 That's always my favorite. I just can't get enough of that music Welcome everybody to hot makes hot makers my friends my people my the people I like hanging out with on a Monday night And Jim Welcome to the show This is show where we show off all the cool stuff that people have made in the maker community and tagged us in because those are The coolest people the people who have tagged us and stuff links I'm Caleb and this over there is There we go, buddy. How you go? How we doing our resonant Oreo? Yeah Yeah, what were you eating a mini gym head and eat some Oreos out of it if I do hunger you think those are still good No, no I had the pub mix hiding in the studio, so I just had a few a few pieces. There you go. 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We can do the fun stuff Yeah, I fixed the document so last week's hot makes are up So 152 and 153 so oh, okay. Let me know in the I'm just curious 153 holy crap. I know right Let me know in the comments if you've ever Be serious be truthful here if you've ever ever looked at the Google doc at any of the hot makes have posted on any of the previous episodes I'm just curious. I don't want I don't want to know the answer to that. Yeah, I don't want to know how many people don't look at it Well, I do I am curious if it's worth even but you make the list of course you look at it. Well, I look at it Fred says oh, you mean We're okay, okay So that in that case we know that Abby math has looked at it right there you go It looks like people have never never looked music dad come on I appreciate the honesty Oh, here we go. I'll make a I'll make a poll. We'll see what happens. Okay, do it And I've got a huge headache. Sorry. I started talking. Um, so oh So welcome everybody. We have an awesome show like Caleb said Fred FR 3d the 3d printing. However, we want to say we're gonna find out We're gonna clear that up when we bring them in right? such a cool guest we have That's gonna be a lot of fun. What'd you what'd you do the last week? It's been a week, right? We haven't talked all week, so Yeah, um, we're gonna show last week, right? Okay, you want to do that again. Oh, yeah, that's right another Murphy cap. How many Murphy recaps can you do? No, I've been spending a lot more time trying to Do just I just make things with my hands. I I exited this weekend with cuts and scrapes and My hand just spray-painted to all hell And I needed that like when I when I walk out of the shop on a weekend and my hands are dirty I don't know how I'm gonna get some certain stains out of my pants from from the shop specifically nothing weird I know that I've done something good and I have things that I can show off and I'm also trying to make more of an effort to show off the stuff that I'm working on because It gives me good brain happy as Sarah and I say it gives me a good Like I've noticed when I do this stuff on the weekends when I make more time to make things No matter what it is spending time in the shop the guy that we're staying with has an immaculate shop. It's amazing. It's like a It's like a makerspace in his backyard He's got all the tools and if I spend time out there and I use the tools and I make cool stuff I feel better and my week starts off on a much better note. It's really good for my mental health So I've started getting into some model-making and painting. I've started I've started getting into using Laser that he got recently from one of my co-workers a lot more to make accessories for things to to make things I'm not focusing as much on things to sell. Although if I make something and that I can template ties, you know, I'll sell it but I'm just focusing on making cool stuff for myself and I'm actually working with a co-worker to make him a guitar body he's making a fender telecaster and We're using his CNC to do that. So spending time in that shop just absolutely Helps my mental health a lot and I've been doing a lot of that this last week. What about you? That probably doesn't make anyone more happy to hear It's been super helpful dude deserve it and I appreciate that it's awesome I I wait before we go any further happy birthday Brian Vines. He's with yeah today's Brian Vines birthday and he's here Wait a minute, are there better things to do on your birthday? Nope. The answer to that is no Is is it I am messed up is K2 Kevin's birthday today too. No, that was Friday. Was it Liz? Can you Liz can chime in on this because I'm in the 30th. I I think it was a 30. Yeah Yeah, that was the 30th. So happy birthday K2 Kevin as well I dropped a ball on your print because I didn't see Liz's message. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I saw it I just didn't have time day. Yeah Brian Vines happy birthday The king of hunts the only thing we could do to print for a dad joke. Just not print one at all because that's a joke, right? Oh, geez Happy birthday guys. It was on the 30th. That's right Fantastic day anyone else who has a birthday happy birthday by the way Hey, I there's so this guy. There's this guy locally that I found That apparently if you're a hunter you can send him Your deer to turn into venison, but he actually gives it back to you as quail It's a real game changer Do what you did there I see You wanna you bring up dad jokes I can I can do dad jokes No, yeah, happy birthday to you guys and anyone else that had a birthday between last week and now Shame on you Jim. I know I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I Even got all I keep forgetting them. I took them off at home Would you take a heaven clip necklace late? I got laid at Murph With a K2 Kevin lay with clips. He put it on me and everything. He was awesome and I left it at home because you know That's really cool stuff. I guess Happy birthday. He didn't have a birthday this year. I Love it. I love it Just got a sometimes you just got to put a blanket statement out there cover your booty, you know We have an awesome guest we should probably get him in here. I know let's just do it. Yeah, let's see Let's see if he's ready. You ready. Oh for it. Yeah. All right. Let's do it There is How's it going man? Yeah, good. Good. Good So Unfortunately, I didn't save some of my biggest Questions and conversation points for the show because I just ended up asking you a bunch of stuff before the show But that's okay. Because Jim's here Jim can be our Luke Skywalker. He's our he's our audience surrogate He wasn't there for any of that. I wasn't there. I came a little late but First of all, is it Fred fr3d? It's Fred. It's Fred. Okay. Good Freddy ever has Liz is going nuts here. Yeah, Liz is super like Portion posh Lord, you probably get this question a lot, but is that wait say what Portuguese posh Lord? That button done best way to do it. Yes Well, welcome welcome to the show Fred. Um, yeah, thanks for joining us talk to you about some really cool stuff You have going on Before we dive too far Who are you? What do you do and where can we find you and then let's like let's dive straight into it like Caleb? Okay? so as we spoke on Fred I make dioramas props and Some badges All 3d printable and you can find me on Twitter at the 3d printing or On my website the 3d printing magic calm or on patreon the 3d printing and that's basically it Every time we say badges. I want to make the badges. We don't need no stinking badges