TBF, that resin cost can be dropped dramatically by judicious hollowing, in my experience. Also, the quality of the end product is largely dependent on user skill, but I completely agree with you re: the vast amounts of higher quality models available. These things are, and have always been, stupid AF in every way. 🤓
That was hollowed, but chitubox’s hollow tool is notoriously terrible and I admit I wasn’t using the absolute cheapest amazon resin. The funko geometry is just awful for resin conservation, and if you’re printing a whole one at once you’re using up an absolutely insane amount of resin on supports (and a lot of those are going to be internal I guess, damn those heads are awful).
But yeah like… why would you even want to do that. The only appealing part of Funkos is the collectablity, if you’re gonna make obvious fakes why not spend the same effort to make something infinitely cooler (and where it being 3D printed doesn’t run counter to it’s whole design ethos)???
I know it’s a bit of a strawman to rail against thay bcz that’s what nearly everyone is doing but uuuuugh
TBF, that resin cost can be dropped dramatically by judicious hollowing, in my experience. Also, the quality of the end product is largely dependent on user skill, but I completely agree with you re: the vast amounts of higher quality models available. These things are, and have always been, stupid AF in every way. 🤓
That was hollowed, but chitubox’s hollow tool is notoriously terrible and I admit I wasn’t using the absolute cheapest amazon resin. The funko geometry is just awful for resin conservation, and if you’re printing a whole one at once you’re using up an absolutely insane amount of resin on supports (and a lot of those are going to be internal I guess, damn those heads are awful).
But yeah like… why would you even want to do that. The only appealing part of Funkos is the collectablity, if you’re gonna make obvious fakes why not spend the same effort to make something infinitely cooler (and where it being 3D printed doesn’t run counter to it’s whole design ethos)???
I know it’s a bit of a strawman to rail against thay bcz that’s what nearly everyone is doing but uuuuugh
Agreed, yep. FWIW, Lychee’s pretty alright w/ hollowing (even if a number of its other aspects are infuriating at times). 🖖🏼