Pain - war is no fun - not even for space cowboys

This model was created by me, for a "challenge yourself" competition of the miniature painting guild.

The given challenge was:

"This is for all you space cowboy fans out there. Paint up your favorite Blue - Marine or Proxy and duke it out. You have 2 months to paint up your submission."

As i am not a fan of space cowboys, at least a fan of Blue-Marines, i decided to create a model to make the challenge worthwhile.

First of all:

Please bear in mind, that i am still an apprentice when it comes to creating models.

If you find any issues, i will try to fix them but there will be no guarantee i will succeed in doing so.

The model is manifold.

There should be no serious resin traps but i cannot guarantee that there are none.

(You should use UV-tools before printing! I use it on all of my prints anyways).

I succesfully printed the final design as a "one piece" on my Saturn 2 - with lychee slicer supports only and using UV-Tools before printing.

For the auto-supports, i used a raft, first chose medium supports, at a 0.1 layer height printer setting, and lychee-slicer "supported" settings.

Then i increased the settings to "heavy", switched to the 0.025 layer height of my printer and ran the island detection, auto-adding light supports to all islands.

As far as i remember, before slicing, i swapped some of the medium supports for heavy supports.

Mostly, where they do the heavy work, and spots would be kinda unseen on the later model,

While i test-printed at least an early version of marine 01,

I could not afford to test-print the final versions at 100%.

But the 50% success should be proof enough, that it does work out.

I see no point in delivering an auto-supported version

and as i got no resin left for test-printing, i do not deliver any self-support versions.

I wish i would be able to deliver a cutted version for those with small printers,

but i feel, i still need to improve on that area

and lets be honest: at best, these tasks should have been taken into account during the models creation.

I am not yet there!

You will find:

a 50%, one piece version of the model;

a base at 100% - with cutouts for the marines position;

marine 01 at 100%;

marine 02 at 100%;

marine 02 at 100% with boolean cutouts for marine01;

The pictures show the stl, the plain printed version, the (yet unfinished) painted version

At 50% the model size is ~ 127x127x141mm

Thanks for reading.

Take care!

meebee

btw.. i won the competition. not because of my works quality, but because of the lack of participants ;)

details in the description/included readme