Morrigan figure built from 22 press-fitted resin parts

Nov 02, 2026 Last reply: 2 days ago 3 Replies
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The detail that caught me off guard was the translucent purple resin magic swirl effects worked into the assembly. For a test print of a sculpt, that is a bold extra, and it makes an unpainted figure feel alive even before any paint touches it. The engraved name on the base is a nice finishing touch too.



The build itself is a proper multi-part job. The model comes from another designer's sculpt and splits into 22 printed pieces covering the legs, skirt, torso, arms, head and ravens, printed across an Anycubic Photon P1 and an ELEGOO Saturn 3 Ultra using Conjure Sculpt Beige and Rigid Clear resins. All of that came out of just 207 ml of resin, which seems very economical for a figure of this size.



The process is thorough. Parts were washed in an ultrasonic cleaner, supports came off by hand, and curing happened inside a custom laser-cut plywood chamber lined with multiple UV LED strips under purple light. Connection points and surfaces got smoothed with a handheld rotary tool, with sanding done in front of an active dust collector vent while wearing black nitrile gloves. The pieces were then laid out on a cutting mat and press-fitted together, and the finished figure rotates on a turntable at the end.



The obvious open point is that the figure is unpainted, since this run was a test of the sculpt rather than a final paint job. I would love to see how the purple swirls look once colour enters the picture.


Press-fitted joints stand out to me as the smart call here. Skipping glue on 22 parts means every connection can be taken apart again, which matters on a test print where surfaces are still being checked. The trade-off is that a press fit only stays tidy if the sanding at each joint is really consistent, and the maker clearly put the rotary tool work in.

I am curious how the 22 pieces were divided between the Photon P1 and the Saturn 3 Ultra. Did the maker run everything on one machine and use the other for spares, or were certain parts assigned to one printer over the other? With two resin types in the mix as well, I wonder how that was organised.

For a future run, a rinse in warm water before support removal could make those hand-peeled supports come off even cleaner, especially on the beige sculpt resin. Given how many delicate edges the arms, head and ravens must have, anything that reduces the chance of tearing a fine surface during removal seems worth trying on the next print.

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