Minion for Minion Army by Doodle_Monkey

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Minion for Minion Army

Doodle_Monkey

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Published on December 21, 2012

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Make your own Minion army! Print and sit it on your desk and it will stare up at you waiting for your orders.

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I've printed this at high resolution with support material and it comes out pretty well. I rotated the body so that the front of the googles is aiming straight up. This keeps the front pretty clean for the most part. Maybe there is a better way? Have fun creating YOUR minion army!!

Printed on a Replicator 2 using Makerware
Rotated the character 51 degrees backwards
Default "High" setting with support box checked
Minion was printed to a 2" height

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MSURunner on March 22, 2013 said:

Do yourself a favor and run it through Netfabb cloud before you print it!

Badjano on March 18, 2013 said:

I built a x3g using High profile, raft and supoort, and on the third or forth layer, it starts to get hairy and I have no idea why... this was with Makerware, I will now try using ReplicatorG. Could you send me your x3g file so I can test if it is a file problem?

Doodle_Monkey on March 18, 2013 said:

Sure, which machine do you have. I'll need to use the preferences for the correct x3g output. I have a replicator 2 and have switched over to using rep g. Let me know and I'll shoot over a file to the site.

erickim555 on February 28, 2013 said:

I actually printed this two different ways ("high" setting, 51 degrees rotated):
a.) Raft + Supports
b.) Raft only

(a) came out well, it was just a bit of an adventure "free-ing" my minion from the cage of supports, haha. I think it took ~6 hours to print.
(b) came out reasonably well! The bottom of the arms are wirey (e.g. loose plastic 'ribbons' are visible). There are a few tiny 'gaps' between the pants and the body (e.g. you can see the inside of the hollow model). And, the very bottom of his body has a small spot with a 'web' of plastic ribbons, where you can see through to the inner hollow body. This took ~4 hours to print.

I currently have (b) as my own desk minion, haha. Thanks for the great model!

condac on February 24, 2013 said:

Can someone upload a stl with the 51 degrees flip already made?

mbenner on February 6, 2013 said:

After you rotated it 51 degrees, did you move it down to touch the ground? Mine looks like he is floating above the plane.

Doodle_Monkey on February 7, 2013 said:

No, I left it in the air and to my pleasant surprise it built the raft and support below it. I prefer to do this because it's nearly impossible to get rid of that darn raft. It's sticks to the bottom too well. So by leaving it up in the air, I just had to remove the support which was pretty easy.

thecrazy on January 27, 2013 said:

Do you have a hi poly version of this thing?

CanFire on January 5, 2013 said:

I printed mine using Cura without tilting the model. Very rough finish on the lower half where the support material was. Also my belts were loose and I was running too hot. Still, the wife is happy with it.

Framingr on December 22, 2012 said:

Having the hardest time printing this with support. The raft material is constantly getting trapped in the feet. Did you by any chance enlarge this first?

Doodle_Monkey on December 22, 2012 said:

Hello Framingr,

I printed this on a Replicator 2 using Makerware. The print was about 2" tall (when standing). I rotated the character so that, the Minion's front of the googles was parallel with the build platform. I'm going to post a screen grab of the Makerware screen positioning to demonstrate how I oriented the character. I printed it at the default "High" setting with the support box checked. I rotated the character about 51 degrees leaning towards the back. Check out the screen grab :)