explains the yellowing, but I think it will make for a nice effect once the model is painted.

Assembled, the model is 7" long, by 5" wide and 6" tall. Although hollow with 1.75mm walls, the complete model adds up to 208ml of resin, plus another 100ml for the supports, in all nearly 1/3 of a bottle of resin.

Of course this had to be painted.  Previously I had used Tamiya and Citadel paints, but Clementine is the first model I painted using Vallejo and Scale 75 paints.  I used just about every technique I know, for this: the base colors and some highlights on Clementine, the octopus and the machine were applied with an airbrush, but everything else is hand brushed.

Here is the final version.  I was looking for a Victorian/Steampunk/Anime look, so I think I've got it.