alright so i got six bulbasaur planters here some are pretty rough its all pla and i am going too go through and try different waysof smoothing out the pla. and uh.. we will see which one works out best . smooth out your prints to get rid of theseridges. and any sort of layer separation anything like that.
how to paint 3d printed models, we are going to smooth them up so that whenyou put some finishing paint on them. it's going to be nice and glossy and uh wegot a couple different things we are going to try here we are going to do these, theother ones there for a comparison when we are all done.
we are going to do some rustoleom protectiveenamel, triple thick glaze, some appliance epoxy, and then finally and this ones goingto be a little rougher its finishing resin and that's probably a little bit overkillfor most projects. its a little bit more difficult to apply butits definitely going to give you a rock solid print thats going to be able to take quitea bit of a beating. these two are obviously going to be quiteeasy to apply. first thing you are going to want to do ismake sure you have the proper work area, put something behind your project. you want to put on some nice nitrile or latexgloves and you are going to want to make sure
your in a well ventilated area because thisstuff is really toxic. triple thick glaze. so, like i said, doing the aerosol is theeasiest part. just get into a well ventilated area. andthen here i've got the appliance epoxy. look like it's got definitely a less glossyfinish. ok i got the aerosols done. and now i am goingto move on to the rustoleom yeah you can kind of see it. just remember always be in a ventilated areaor just use a mask. you want to put it on thick that's why youusing the sponge.
use a sponge instead of a brush. definitely going to want to put a couple coatsof this one. alright now the epoxy is going to be a littlebit harder. you have two chemicals you are going to haveto mix. it has to be in a warm environment. it's got to be like 75 or 80 degrees f. igot it on a stove here nice and warm. you want to do it in a well ventilated area. it doesn't need to be completely exact, somepeople measure it, i just eye-ball it and i've never really had any problems using it.
you mix it up real good. and the warmer thebetter really. 90, 90 degrees make sure it gets up reallywell. and make sure you wear gloves too becausethis stuff is nasty, you don't want to be getting it on your hands its an irritant,for the skin, eyes, everything. you just want to really try to avoid gettingit anywhere. and then especially if it's warm you wantto do this relatively quickly. apply it liberally. it will get tacky so it's pretty easy to layerit on there nice and thick. we will see how this one turns out.
alright so here's the final breakdown. i got all of them here, i even added one,its flex seal clear. it's like a water sealant, like rubber, rubberspray on stuff. this stuff definitely seems like it was prettythink. it's not quite as glossy and it even has somelike areas where it kind of foamed up a little bit like it's got some miniature bubbles there. definitely probably too small to see on thecamera. i am going to paint all these different colorsso we can have a final look. this one, as you can see there with some ofthe cracks, just didn't seal up.
i even gave this one an extra fourth coat. yeah it didn't quite seal up very well. kinda did on the forehead there. thick glaze i think worked the best here. alright here we have the final process. which is going to be painting. that one at the end is the baseline, its beforei did anything to it. this one is epoxy. it definitely has the most shine to it.
this one doesnt have as much shine. that's the protective enamel i put two coatson that one and it did pretty well. but you still get a little bit of that layering. this one definitely a lot smoother. come down to the the triple thick glaze enamel.this worked out pretty good little bit of ridges but definitely a lot better job thanthis oil based primer. we got the flex seal. not quite as glossy, it seems to smooth thingsup but just didn't quite perform as well as i wanted.
and this one did ok, it's the appliance epoxy. it's definitely pretty thick laying on thereand it took longer to dry than some of the other stuff. didn't quite do as well as the triple thickglaze. its one of the better, the epoxy resin umdefinitely did the best and yeah i only put one layer on with that, if you put two orthree layers on it would be incredibly smooth. but otherwise i think the triple thick glazedid quite well. and the protective enamel probably would have done better i would haveput 3 or 4 coats. now we are going to do paint on all theseand we can see the... which one looks the
best. and i will give a final vote here inthe details and i will rate them on a few different things. alright so here is everything. all complete. i about two layers of paint on each one ofthese. and we have this one here which was nothing,there was no preparation done to this one it's just printed out and then painted. i got this one here, the epoxy, you know itlooked a lot smoother before i painted it. some of these lines really came out.
so i think maybe two or three layers on thatone and it would have turned out a lot better. and the appliance epoxy, as you can see, ituh, didn't turn out too well. only slightly better than if i wouldn't havedone anything at all. protective enamel. and that one uh that oneworked ok with two layers, i'd say if you did three or four that one would probablydo a little bit better, still not as good as you'd like to see. triple thick glaze, did a little bit differentpaint job with this one. and it turned out pretty good, not quite as good as i thoughtit was going to. then of course down here we have the flexseal. which uh you know this one turned out
ok you can't really see it. in the camera. because of it's not that high quality. but its got little tiny bubbles in it. andi'll take some detail shots and upload those. so all in all i would say that. probably the best one after seeing the paintjob really was the triple thick glaze or the z epoxy although it didn't turn out as goodas it looked before and the protective enamel oil based, that one did quite well and i thinkjust to cap them all off i am going to uh through the triple thick glaze over everythingjust make them real nice and shiny.
i'll get a final shot of that. alright here they all are.
finalized with there final coat. they actually look a lot better once you getthe gloss back on them. i think some of those paints took away someof that shine. so yeah, that's my breakdown and thanks forwatching.
