Female Samurai

Female Samurai figurine ready to fight her foes with her sword.

I used Midjourney to get a template for the MakerLab Picture-to-3D-model app. With Hunyuan 3D 3.0 I got a neat model that retained all the cool details of the template picture while adding missing elements from the hidden side - a step that needs quite a bit of luck and a large number of suitable templates to find the best option. Nevertheless, I had to change the sword, as it was unnaturally bent and the right hand. Furthermore, I added a base.

I printed the base in black and changed to metallic copper once the base was completely done (about layer 68 at a scale of 100 %). I think the copper suits the figurine. Furthermore, I used the regular support type. Removing them - as always - takes some time and requires delicacy as several elements are prone to break if too much force is dealt to them (fingers, arms, the sword, hair). Yet, I usually get better results when printing such figures with the regular supports instead of the tree type. A layer height of 0.16 mm in quality mode was chosen to improve the resolution of fine details. I quite like the resulting model and would be happy if other makers would try to print it, as well.