3D Printing poser files from smith micro

Attached is a photo of one of the first test builds in Polylactic acid. It is a model which was intended to cater for the needs of architects and modelmakers of dioramas. Lots more poses and sizes available.

Please be aware that most of the images on this blog were taken with the iphone 3G, so quality is not the best!

Orca 0.42 mendel now in operation

Let the 3d printing begin. Abs and pla materials available. High resolution and low resolution.

3D Printing Scotland

Scotland is proud to present the first ever Orca 0.42 reprap 3d printer from Mendelparts.
We have yet to find out if it was well worth the wait as the ordering time was delayed greatly because of a backlog, and one can only guess it is because there was so much demand for such a cool looking design (with some very impressive demo prints)

More to come.........

Porridge

Have porridge for breakfast with a cup of hot tea.....its a great start to your working day.

Makerbot Thingiverse and Rapman Home 3d Printers

An exiting revolution is happening in the wonderful world of 3D Printing. Replicators are popping up all over the online community and hobbyists and 3d printing enthusiasts are now beginning to print useful things.

This is an extremely important step in the world of consumerism, where no longer will we need to go to the local hardware shop to purchase a crevice tool for our Dyson because the dog accidentally thought it was a bone!

Yes, now we can 3d print our own and use it straight away.

Think of the endless possibilities of products that these rapid prototyping machines could make. No more products on shelves gathering dust. Just 3D Printing on demand.

Who is going to store all the raw materials?
Where is China going to fit in to all this?

All will be revealed in the next 10 years!
Watch this space.

Games workshop warhammer

Just passed the Games Workshop in town and popped in for a look. Got into a cool painting demo from the nice and kind shop owner Stuart. Saw how cool some of the models were and decided to get my a*** in gear to offer custom bespoke characters to any scale:

This new service would also be useful for those making dioramas but especially cool for RPG role playing gamers to have a piece that is special to them rather that an 'off-the-shelf' orc or elf designed by A.N.Other.

Will be posting a price plan soon using the Mecha Warrior Space Pirate as a case study.

The Dentist Is Alive........

Big thank you to Scott Andrews of www.lightbeam3d.com
He 3d printed Wayne Robson's The Dentist for a really cool price.

It was made on his Perfactory machine with the mini-multi lens with an resin called Nanocure.
I'm sure you will agree that the resolution is the highest that can be achieved on any 3d printer in todays market.

I intend to use this as a master model to make a mould from so anyone wishing to purchase a casting then please get in touch magicmodel@hotmail.co.uk

What Camera?

Just went to look for a camera to take some nice new photos of figures for magicmodel website and low and behold the wife has thrown it in the bin!@!@£$:-(

It was a nice Nicon coolpix passed down from my father-in-law. The battery cover was knackered but I could still get a crackin photo using mains power.

The next step was to try and find the secondary camera, the panasonic lumix.......guess what it has mysteriously dissapeared.

That left my iphone or the sony camcorder.

Any way decided to try some test shots with the iphone to see if the macro was good enough......what macro indeed.

On another note I heard some bad electric cracklin noise where my 4 way adapter for the pc plugs into the wall. Decided to swap the old for the new, see photos below (taken with iphone)

No fizzy crackilin now yippe, no danger of pc accidental power failure caused by some old nineteen fifties electric socket. I'm off to listen to the Craig Charles funk and soul show.

Darth Wayne on board

This is the first opportunity for the public to have their very own Wayne Robson 3D Print.

Check out his web site at www.dashdotslash.net

It is a collectors piece and should be handled with care.

Please stay posted for more details.

Web site update

Hi there all, just getting some new ideas for a new website called Poserprint.

First we must get magicmodel to get more customers.

Also moving into google sketchup with a website called sketchup3dprint

All new ventures are aimed at helping students and professionals achieve a real 3d model from a cad file.

Scoobydoobydoo

Farmer

ZBrush model of a portugeese farmer of the 1900's.

Sculpted in India, Prepared in Scotland, Printed in Holland, Sent to Spain.

Magicmodel is not only UK based, it has gone global now!!!!

Todays snowman

Try this....it's amazing

Here is a link to the free 3D Sculpting program I discovered.

http://www.sculptris.com/

It's called Sculptris and although it's free now, it may not be for ling as the Big Sharks at Pixologic have aquired the programmer and his amazing software.

Here is a screenshot of a model I sculpted.

Figureprint from Ownage

Just found this new print and paint job from Ownage manufacturing (the best in the business) .
Nice model Huh?

Using Turbo smooth

If you need a computer game character data capture 3d printed then we can make it nice and smooth for the 3d printer so that you're model will come out looking like a nice pair of double Ds and not Kryten from Red Dwarf. See the example below:

Pixologic 3D Print Exporter

Just tried to get the 3D Print exporter plug in to work for the second time, only to realise that it is only compatible with ZBrush 3.5 and not 3.1 (which is the version of the 30 day trial) Time for a Homer Simson moment.......DOH!

Anyone interested in giving it a go, here is the link www.pixologic.com/zbrush/downloadcenter/zplugins/

This tool will enable creative sculptors and digital artists to sreamline their workflow and reach the tangible object quicker. Thanks Pixologic

Dragon 3D Print

This is a 3D Print of a dragon that we did for Pete who designed it after much research watching endless DVDs with dragons in them, finally deciding on this design.

As you can see it was once in the computer behind a screen, in 2D, made of pixels.....now it has come alive!!!!!

New web site launch nearly ready

Here is a sneak preview of the New website which will be going live on July 27th 2010. Hope you like the look of it :-)