quote. Yeah But we do need badges because your stuff is cool. Yeah, yeah, I think Remember right like it had to be a bunch of episodes ago when also we started seeing those little like the little badge emblems, right? That's yeah, that's like yeah somebody so somebody tagged like a wall of the badges that you made and I actually I went I dug through and I used that photo For the episode thumbnail and for the previews and stuff like that just because I had to because I was a that was my first Introduction to the stuff that you do and I was immediately like we got a we gotta have this guy on and then I think it wasn't I think it was you that reached out to me actually. I don't know that I don't think I reached out to you I think you reached out to me saying hey, I saw you guys talking about me on the show. I'm happy to hop on Yeah, I think so, which I really appreciate because it's hard to keep track of things I Had a lot of the previous stuff shown in some of the because I was tagged a couple of times and yeah Yeah, it was always like oh, let me see if my stuff showed up on the Monday show Yeah, yeah, we appreciate that but we are mostly appreciate all the cool stuff you make that yeah, seriously Because like I mean what's start with the how where do you want to start Kayla? But you want to start with the badges we could start with the badges You have a picture of that. Well, I kind of want to start with I Kind of wanted to start with how you got started like where are you? What are you? Did you start? I don't know wait. How what how do you make this stuff and how did you start making this stuff? I guess Actually was talking with Liz just what half an hour ago about this So I started with the Creality Printer I just wanted to get into the 3d printing. This was like what five and a half years ago And I started downloading some mini dudes and then realizing there was a guy that actually made these by the tongue And of course while you're doing mini dudes I also wanted to add a little bit more to them So I started make designing some bases in thinker cat and then yeah getting some parts from here and there And I realized that wasn't really what I Enough I wanted more so I started using some software. I had had some experience in working with kind of more architectural software So I started using on shape and then on to fusion 360 And starting building some basis for the mini I joined waxes patreon way too long ago and Basically, we've been working together on you know building Stuff for the minis and I've built hundreds and hundreds of dioramas for waxes minis and hundreds Yeah, probably so many Yeah, so that's how I started doing it And he's always pushed me to do more and more and more and more stuff and not just focus on the mini dudes Because they are super cool, but again, not everyone has or wants to print a mini dude So then I moved on to doing also props so all of these above that I started making and Sick and of last year I got my hands on some bamboo Mm-hmm. It's a game changer. I was literally just texting my friend before the show about his P1P that came in Yeah, so to me it was About and it's always been about the AMS and being able to do multi-color prints So is that how you're doing a lot of your badges then all of the badges are that's awesome color That's awesome. So that's when I started kind of thinking okay Where can I go a bit further with the multicolor and started making you know, I didn't have a name for them So I started calling them badges. Although nowadays I've done stuff that is a bit more complex than just badges where kind of a little bit like you forge does But these are all manually done. So I call them paintings or posters Thanks and doing that kind of stuff. So that's that image that you mentioned was I did a project which was called a hundred nerds badges So I made was it that was the one. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah here. I'm pulling up There we go get a website going Yeah, so as you can see most of that stuff and I haven't had time to update that's mostly the dioramas But you've got so do you have your badges on here? No Haven't had time to update that website and okay. It's just been project after project. So mostly in that website. There's the Dioramas there are tons of props one of the things I did I do still have a lot on Yeah, so those were the initial ones, but those are got layer changes or individual parts And then I have also a lot of stuff for tabletop Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah So anything that is not organic that I can actually model infusion because that's the only thing I know how to do So you primarily do non-organic things so you you said you started off with a kind of being having experience in Liz You said you had started off having experience with architectural software Is that kind of where you come from? Do you come from the architectural world or design industrial design and graphic? Awesome Which explains that explains the more Mechanical shape proficiency. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Again waxer has tried to teach me Z brush and I use Z brush for a long time to add textures and some Sculpting into the dioramas in some props, but yeah, I wouldn't say I'll be able to sculpt an organic figure at all Yep, that's I am I am unfortunately cursed with the same thing and I'm not I don't have nearly the experience or Talent that you do on this stuff, but when it comes to people asking me Hey, can you make a quick jig for this thing or something like that? I'm like as long as it squares triangles and circles. I'll be okay All of this stuff is exactly that Even the badges I've actually a lot of people asked me how do I how did you make them? So I actually decided to make a tutorial on how to make multicolor badges using fusion So I published a video so that people could actually do them And I then made another video of explaining how to actually print them in multicolor because people didn't know how to Actually bring all the parts together and print them in multicolor Because it's different that you don't need to paint them They come as red objects so you can actually just assign a color and the print is much nicer that way So do you stick to four color on your stuff then no well to be fair I try and stick to something that people can use but a lot of the times what my patrons said is do what? Makes you happy. So yeah, that's awesome posters. There are now 12 colors. That's awesome. That's cool because Waxes There it is. Yeah, they gave me a offered me for my birthday effort AMS. So I could actually do 12 colors This is so wow. That's awesome Yeah, I'm I mean, I remember I'm going through your Twitter. Well, what Caleb's talking and it's like So much cool stuff. I think I think you did the diorama for what was it the alien? Yeah, he did Yeah, it was him. I used that one in the the preview thing too because I knew what I knew we would want to bring that up Because that's what created that's what started the conversation that created the the mini the Wexner's mini gym. Yeah Yeah, so it looks I don't remember which episode that was I think it was Jerry from 3d printing and painting who did the diorama and Then during the show pooch is like hey, that's looks like you or something Yeah, the Sigourney the Sigourney weaver