u/mimic751

Spring tails, isopods, snails came out of no where.... I saw a snail that was hige but its hard to find, specs swimming around!

My already is good, moss seems thriving and it smells good! This is my first try and it was alot of fussing

All carnivorous, some of the plants are still young though

I painted leads and then soldered lights to The Copper which allowed me to run electricity through the base of the model I have some really sick ideas because if I can 3D print detailed channels and really Target where the copper is created I could potentially integrate tons of little Electronics into really small miniatures

I painted graphite onto my mini and then electroplated it with copper and then painted over the copper and left a couple of points exposed and I was able to solder LEDs to those copper joints and pass electricity through my model. If I were to make a custom model designed with this in mind I could potentially make more ideal basis for watch batteries and run electricity to LED or electrical components on miniatures without needing to run wires. I just need to refine my ability to solder or even potentially just epoxy the leads to the joints

Also I accidentally shorted out the miniature on his staff so don't judge me I'm still coming up with my process

I taught myself to electroplate my 3D prints recently and apparently it's a perfect conductor I've been trying to figure out how to make my minis more magical

If I were to mask off or even paint the parts that I don't want to have copper this is totally viable. I was doing research and you can even use this as conductive leads to integrate LEDs without wires into 3D prints so that might be the next thing I try

I think I finally got this sorted out no it's time to work on post processing and nickel and silver

This is my first real success with a shiny copper layer and it perfectly formed to the item and it really shows every lazy step that I skipped. But it turned out I just needed to switch out the acid once I got my process figured out

Same amount of chinkiness but a lot more thought was put into this. I upgraded with a little electrical motor keeping me item rotating and an electrical plate as well as the Rio Grande pre-mix with brighteners and levelers already put into it. I wanted to use Caswell and mix my own but they are apparently back ordered a couple months

Super excited to start building in dedicated spaces

I'm really good at drawing but I'm still practicing on 3D modeling and I found a website that will turn my sketches into 3D models. And I had this idea of a demon trapped inside of a crystal for a D&D prop. I'm currently electroplating the copper components and wiring up the LEDs for the enclosure but this is my first real resin print and it is crazy. Some of the chains broke off though I could probably fix that with better supports. But I just soaked them in hot water and they just popped off

I spent like a week on this and it looks terrible. It's supposed to be a Loch Ness Monster for my bathroom to hold my rings. The organic shape was super hard to wet sand compared to making boxes and stuff and I just couldn't figure out how to get the shine that I wanted. This is Eastern Cedar and every time I put details into the wood they would just sand off. If anyone has tips for wet sanding organic shapes and putting details in I would love some tips. I was using Diamond tip rotary tools for eyes and other fine details but I just couldn't get them to stick