RELEASE: "Mr. Belz" bust

[This release is available for the Supporter and up tier patrons for free throughout January and February, 2020, and can be downloaded from the Patron Zone. He will later on be available for sale in my store.]

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So here we are at the end of January 2020. During this month I have managed to turn 40, release an original Orc Reaver, as well as a Picard bust that I'm actually quite pleased with, myself, and somehow managed to get even more annoyed with social media.

Mr. Belz

So let's close this month off with a late release, which this time is another original creation called "Mr. Belz" (thanks to Fotis for coming up with that name), and as you can tell he's a demon of sorts. When I started working on him I wasn't quite sure what to make of him, and you can tell by the save states in the time lapse which road I took to reach his final look.

I always give each sculpt a project name, and when I don't exactly know what I'm doing from the start I just have to name it something. In this case, the original project name was "Surgau Bust". What is a "Surgau"? Apparently this guy, who now is named "Mr. Belz"!

STL or 3MF?

You may have noticed the last few releases I have included both STL and 3MF files. Both can be used interchangeably, but I'm planning on switching to 3MF now in 2020 just because it's a more modern format with a lot more potential, and the resulting files are less than half the size of identical STL files. For now these 3MF are just dumb files containing nothing but the sculpt, and scale information. There's no slicer settings embedded.

If you are curious you can rename the extension .3mf to .zip and open it up and look around inside. Didn't make much sense to me, but I'm not the sharpest spoon in the drawer.

Prusa made a good blog post about 3MF, it's a good read. 

Print instructions

This guy is just one single, solid piece. No supports required. I'd use some infill up around his neck just to support the internal overhangs there, but otherwise I've done all I could to make infill as sparsely needed as possible, but sometimes it's difficult without sacrificing too much of the design.

Babu Frik

I know some of you have been waiting for that Babu Frik you saw me having started on. He will come, but I got terribly bored working on him the more excited I got about Picard, so he had to take a little step back. Now that more references of him are starting to show up, I'll get back to, and finish him. Don't worry!

And finally...

Thank you all for sticking around in this sculpting and 3D printing adventure! Any comments or questions, drop them down below, and there's a 44% I'll get around to answering promptly, so please nag me again in a private message or email if it's something important and you feel I may have missed it or forgotten to reply!

I have some exciting ideas about 2020 that I'm working on fleshing out, but it's not quite ready to be revealed yet, so I guess there's no real point in me writing about it, is there? No? Well...

That's all for now, then! Later! ✌