My First Life-size 3D Print (Iron Man)

Love seeing the results of ambitious and brilliant work.

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Hi there,

Does the Luban software allow you to slice along existing seams?
That would allow you to hide the seams a little better, but I undertand some slices are just unavoidable.
Also, if youā€™re buyin in this kind of bulk, you might want to check out SUNLUā€™s deals.
just make sure to try a few colours first, as white has different meaning in different brands, Bambu white is ā€œcolorlessā€, where the SUNLU white I got was Bone White.
After trying many, my favourite white is eSun matte Milky White (IKEA furniture white).
I use SUNLUā€™s recycled PLA for all my test prints and havenā€™t any issues due to filament quality.
On one hand, that is not vary bambu-store friendly, but it does shoow their great compatibility.
SUNLU still seems to ship on plastic rolls, wich saves you a round in the pastamatic to respool eSun cardbooard spools, but they are light, so you might want to print yourself a battery barbell (or a dessicant container for inside your spool as a weight)

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I do believe Luban would likely allow for that, itā€™s a pretty intuitive tool. At the very least you could theoretically use a solid model and splice it up that way; however, my model was meant to be multiple pieces, and then I sliced those pieces.

Originally my intention was to showcase the simplicity of being in the Bambu Labs environment for everything from printer to filament. Having the quality control, RFID, etc. without any tinkering/setting changes was critical to this print, as it tends to be a barrier for entry for most that are intimated in 3D printing. I had wanted to show that you could do something as large as a life-size Iron Man with little to no experience, and relatively affordable (compared to buying a pre-made statue from a prop store or eBay).

Unfortunately, with the latest issues of the Bambu filament, Iā€™m actually finishing the last section with SUNLU White purchased from Amazon. It works fine, the end of the rolls gets a little tricky, and I know I could respool it or print the RFID tags; however, Iā€™m still trying to avoid doing those extra steps. I feel 3D printing has two audiences; those that want/enjoy tinkering with the machines, settings, filaments, brands, etc. and those that want to spend more time with the finished products. I tend to fall in the finished product basecamp.

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Kind of funny the repercussions from someone deciding it was ok to swap problem filament into an otherwise pretty ideal ecosystem. They turned what would have been a glowing review that would have probably brought in more customers into essentially a cautionary tale that may or may not bring in more customers.

Would sure love to know if they are going to address this. If they arenā€™t, I hope they will let use custom RFID tags because the AMS is very convenient.

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Well, now I know why Bambu PLA Basic Jade White has been so hard to get lately! :wink: I think it turned out great! If you paint it, let us know the results!

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I would like to recommend the quality of the Ender Value Pack filament to you, although I donā€™t normally make recommendations for filament manufacturers. Every time I use this filament, I have very good outer walls in terms of the layer image, which leads me to believe that it is actually pretty good quality. And I am achieving high print speeds, with slightly higher temperature. Before that I had Elegoo PLA+ and that didnā€™t produce such good quality. I also dry the filament. It fits into the AMS and there are no problems until the end of the roll and even when changing filament to another roll.

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After nearly six months of printing and 42 rolls of filament later, Iron Man is finished! With the Bambu filament quality issues, I switched to SUNLU for the last 4 rolls. Though I would say the quality of the SUNLU is better than the new batch of Bambu PLA, it certainly does not play as well with the 3D printer!

I had zero issues for 38 rolls of Bambu, but with the four SUNLU rolls I had multiple clogs, spool issues, lidar issues, etc. and needless to say, it certainly tested my patience over the last few pieces.

But alas, itā€™s done, it was a fun experience, Iā€™m extremely happy how it turned out, and I absolutely dread the thought of painting it. Onto the next build!

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And now, whatā€™s left is the paint jobā€¦ but even as it is now, it looks awesome. Great make (literally and figuratively).

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Dude!!! Iā€™m in awwwwe! That is fantastic

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Thanks for mentioning resin. I had forgotten about that.
Currently printing a Star Destroyer and was trying to decide how to fill the gaps.

Awesome project and I loved seeing the pictures. You mentioned purchasing it at Gambody (never heard of that before). Did you buy it as is and you just had to print it or did you enlarge it plus create the joints/pins?

Do you happen to have a link to the model?

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Take your pick from here : Iron Man STL Files: Premium 3D Printing Models of Iron Man Armors - Gambody

Or may continue browsing for some other models

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But that means youā€™ve scaled it up from 1:8 to 1:1? No loss of details then?

Itā€™s not me you have to ask.
itā€™s him :point_down:

@lildobber13 Do you happen to have an answer for me?

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@lildobber13 Do you have the ability or bandwidth to do this for a retailer? Interested in purchasing multiple, but of a different character.

Thank you! It was a fun project, one Iā€™m looking to start again soon. Not sure which character though.

Hi @OfthewellNL, sorry for the delayed response I was moving to a new shop and have been tied up. I purchased the file directly from Gambody (Iron Man Mark 46 - STL files for 3D Printing | Gambody)

From there, there were multiple pieces (head, arms, legs, feet, torso, and lower torso). Each piece was scaled up 800% using Luban, and that also split the part into multiple pieces that could fit on my Bambu printer. The software would number them, and also create rods/pins for each piece so they could be glued together.

Hi @sbvr, Iā€™ve contemplated it. Itā€™s not a super challenging project, and to be honest the software and the printers handle 99.9% of the work. The problem is shipping, delivery, and making sure you can find a steady stream of quality filament. Near the end of my print I was having all sorts of difficulties with Bambu filament that really took a bit to get sorted.

I tried to apply it to a statue and got bad results. To be precise, the attempt at splitting with ā€œLubanā€ was unusable. At least in the free version. I have played through various scenarios and have not found one in which nonsensical splits were prevented. This led me to the realisation that it is better to split a 3D model directly in BambuStudio. Why: You can choose the cuts yourself, you will need fewer cuts.

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