/diy/ - Do It Yourself

3D pen guy. PLA arrived. The monkey hood was ABS penned at 210º, the PLA at 175º as instructed.

The ABS was (is) very brittle and cooled instantly. The PLA cools slow enough you can mold it, but that makes it harder to bridge and gap, harder to "air draw". The PLA is better for filling, and can be smoothed with fingers (I've only seen this on YT) or bent into shape- or deformed out of shape by gravity. The PLA was also stringy, maddeningly stringy. Not sure if that's technique or heat setting.

Below are terrain pieces, a stone which needs to be smoothed (I need to get out my burnishing tool) and a log half filled (wanted to show the structure) The stone is my 2nd piece, the log my 3rd.

Everything I've done so far would be 1000% better coming off a 3D printer (look at any printed mini terrain rocks or tree trunks).

I feel a lot better about the pen itself.

/artblog

For now I'll stop posting updates until something interesting comes up.