model looked like Jim because of the long curly hair Yeah, so we we basically challenged Wexner to make a gym a mini gym You guys you guys because I'm gonna see if I can find that. Yeah, I actually might have it, too But he actually took like he took the mini and he like in emotion He like pulled the hair off and he brought it over and dropped it on this one, you know, and It was hilarious and we he did that one. He actually showed it when we had him on as a guest and and But it was that diorama that that started that whole thing, you know, that was pretty awesome That was at one point I think one of the things with that alien diorama is I was running this competition where every month patrons would paint and create versions of the dioramas and And I would give out a price an Amazon voucher So I remember back then there was a lot of dioramas that were propping up on Twitter and were being tagged Because a lot of people were doing some really good stuff, right with it Now I'm digging through I'm digging through our episodes here to see if I can find Yeah, that's what I'm that's what I'm looking for I mean, and you do some I mean the stuff You're doing with the multicolor so cool. I mean we could look at stuff all day You know, so so crisp Well to be honest like a lot of the times my biggest concern is I'm not an expert in 3d printing I print stuff I know how to make them. I can't press the button and send to the printer And I understand how the file needs to be made to be printed well, correct But sometimes a lot of the people when people look at this they look at this and so that Print is not perfect and what I need to make sure is that every time I'm making a model that people can't print it And it prints well Set up, right? That's a yeah, so I had the problem with where I'm going to put the AMS So I actually designed this the parts to make a structure for the AMS Which unfortunately that structure is more expensive than the AMS itself Does do the job isn't that isn't that a thing I mean That's we get this it happens in making so much where you get something and you're like this is awesome I need to put it somewhere and you make something bigger and more expensive than the thing you got to put it in Yeah, yeah Yeah, again, I'm a big fan of and I believe that's not only this stuff that isn't functional But you can use a 3d printer for super functional stuff and that's that cabinet was Super nice to make and I'm actually making a second one. I love those. Those are so cool Yeah Yeah, and that's that behind is the Star Wars trench That I really I modeled and 3d printed which is also modular so you can actually make it as big as you want. Oh, really? Don't tempt me. Yeah There you go. Oh, that's awesome. I love the yeah I just love the stuff that you put together. So you model. Do you model all the scenes here? Yeah Everything except for the minis I made from the rebel transporter the rebel transported actually was made for tabletop And then I scaled it up and adjusted it so they could be printed big all of the diorama the Good war room everything Just looks so good Yeah, yeah It's the color separate. It's the really crisp color separation and solid Well-designed parts that just make it but it doesn't look 3d printed like when you hold the stuff in your photos It looks like those like 3d Like PVC patches, you know, yeah So a couple of things that I don't know a lot of people I said I'll print the stuff facing down and it looks much nicer. I don't I if I'm 3d printing it I want it to be 3d printed and have some volume to it on top of that What I've learned is having different heights helps separate a little bit the colors and make them not You know fudge or smudge each other. So It works nice like that. I Love the Tetris one to you. Yeah, so that that is actually that model was made four years ago and Wanted to print it. I did print it, but I couldn't paint it by hand. It would never look good So now with the AMS I was able to actually get that printed and color and looks I just love that the colors used to print it to like it looks like the old Game Boy Screen colors Yeah, you know your dial your profiles really dialed in here you're using a point two or point four No point four I can't use so this is goes back to that question about how many colors I use I can't actually use stuff that the most people wouldn't use because then I can't test my things That's make sure that I can print it. So yeah, it's boxed under printer So that's the the trench So that is what happens when I'm bored and I want to go and print someone else's models What so is that is that whole thing printed? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's how many pieces. Oh, I don't know That was 16 kilos of filaments took me four months to print 16. Oh, oh, that is too awesome. I love it. Yeah Yeah, here we go. Oh That's Did you make a little R2? Yeah. Yeah, so that I didn't know that so before He kind of we started talking. He did have a couple of minis with dioramas and one of them was Laya and R2D2 Which we have a diorama, but I wanted a more complex one. So that is a two-part diorama That's why I just love I love the stuff that I mean, it's just so cool That you put this stuff together you model it and you're like, oh, here's a sweet little diorama to go behind I just I it makes it it makes it like it's cool to have little collections of figures especially these cute little like chubby figures, but like Having little displays that they can stand in that are just about the size of them and then so that you don't So that you're not limited to just one large diorama of the same style that you you can have each individual figure in its own environment Yeah I don't know. I don't know how but that somehow just changes the whole thing. It just changes the way the whole thing looks Yeah, and I've seen some people do some really cool dioramas and again one of the things I've kind of tried to do After all these years is make sure I wasn't going to crazy because at one point I have some dioramas are like super big like the I have a Turtles diorama, which is a building with three floors Yeah, that's nice You designed that I designed everything And yeah, I have it over there Ethan's dad said it Best they're cooler than Funko pops because Funko pops were super cool when they started coming out But now that I just see them so often. Yeah, and there's those just yeah I think the waxer stuff is so much cooler and you can make it and you can make it yourself That's what the extra cool part to it Yeah, and again again with the diorama is what I've Really like seeing which is you know, unfortunately not as much as I would love to Maybe when we were running the competitions is actually seeing people print them But then paint them and put decorations on top, you know, yeah And then some really talented people out there that do some amazing work So oh, I forgot who it was because I think I think it was the person who originally made The one that got us started on the conversation was um 3d print in fights or uncle yeah, yep that yeah that had the the rotating amber light and the fog and everything Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's so cool Yeah, so Speaking of which I did find I did find the clip. I know it doesn't really have any I know that it's it has more to do with