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About Project
3D Printed and painted Die Hardman mask with vivid carbon fiber texture water transfered, a perfect props for game cosplay.
Challenge
The carbon texture on the mask is a major challenge because it's hard to make the mask with real carbon fiber without making a mold.
Solution
To reduce the cost, we decided to use water transfer to coat the surface with vivid carbon texture on SLA generic resin material, which has excellent attachment to paints.
- 3D Printing: We 3D printed the mask with SLA generic resin
- Polishing: Polishing is manually conducted, to ensure the surface is smooth enough for painting and water transferring.
- Water transfering & Painting: The central piece of the mask is water transferred with carbon fiber texture template, and the cheek pieces are painted matte black, while the bolts are manually painted to a metalic brass/gold color.