This week’s selection is the life-size Hulk 3D print by Reddit contributor seagullsattack.
seagullsattack operates a 3D printing service, currently composed of an incredible 65 3D printers.
This 3D model, based on the Marvel character, was resized to more than life size for this project. The question is, how was it 3D printed?
If you look at this close-up image, you can clearly see that Hulk has been segmented into bite-sized pieces, each of which easily fits on a normal 3D printer.
How do you make the segments? While it can be done quite tediously with CAD software, seagullsattack did the right thing: they used LuBan.
If you haven’t heard of LuBan, it’s a standalone software tool that’s been around for many years. It provides a number of advanced mesh processing features, but there’s one that is especially useful for this project: it automatically breaks down a 3D model into hollowed parts. Even better, it labels them and creates posts and holes to ensure they are properly aligned when assembled. You can read more about LuBan here.
The next step was to print the very numerous parts generated by LuBan. In this case, seagullsattack used 14 Bambu Lab P1S 3D printers to get the job done. Apparently, up to 25 spools of Comgrow PETG were used to complete The Hulk.
It’s not clear how the parts were attached to each other, but many common glues can weld PLA parts together. Often, I use plain superglue.
This print isn’t quite finished. seagullsattack simply prints and assembles the parts, and then the resulting sculpture is sent to another party for painting. It’s not known who the final buyer might be, but whoever they are, they’ll have a life-sized superhero to deal with.
Via Reddit