wester than than your stuff, fred But I wanted to pull it up because it's just really It's all I mean, it's all because of him right? I mean, yeah, yeah Also, I would like to point out this little number down here And we're on 153. So this was almost a hundred episodes ago How crazy is that? Okay, let's see, uh, let me know if you can't hear the sound Don't like you actually did you actually start with it? I'm sorry I hear it Okay, cool, and it's not gonna play of course We we have uh, we have a similar a similar thing to show off when we get to the hot makes segment While we're while we're waiting. We got ten dollars to the PayPal's from Dennis. Hey Raffer. Thank you so much for Oreo money Thank you, sir. It says Oreos. Thank you so much. I just want to fantastic Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Um, it might just be because I have too much going on on one So I've been I've been doing the show since the house situation has been happening I've been doing the show from the office when I can when they let me Which has been quite a few weeks now If you shoot me the link I might be able to pull it up here Oh, yeah Um here, I'll do I'll do you one better. I'll shoot it to you with the time stamp So all you're gonna do is click and go There you go I just think it's just fun. Um, so Uh Yeah, okay, I just send it to you. Let's see if you can hear it We I'll unmute you. Um, he says hey I've been sitting on this for a minute, but here you go. And what I got was this So There's there's a good old Going on to jim It's so beautiful and it's just that easy Yeah All you're gonna do is push my hair over it off of you know Garni weaver you drop it on that right there Man, I'm I miss the pooch days. I miss his laugh Yeah, he just had such a good good vibe to him Yeah, so that was all because of uh, you know fred really because of of jerry's diorama and then we yeah exactly so Good stuff man, but you do. I mean you've been doing some really cool multicolor stuff. I mean like I said your stuff is So dialed in it looks so good so clean uh, that one for example was Really bad the first print I did was really bad and Yeah, the first print was awful like it didn't come out nice and again. It was because what happened to it Uh, I think it was because of the way the blue and the white were levels And when it was kind of ironing the layers, it just smudged everything so that the whole top was a disaster And again, this is why I don't print To show off the quality of the the print I print because I need to make sure that it will print well for people to print and uh Yeah, although sometimes I or for example if this the curvature is too to steep and it won't print well um, or I think it happened with one of my Badges that I misspelled the letter misspelled And of course, you know, nobody said anything until one of my patrons that it kind of Fix fixes everything said to me. Oh, yeah, that's wrong so I love I love do you uh, do you subtly show off? Uh, do you kind of like sneakily show off future projects you're working on in the backgrounds of your photos? Yeah, so I would totally do that I had this question asked today and this is one of features I really like about the bamboo slicer is the ability to have the 32 beds Which actually if it's super annoying, you can only have 30 32. Yeah, no more than I don't know why All right, so I put all of the models that I'm working on on the slicer And then I take the pictures of course because people will see others in the background and it adds kind of Ironically well not ironically, but just like it's perfect because you are using your dioramas as the diorama for the photo It's you've got your stuff is the background to the stuff you're making. Yeah. Yeah, any show in the office Sometimes I have stuff. I I tend to work quite You know looking forward in the months to make sure I always have content done for my patrons So I might have Badgers I printed two months ago Won't release for the next two months, but I always like to show off some bits and bobs here Put some work in progress and stuff like that just to show people that you know, there is a lot of content coming It looks like those all paints in the background too Yeah, so so you do like mini mini painting and stuff too. That's just for the dioramas I I haven't done it because it's just difficult to find time by All my stuff was painted and a lot of the stuff that Jim showed When would put in the past my stuff were because of the paint jobs done on the dioramas. I still think I have I'll show you this is the kind of stuff. Yeah, I wish I did too music dad I do not have the music dad says I wish I had any artistic talent Oh, that's awesome That's so well painted Well, it's actually Not great, but so it's the overall. Yeah. Yeah That's so cool. That is great compared to how I would have done it Well, it's just I guess it's like everything just practice because in the past without the ams I had to print and paint everything. So I've done a lot of stuff like the Tower the the stargate pyramid and Yeah, this is not my model, but I've painted the this guy This is Zabrex call Yeah, that's awesome Yeah, that was just kind of When I'm not in a mood to model anything. I just go and find some nice model from some other artist and then I love it. I mean you like really cool stuff and I I'm uh I'm attempting something for the first time. I put a point to nozzle on my one of my bamboo My printers morpheus Um for the first time I always wanted to But um, here's a little teaser to what's coming Um, what are you printing jim? Um, I I'm not going to tell you what I'm printing But I can tell you that it might be cmky colors if you look at the ams I have never heard somebody say it's cmky Yeah, yeah cmy k cmy k. Yeah, so why did you is that the way it's set up in the thing? Or do you just you just do it that way? I just said it the way I said it. Okay Um, no, no, uh, why am ck. Yeah, why am I am ck? This is literally I just I just got to start it before the show and uh, I gotta say Manpoint two nozzles take so long to print the first layer. Holy mother. Yeah Yeah, I I I think I rarely Found the need for printing in a 0.2 nozzle, but this is actually one of the smallest prints I've done in fdm Oh, wow, that was fdm and that's a 0.4 nozzle Nice Awesome, I've gone down to a 0.2 nozzle on on printers before but not I don't know that I was even able to get something like that Yeah, and that is a multi-part print so you Rotates and has hinges on Pete P. Shea web. No texture plate. No, I I swapped the texture plate out. Um Uh smelly cat might have called it and I didn't want the background to be all weird Hmm I think you gave away the Tom Stay tuned when I release the video next sunday So what what else are like are you working on anything cool behind the scenes like I know We talked a little bit You guys were talking when I came in you guys were already like deep into conversation And I apologize that I was running late. I got here and I'm like I gotta put this nozzle and I got to get this print started Yeah, um, and I did have one more question before we get into that Double the time I thought it was gonna take so I'm like, I guess I'm not filming tonight because I need that to But um, yeah, go ahead kill so when we I asked, uh Was it Aaron Aaron um galactic armory When he was on