3D printed DX VF-31A head

[Firefox21]

It is along shot, does anyone here do or know who can do a 3D printing of the head of the Bandai DX VF-31A? I am trying to a custom mod of my VF-31J DX. 

[tekering]

If @guyxxed can provide a .stl file of the head, I can print it for you in high-resolution photopolymer resin.

[guyxxed]

I can provide what is available from the Macross Delta Scramble game models, but I'm not sure how printer friendly they'll be.  I'll try to extract the head tomorrow and save it to STL format.  Scaling it as needed and making it compatible with the DX toy will be some work that one of you would need to do.

[guyxxed]

Here is a link to the 31A head from MDS.  As mentioned, it's straight from the game without any alterations.  I saved the whole head as an STL, but also made separate files of the head by itself and the eye pieces by themselves in case you would want to print them out of different materials.  I also included and FBX version just in case that's easier to work with.  At a minimum, I would think you have to model a ball joint into the base to adapt it into the DX, but hopefully this gives you a good starting point.  Let me know if you have any questions.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hJxO8ozaP97cWCX36qCHfz3M7c5ZLI3_?usp=sharing

[tekering]

1 hour ago, guyxxed said:

As mentioned, it's straight from the game without any alterations.

Thanks, but I didn't realize how low-resolution the game models were... 🫣

That might be adequate for a tabletop gaming miniature, but it certainly won't look good at 1:60th scale. 😒

[guyxxed]

Yeah, they do a lot with textures to hide the seams.  Maybe a few smoothing cycles in Blender or another modeling software could clean it up?  No shortcuts here, I guess, but let me know if there's something else that could be useful.