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🎨 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 WORKSHOP

I'm a dad to two beautiful girls, and I enjoy showing them the multiverse through nerd objects that I 3D print

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

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

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

Click here to join my Discord group: every now and then we hold 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 perform test prints at a reduced scale (around 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:  
enlarge it as much as you want, but add some extra supports where needed

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

Only a basic understanding of slicing is needed

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

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PRINT PARAMETERS USED FOR TESTS

Test scale: approximately 5 cm

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 by one, 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 coloring examples 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 all cases, 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 refined manually and tested with FDM printing to ensure real printability

The actual print photos are the monochrome white or gray ones in the gallery

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THE PART THAT DECIDES IF YOU PRINT OR SWEAR

Bed adhesion

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

I mainly use Bambu filaments and have no problems

If you use a different setup:

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

With these precautions, printing becomes much simpler and more reliable

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HEROME'S COLLECTION

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

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

But be careful…

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