I asked him the same question because it always kind of fascinates me how people do this stuff So for some of your for some of your props um, how do you Do you just eyeball things? Do you look at do you find like fan communities that have photo library references? Do you take screenshots yourself? Like how do you make the props so accurate and clean? I A lot of the time probably more time is spent in references and research Finding the dimensions and also because again, I'm not uh I need to like, you know, it's very Methodical, so I need to have the reference material in order to do it a lot of the times if I don't have the reference material I'm not going to do it because I know it's never going to be, you know close to the same Then a lot of the times is finding the right dimensions for the the property. That was gonna be my next question. Yeah Yeah, so for like a blaster if you've got all the photos and references and stuff or prop, you know Prop department photos or whatever and but all you have are photos all you have are screenshots of people on set Uh holding them But you don't really have any official dimension of how long it's supposed to be to base everything else off of how do you Do you just not do it or no? No, I guess there are things like for example A weapon like a pistol if unless it's the hellboy pistol where his hand is so big that it probably Yeah And the majority of times there are more or less Fixed dimensions for a weapon like the the distance between your the the the finger and the back and all that stuff So what you can do is approximate the reference image You know adjust it to the right size and make sure that all the measurements make sense And then you have like again, nobody's going to measure. Yeah, probably if Adam Savage goes and checks it And if it's either off he's going to be upset but in my case, I'm you know Yeah There was there was one project that I did a while ago I was making captain mal's pistol from firefly and I had the 3d files, but I didn't know what scaled to make them Um, and I made it, uh I literally took a screenshot held my hand up against my computer screen And just scaled up the screenshot until it was about the same until his hand was about the same size as my hand And then made it that scale and Using that method and this is why I like asking people this question Yeah What I didn't what I didn't think about was the fact that I have giant hands like I can palm a basketball very very easily Um, a lot of times Sarah makes fun of me because when we go to restaurants I I'll just like grab a cup like almost all the way around it and uh Because of that I ordered a leather holster for that for that pistol for a cosplay that I was working on and it didn't fit in the holster Because the the holster was designed to fit like some a proper replica that was like officially licensed and made by a by a uh, Like a like an actual company But it wouldn't fit my pistol because I scaled it to fit my giant hand Yeah, like visually The ita I do have like a lot of notes on percentiles and dimensions for like, um shatties and baseball Stuff in weapons because again, that's what I am a viking Uh, he's it's because exactly of that like I can't just grab like a lot of times what I do is I I print some parts to make sure that it makes sense that I'm not messed up the dimensions, correct? But uh, what I was I was actually testing out This is a good example of how I'm not sure about dimensions I was printing This is a ratchets, uh hammer Yeah, okay from ratchets in clank. Yeah, I've I've been working on it's like a long project Again, I have no clue what the dimensions of that are correct. Like it's completely cartoonish. Yeah So in that case, I'll just make it. It's like how big is the acme, uh anvil like But for real props, it's fine. They're like knives and stuff like that You just have I'm assuming like especially like star wars props and stuff because you've got like real real weapon references That are usually attached to that or sometimes they're just extra pieces built onto a real gun, you know for for star wars stuff. So, yeah Uh, I have a couple of sub wars and uh the expanse and I have some models that I've not test printed a lot of people tested for me And again just using the same dimensions and yeah, fine That's awesome. Nice. Yeah Oh man, that's going much better now What I had I had to get through that firstly. I I just checked on that because I heard the That one of my bamboos in here clinking so it must have been scanning doing uh first layer scan I was like, I think it looked fine And then I clicked back over and it's actually moving now. So I mean there you go That makes me feel much more but much much more much more better much better Than the way it was running with a point that first layer took for hey Photos mint is here. Hey, dude. I was just I was just talking to photos, uh before the show Nice Um, but jim you were getting at something before I jumped back into the dimensions question Yeah, I was getting that. Um, I think you guys were when I jumped in Oh, yeah Um, are we are we are we talking about you're not talking about you're talking about monolith. Yeah. Yeah, we're talking about the monolith Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, um, and and I thought that was pretty dang awesome. I jumped on the site in here and I absolutely love these um We can we talk a little bit about that. Well, I love about them as they already look like they're from star wars like Yeah, of course, I want to put star wars stuff in them. Yeah, we were talking about the We were talking a little bit about the display frames versions. Yeah, which is where you can display stuff Uh, that is kind of more of a 2d style that can have a 3d dimension to it. Um, yeah I do and you and you you made that work really well with the huforge stuff Yeah, so which we were just talking about that. I think what's that last week or the week before jim um Yeah, there you go That's a uforge lithofine with a scarab that I actually got on colts and that's with the display frame And that has lights in it, right? Yeah, so it has a light box on the back Uh, that's awesome. Yeah, and then it has french cleats here so that you can actually fix You are definitely back in the pooch on the friend. I know I know Pooch was who brought it up to you, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, he spent half of his time on twitter talking about french cleats and then Convince everyone about using them. I didn't know much about it until pooch start talking about it So they're really smart and I love this. Yeah, see look, ah with the with the lights That's so cool That's awesome. Yeah, so that was actually a little bit different Is that a star trek display? Sorry my eyes are so that is uh bob bob sent me for my birthday a couple of uh Star trek memorabilia. Yeah, that's seven nine nine. Yeah, and I decided to make an image that would be kind of a representation of a bork That is so cool. And I was then uh using euforge with uh transparent patchy and some blacks and whites That's awesome I am Portuguese. Yes Portuguese cleats God Yeah, indeed. I am so what I love about the french cleat thing though is that you can do Like I would imagine If you make a extra wide display Let's say and you put two sections of french cleats with a space between them You could put that extra wide wide display up or and then if you wanted to swap that out You can probably take that off and put two smaller displays on those spots. