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I know I’m a day late, but I’ve been trying to find a good day to post this for about a year, and I keep just missing it. I don’t care anymore. Happy late Birthday Rumiko Takahashi!

Designed/Made this wall hanging from like 4 parts. It was as big as I could make in one print. The emblems can be taken off and worn as pins if I want, but I mostly just wanted to do that cause I realized that I could. I flip-flopped back and forth on which color to put emblem on, but I decided this cause I think this color contrast works. best.

This is an alternate design for the kettle I made. I’m happy with it, but it just feels like too much, but I can swap them out whenever I want and even wear this one as a pin/broach.

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Dude omg how do you make your pins

A lot of these are 3D printed and then I hand paint them. Since I am not the most dexterous, I model them to have each color on separate heights and I can sorta paint by numbers. Several are cut out of sheet metal for the shape using tin snips and sanded down to match. These I will generally make a stencil using tape for the design. I also have sanded down the face of a coin to get a clean circle.

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Made another pin, this time a generic form of my classpect (Maid of Void). I know the Void symbol on the chest is a little off, but I have never claimed to even be passable at free hand painting. I chose orange as the shoe color, cause I didn’t like how beige or grey looked, so I just went with my favourite color/from the light color scheme.

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The first meeting with Polnaros just stuck in my mind so much that I decided to try and draw something for like the first time ever. Still not totally satisfied with how parts of this turned out, but I got the important aspects, so it’s good

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I made a pin to celebrate the long, long, looonnng, time we had to wait for the official release of season 2. But by god was it worth it, I love this show, all versions.

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Made an eevee. I know that the paint coat isn’t too consistent, but I left it like that so it would give it some variance. Still not too happy with the ears, but I think the eyes turned out rather well. I couldn’t resist adding the toe-beans. Again, I didn’t make the model, but I did paint it.

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This was my first time painted an actual 3D model that I printed, and it turned out fairly well. I chose Umbreon because it’s one of my favourite Pokémon (thanks Colosseum) and it required very painting since its mostly black

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This is a phone stand that I designed and made for Father’s Day since my dad is such a huge Star Trek fan. It can even hold something as large and heavy as a tablet without any issues

The logos were separately printed so I could color them easier and instead of permanently inserting them and attaching it with glue or something I decided to make them into wearable pins. The federation emblem uses paint and I paused the print on the Klingon halfway through to swap the filament (since I only have a single filament printer)

I also created a silver variant, using the same method as the Klingon emblem, since that’s what the communicators actually look like, but gold pops more against the white

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The alt designs of this one are almost identical since I was pretty set on the design from the start, but I still wanted to see how different fin designs looked. Which was fairly pointless, since I cut these things out with tin snips, and the most detail I can get is much rougher than any of the differences

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This one was made with a different type of paint, so I’m still working on getting even coats, but that doesn’t matter too much. I will often make a 3D model of the pin even if I plan to make it out of metal so I could see possible design variations. These were the possibilities and the final I decided upon

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I’m actually quite proud of this one, not only does it show my improvements from when I started, I cut the bow out separately and attached it later. This adds quite a bit to the design I believe. Ignore the chip on the ear, apparently I need to touch it up.

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This pin is made out of a nickel that I sanded down so the paint coat would be flat. It ended up a much better circle than I would have gotten through my usual methods

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And now back to when I started making them out of metal again. I always liked this design, and while it is technically a reference to something, most people (it just showed up in the background a lot) wouldn’t think of it upon seeing this pin.

I kinda messed up in how an S looks when making this (and am only now, 4 years later realizing I had it right the first time) so you can somewhat see the lines still.

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This is a fairly simple one. There’s not many iconic images that can be made into pins. I did debate between this and the O with the figure in it, but went with this since it has more vibrant colors

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I’ve gotten so many questions thinking it’s the Ducks logo that I’m debating just flat out removing it. Or maybe just making one for my preferred hockey team

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Best image I had for this one was a 3/4 perspective, so I ended up just using it for reference and creating the front on design myself.

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Interestingly enough, the filament I used to print this one wasn’t black or red, but orange. I guess I was originally going to use orange instead of red? But picking filament colors is important because it can let you skip large portions of painting.