Here we go. Lots has happened and pretty quickly too. We took some pictures of the progress that’s been made, so hopefully that makes up for the recent absence in updates.

This first photo shows about how much stuff can be made in a really short amount of time (each of those were printed in under ten minutes), and about how much plastic was used. Actually, that’s about twice as much plastic as the pieces used in their creation.

This next picture shows where we are in stage two. Stress testing the machine. You’ll see a spool, a cable chain link, another pendant, oh, and of course a test print of one of our commission pieces. “Bench Warmer”. She was made in two pieces, and as you can see, she really does sit flat on the surface. The blind bag is for scale, we didn’t print her. Still need to paint her.

Now, for comparison, that first bunch of filament was about a tenth of a pound or so. It was a sample, (I’ve got a couple more in fact). What you’ll see next, is our supply.

Yes. That’s a LOT of plastic. In fact, that’s pretty close to ELEVEN POUNDS of plastic. How much did Bench Warmer use? Here’s a hint, she was made with the currently open bundle of plastic. We can make a TON of these toys now.

And here’s the first upgrade we printed for the machine. A filament guide, to ensure that it behaves correctly as it’s being fed into the printer.

So, what’s next? Well, there’s a small issue with plastic curling that we’ll be tinkering with solving today. Once we’ve got that issue solved, we’ll make the toy a bit bigger (I want to make her at least another inch taller or so) and then get to painting.



Oh, one more thing. Bench Warmer took under two hours to print. Yeah. I was initially calculating about six hours for the toy. Guess I was fairly off on that estimate. So, basically, if you want to order a toy we’ve already modeled up, we can do it FAST.

Perhaps next time I post we’ll have some painted figures to show off.