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's so the cleats the cleats are actually modular They're made in 100 or 200 uh millimeters sections. So you screw them to the wall Uh and for the big evidence the only concern I have which I haven't tested But I'm going to do with the big display that I'm doing for the dateless ship that I'm printing is Because the display frame is a meter 20 long And and the ship the ship is around 750 So my worry is more with the weight on the french cleats If the frame if you're putting something very heavy Uh if the french cleats are adequate for that because there is actually a better way to fix a big cabinet to the wall With screws that go through the structure of the cabinet Yeah, let us know how you let us know how you get but you've been I mean you've been working on those Cabinets for a very long time. Uh, I think three months Uh, three four months printing and test printing I had I was lucky enough to get some of my patrons that volunteered to spend hundreds of funds and filaments to test out this stuff Make sure that everything printed because again, I can do the test prints for You know a batch but when we're talking about Functional parts that need to be screwed in and screwed out and changed so often I need to make sure that they're they print well also because I didn't want supports I wanted everything to be 3d printed All the screws are 3d printed. That's that's what I was going to bring up next. Yeah, I heard you guys talking about like Screws are 3d printed. You said there's like a bit that you 3d print for the yeah Yeah, so initially I did a uh a flat screw Driver, but like when you're doing 2030 screws, you don't really kind of want to be doing that with a A bit of plastic that is flat. So I actually modeled a screw bit a hex screw bit to go on to a screwdriver so I could actually Screw that that's awesome. It's Yeah, um, I guess so all of these things like It's like bringing up the model. It just makes me realize that and this is this is a testament I think to you and your creative genius and your technical abilities Like I've been exposed to a lot of the stuff that you've done From completely exclusive sources because like I saw the monolith project. Um, I saw uh Your dioramas. I saw the badges. I saw all these things coming Coming from different people who are showing them to me or just coming across them Randomly and it wasn't until I was talking to you about coming on this show that I was like, oh Those these all these cool things were made by the same dude Like so I I didn't even realize that all you were behind all of that stuff I just I just kept being exposed to your stuff from different directions, which it's you just do cool stuff That's just a sign that you do cool stuff. It's not like I found you and then looked at all the stuff you did It was the other way around Yeah, I guess Again, like I said, we talked at the beginning my my origin and all this came from wanting to be in 3d printing and finding the Minidudes and really liking doing them, correct? But then yeah I found not only that but I found a group of really cool people in the in his discord that actually Pushed me to do a lot more and the more I did and the more I got involved The more I wanted to kind of do other stuff also because again Like I said, and he says it What she says is a lot, you know doing mini dudes dioramas is never going to be a thing because Unless people have the mini dudes, they're not going to print the dioramas. Yeah So we've actually I've done a push-up to get stuff on printables So we kind of coordinated a lot of the mini dudes that were at the beginning with the dioramas to have stuff like there Uh, but then I also wanted to do more stuff So the tabletop was something that I wanted to do because again, they're they're not figurines they're just terrain and parts for it Yeah, and and again, I've been adding more stuff and doing more stuff But uh, you know, it's not easy for someone that doesn't know who I am Because it's not just one thing It's a lot of different things, correct I think the badges made the big difference because everyone now You know sees the badges and kind of goes like oh badges badges badges because it's a much simpler It's simpler. It's a normal thing that everyone understands the brands or the levels or whatever Correct, and it's so wide too because there's so many different fandoms that it that it attaches to yeah Yeah, so that made it much simpler for people to kind of want to do it Then the dioramas or the props my props sometimes have a hundred parts on it. So that's not for everyone's taste um I'm going to so my new goal now is to single-handedly prove you wrong He said that people wouldn't print the dioramas if the if the minis weren't a thing I am going to I'm going to print All of your dioramas or as many of them as I can fit in one room and I'm not going to print a single mini They're just all going to sit there empty with no characters in them So there's actually just to to make sure that I don't uh, say something that isn't true I do have dioramas. I do have dioramas that are not for waxers and minis okay, so I just think it'd be funny to have a whole room of like the dioramas but with no actual characters that I'm so I have I just I just like the environments. Yeah so Just actually one of the dioramas was shown in hot makes. I think was the first time one of my models was shown in hot makes Which was the bat cave for dsk's Batmobile Oh Cool. God. That was forever ago Yeah, that was a long time ago. Also did uh, thought this meant uh, batman dioramas was purple Still one of my favorite ones. I did I do have I do have a lot of dioramas. I've never released I have a butcher's gate from diablo. Oh nice probably 70 centimeters wide that I've never released, for example um, yeah, so I have other dioramas that aren't for waxers and minis Uh, but the majority I guess are That's awesome. But if you still want to print the 100 dioramas, it could be my guess I Said that he he was going okay that one I this one cost this much. I've got four that cost this much So he'd be spending about this much like Yeah, and they're all printed in parts most of them might be sent out several parts But yeah, they're easy to print no almost no supports and that's awesome I love when people design for 3d printing and they can make you know, different things like no supports or make it stronger Here make things build up, you know stuff like that and oh man. I've been loving Yeah, I've been loving photosmiths stuff for that exact reason Oh, I never actually posted that thing I was talking about last week the the Maybe I'll go get it. Maybe I'll go get it while we're doing the hot mix. We'll do it Is the hot mix you get a hot mix we're we're do you want to hang out for hot mix? Check out. We'll be sure through at us. Yeah. Yeah. All right, of course. You guys want to jump on in? Let's do it. Let's do it Oh, yeah, yeah, so the I love the screenshots that were going around of your face Denise says catching a replay of hot mix and and that you know, that's the Screen I was froze on last week, I guess I didn't look