3D printed Miru redesign

[00dude00]

Hi! I'm usually a Bzpower resident, but I wanted to post here as well for this . Due to me being a new member, contacting me by PM would best be done on BZpower (as I can't actually send PMs on this site yet).

Some of you old timers may remember me from a fan project that went on waaaaay back when to create 3D media for Bionicle called Bionicle: Next Generation, or as the guy who made the 3D model which was later turned into a solid bronze vahi (http://www.bzpower.c...me-human-scale/) and 3D printed a voya nui online game style Ignika (http://www.bzpower.c...tyle-real-mask/).

A few months back I was with a friend who shares my love of Bionicle and he showed me a redesign of a Miru he drew. Since his birthday was coming up I suggested that I could model his design and get it printed. As you can imagine he jumped on the idea and after a month or so of on and off work I finally had a final model, and a couple weeks after that his present arrived in the mail from Shapeways. I unfortunately forgot to ask him to get some pictures of it before he painted it, but with that aside I really like what he did with the white paint and I feel it gives it a tribal feeling reminiscent of those early years.

Here is the Photobucket gallery: http://s1164.photobu...y/Miru redesign

inside it are also some progress pictures (that are pretty bad quality I must admit as at the time I was just using them for feedback from my friend) as well as some of the original drawings my friend did. I apologize for not having better quality images of the mask itself, I'm just using what I have.

After seeing the mask, me and my buddy were really happy with how it turned out, so we thought we might as well make it available to anyone else who wants one! I have a topic discussing the details of obtaining that along with my old Ignika model (which I am now also putting up for you guys on Shapeways) right here: http://www.bzpower.c...esign-for-sale/

Edited March 19, 2015 by 00dude00

[---Vertea---]

oh wow! The model is really nice, and it harkens back to the old Miru nicely. Not sure about the length of the 'chin', though. I also might recommend painting in the white parts. While the white is a nice stark accent, it looks a little rough in the mask-especially with the texture. All things considered, though, this looks pretty rad! I think more people should 3D print custom masks. There are a lot of fantastic fan designs out there.