PIRATE SHIP DECORATION BLACK PEARL FIGUREHEAD 3D PRINTER

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3D printers can produce incredible details (provided that the artwork is done properly). Unfortunately most of the 3D sculptures have to be painted which is not in line with the requested finish sometimes. And a primer and one or two coats of the chosen colour have to be applied, so, depending on the scale, the smallest details could already be gone.I know this from my experience with the Batavia kit from Kolderstok which had beautifully detailed sculptures 3D printed but in blue colour. My comment was there and is now, given that an awful lot of printing materials are available, with timber option among them, why can't the sculptures be printed in timber colour so, if needed, they could be used without painting? I know of course that 'timber' colour does not mean anything, as we have to talk rather about oak or elm or walnut or whatever but a generic 'timber' colour could surely be found.
János
 
Who knows when timber colors such as oak, elm, or walnut will be available in printer colors, you can get clear resin and tint it I have been told, and the fact they can print in metallic resin now they might print in wood in the future one day.
 
Speaking as a printer, I haven't seen any kind of resin that would look like wood. It would just be a uniform brown of whatever shade you choose. The stuff that looks like wood is filament with wood particles, a completely different process and you won't be seeing ultra-detailed parts like these amazing scultures, or miniature blocks, printed using filament. As someone said to me a while back.... filament... good for printing wicker chairs but not small model parts :) .

Brown inks are good for keeping detail, and you can mix & match. Oil paints as well, as you can keep wiping it away until you only have the thinnest coat.
 
at the scale we are working with in model ship building any wood will not show any figure or grain pattern. a carving in boxwood the size of your thumb would be a uniform cream color with no visible grain or figure. Woods like boxwood, pearwood or Holly are uniform in color, texture and figure. just by looking at such a small carving i do not think you would be able to tell if it is wood or plastic. I have seen a print done in an ivory color and then given a wash of color. You would never know if it was ivory or not.
another thing is the carvings on ships were not left as natural wood they were painted.

if you were to try and scale down the texture, grain and figure of wood to a carving the size of your thumb it would be so tiny it would vanish from sight
 
True-ish. I would always coat resin prints anyway, just to protect against further UV curing as this makes the object become more brittle.
 
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