Pirate Suzanne [3D Printing]

In this video, we will be doing another "Suzanne Print" where we take the Blender Mascot Suzanne and turn her into something else. 

So continuing our Pirate Theme (from last week), I wanted to turn Suzanne into a swash-buckling Pirate. 

If you want to follow along, you can download the Suzanne Base Mesh here (when it came to printing, I changed the Earrings to "studs" but the model has the hoops), or you can download the final model as an STL here. 

Turning Suzanne into a Pirate was pretty simple, and now my collection of "Alter" Suzanne's is growing and I think it turned out pretty well (though the paint job sucks). 

After I printed the Model, then using a couple of different grades of sandpaper I refined the model. I then applied a few coats of Primer/Filler Spray paint and sanded it again. 

Then I used Acrylic's for the colors and then some gold leaf for the tooth and the Stud earrings. Again my painting skills are not the best and I'm sure you guys could get better results if you spend more time on it.  

I have a few more Ideas I want to do in the future but if you guys have any suggestions, be sure to let me know in the comments below. 

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and as always, thanks for reading!

Pirate Coins [3D Printing]

In this video, we will be creating Pirate Coins. 

They are fairly simple to create and it took hardly any time at all to print.

Using a reference image, I create the Skull shape and refine it with a Subsurf Modifier. 

You can use any image you want or you can model from memory, and if you do create something cool be sure to post a comment below. 

Once we have our two objects we can simply join them using a Boolean Modifier. 

Once we are happy with it, we need to make sure we set the correct Unit scale otherwise we will have some trouble when it comes to the printing. 

After I exported it as an STL (which you can download here). I then sliced and printed it. After printing, I first coated the coins in a Primer/filler and then painted on some gold leaf (or you can use gold spray paint).

I wanted them to look old and worn so I painted them with some Acrylic paint to try and "age" them. 

Hopefully you enjoyed this video! and as always, thanks for reading!.