at my face. What is going on with my face? Yeah, oh, it's me. Oh, it's me. Uh, it's me replicating your face. Yeah, you were mimicking me That's funny. Oh jeez That's that, you know, fantastic So many people jumped on that and Well, because it was you were frozen there for so long that was also so awkward because I didn't know what to do Like I was just sitting there by myself. I didn't know what to say, you know Right, it's easier. It's easier when you Leave and we have a guest but that was a week that we didn't have a guest So I was just sitting there staring at the screen and I'm like guys. I don't know what to I don't know what to do That was funny you were mimicking uh Uh, yeah, so local local baker bishops Thanks to josh uh at alien at 3d for the keen village plastic galactic sapphire filament Point 8 nozzle point 4 layer streamed to the maker deck. That's a cool. So I still haven't uh made one of these I got to the slug. Yeah, I don't think yeah This slug is called uh, it's a it's a slug I printed one of forever ago It's really fun I haven't done that friend friendly articulate. I like Friendly articulated slug makes me suspicious If you have to mean at all Yeah, but maybe not maybe not though because if you have to specify that it's a friendly slug Yeah Should I just trust your word for it? Don't get it wet Uh, no food Slug oh, yeah, there you go Well, I got bad news for you slugs are usually wet. Yeah Throw it. Well, if you have a problem just throw some salt. It'll be okay. All right. There you go That was salty. Uh, let's see 3d printing here, um optimizing an air engine Yeah Oh, I watched this guy a while ago. This video is super cool Yeah Yeah, so he uh, I forget what was going on in this video It was a lot of um See I watched this whole video. Yeah, yeah, there we go And I loved how he he explained in depth how those because we I think we all had one of those like air hogs Like air pressure motors. You just pump it up with a bike a bike uh Like a bike air pump, you know, and then you just throw it just like that That is so cool air right now Yeah, that's awesome So cool, and it's all like mostly 3d printed here That's so cool Yeah, I mean, I love practical stuff, but like cool stuff like this too Reminds me. I guess you could say you like practical printing Ah, I do I do also. Uh, it's not on your screen. It's on It's not on your screen because it's like, you know, but on on my screen It's there's this discover more thing underneath and it's another one of Lama's posts and it's just from june 30th And it's a picture that says just a friendly fourth of july reminder that absolutely No one is going to watch the video fireworks. You record it on your phone There it is. It's right there. It was there the whole time I was reading it jerk Now I feel dumb that is pretty funny. Yeah, yeah, that is funny With your three fingers that are left. They need to be added on the end of that I almost took an eye out. Oh if bret, uh bret if you're still in the chat he can Vouch for me I Quick quick side story. I learned about the magic of bottle rockets one year No idea what bottle rockets were Uh, and it's of course, you know as an adult child the first time I figure out what bottle rockets are I just want to shoot them at everything and my Stupid brain thought I want to make sure it goes in a specific direction So you know what I'm going to do I'm going to hold the stick and aim it like this And of course it's shot directly into my I almost blinded myself because you know like when your skin burns So hot uh when you get so hot of a burn It just it skips the blistering phase and it just goes straight into just a hard plasticy white Sins like skin It I had that but in a little dot right here on my nose if it was like a centimeter to the To the other direction it would have I would have just melted my eye You would have been a pirate I would have been a pirate. I would have had a long beard a bald head and an eyepatch So uh, uh, I'll take your eyes out. That's all I have to say. Um, that's my favorite. Yeah Fourth july movie Um, so what's he working on Henry Henry Henry stocks I Don't know what I'm looking at It's a it's a vacuum But what am I uh, I see that there's a some sort of contraption that he's attached to but what am I What's the significance of what I'm watching here? Oh, is it another like air powered thing it is That's cool. Oh, this is this. Yeah I think I've seen this video Yeah, there you go I uh, I don't There you go. There's a there's a thing that that whole contraption reminds me of and I'm not I'm some people in the chat I might know what I'm thinking of but I'm definitely not going to say it out loud Uh, moving on Hope y'all move on The fire where everybody's posting their fireworks videos for next week do it. There we go. Yeah, do it if you take them and do it I'll show them Everybody we'll just spend the entire llama long wrong next week We'll just throw on the national anthem and we'll sit there and just watch Okay, and our next hot makes oh look it's a fireworks video. We have a work that's well with these so far Get you kevin. Happy birthday. Uh, local. Yeah, I made this one for you Is this in that same uh filament as the slug? I think it is Might be I'm pretty sure it is because that was also local maker michigan That doesn't say but yeah I love it. Also, um, oh you you were nicely modeled op face Talk about this. Oh, yeah So I recently I don't have it with me obviously because I'm at the office But what like I was saying, you know, one of the things I've recently been getting into to be More have more brain happy Is uh getting I've been getting into like some model stuff and I don't necessarily have time or patience for like a full gundam model or anything like that But I love transformers and there's this company called yolo park that has been making kind of like partially pre-assembled transformers models That have kind of uh, like the base paints kind of blocked off And then you're supposed to just detail paint them But I've actually just completely disassembled the thing and started painting the pieces like from scratch But it came with the face mask plate on the left there And I really wanted to have the ability to swap it out for The mask list like just like the actual optimus prime face that was in the movie too if I wanted to and it didn't come with that So I took uh, I found a on cults 3d. I found a model that somebody made It was supposed to be a replacement head. It was an entire head for one of the smaller figures that you buy Like target or whatever But so I just took that and I just chopped his face off and then recreated The the little tabs and everything for the mounting things that were on the uh, that were on the mask face plate that you saw in the other photo and uh Just attached the face to that resin printed it and it would it What I didn't mention but part of what made me so proud about this is that it worked first try Typically when I do that stuff, I have to I printed I fit it I make some adjustments or whatever, but no I I just sat there with some calipers I did that thing like I was telling you earlier fred where I just kind of like held it up against the screen to see If the proportions were quite right and then first print it just plugged right in Especially in resin where the the the the sizes