Spring Clean Challenge: Developing WWII infantry for 3D printing
Print Test II
Just a quick update on my second print test.
With the addition of a block beneath the miniatures they were strong enough to remove from the build plate. However this time they snapped at the ankle! On reflection this part of the model is less than a half millimetre thick on the 6mm figure. Positioned so closely to the base the ankle makes for a likely break point. You can probably also see from the attached images that the guns didn’t print successfully.
With these issues in mind I think I will have to make some concessions to the proportions of the model. This is something I had already considered but I wanted to stick as close to true scale as I could manage.
These figures really are very small but you can see details such as the back packs and even the knife on the hip have been retained. On my next test I will aim to reduce the number of supports as removing them on such a delicate model is tricky. It’s possible that a 6mm model is just too small to work with. The 8mm model seems to have been more successful, the extra volume giving it a little more robustness and detail.
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