3D printed transforming horseshoe crab

[Hauke]

I am still experimenting on what can be done with the Form2 printer and the durable resin material. I figured it would be a good test to make a figure with a transforming feature. I always loved horseshoe crabs so I choose one as the alt mode for the figure.
The transformation works well although with this figure paint chipping is kinda unavoidable. The tail can either be used as a sword or a gun.

Full disclaimer: I only have one figure at the moment. So this picture is a composition of two separately taken pictures.



Here is a video of the transformation:

[Zeiram286]

This is stuff that I want to do, how did you do it? did you have to model each part individually and put it all together?

what programs did you uses? I'd like to know everything please

[Hauke]

This is stuff that I want to do, how did you do it? did you have to model each part individually and put it all together?

what programs did you uses? I'd like to know everything please

Thanks! Yes all parts are printed separately and then snapped together. The modeling software I use is called modo. I also use netfabb for conversion to STL files.

[Jin Saotome]

Beast Wars Horseshoe crab?!?! This is amazing!!

[Hauke]

Beast Wars Horseshoe crab?!?! This is amazing!!

Thank you! Beast Wars is still one of my favorite Transformers shows.