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How do you even print metal in 3D..

I've watched a video on it, but I still don't believe it is possible.

You must be a magician.

A stainless steel powder with an organic binder prints out the model. Then it is cured in an oven at a high temp.

I won't ask many questions, but how is are the steel powder and organic binder fed to the printing head of the device?

In what mode are they transported?

Tubes of powder, rather what means gets the media to the print head clean and consistently without it absorbing moisture and clogging up.

If these are trade secrets I'm asking for answers to, then forget I asked. I do NOT wish to poke at your methods to dissect them for my own reasons, I just think it is a feat of magic, still.



~Kiyote!

Ha. I'm very considerate of secrets when it comes to making things.

I have no idea :P I use a professional service.

Could you make tiny figurines made of metal, like the tiny little pewter statuettes you see from D&D?

I'd like a couple made of my fursona, and my other character's fursona, they are lovers.

Two small or medium sized all metal figures, to whatever size is easiest for design and production..

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I'd like you to consider ballpark prices, for this to be commissioned from you in the future, if you one approve my idea, and if you would be willing to be paid to create the 3D models from reference materials.

A whole lot of work for you, but I would expect to pay in advance, whatever you deemed a worthy fee for all services rendered.

Of course I can make that kind of thing. I have already done so. Just not printed at the time.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7818352/ is the first of my printable miniatures. A 2 inch high print would cost around $50 for a stainless steel miniature, not counting the time to create the model. If you like you can send me some reference sheets or drawings of your character (or links to them ) and I can figure something out.

Anything I sculpt and print has to meet a pg type rating. Can't afford to piss the print service off.

oxo oh wow

Yeah, you're going to have to interpret images of the characters into 3D, but I do have a crutch, my girl character has a 3D model on IMVU that I can take all - around snapshots of, not just her hand drawn reference materials.

The other character, the male wolf, [girl is a white polar bear girl with flowing hair], is a generic wolf anthro, or at least that's what you can design him as.

It's the girl, Kiki Bear Bear, a white polar bear girl, a tad skinny and tall, but stunning, that I want to be sculpted, even better than my own wolf fursona [within reason], and they would just be a pair of figures, that join together embracing each other.

I would pay extra, where you demanded that I need to, for the pose to join the other figure's pose.

I don't see an issue with creating them to embrace. That is entirely PG. If I created the characters and and the base separate they could be posed within zbrush, separated as 2 prints (3 with the base) which would allow a higher detail for each model. The model for printing has to be around 500K poly's at the end. which isn't really a problem for getting good detail as you can see.

An anthro polar bear and Anthro wolf would be fun to model. The more reference material you can provide the better I can do.

At this point, we should put it on hold, cause I need ballpark figures on the cost, and then time to accumulate the cash

Before we can go ballpark I need ref's, clothing? any other gear? poses, etc.

oh ok gotcha.

I'll get all that to you.

There are a couple of other options for material that are not metal by the way. Usually cheaper. A basic "white strong and flexible" is paintable, resilient and far cheaper to print. It won't hold as many details though. There is also a frosted detail which will. For DnD however I have always preferred the metal ones myself.

I don't want them to play DnD with, I just want them that same scale.

Very cool. Nice addition to the line up.

Thanks!