How to Paint 3d prints, the basics

crazy here today we will be talking about how to paint 3d printed models stay tuned I'm going to show you my process crazy will from crazy wheels tech show today we're to talk about how to paint your 3d prints if you haven't seen my video yet on the ellegua ma r zh' that's what this was printed on take a look at it right up here you'd think this would be a fairly simple process to paint one of these not as simple as you'd think if you want to get a certain look now I am by no means I know it all when it comes to painting I'm just gonna show you my process there's a lot of great channels out there that show you how to paint what I'm basically assure you today is how I get my prints ready for paint and actually paint them because I didn't see an actual comprehensive guide that just showed you the basics like you're brand new into this like me and I just want to throw some color on this I want to make it look pretty cool I think I've had pretty good results I mean like I said I'm not the greatest painter in the world but this is a look at some of the stuff that I've done which is a bad now I know you're thinking well this isn't really tech it can be tech it's a little technical so I'm gonna share my thoughts and opinions cuz if you have a 3d printer you want to know how to do this first things first we're gonna have to prime it now it worked for me was wrist all you this is two times the coverage it's a flat gray primer I tried other primers I didn't have too much luck because if you want the paint's to show up you have to prime them first so this is a very important step get yourself like a coat hanger or some metal twine I guess they would call this now I hollow so you'll see this holes at the bottom and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna thread this through the holes so that way I could spray it now obviously before you do this now you did sand it and you cut off all the edges now no matter what because it's see-through no matter how much you sand it or you try to clean it up once we spray it you're gonna see a lot more imperfections and tabs and stuff like that after we prime it all right so I got mine hook through and I bent a little end like this on the end so that way I can hang it on something after I'm done because we don't want anything touching it after we prime and make sure the surface is nice and clean mine's pretty clean a little bit of water spray it clean it wipe it make sure it's not damp before you go to spray paint this so we're gonna go and spray-paint this now make sure you shake the spray paint really good [Music] [Music] okay so I just came in from outside this is the first coat we're gonna be doing - and get still wet but you can see pops the details so much better now let's put this up here I have like a little area where I usually stick this and if you want to see my setup please take a look at my video from last week upgrades that I did to the a legume Mars so you could see some of the little tips and tricks that I used turn on the exhaust fan okay so I have that exhaust thing I could still work in my office it's a little noisy I apologize but I have it just hanging right there and we'll let that dry for about an hour alright so here we are we have the first coat done but if you look underneath you see the little knobs that were left over that we thought we sand it down they weren't so what we're gonna do is we have some tools here I go around try to hit it with this sometimes you can sometimes you can't you're not gonna get everything but we'll try our best I got a regular nail file what we'll do is we'll go over here and we'll just hit it with the sand sand it down just a little bit and try and even it out [Music] see I see some on the face here try and hit that real quick so I'm gonna go around and double-check everything and look and you're not gonna get everyone perfect but you try your best to hit what you can I started off with like a 200 grid and then I go down to a 400 grit but you don't want to start with a 400 grid you want to like kind of sand gradually but another technique that I use if the sand paper isn't working for you and you have large amounts of these little nubs that you can't get to like I have in the back of a sword you can take an exacto blade and just carve them down just hit him with that and that will cut him out at least all right so I think he looks pretty good now I sent some rough areas it's a printed I'm at a 45 degree angle if you didn't see that video you see that in description below on how to position it but he was positioned at a 45 degree angle so all most of us hit his harsh points are in the back and we're not gonna see too much of that and everything ice and hit it with some water first to really clean it up just to get rid of the dust cuz I'll just hit this with paper towels you can see once I go over it really is just covered and dust we don't want that sticking to the primer and now we're gonna hit him with some primer all right so this is the end result and let it dry for about two hours alright so this is the main reason why I'm doing this video I wanted to show you some of the trial and errors that I went through Superman over here was done with testers so that's the result I got you can see it's very shiny the acrylics to make some of the wash which I'll show you those in a second to make the shading because you can't really shade with these like I said if you're looking for a glossy coat as you can see you know that's good for a car that's good for you know a robot or maybe like an Iron Man but not really Superman so that didn't come out as good as I'd like another thing with the testers that you need to know it comes