We're Gonna Need A Bigger Gondola

As I continue to explore 3d printing, I decided that I needed to learn about cutting and resizing miniatures.

Therefore, I went fishing in the extremely deep waters of Cults3d to find a file that would allows me to do this.

Cue the music...

Der-dum. Der-dum. Derdum-derdum, derdum-derdum, der-ner-NER!

As I'd had said me success with the Cultist, and as Cthulhu-themed miniatures are ten a penny, I went hunting for something which might work forthe Rashaar in Carnevale.

This is not driven by any desire to not buy miniatures from TTCombat, which I think are excellent, but more because individual the models that I print are easier to drop into a skirmish game than something that requires units. Additionally, the more slender style of Carnevale miniatures means that most models that will print on FDM, won't really fit in, so this won't be a habit.

This particular file surfaced when I was doing a search for 'Deep One' (I stumbled across the Cultist when searching 'Dagon'), and immediately struck me as a suitable stand in for the Karcharos shark-monster from Carnevale.

The file suited my purpose for several reasons: firstly, I could see a use for it; secondly, it has an integrated base that I would need to cut off the print; and thirdly, it's title 'Huge Deep One' wasn't kidding and it would need resizing to fit on a 50mm base.

The cutting and resizing turned out to be really easy, and after watching a couple of short tutorial videos, I was able to get the file ready to print relatively quickly.

For some reason, when I started the print, there was a problem with bed adhesion and the feet were deformed within the first 10 minutes. I stopped the print, cleaned the bed (assuming I'd got grease on there some how) and tried again.

This time the print got 20 minutes in and one of the feet broke away from the bed. I tried re-slicing the the model to see if I could get more supports around the feet, I did, but it failed again.

I even tried re-orienting the body to have the feet not on the bed, but again no success. He kept going under, no matter how many barrels I put in him.

I then gave up for a while. Originally my plan was to include this model in the same post as the Cultist, but I just couldn't seem to get a successful print.

After leaving it a couple of days and painting some Skaven to calm down, I decided to try one more time, and try to add manual supports to keep the feet in place.

I didn't actually do this as I stumbled upon the Brim Ears button, which allowed me to automatically add small circles to the extremities and therefore increase the bed adhesion.

I set it to print and waited for it to fail...but it didn't.

Smile you sonofabitch!

The print was a success!

Yes, there are layer lines, but these are genuinely much less noticeable in real life than in the photos. There's scarring where the supports were attached, but this is largely invisible due to the pose, but I do need to learn how to manually support to reduce this.

The sculpt itself is perfectly fine, if a little frog-like. To be honest it's sort of appropriate for the Rashaar. Also, it was free, so I'm not complaining. I probably could have made it a little bigger and have it still fit on the base, but that was hard to predict.

Painting was done with contrast paints: Apothecary White, Basilicanum Grey, Gulliman Flesh and Skeleton Horde, before the back was over brushed with Eshin Grey and lightly dry brushed with Administratum Grey.

Acquired: -92 (I've got rid of some ugly Heroclix and Wizkids models I really won't use.)

Painted: 135

Lead Mountain: 425