So I've been working on designing my own figures, completely from scratch, 3D printed. I've designed all the parts, taking measurements from Mega Construx figures (since that's the scale I'm currently most intereseted in).
First, I made my Zartan, printed on an FDM printer:
I tweaked that design, then came up with Zartan 2.0 and printed on an SLA printer:
Zartan is built on the 'realistic' buck I designed up, attempting to have regular person muscles instead of heroic/superhero proportions, while maintaining the somewhat scrunched build of the MC figures required to make them fit in with brick builds. So I needed to work up another buck for the heroic figures, since I'm really into the MOTU figures at this scale. With that, I present MC-Scale Hero Buck 1.0. He needs some revisions done, as I had to do some cleanup with a drill bit and X-acto to get some of the parts to fit properly but as you can see from his right elbow and torso connector, he will work with MC parts (I have clear parts printed to replace them, just wanted to test/show the compatibility). I don't like to waste prints when they come out decently, so I'm trying to think up a name for this guy. I figure he'll either be crystal/gem-based, or maybe ice. And I know the feet/calves look huge but that's on purpose -- I'm a fan of the Alcala MOTU mini-comics, especially He-Man's primitive look before becoming He-Man, so I designed the legs to look like Alcala's drawings, as best I could. I also see I didn't push the torso and crotch pieces together snuggly like I thought I had, but they do peg together tighter:
Printed at 35um with a 2k resolution screen:
As you can see in the pictures, I have mixed in some Mega Construx figure parts. My ultimate goal is full compatibility with Mega Construx for interchangeability, without any modifications after printing. Then the next goal is making molds for small scale production so I can army build.
