Armed with a smile #2 In the real world

Such a beautiful lady deserves a life of her own. I can not keep her confined to pixels and voxels. It was about time I got her printed.

For the puritans out there (and for not getting an adult tag at shapeways) I decided to make the version above with a bikini on. I have of course also made a nude version(or is it really nudity when she wears shoes?) which is the one I printed

As I often do I textured the model even though that will be lost in printing - or will it? - At shapeways it is possible to print in "sandstone" which has support for full colour prints so in this case it is actually not true and I textured it to get the opportunity to try out their sandstone prints.
They are fairly expensive though so I am not sure when i will have the cash to dish out for ordering my own print , but I can always put it up for sale in glorious color.

The test print that I wanted to make was made using my Ultimaker and thus, I used CURA as my slicer

There is quite some overhang on this one so i chose to go for support structure everywhere.

With the filament I am currently using I have had some problems with the supports sticking to well to the model, but I have done some experimenting and got it dialed in at 205 degrees and 100% fan power. That seemed to work on this one. The supports came loose no problems.

Since this is a test print I did it on the lowest possible setting (0.2 mm layerheight 10% infill). That made it possible to print this little figure in only a little over an hour.

Obviously the layer lines are quite visible, especially where the surface is close to horisontal, but I will probably make another print where I scale up the model and scale down the layer height.

All in all a great success. It is a fairly complicated model to print, and I am very pleased with my initial result. what do you think?