My 3D printer is in the process of printing out a large equestrian statue of Napoleon. It's from an 1830's casting by Emmanual Fremiet - this ( I think ) is the original
How big it is, I've no idea - nothing to scale it by...............
As is usual, smaller bronze versions were cast, like this
The statue is split into 11 parts, to fit on the printer build plate. It's difficullt to put a scale on the as yet incomplete parts, but I think it's around 1/6 ( the base is 300mm long! ).
Now, assuming that I can treat the joint lines, how do I paint this?
Do I paint it Antique Bronze, or weathered like the original? - OR paint it to resemble marble, or even with natural colours ( although my horse painting skills are rudimentary )? - I feel that he'd look too much like a dressed up Action Man if I did that!
Each part is taking on average 7-8 hours to print, so it's quite a long term task.
Anybody any thoughts or experience of painting such a large statue?
This comes from https://fab365.net/items/48 the model itself was free, but only as a reward for buying a Apollo 11 Command and service module - it's a slow to load Korean site, but it has some really interesting models to print - including some Star Wars items ( AT-T, Tie Fighters, X Fighter, R2D2, Millenium Falcon, Mandalorian Razor Crest & others ) which look quite effective, some at quite a huge scale
Dave
How big it is, I've no idea - nothing to scale it by...............
As is usual, smaller bronze versions were cast, like this
The statue is split into 11 parts, to fit on the printer build plate. It's difficullt to put a scale on the as yet incomplete parts, but I think it's around 1/6 ( the base is 300mm long! ).
Now, assuming that I can treat the joint lines, how do I paint this?
Do I paint it Antique Bronze, or weathered like the original? - OR paint it to resemble marble, or even with natural colours ( although my horse painting skills are rudimentary )? - I feel that he'd look too much like a dressed up Action Man if I did that!
Each part is taking on average 7-8 hours to print, so it's quite a long term task.
Anybody any thoughts or experience of painting such a large statue?
This comes from https://fab365.net/items/48 the model itself was free, but only as a reward for buying a Apollo 11 Command and service module - it's a slow to load Korean site, but it has some really interesting models to print - including some Star Wars items ( AT-T, Tie Fighters, X Fighter, R2D2, Millenium Falcon, Mandalorian Razor Crest & others ) which look quite effective, some at quite a huge scale
Dave
Look at the Darkstar Molten Metal range.
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