Iron Man Mk III Bust

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Printing: I printed this in ABS on my heavily modded solidoodle 2 at 0.2mm layer height and 20% infill. Painting: The head is sanded then hit with Krylon 18 CT gold paint, sanded again, then another coat of gold (don't worry about masking the eyes). Any detail lines are picked out with a scribe. The sections to be red are again lightly sanded, the gold areas masked, then airbrushed with a combination of Iwata com-art acrylic paints to achieve the color I wanted. Sanding again before another coat. Then masking removed and an x-acto knife used to scrape the paint from the eyes until down to the bare ABS. A thin brush is used to run a black around the eyes and into a few of the detail lines to give depth. The base is assembled after wiring (see below) then painted matt black. Electronics: The electronics are two (2) 3mm white LEDs wired in parallel with the positive wired to a CR2032 Button Cell Battery holder and the ground wired to a 1P Dip switch, which is then wired to the ground of the holder:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E0IXQPYhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007QAJRQA Run the two LEDs and wiring up through the head before running the wires through the base. The base contains enough room to route the wires then solder to the switch and battery holder. The battery holder is glued in place and the switch is friction fit. Print Settings Printer Brand: Solidoodle Printer: Solidoodle 2 - Pro Rafts: No Supports: Yes Resolution: 0.2mm layer height Infill: 20% Notes: I used simply3d to slice the model How I Designed This Blender, Sketchup then netfabb I pulled an STL from elsewhere (I don't recall) into Blender and used limited dissolve to simplify the vertices and remove some issues with the mesh. I exported as .dae format and read into sketchup. I fixed up small issues, hollowed out the head to allow for the wiring, and designed the eye tunnels for LED lighting. The base was designed from scratch in sketchup using the dimensions of the battery holder and switch I happened to have laying around. Both were exported as .stl and then repaired in the free version of netfabb.