Fun with 3D Printing Fossils

[Spoons]

Great teaching tool! 
 

Imagine having that archaeopteryx skull next to modern day raptors, egrets, ducks and songbirds!

[LordTrilobite]

On 4/28/2020 at 11:46 PM, Spoons said:

Great teaching tool! 
 

Imagine having that archaeopteryx skull next to modern day raptors, egrets, ducks and songbirds!

Well I also have a replica Velociraptor skull and skulls from a goose and heron. So yeah, I should make a comparison photo some time. Good idea! thanks!

[Chrisn01]

On 5/30/2019 at 8:24 PM, LordTrilobite said:

Last month my dad also printed this rather nice scan of a life size Stegoceras skull which I then assembled and painted. The detail is really great.

 

Download link:

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/stegoceras-pachycephalosaur-dinosaur-skull-f7fc7cccf9624aeb803788810d6261d5

That looks well cool, may I ask what process you used on the paint job to get it looking authentic.

[LordTrilobite]

3 minutes ago, Chrisn01 said:

That looks well cool, may I ask what process you used on the paint job to get it looking authentic.

It's quite simple actually. I used a darker brown as a base colour and made sure it covered everything. I then dry brushed several tints of lighter browns and yellows on there to highlight the shapes and give it a weathered look.

[Chrisn01]

11 minutes ago, LordTrilobite said:

It's quite simple actually. I used a darker brown as a base colour and made sure it covered everything. I then dry brushed several tints of lighter browns and yellows on there to highlight the shapes and give it a weathered look.

Cool, will give that a try, what does dry brush mean as not done that before. 

[LordTrilobite]

1 hour ago, Chrisn01 said:

Cool, will give that a try, what does dry brush mean as not done that before. 

that means making sure the paint brush is not very wet. It should be fairly dry and not a lot of paint on the brush so that the paint doesn't flow into the cracks. Instead the paint will catch on the raised areas, and thus it will accentuate them.

[Chrisn01]

28 minutes ago, LordTrilobite said:

that means making sure the paint brush is not very wet. It should be fairly dry and not a lot of paint on the brush so that the paint doesn't flow into the cracks. Instead the paint will catch on the raised areas, and thus it will accentuate them.

 

Thanks for the advice, Will give it a bash on this :0)

 

 

 

[Nanotyrannus35]

How do you get them so smooth? Do you use an extremely thin filament or sand it down? I can't see any lines.

[Chrisn01]

1 hour ago, Nanotyrannus35 said:

How do you get them so smooth? Do you use an extremely thin filament or sand it down? I can't see any lines.

Hiya

 

No sanding required, just used the High Quality Setting using a CR10S-Pro, Geeetech1.75mm filament & 0.4mm nozzel. Takes alot longer to print on HQ, but worth it 

 

Marble PLA come out rather good to, just need to add the teeth.