with another bottle and it's actually a paint thinner I didn't know this but you're supposed to 50 and 50 so if you're if you take like 4 drops out of this you take 4 drops out of this you mix them together and it makes it thinner so you can get better detail I didn't do that I actually put this straight out of the bottle on to Superman you shouldn't do that you should actually thin it so you'll get more of the detail that's why he looks so bubbly in his face and you don't have all the detail that you should have had next I did straight acrylics I got these from Walmart straight acrylic paints as you can see it didn't do a bad job and I was kind of going for an artistic kind of still keeping the green resin to shine through kind of thing but it's it doesn't cope very well so this for what I was doing it on this one actually worked really well and to give you an idea I mean that's supposed to be purple which looks more like black and that's multiple coats and you can see the first coat on the back there it's a strong and pigment wise it just isn't doing the trick I tried folk art and it wasn't working out very well this piece of trying to find something that I didn't have to prime but everything came down to I had to climb it so once I actually primed it that was what I got out of the folk art and it still wasn't as good as I'd like it to be and this came up over and over and over and over and over and over again every time I was researching paint that Vallejo is the best for model painting so that's what I decided to go with it had the best coating it had the best pigment closer you could see the pigment is a lot stronger here you could see that the colors are very vibrant here here's a better example for you that's a Hellboy and you could see the pigment how much better the pigment is how it covers the model alright so we have our model now we're gonna paint it plain old paint cap and I put a little fun tack on there and what I do is I take the model and I shove it right on there it makes it easier to paint and you don't get it all over your hands you have something to grip onto and you're not touching the actual model because now we're gonna add some paint this pink dries out pretty quick so I made this quick sponge kind of container so that way I could kind of keep it wet but kind of working but it's kind of not working I'm just gonna use a regular red it's going to go in here and just our ad and painting we're gonna sweep over them you're probably gonna have to do two coats one really thin and then we'll go over and do one really heavy so I'm just gonna paint everything on here and you can see this paint really does go on nice and smoothly you know I have a cheap cheesy brush I don't really have heavy preferences and brushes I just use what works if you watch my channel you know I do what works alright so there's our first coat you can see it's kind of a little bit of a transparency thing going on there so you usually have to do two sometimes maybe three layers we're gonna let this dry for probably about an hour I didn't paint the base because the base we're probably gonna go with a metallic kind of looking collar this is the second day I have two coats actually on this I applied the other coat yesterday off-camera I'm gonna add another coat alright so here we are with three coats I think it did a pretty good job we coated it pretty good we're gonna go with the next color and that's gonna be black just a black little black right there I just do a little dab because this stuff dries out pretty quick paint brushes it's up to you what you like I have several paint brushes I'm actually going to be using I bought a cheapo one at Hobby Lobby it's a 2/0 so that's what I'm gonna use to paint it I'm gonna take some paint and I'm gonna fill in the black areas right now so I'm gonna go for the black of his eyes [Music] [Music] so that's what we got so far I did the outline of his eyes I know there's white for the middle of his eyes we're gonna hit that later black you only really need to do one coat go what you think looks good this a line here and a line here and I'm going to go with black back here a lot it real quick and just give you an idea what I'm doing [Music] [Music] I'm gonna switch to a different type of brush this is just my preference but I found it brush it has a little bit longer of a tail kind of thing going on here so I could just wisp into certain areas if I can try and get some of the detail in here I'm probably gonna have to touch it up anyway but at least I could try and get in there a little bit easier around the edges and swoop into areas like right here it just gives you a little bit more reach [Music] both sides done now I'm going to go for the little logo that's on his shirt there we're going to paint in the black there and we're gonna obviously have to touch up the red and then around his neck I want to paint black and I want to go for the swords do the swords first because they'll be super easy alright so there you go you notice that I did a little bit of a sloppy job on the swords we want to overlap colors because I think I'm gonna do these and brown in the back if not I can always clean it up afterwards but so far it's looking pretty good to me I have most of the base colors I'm gonna go for black around his neck you notice there's an edge right above the lip here I'm gonna go for the lip of the neck beast so I'm gonna go [Music] now we're gonna put them upside down I'm going to try and get those same pieces again underneath his neck why not make it more touch up but I think it's gonna be worth in the end I'm gonna go with black down the middle here because I just think that would add an accent and I did water down the