Full Scale Storm Trooper Mask

[Geoff]

Since someone actually got round to printing the Imperial mask, I thought I might share the other Star Wars mask I put up on Thingiverse, and of course before I got the chance to finish it on my teeny weeny machine, Ericpark went and printed a full one!

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:391664



Here is a picture of his son wearing it..

..really made my day

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[cokreeate]

Going to attempt to print this out this month thanks.

[jimc]

i gotta say geoff, you are one busy guy. i was keepin an eye on your stuff on thingiverse. you were pumpin out one to two models a day for awhile there. was this accumulated work you decided to post up or were you actually modeling these that fast?

[Geoff]

i gotta say geoff, you are one busy guy. i was keepin an eye on your stuff on thingiverse. you were pumpin out one to two models a day for awhile there. was this accumulated work you decided to post up or were you actually modeling these that fast?

Since I was made redundant in November last year, i've had alot of free time! and living in the country now so many things that would normally take your time do not exist anymore, most of them modelled at the time, I just go in radical spurts sometimes, I am one of those people that has too many hobbies for their own good lol (guitar, R/C, robotics, painting, making a 3d printer, making a giant 6 foot terminator 3D print, hexapods, tricopters programming a game engine... argh the list goes on.)

So I will sort of get fixed on one area and go hard for a few weeks, then another then come back to it, so check in a month and you will prob see another 100 things up there on thingiverse, or I think I am moving to CG Trader so more likely on there. The only time I actually will change the schedule is if someone pays for something then it's pretty much all on that.

The kids are in bed at 8:30pm, my wife likes watching those english murder mysteries on TV which I can't stand lol, so I generally escape to my man cave and work on something.

My vacation is nearing an end tho, I said to myself once I eat into half of my redundancy payout, I will go for a new job and it's been now nearly 9 months lol.. as good as it sounds can get a little boring lol, I need to work.

[jimc]

i can pretty much relate to all that stuff geoff. well in any case man you doing some real nice stuff so keep it up. wish i could do that sculpting style of modeling.

[Geoff]

And there has been 4 made so far..

The best I think was magicksticks, he did a great paint job. It really makes the whole thing worthwhile when you see someone print one of your models out, this isn't a small print job.

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[Marm]

Well damn Geoff.

I have liked about a dozen of your designs without even realizing it was you. Now following!


AHHHH YOU MADE KERBALS! LONG LIVE JEB!

[LambdaFF]

Impressive.

[Hugues]

Hi Geoff,

Impressive work.

I will have to print large parts for my bike. I don't see any seam on your parts. What is your technique ? Is it due to postprocessing ? Do you simply cut the parts straight with your CAD or you model the seam as well to hide them into the object ?

[Geoff]

Well damn Geoff.

I have liked about a dozen of your designs without even realizing it was you. Now following!


AHHHH YOU MADE KERBALS! LONG LIVE JEB!

I love meh kerbals
I have made many mods....
http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...hlight=wayland

Hi Geoff,

Impressive work.

I will have to print large parts for my bike. I don't see any seam on your parts. What is your technique ? Is it due to postprocessing ? Do you simply cut the parts straight with your CAD or you model the seam as well to hide them into the object ?

Thanks, I use blender, model it first, then use a feature where you can slice through your model (at given angles). I create a duplicate of the object, slice it and delete the respective half, leaving two split pieces. Then I do an Edge loop and fill that gap, it's a pretty rinse and repeat technique (like keyboard shortcut easy... press K for cut... Z for cut through to the back of the mesh and C for constrain to axis either on off.