This week, I are mostly been printing... Blobby Blobby Blobby
Mr Blobby - Digital Taxidermy
As soon as I saw this model I had to have it. For those of a certain age growing up in the UK our childhoods were indellibly etched with the presence of Mr Blobby. Spawned by a creative monster he graced (or rather bumbled) onto Noel Edmond's House Party on Saturday evenings circa 1996. This was a time before streaming and there wasn't even channel 5!! Options were limited and most people flocked to the most popular variety program of the day.
Sadly Blobby could not be contained in just a 1 hour TV slot and soon there were comic books cartoons a pop song and Blobby took over the UK. Of course this stratospheric rise to fame took its toll and overexposure led to a meteoric collapse in Blobby's popularity.
Needless to say this makes him ripe for a Judge Dredd appearance. I imagine that the residents of the Noel Edmond's Annex of Thatcher Block (Sector 55) are itching for a House Party with those Smurfs from the Jean Claude Van Damme block.
These are multipart minis with lots of options for arms and weapons. I printed some test pieces at 15mm and realised that I was going to have a hella fiddly time gluing individual arms on the blobby bodies. I resorted to loading the files up into meshmixer and created 10 different poses which I could then print en masse at 15mm scale. Meshmixer For The Win!!
Zorg Industries Wall Art - Thingiverse:4815231
To further embellish my Mega City One Miniature Storage Block I thought I would add a couple of signs which can be magnetically attached to the side or top of the case. This wall art was perfect when scaled down for miniature use.
Mulder & Scully - Maco3D
A commissioned print for my Dragon's Keep Roleplay Club chum Kat. We are currently playing in a Delta Green (Cthulhu meets the
X-Files) game as special agents and being the world's biggest Gillian
Anderson fan there was only going to be one FBI agent she wanted to
play.
I was a little dissapointed that these models came
as rar files and when opened I could see that they were designed in a
statuette scale for multipart printing. They are both very nicely
sculpted and I managed to support the files easily enough. Mulder also
came as a one piece print and Scully came as a two part print with
options for skirt or trousers which was also very nice. I would have
preferred a complete model in both skirted and trousered versions making
it easier for 28mm printing but this is a minor gripe.
However, the biggest problem with scaling statuesque prints down for tabletop games is that they are anthropomorphically correct. This means that they have spindly ankles, wrists and gun barrels which snap off at the slightest glance. To try to combat this I made them 5% bigger in the X and Y dimension in the hope of fattening and strengthening them up.
As you can see they don't look at all overweight.
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