HERO KATTIVI MOON

🎨 Paint Your Herome Challenge is live!

Join our May painting contest: print and paint one of my models, share your finished work, and you could win a €40 voucher.

To participate, enter our Discord server and look for the contest section:

paint-your-herome-challenge

👉 Click on the image to join the contest!

Grab your brushes… the painting war has begun. 🔥

So many of you are messaging me asking where my old models have gone.

I’m trying to reply to everyone, but I’ll say it here too: unfortunately, several of my models are being removed from the platform.

So my advice is very simple:

if you like a model, download it NOW.

Don’t just add it to your collection, because in a few days it might be too late… and then come the tears, the regrets, and the classic “damn, I should have downloaded it when I had the chance.”

You’ve been warned. The rest is in the hands of the 3D printing gods. 😄

GARA'S LABORATORY

I am a dad to two beautiful girls and I enjoy letting them discover the multiverse through nerd objects that I 3D print.

This is one of the models that came out of my small 3D printing laboratory  
I enjoy designing, testing, and sharing these figures with those who love printing, painting, and collecting miniatures.

I am a big Bambu Lab fan and all my prints are mainly made with P2S and A1 Mini.

Before publishing a model, I always do several test prints to check stability, supports, and overall performance.

Click here to join my Discord group: every now and then we have evening live sessions to talk about 3D printing, projects, tests, and new ideas to develop together.

AND ALSO CHECK OUT THE INSTAGRAM PROFILE

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RECOMMENDED PRINT SCALE

I often make test prints at a reduced scale (about 10 cm) to check the model's behavior.

But there's an important thing.

If you print it larger, around 15 cm, in addition to gaining details, you also gain ease of printing.

My advice:  
feel free to enlarge it as much as you want, but add a few extra supports where needed.

Proof that the model prints correctly is in the real photos in the post.

Only a basic knowledge of slicing is needed.

If you have any doubts, feel free to write to me: if I can help, I always do so willingly.

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PRINT PARAMETERS USED FOR TESTS

Test scale: about 5 cm

Bambu PLA Basic white  
Layer height: 0.16 extra fine  
Supports: hybrid tree  
Outer brim: 10 mm  
Object spacing: 0 mm

If you want to give a small boost to this nerd project, you can do so with a contribution on PayPal here.

Or, if you want to help, you can boost the server and support the community.

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SUPPORT REMOVAL

The supports are designed to be quite delicate.

They can be removed without damaging the model, but calmly:
one at a time, slowly, using tweezers and a bit of patience.

There's no need to go Rambo on the supports…  
otherwise something breaks, and you end up crying in front of the printer.

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TECHNICAL NOTES (the truth, not poetry)

I prefer to print the figures in a single color and paint them after priming using acrylic markers or miniature painting techniques.

The colored images on the cover are just examples of coloring generated with AI to show possible painting styles.

The final result always depends on the personal taste of whoever paints the model, I apologize for some imperfections and slight differences between the real model and the AI model, I still need to perfect the method!!!! in any case, you have my photos, both with and without supports, as a reference for the printed model!!!

The design originates from an AI generation (Tripo), subsequently manually refined and tested in FDM printing to ensure real printability.

The real print photos are the monochrome white or gray ones present in the gallery.

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THE PART THAT DECIDES IF YOU PRINT OR CURSE

Plate adhesion.

I use CryoGrip Pro Frostbite and the adhesion is so strong that the prints seem to have taken out a mortgage on the plate: they never detach.

I mainly use Bambu filaments and have no problems.

If you use a different setup:

• focus first and foremost on plate adhesion  
• use dry, quality filament  
• keep the plate perfectly clean  
• don't be afraid to use extra brim or supports

With these precautions, printing becomes much simpler and more reliable.

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THE HEROME collection

If you like this model, you can find all the other figures in the collection here:

https://makerworld.com/en/@Gara/upload

Be careful though…

if you start printing them, you'll end up wanting them all.

If you like the model, leave a like, it really helps the project grow.