06/03/2023
Today I dont have a new print, but I thought it would be cool to show the printing process of a custom print. The first step is to prepare the file for the printer. The first picture shows 3 busses could fit on my printer bed, but I only printed 1 at a time. This particular print ended up needing an extra skinny platform under the bus and it's supports which is slightly seeable in the first picture. As you can see in the second picture this print took roughly 14 hours to print and in that particular picture I was using the rest of the yellow filament that I had. After the print finishes you then have to take off and support that you may have added to help with arch ways or long overhangs. Support are easy to take off unless that are small or in a small space. This process took about half an hour if not less to take off all the supports. After I got as much supports off as I could I then used Testor's brand spray paint to paint both the white filament and yellow filament busses(the yellow filament printed someone translucent and somewhat off colored when looking up close to it). After spraying the bus I then used 2 different Sharpy brand pens. The windows are painted with a needle point sharp pen as it can get into smaller places and can also do cleaner lines. The darker black lines on the sides and back of the bus were painted with a Sharpy paint marker. The next step I had was doing the other various colors such as the stop sign, flashing lights, wheels, and the strobe light. The bottom of the bus is not painted. The last step was to spray paint the bus with a clear paint to prevent paint wearing from handling. Adding all the paint for 1 bus took roughly 2 hours. All together if I do 1 bus at a time, from computer file to finished product, each bus would take 20 hours to create and paint.
