Desktop Hero + Other 3D Printed Minis

Here is my mini collection so far. Most of them started in DesktopHero(http://desktophero3d.com/) but almost all of them have been customized a bit before printing in MeshMixer. The Outer 4 on the bottom row were all printed yesterday. 3 of them in one batch and then the Tortle last.

See Cura 3.2 settings at the bottom for print settings. Slow, high detail, thick walls and slightly high infill. Fresh plastic also helps, The last tortle on the right above is old plastic, the one lower is new plastic and came out much improved.

First experiment with DesktopHero. A Tiefling Hexblade / Pact of the blade warrior who is haunted by Dendar the Night Serpent. Using 3D Builder I embossed a serpent to his blade and shield. I also had to add horns I found on thingiverse. This is the latest iteration of him. I added a tiefling tail to DH so I switched to that. I used Meshmixer to sculpt his clothes. I sculpted his armor to have all of those plates. I also grew his hair a bit to make the connections to the horns solid with no gap.

DH had some weird pose flaw where the left boot or cape did something weird I also sculpted that out in Meshmixer.

Female Wizard Necromancer. Has skulls on ground and belt. I did almost nothing to this model before printing, I think I need to take another pass at it. The skulls on the ground had issues. The little bit of brown is from old filament still in the nozzle.

First attempts at a Tortle. Basically Donatello the Ninja Turtle. Arms, legs, weapon, base are from Desktop Hero. Body came from a snapping turtle model I remixed in. Head was from DH, but mouth came from adult sized Ninja Turtle mask on Thingiverse. I had to shrink. Fill the mask. Used Tinkercad a little bit hero. This is the last model before I learned sculpting in MeshMixer which would have helped alot.

Much better attempt at Tortle. There is nothing from DesktopHero here, except for the base, which I uploaded to DH. The shell came from a tortoise model on thingiverse. The rest of this was made in Tinkercard and them HEAVY sculpting in MeshMixer to make the chest, fix the hands, body, head, neck, etc. This is the figure I'm the most proud of. Might share it on thingiverse. Last night I think I finally fixed some flaws in it so the fingers print right.

I give you Boots! New player joined our D&D game and his character concept was so interesting I had to model it the next morning. Owl based Aarakocra. He loves boots, but his talons tear right through them. He's a cleric hence the sword. The wings, body, base, hammer all came from DesktopHero. The Head was remixed in from an Owl model. The claws were remixed in from a Talon model. I added a barrel from him to be crushing under his boots. No sculpting here, all remixing/blending done in 3D Builder.

Hairless bearded rogue concept. Just something I had fun designing in DesktopHero. No remixing except adding the bow to his back. No character concept yet with this guy.

Drunken Monk 1. DesktopHero designed. Bottles added later. Did alot of sculpting to make his ears pointy, fix his belt and clothes seams to pop more.

Drunken Monk 2. Desktophero designed. New bottle design chosen, added some to his belt. Resculpted his belt to wrap around the bottles and to have that little knot on his hip. Tried to open his mouth, but it didn't print out.

Lizardman Cleric. Model from DM workshop on Shapeways. Remixed to add staff, put egg on staff, put egg on amulet. Rotated and stretched shield. Had to put something in the hands since their grip is too open/loose to print well. Also inflated most of the spikes on the back to make sure they printed, slicer was chopping some of them off.

Van Damme the D&D Mini! I got inspired to try to make this concept so I modeled it up in Desktop hero. I contribued the pose and the character to DesktopHero for anybody wants to use it.

Not sure what happened with the printing on the base here. I did remix to make it bigger to ensure the model wouldn't fall over, and he stands just fine.

Gnome Wizard Female I made in DesktopHero for another new player to one of my D&D games. She's pretty short incomparison to everybody else, but the details still came out pretty good. No remixing here.

Cura 3.2 settings I use.

Thick walls, high infill ensure strength. I've dropped many of these and they survived with almost no damage (Tiefling lost his horns hence the hair fix mentioned above).

Regular infill was OK, but cleaning took forever. Tree Support is AMAZING! Cleaning takes 5 minutes at most.

Slow print speed, especially on the Wall speed seems to prevent all of the print crap that you normally get on prints. Still never takes more than 2.5 hours to print anything. More than happy with that.