I recently bought a bambulab X1C 3d printer. This was inspired by how long it takes to machine many small parts for hobbies that could be adequately done with a 3d printer for much less effort. Design is much easier when you can iterate with 5 minutes of work per iteration and a few hours wait.
Work has been really busy recently so I decided to take a break from hobby engineering and do less ambitious fun things in my nights. I’ve been interested in learning to post-process 3d prints the way people do for props, and also for better 3d printed molds. This was kind of an experiment in that – I used a well recommended filler primer from Rust-oleum to try and hide layer lines and turn the 3d print surface into a good surface for painting. It seemed to work fine, but when I tried to make a nice layer-less surface for casting into it was clear how bad PLA is for sanding. There’s a Bondo product I’m going to try next.
Anyway, I like mushrooms and I found a guy on cults3d selling very nice mushroom models (https://cults3d.com/en/users/gazzaladra/3d-models), so I bought a bunch, printed them and spent a night painting them with my SO. Painting is harder than I remember; I haven’t painted since I was a child and mixed colors always turned out different from how I expected. However these are mushrooms so it’s realistic if they look a bit gross.
