Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01852 I took the Christmas tree down today and with it gone there was room in the living room for yet another rocking chair. This one is from my side of the family. So now we have two rocking chairs in the living room.
Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01851 Allison has been subbing in Kindergarten for a few weeks now. She’s stepped up and is taking on this role like a champ. However, it is a stressful job to do because the kids need so much and because Allison cares so much. So, to wind down at night she’s been doing some relaxing coloring when not creating things on her new Cricut.
Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01850 I have my 3D printer and Allison has a new Cricut. She bought herself a Cricut with the gift cards that she received at Christmas and can now do a whole bunch of projects for school and for home. Eva is excited about this as well because she’s got some plans on things that she wants to make, too.
Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01849 Another post about 3D Printing, yes, once again. Tis has become so much fun to do and last night I took some tiny Axolotls that were printed with multicolor filament to give to some of my co-workers for their kids. When I got home in the morning I set up the printer to print this set of mini dragons. I plan on keeping a few and painting them and giving a few to the kids so that they can paint them as well. I found a whole bunch of other cute little animals as well. I may print more of them for the kids to paint as well.
Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01848 I finished my 3D print of Iron Man for my wall last night. IT took 5 hours and two tries to get right but now that it is done I am trying to decide what to do next. Should I just spray paint it a metallic black to make it more of a shadow box type piece of art or do I prime it and paint it iron man’s signature colors istead? Do I add in some LEDs so that parts of it light up? I’m trying to decide exactly what I’d like to do. I think I may look into how I could hide the wires within the print itself in the future to really make the lights work well. To do that, though I’m going to have to learn much more on how to create 3D print files. My toughest decision, however is where to put this on my walls.
Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01848 I finished off the red/blue/green filament in the 3D printer today by printing tiny axolotls and fidget devices or Andy. It then changed to the large roll of grey filament. I searched for something to print while I worked. The printer really warms up my office so that is nice in the winter. I found a wall decoration of Iron Man and I was able to scale it up to the full size of my printer’s hotbed. When I started it the first time I saw that it was printing too fast and making mistakes. So I changed some of the parameters and had it print slower and then it printed much better. I captured today’s photo at the midway point of the print. I liked how the print looked about 4 layers into the print as in the image below. I really like how this came out. It took 5 hours to print.
Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01847 Because the handle for Kirby’s Rainbow sword was so small I thought that I would take the handle that I created for a dagger that Eva wanted for her cosplay. That dagger did not work right because the blad was printed in 4 parts that did not go together right so I still had the handle parts. I glued it together and then added it to Kirby’s Rainbow sword. The problem is that when I was cutting off the handle I cracked the blade where it was attached to the crossbar of the sword. I glued it back together but it was no longer strong and Andy picked it up and it immediate cracked again. I sanded it down and attempted to put it back together but there is now a huge gap that I will again attempt to fill in and then I’m going to have to paint the whole thing with the primer spray paint and we’ll see if we can salvage this for a prop for Eva. It probably won’t have that fancy multi color filament showing though. But maybe I can make part of it still work for the de...