Friends, this has been an exciting (and tiring) journey of learning. My thoughts below.
1. Hand sculpt in Fimo polymer clay.
2. Raw 3D scan by photogrammetry.
3. Refined model (using Blender).
4. Resin print.
First of all, sculpting in polymer clay is such a great experience compared to epoxy putties. There is no prep time because the material is ready to go and I can stop anytime because the working time is infinite. Wonderful! I had hoped to get much closer to a finished model on the physical sculpt, but I just lack the skill at this point. Also, knowing I would scan it, I didn't worry too much about things that I could easily fix digitally. I would like to try and sculpt at 2x scale.
3D scanning with photogrammetry sucks. There are many steps you have to get right and many pictures to take. Processing the images also takes a few hours and if you get something wrong, you might need to start over. My scan is very rough but it was good enough.
I 3D sculpted in Blender. It's open source and I love that. I didn't think I was going to do so many changes, but once I started it was hard to stop tweaking it. I wanted to make it as good as a model done by pros and that is very hard. This is my fourth print and there are still things I want to change, but I want to paint this one first. The screen is very deceiving: it's so much easier to spot problems when I hold the model in my hand. That was frustrating, because I don't really like the process of resin printing. Anyway, I think painting will reveal what else needs changing.
Will I sell it? Probably yes. If so, it will be STLs at this point. But I did try to keep the undercuts to a minimum just to see if I could make something that could be cast in 1-2 pieces.
Will I do more? I hope so, but it has been exhausting and I want a break. I really want to see it painted at this point.
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