Time to show off

i love this 2 characters... think of their positions to be printable without support..

thats a really nice model cant wait to see it painted

i also use my printer the most for printing characters from games
i like your idea of making little dioramas maybe il give that a try too

can you send me the full stl (with hair) please ?
i would like to print it

OK, so I'll do 2 attachments.  The first attachment will be the girl with the hair and jet pack separate.  The second one will be the complete model with the hair and jet pack on.

I'll be curious to see if anyone can print this in one piece.

Edit:  Hmmm... that didn't work.  Apparently I can't attach a 4.6MB zip file.

That's a great site , I bookmarked it for future use.  Here are the links:

Sci-Fi Girl - Parts.zip     4.55 MB
http://zht16j.1fichier.com/en/

Sci-fi Girl - Complete.zip     4.54 MB
http://lz08fy.1fichier.com/en/

Enjoy, and please post images of your prints.

Not impossible.

You get creative with how you segment it and place it on the print bed, so nearly everything is build up vertically.

Try this .stl

I prefer to cut the model and print it in segments that don't require support.  It's a lot easier to glue 3 or 4 pieces together than to remove dozens if not hundreds of tiny little support pieces and clean up after them.

I decided to name my Sci-Fi girl:  Domino.  Here she is... with her hair on.

Marvin the Matian is quite rough.  In those images, the helmet is snaded, the head, body and arms are natural (as printed), and the feet and helmet broom were brushed with acetone, which gives them the shine.

I started to work on him the other day, and I'm using modelling putty to fill in the tiny gaps and groves before I prep him for painting.

The girl is pretty much how it came out of the printer.  When I took those pictures I had only cleaned up the lower part of her right leg.

As for the ridges, that seems to be what some of my prints look like, and I wish I knew what caused it.  Each "ridge" repeats every 8-10 layers.  It's not a side to side shift, becuase what appears "inset" or pushed in on one side, is not pushed out on the opposite end.  Rather it appears that every few layers, the overall perimeter of the model is either "swollen" or "constricted", like a ripple.

If this was occurring only in a few places, I would think it was due to some kind of movement or wobble, but it's occuring throughout the entire vertical build with nearly perfect spacing, so I'm wondering if this is some slicing artifact.  I used Slic3r to slice this, becuase I was having a hard time slicing the hand with the gun in KiSSlicer.  Skeinforge is a lost cause to me, it fails to slice anything, so I no longer bother.

I'll try KiSSlicer again on a single part just to see if it produces the same ridges.

I've added a few extras to Domino, so she just about done, except for the paint job.

I also got a cheap dial indicator at Sears to level my print bed after I add the glass surface.  I printed Ian Johnson's dial holder, unfortunately it didn't fit well on my SD3 print head.  So I went ahead and remodeled the piece in Solidworks.  The resulting piece works quite well, and is held in place with 4 neodymium magnets

I'm thinking about drilling holes in the corner of the print bed, and embedding some magnets in there, then adding a adhesive metal strip to the edge of the glass, so everything is held in place magnetically.  I found the when I use document clips on the corners, it applies enough pressure to deflect the glass downward in the corners.  Additionally, the document clips get in the way sometimes, so I'd rather try something different.