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Lucy Heartfilia – Fairy Tail

The 3d printable model was designed by DiNamuuu3D. This was both my very first time 3d printing a model(or 3d printing anything at all), and my first time painting a model. It shows, on both accounts. This was printed on a Creality Ender 3 V2 (FDM) printer. So right out of the gate, the details were never going to print like they would on a resin printer. It took many times re-slicing and reprinting many of the parts before I even had a usable model. It still required a bunch of sanding, filling, and reshaping of parts. And even after all of that, most parts still got many, many addition coats of paint to disguise layer lines and various surface flaws. The paint job itself is fine enough, for a first attempt. I used some metallic and color-shifting paints for various details, but none of it comes across in photos. The biggest flaw (of many) in the paint job, is the fact that I did a glossy clear-coat over the entire model, rather than carefully using gloss and matte finishes where appropriate, so she has super shiny/wet-looking skin. I corrected that on future models. This is the only one of my painted model that got downvoted to hell on Reddit and imgur.







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