Nigel's 3D Printed Daisy

Ok, well I would never claim to be an 'artist', but here's my shot at the face for Daisy, unfortunately the colour of the PLA is not so great for showing the detail, but I think its pretty good and apart from a slight re-size and addition of some eyelashes its all but complete.

These were printed on my Ender 3 at 0.12mm resolution and I think they've come out pretty well.  The reason for two?  Well one I printed laying flat, the other printed on its edge, the reason to see what the print layer lines look like etc... and also to see what the detail is like in case one orientation is better than the other.

The outcome?  Well the detail for the face features is pretty much the same, however in terms of print lines the 'laying flat' model shows some diagonal lines caused by the layer being put down, whereas the vertical one shows virtually no lines at all that I can see.  The flash doesn't help as it hides the detail somewhat.  Bear in mind these are only about an inch across and you'll appreciate how good these have come out for an FDM printer (as I don't have an SLA/Resin printer yet - mind you from what I've seen about the toxicity of the resin and the whole messing about having to cure it in alchohol etc... I'm going off the idea a bit).

Anyway, have a look see what you think, later today I'll undercoat one and if I get time paint it so you can see the details

First the 'laying flat' print.




Now the standing up print.