Bill Door - Reaper Man - HueForge 4 Color
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Description
I've recently been re-reading Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. His Anthropomorphic Personification (his words, not mine) of Death as a fully rounded individual have always been touching, and have inspired me to come up with this. If you've never read any of Pratchett's work, I'd suggest Mort as a good starting point, and it will give a lot of relevance to this HueForge.
This wasn't an easy design to get right in only three colours, and in the end I admitted defeat and made it four colour. I'm challenging myself to design HueForges that look great, using subjects I enjoy, but using as few colours as possible along with keeping printing and slicing time to a minimum. It's not easy to achieve, but it is rewarding when you finally get it right.
HueForges are notoriously known for producing very different results if you don't stick with the filaments that the original designer used. I'm trying to make designs that are more tolerant of substitutions, but this one isn't a good example of that. You need to stick fairly close to the transmission distance of the filaments I've used (detailed below). The black definitely isn't an issue, but when it comes to the white, it's pretty important that you use one with a similar transmission distance to what I've specified. Don't use one with a lower TD (eSun Cold White for example is extremely opaque and will change the end result considerably).
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All the settings and colour changes are in the print profile, but should you not have an AMS, after slicing, replace the colour changes with pauses and make manual colour swaps as detailed below. I'd strongly suggest not changing any other settings in the slicer, as my printing profiles are highly customised to produce the best quality HueForge.
Print at 100% infill with a layer height of 0.04mm with a base layer of 0.16mm
The Model is 150x150mm in size
You may print at higher layer heights below the Min Depth of 0.68mm
The Max Depth is 2.2mm and the Actual Depth is 1.9mm
Filaments Used:
PLA Deeplee Black Transmission Distance: 0.8
PLA Anycubic Brown Transmission Distance: 4.8
PLA eSun Orange Transmission Distance: 5.6
PLA Deeplee White Transmission Distance: 5.6
This print uses 4 unique filaments
Swap Instructions:
Start with Black
At layer #17 (0.8mm) swap to Brown
At layer #22 (1mm) swap to Orange
At layer #26 (1.16mm) swap to White for the rest.
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