black to make it easier to do what I just did so we're done with the black basically it looks like I got everything so that's the back that's the front so we're gonna do is window Brown and the way I want to do this round it is a pretty dark brown but we're gonna make it a little bit darker so we'll put a good significant amount of brown that's the Browns flat Brown I'm gonna get some of the black and a little bit of dab right here very almost blackish-brown the reason why I'm making it so dark I'm going to paint everything in the dark and then use the regular Brown to bring out the highlights and I'll show you what I'm talking about as we paint it let's go around and go for his utility packs if you will all right so I got all the brown on its a really dark brown do you want to touch up a little bit of the red all right so what I'm gonna do here is I'm just gonna brush over this gently touch it [Music] this is cold white the white dries out extremely fast so I only put a little bit all right so we're gonna go for his eyes first why not we're gonna take a clump and we're gonna just try and see if we could just go across the top of it we'll just see if we can pick up oh and I just totally screwed that up because I wasn't paying attention we're just gonna cut it see what I just did there I just wiped over the top of it just try to go over and just let the paint kind of lift on it and that's what I should have done with that one which is no big deal add a little bit of water a little pool that looks like that kind of worked and we'll try to just brush across the top here ever so gently let's see if I can do it this time ah perfect [Music] I'm gonna take some ground put it right next to the black ground we want to add shading so I'm gonna think that the lights probably coming from here and it's working out pretty well actually Rondon we got all the black done i touched up a little bit to make it look a little bit better we got the white on there think he's looking pretty good we're gonna do the silver let's go ahead and start that now I'm using Vallejo silver make sure you shake this stuff off because it does kind of like to separate a little bit [Music] [Music] like to go with a bigger brush when I'm doing the bases and paint that face up I'll grab the detail brush again [Music] alright so there's the silver obviously it's gonna need another coat on the base I'm gonna let that dry alright so I did a second coat of the silver I overdid it with the silver on this which you know that happens try to keep it thin with the silver I forgot how thick the silver is I did a little touch-ups here and there so this is what my model looks like right now and miniature painting there's something called a wash and I learned about this and it brings out the detail actually in print you're trying to paint it's almost like dirtying it a little bit and also adding lines and all the washes it's distilled water some black paint and I added to my own mixture a little bit of airbrush thinner just to make it thin we don't know the exact ratio but so what we're gonna do is we're going to take this we're gonna kind of brush it over and let it fall actually in the creases we're gonna try and get the creases so you can get some detail out of that botched up job that I did on this we can get yeah there we go we get some of the details you see how like it just darkens up a little bit of the details there it's nice and wet we want to dip it into cracks and let it follow the cracks you like on a suit right there this is just gonna add a little more detail it also hides a lot of your mistakes [Music] we're gonna do is let it grab some of the red I'm going to highlight a little bit but we also want to fix water looking marks so we're going to add that in there you can go over this with a wash again if you don't like the way this looks but I usually like the highlighted look you know try to think about where the light sitting or how the height light would reflect I think that's pretty much done I think this is good as you're gonna get for me I'm sure there's a lot of talented people watching this right now thinking that hell is this guy doing who let this dry I like to let it dry for a good three hours and make sure everything's nice and dry and then I use this matte clear rust-oleum double coat bonds two plastic spray paint it's just a seal everything in again you want to shake it all right so what we're gonna do here is we're just gonna mist just get a gentle coat on there we don't want to make anything run so it looks like when you just missed it so that's basically the process guys this is the second coat on him we went a little too heavy probably but this is basically what it looks like give you guys a little idea of the detail like I said I'm not pro painter I just do what works like everything on this channel I do it works I think it came out pretty good due to this whole virus and staying home and basically working from home I had time to do this so I thought this would be a little fun project no it's a little different than what I normally do but I just wanted to share that's it for me guys make sure you like and subscribe this helped you in any way and ring that bell if you feel so obligated to remember you can do anything if you put your mind to it beat mr. brush gonna beat the hell out of mr. brush anybody that watch Bob cause this isn't a Marvel movie guys there's no secret ending no strategy or something just hit like and subscribe and maybe click on one 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Channel: Crazy Will Tech Show

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Length: 19min 43sec (1183 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 17 2020