10 of 25, 3D pystical model

Just a small blog, as a side part of the CoP project,  after making the cartoon  character Mika, i wanted to have a physical copy of her as a little figure. i had two options in front of me, 1st was buy some FiyMo. Daz Clay and make her my self, though trial and and error, or have her 3d printed,,,

 i went for the 1st option, make her out of clay, for a few reasons such as cost,  size, and enjoyment, they was once a time when i was really creative making things out of paper, card and even fabric, i've even printed out and assembled a collection of Paper Craft items character for MLP, FNaF, Kingdom Hearts, and even Metal models of star-wars ships. second to this i enjoyed air-fix models... the point is i tend to have more fun when making something, then to buy it as a whole.

that and i couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get it 3D printed, i made a account at Shape Ways, and tried to upload Mika there to get a quote, but all i got was errors,,, models too big, this parts too thin, this is too small, and its preview looked really gadded and crap..like when you select a really smoothed object in Maya and under normal set it to Hard,, it looked like that, but instead of squares it was an explosions of triangles..

So i made her out of Daz Clay, damn thing is like cement if you get it on your hands and leave it there, and man is it messy..well it is clay so, yeah,,, but i made a mini model of her, painted and,,well yeah i forgot to varnish her so the models kinda sticky...

Shape Ways is a good site to upload your own creations and have them printed off, there is almost no limit to size,, other then material and cost,, material ranging  from Plastics, to sand stone, and even metals like copper or gold downside however is, you do need to meet minimum standers for the printing process to work,, it needs to have the right thickness,, if its too fat in places or skinny on others, they is a high chance it will break. that and size,, if its too small it will simply not print, and if its too big, well its gonna cost a lot and will probably be split into parts.. when i tried to see what the price for Mika would be, the out come was Coloured Sandstone(smooth) at 2.5 inch would cost around £15-20. that's not too bad i guess,,, but damn its would be small... once i work out just how your meant to set up a model, i would more then love to get a few models printed out.