Judge Dredd bust release!

Supporter and above tier, current Dropbox link in this post.

So here he is! I had to scramble a bit to get him finished before the weekend because I leave on a little trip tomorrow with my family that has been in the works for the past 8 months, and I had promised you guys you would have Dredd now in June, but I have to admit I'm pretty happy with how he turned out! No promises, but I would love to make a full figure out of him at some point...

I'll be brutally honest with you, I'm writing this at 2:00am and I have to get up in 4 hours to catch that plane, so this one time I have to forgo making a PDF with printing instructions. That's okay, though, because he is super simple to print! Just plop him into your slicer, like so, and print! Well, pretty much...

Supports: none!
Infill: 10% rectilinear (see more about this at end of this post)

Some of my thoughts on infill

If you are somewhat experienced you have probably figured this out already, but here it is anyway!

For artsy prints I like to use rectilinear infill because it uses about half as much plastic as the regular grid infill, and also requires about half the time, because it lays it down plastic along one axis on one layer, and the on the next layer it does the other axis, like so:

You get a stucture like this, which is more than enough for internal support that internal overhangs can start growing on:

It ends up flimsier than regular grid infill, but the main point isn't structural integrity in the case of printing things like busts that will just stand on a shelf and look pretty.

Just make sure you preview the infill in your slicer, because as you can see in Simplify3D here, 10% rectilinear infill gives more coverage than 10% grid infill, which is important for our purposes:

So enough lectures from me. Happy printing! I'll give you guys the full figure Wonder Woman when I get back home later next week!

Oh! One more thing!

I also plan on getting this guy completely done for you...