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[scalebuilderchad]

You're saying this Hill Giant was printed that way ?

Yes. It was a stack of 0.05mm layers of UV cured resin.

If they tilted it in a more strategic way, and printed in 0.02mm layers, your work would have been easier.

 

[urumomo]

This isn't from hundredths of a millimeter in the print depth for each layer , it's from the resolution of the projected UV image :

 

[scalebuilderchad]

I have an 8K printer (whatever that's worth) and still see those layers.

 

[urumomo]

Base in progress

 

[WtShark]

Looks good!

 

[BarleyBop]

Base in progress

Looks like those branches would reach out and grab your fingers if you weren't careful...

 

[urumomo]

lulz ,
I like the shape , it looks cool from multiple angles

This is the first time using that AK acrylic terrain stuff .
I usually use gypsum , and I was thinking about doing the mass of it with gypsum and top it with that acrylic since I knew it would take forever to dry , but I said let's see what happens . I ain't in a hurry .
That stuff's been on the shelf for close to a decade -- I thought it was unopened but I evidently opened it at some point to check it out , lol , don't remember but I've definitely never used it on any projects .

I did the above in 2 lifts of about 5mm depth each . The first layer dried for 3 days until it felt stable enough and then I did the second 5 mm layer this afternoon .
The first layer was thicker around the edges since I ramped it up under the lip to lock it in place .
( in that initial photo you can see all the holes I punched with a toothpick to speed it up , haha , Friggin graphite ! I'm going back to steel )

After the first layer cured I glued a little rectangular piece of styrene scrap , 1/2 mm thick , to the base of the tree using CA and more CA with baking soda . so I'd have a good anchorage and make it much easier to keep it upright while that forever mud dried .
Then mounted that using the AK last night .

It needs a little more depth on the tree side and then at least another 5 mm of depth where the giant will stand .

I spatula'd out some of that AK onto parchment paper in varying thicknesses so I can slice it into stone / shale fragments .
It won't conveniently crumble like gypsum , unsurprisingly , so slicing it is .

I'm psyched I get to finally start running color on a brush .

 

[scalebuilderchad]

That base looks really good. The ground has great texture. And is that a real tree branch?

 

[urumomo]

It's a real tree -- I shrank it down in the dryer , that's why all the leaves fell off .

" the root I'm using ,, "

 

[scalebuilderchad]

Haha

Yeah, I figured it was a branch or root or something.either way it looks great.

 

[the Baron]

Are you going to leave it bare or add some leaves to it, Momo? It's going to look great either way, but I'm just curious about your final vision.

 

[Glenn S]

lulz ,
I like the shape , it looks cool from multiple angles

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This is the first time using that AK acrylic terrain stuff .
I usually use gypsum , and I was thinking about doing the mass of it with gypsum and top it with that acrylic since I knew it would take forever to dry , but I said let's see what happens . I ain't in a hurry .
That stuff's been on the shelf for close to a decade -- I thought it was unopened but I evidently opened it at some point to check it out , lol , don't remember but I've definitely never used it on any projects .

I did the above in 2 lifts of about 5mm depth each . The first layer dried for 3 days until it felt stable enough and then I did the second 5 mm layer this afternoon .
The first layer was thicker around the edges since I ramped it up under the lip to lock it in place .
( in that initial photo you can see all the holes I punched with a toothpick to speed it up , haha , Friggin graphite ! I'm going back to steel )

After the first layer cured I glued a little rectangular piece of styrene scrap , 1/2 mm thick , to the base of the tree using CA and more CA with baking soda . so I'd have a good anchorage and make it much easier to keep it upright while that forever mud dried .
Then mounted that using the AK last night .

It needs a little more depth on the tree side and then at least another 5 mm of depth where the giant will stand .

I spatula'd out some of that AK onto parchment paper in varying thicknesses so I can slice it into stone / shale fragments .
It won't conveniently crumble like gypsum , unsurprisingly , so slicing it is .

I'm psyched I get to finally start running color on a brush .

The tree looks great! It looks just like a number of the trees that my city planted at the start of the drought last summer.

 

[urumomo]

Are you going to leave it bare or add some leaves to it, Momo? It's going to look great either way, but I'm just curious about your final vision.

I've started working on the dead tree that will accompany him on the base , ,

 

[urumomo]

After that second layer AK dried for 24 hrs ,
it finally shrank and fissured like I anticipated ..
so I decided to go with it . good starting point :

 

[BarleyBop]

Random generated is so real!

Giant is one heavy dude!

 

[urumomo]

The fissure was serendipitous .
Now I can have some exposed roots --- a tiny ball of the moss that grows all over the live oaks landed on my foot yesterday -- perfect for roots

 

[WtShark]

That looks great, one of those happy accidents.

 

[urumomo]

 

[urumomo]

 

[Glenn S]

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You know you have done a great job on the base when one of my first thoughts is "what could I build that would do justice to that base?"

 

[urumomo]

 

[BarleyBop]

Nice. Really like the subtle tonal variations.
... and now there's debris.

 

[urumomo]

needs more debris
bit by bit

 

[BarleyBop]

...just let Mr. Hill on it for two minutes!

 

[urumomo]

 

[BarleyBop]

...the plot thickens.

 

[WtShark]

Ohhh, and now Cloven Hooves....hoofs? hoovs? (Feet).

 

[urumomo]

glad you put Feet there in parentheses .
you and your plural confusions ,

That's Hilda . She works here . Doing what? , I have no idea , but she's on the payroll for some reason .

 

[urumomo]

 

[urumomo]