How to Publicly Ridicule Chris Christie With a 3d Printed Action Figure

uploading the model to shapeways this way would cost you about 80 bucks to print... because they charge you for the amount material used.. So all the infill in the figure increases the cost exponentially..

in order to reduce the price of the print you need to hollow out the object yet leave a minimum 2mm minimum of thickness for the entire object.. This is extremely hard and complicated especially if you have complicated geometry..

Anyways once hollowed out.. the price is reduced exponentially.. this went down from a 80 dollar action figure to 37 bucks!!..

If you are new to 3d printing.. 37 dollars for a 5 inches tall figurine is freaking good.. Stuff like this used to cost hundreds of dollars.. This new technology is amazing.. So be thankful prices have gonne down this much.

However, the main complain i got from people was the price.. I understand the price is considerably more than your regular chinese made 5 dollar bobblehead.

Please understand that this is using 3d printed technology which alone makes it a great conversation piece.. Also understand that these are not made in china at slave like wages.. No one is jumping off the roof or dying in the assembly line.. This are made in AMERICA by an american company providing American jobs..

However, i understand that a lot of people in new jersey have been screwed by Gov. Christie.. Pensions of teachers, cops and government employees have been ravaged by Christie and his Cronies.. Pay has been cut or not increase in years.. not to mention the countless of jobs lost thanks to his administration.

So in order to make this affordable enough that a new jersey teacher might be able to afford i went back.. i reworked the model and spend a lot of time and reduced the size from 5 inches down to almost 3 inches.. So you can now buy this 3d Printed Chris Christie "bridgegate" action figure for 25 bucks instead of 37 bucks..

Now everyone can own the very 1st political oriented 3d action figure in the world!!..

When i 1st got into color printing i had no idea of what to expect.. i was hoping i could use separate lamberts with different colors in order to color certain polygons a different color.

However, The only way to get the colors to print correctly is by using a texture file and stretching and laying out the UVs.

This process done for gaming, movies etc.. This process gives you a lot more freedom with texturing your model but is a bit more complicated when it comes to texturing an object

One of the greatest advantage of such process is that you can paint or use photo images to create the textures.. So i created a stop sign texture.. found a construction best texture made my cone head texture.. etc..

The trick is to keep textures at 1024 pixels, 2048 pixels etc... if you don't it won't get recognized by shapeways.. your final product must be a .WRL file for your model and a .JPG file for your texture.. compressed into one file..

So if you modeling software doesn't export .WRL file.. you need to export it as an OBJ file.. and use Meshlab to export it into a .WRL file..