and the the shrinkage is super hard to get right Yeah, I'm really surprised that turned out first try So Thank you. I appreciate that. I've actually uh at home right now on the resin printer I've got some replacement uh wheels for that kit too because a little wheels that are on his shins Don't really look like truck wheels. I wanted to make it more realistic. Nice more wheel which quick Yeah, more wheelistic. Yes Quick shout out to Joel telling by the way because my uh the resin printer that I had uh still is not currently working uh after the storm I know that was months ago But just going through tech support with anycubic is it just takes forever Um, so I'm still working on that But uh, Joel was like, yo, let me send you a resin printer that you can just get started on now So and clearly it has been helping my mental state quite a bit having that so thanks, Joel What amazing spy model of spider-man 2099 by wexter. Who who's wexter? I don't know the westers instant classic This was printed using printed solid at jesse bold blue And protopasta candy apple red those colors are amazing Together especially Yeah, I think the I think together is how they really shine too Yeah, nice work that contrast Yeah, and the detail in this thing. Yeah, that's what I was actually looking at the detail and I just came out so The like the texture and stuff. Yeah, look at that That is slick That's like slick 3r Ed says somebody take the coffee away from me. I actually haven't had much coffee today, sir Nice work, London. Uh, this thing is this thing is on point. Nice All right, what else we got? Yeah, it is super cool Uh, there we go fix some dude says happy birthday to one of the k2 kevin great modeler and all around great dude Hope your birthday is a blast. So I'm that uh fix some dude and k2 kevin And lis at mirf. I am so jealous. It's like a trifecta I am so jealous I would love to meet all three of those people They are fantastic people I would agree if that's if he printed on the voron, I would definitely agree that thing's dialed in Yeah, um Nice and happy birthday again You gotta love that Fix some dude. What color is this? This is it It looks like a It looks like a gray with some glitter Right I like it Whatever it is All right one more Sam Prentiss This and hot makes a lot I'll take this is stolen valor from the creality 3dp That's stolen valor. I I would venture to say I don't know that I have to I should hit him up and ask him about this, but I'm pretty sure he took this from printfest I think he did. I think he said that he yeah He flew home with it. I think was his post. Did you post that on twitter or facebook? I didn't even see it Hang on Hang on I think he posted it on uh Somewhere else. I'm checking No, I'm checking because I saw him post this picture and I think I saw him say something. Maybe he deleted it, but Uh, hilarious. I I could definitely see like the the creality peeps Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was on it was on facebook. He said, uh, this is a huge and pretty complex print that I smuggled back from the usa So he shoved it in a bag or something can you imagine that being like the head hanging out of his carry on or something I'm just trying to figure out how the queen allows dragons in england. I just you know Uh, I'm just thinking about well, did he buy a second ticket to to bring I know it looks massive Yeah, yeah an absolute unit That's crazy. Awesome work. Um, but that was our hot makes of the day Great job everybody. I love seeing it and don't forget you can check the link in the document or the Link in the description below if I could talk and uh look for episode 153 Zombie says he saw that in person and almost knocked it over Oh man He's trying to create another zombie dragon. Is that what's happening here? Yeah. Yeah, he used to catch area That would be awesome Children Like being an airport's uh airport worker and you grab a cat carrier you're looking and it's just this little robot like I do have to say I do have to say I I made that joke and it was a bad joke because of this comment Can you forget I didn't I just I just you know the first thing that popped you She was there for how long it's just it's yeah, it was in everyone's nature. Yeah. Yeah. Where are you? Where where are you located at? I think you're I'm in here. I think I yeah, okay So it's it's uh 1 a.m. For you right now, isn't it? Yeah 106. Yeah, I'm sorry, dude No, that's fine. It's fine. I haven't cared much about the queen since 1776 Over here This is dude Making dead queen jokes is like the day before 4th of july and there's something wrong with you people Uh, jesson asks fred if you're gonna be at smurf I believe so Awesome organize it But that's gonna be awesome. Yeah The next four five months are going to be a little bit chaotic. So I'm not making a lot of plans I see maniac says that uh, the dragon is about three feet standing up Gee That's crazy. Oh, wow fred apparently you're hosting everybody for a smart uh So So he can print a diorama you can stay there was an explanation because last year we got together at In prog at prusa Though, you know the gang from wax of discord So I did say that if the group was coming over to the uk that we might Stay over for a day or so Yeah, as long as they bring their tents they can stay It might be a bit cold, but we'll figure it out You Okay, yeah I feel like I should be the one that's at 1 a.m. All like, you know, yeah, but anyways, uh Before we go real quick next week. I believe we have retro We do So come check out retro maker next week And and also one more thing before we go One more time fred. Can you tell us who you are? What do you do and where can we find your stuff? So my name is fred. I do dioramas props and badges the badges And you can find me on twitter at the 3d printing on uh patron At the the 3d printing and on my website the 3d printing magic.com Awesome Well, thanks for joining us dude. I really appreciate it Wait a minute. I'm coming then. Uh, I guess I'm coming too. Um No, I promise to lodge them and feed them Thank you. Hey everybody. Thank you so much for being Fred, uh, thank you so much. I'm gonna I'm gonna stop like before everyone's like, hey, by the way Where's this payment that fred's sending? Oh But thank you so much, man. This has been awesome. I love I love the word keep it up. Um, now I might have to jump on and up to your patreon or Wherever you do. Yeah, I think I'm gonna be grabbing some of those badges And where where can we find those? Is it patron or yeah the dioramas are available some of them on printables Um Props some of them on my manufacturing cults and the badges most of them are on my patreon for In links to all of those locations are going to be on your website too, right? Uh, yes, the you on my website. There's a link the social links and everything where you can access everything you need This is awesome. That is in the description below So everybody else. Thank you guys so much. We will see you next week with retro maker As just i'm excited colorado native native and uh Everybody else have a great week fred. Thank you again so much. We'll be right back with you and Hey, everybody see you later. Take care later. See you next week I can't believe they've they said I've had too much coffee. I don't know what to I haven't had any coffee at all