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Site Update: July 12, 2024 #ILikeBigPrints

When I started 3D resin printing, I knew I wanted to swing for the fences, and push the limits of what a resin printer could do. The learning curve is rough, but the rewards are so, so sweet! Here are three of my latest. Arkham Asylum gate Brainiac’s Skullship Garraka (read more...)

Arkham Asylum Gate

InPrintCondition developed some great 3D files while they were operating. They primarily developed Star Wars stuff (which was excellent), but I was more excited for their Gotham-based stuff. I have several sets of files to work through. This Arkham Asylum gate is a prime example of their work. It is (read more...)

Brainiac’s Skullship

I don’t collect or customize much in the “Super Powers” scale, but I know several folks who do, and I enjoy seeing their work. Somewhere in that world, photos of this Brainiac ship started to bubble up. Turns out it was designed by DFSergent on Thingiverse, and it’s a totally (read more...)

Garraka

I stumbled across this Garraka 3D sculpt by CAITLINSCULPTS on Cults3D. It’s quite good, and I knew I would want to scale it up from Real Ghostbusters scale to 1:1o. That skirt barely fit inside ye olde Elegoo Jupiter, but it got the job done! I only wish I had (read more...)

Site Update: July 9, 2024 March of the Penguins

I have dozens of projects cooking at any given time. Usually, a handful will start to coalesce around each other to form a unified theme. Never was that more obvious than this recent bunch of flightless waterfowl bubbling to the surface together. I’d been working on my 3D-printed TNBA Penguin (read more...)

Penguin (TNBA)

I have mixed feelings about McFarlane reissuing the DC Direct 1:12 animated Bat lines. On the one hand, more figures means more fodder, and keeps after market prices down. That’s good. And new characters via Build-a-Figures is… kinda good, but also dirty pool on Todd’s part. But TNBA doesn’t even (read more...)

Penguin (No Man’s Land)

So McFarlane finally got around to producing a proper, comic-based Penguin. And it’s fairly decent! The scale is wrong (he’s too large, his head is ginormous compared to others), but it’s a solid sculpt and articulation. Todd’s version represents Penguin’s “classic” color scheme, which surprised me, given Todd’s clear preference (read more...)

Penguin (Iceberg Lounge)

So McFarlane finally got around to producing a proper, comic-based Penguin. And it’s fairly decent! The scale is wrong (he’s too large, his head is ginormous compared to others), but it’s a solid sculpt and articulation. Todd’s version represents Penguin’s “classic” color scheme, which surprised me, given Todd’s clear preference (read more...)

TNBA Penguin Kits

As of this writing, it’s clear that Todd McFarlane is happy enough to re-sell DC Direct’s 1:12 animated Bat lines, but not interested enough to offer new characters to “fill the gaps.” At least as far as the TNBA line is concerned. (Making us re-buy BTAS figures in order to (read more...)

The Cost of Customs

The Cost of Customs (or Why I Rarely Sell My Work) I am often told, by fellow enthusiasts and “muggles” alike, that I should sell my customized toys and creations. “You could make a lot of money,” they say. No disrespect, but anyone saying this has no idea what they (read more...)