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Nov 2015

To dress up as and surprise my friend, I made a 3d printed mask of his face. I had scanned his head a few months back so he could experiment with the textured mesh using different rendering and animation techniques, and had kept this all secret until Saturday night. Using my own face scan as a guide I could scale his up to fit my face.

It was sectioned into 4 pieces to fit onto the Up!Plus 2 printer. I used Color Fabb’s Wood filament at 0.25mm layer height.

After glueing together, some filling with dolphin glaze was used to fill the joins and smooth off the print layers around the cheeks.

Then I used Montana Texture spray as a primer.

And finished it off using Loop acrylic spray paint as a base coat, and Montana Gold transparent spraypaint (hazelnut and black) to add tone and depth and a selection Montana and Pentel markers to draw in the hair details.

Here I am just after I scared the life out of him at a nightclub in Cambridge on Saturday night.

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This is absolute nuts! Haha love it! How long did it take to pull this off?