Author Archives: mygurumi

After 100 hrs 25mis on printing time, 341.70m of PLA, 2 months of weekends and burning the midnight oil for several days, absolutely no social life and thanks EJ for taking care of everything else… I wrapped Rocket Raccoon game … Continued

Painting my big plastic figure at last. When I was holding thin brushes and painting details, I went back to my childhood memories of putting paints on plastic models. I started building models from Star Blazers Yamato, Galaxy Express 999 and … Continued

I got to know my machine UM2 and learned a lot about printing by making my costume this year. Of course there were mistakes and workarounds where I had to look up on-line and improvise quickly. adhesives and surface treatments: Glue … Continued

I usually previs my costume roughly and then do frequent fitting tests. I said “usually” when I’m working the way I normally do with rubber foam and pattern. However 3D printing was little bit nerve wracking since I couldn’t really do … Continued

I always wanted to have buffed arms! Modeling arms was fun because it was like modeling for mobility and I took creative license to make them muscular yet elegant. Usually I use rubber foam to create limbs just like constructing low-poly … Continued

I spent a day just splitting a head model into 14 pieces to fit in UM2 max printing space available and planning the orientation of the model on the platform to avoid the need for support structures with minimum overhang areas. … Continued

I know I won’t have many hours to experiment with printing before Halloween and work-work is getting busy too. I also have to think about plan-b in case something goes wrong during printing such as rolling blackouts… it happens in … Continued