Painting your 3D printed models

October 31, 2008

Bart and I had some fun painting some of our models with acrylic paint. You can use acrylics to paint White, Strong & Flexible and we wanted to show you guys that. For the both of us, the last painting training & practice we ever did before making this video was in kindergarten. But we can not wait to see what you guys will do with paint & Shapeways.

5 comments

• aws357
  November 6, 2008 at 12:09 pm
  Interesting.
  Wonder if we could get people who paint miniatures to do a tutorial too…
  Something like the miniatures painting tutorials from Games Workshop.
  I can give the authorization to use my human designs if needed (scaled to miniature size) 😀
  Wonder what they would think of the materials, what kind of preparations, priming they would recommend (most of Shapeways material except black are slightly translucent e.g.)

• Joris Peels
  November 6, 2008 at 12:18 pm
  Aws,
  that's a good idea, we do want to do some minis painting but we need to find someone with skill at it.
  Joris

• aws357
  November 6, 2008 at 12:30 pm
  Placing an ad asking for volunteers in any GamesWorkshop could be a good start 🙂 (I know they have stores in Amsterdam)
  Or ask the store manager… (I think they are skilled miniature hobbyists themselves sometimes)
  Another idea is to find people who paint lead figurines… because they might be interested in 3D printing their figurines instead of casting lead which is toxic, not to mention hazardous too.
  Hope it helps. But a step by step tutorial to paint miniatures would be awesome indeed.

• Joris Peels
  November 6, 2008 at 12:52 pm
  I’ll go by one of their stores as soon as I can, I’ll be on vacation for two weeks, so it will be end of November before I can really do something with them.

• Tony
  February 24, 2013 at 1:17 am
  All the “How to paint minis” tutorials I’ve found say to hit it with some primer. The material for 3D printing – does it need priming too? Or will it take paint straight away?