Pclabtech's printer ressurected!

The fruits of my labor. A 3D mobile make of circles.

 

Nice print man, good to see some working movable pieces :-D

 

The Huntress after a vapor treatment in a jar.
It's a TRAP!!! REALLY!!!
A bath you gave me, Acetone it was...

 

Painting Progress Panther front
A little blurry due to my being tired after painting and can't hold the camera still LOL.

Not finished yet, and some cleanup work needs to be done. Honestly, this is my very first paint job on a figurine, printed or mail order minis. Besides Spyder's suggestion of using an airbrush instead of acrylics and brushes, does this look good for a first try?

 

It may be the way the light is hitting it, hard to tell but the panther's face looks very good uniform paint distribution the right amount of paint and no white showing through. The green looks a little messy almost like you can see the brush strokes but again that could be due to the light. Not bad though for your first time! must be a little nerve racking don't want to mess up and print another one just because of paint haha. Perhaps you could try watering down the acrylic paint just a bit so it covers better if you find it too thick.

 

The panther is uniform because I used a flat black matte paint from a spray can and used painter's tape to mask the rest of the model.

the rest I painted by hand with a brush and acrylics.

 

The Castle at 50% infill

 

Hey, I don't have 8 legs!

I'm not sure the Copic marker airbrush system I was thinking of would work. The ink might not attach like paint. A real airbrush could change that, but there is definitely a learning curve.

 

As someone with an embarrassing amount of experience painting little plastic figurines, I'd strongly suggest that you spray-paint the entire thing in a thin layer of matte black (or white) prior to putting paint on top.
Acrylics can lay oddly on the surface of plastic, especially smooth ones like vapor-treated ABS. Acrylic paint will stick and distribute much better to other paint.
The other advantage of black is that if you miss covering any of the recesses with color, the eye tends to "miss" the black spaces, making the paint covering look more complete.

 

I did actually do that, the panther black matte and the rest white matte paint. My wife got me an airbrush for my birthday last week, so I am playing with that now... it works pretty nice.

 

Horse done with PHA plastic 100microns 30% infill.