Skyrim Alduin Dragon Lamp/Sconce... thing

I recently saw a post on imgur (http://imgur.com/gallery/yrEt3) in which member Immersedn3d had taken the Alduin dragon model from the game Skyrim and modified the head for 3D printing and printed one. It looked pretty freaking cool, so I looked around to see if he had posted his 3D files anywhere and found them on Thingiverse (www.thingiverse.com). I thought it would make a nice wall mounted lamp, so I started 3D printing one on my Makerbot.

After about three days of printing the pieces in translucent PLA, I epoxied it together and started filling, sanding, and painting it.

I drilled a hole through the back of the throat for the wiring and the bulb, and I covered the eyes with painters tape while painting. Since the plastic I printed with was translucent, the eyes would glow when the light was on. I did the base coat in black, and then dry brushed it with a gold to give it an aged bronze-ish look.

I picked up a plaque from Michaels, stained and sealed it, then epoxied the dragon head on it, and was done.

Spiderman Lamp

We recently moved our son from his nursery to a new bedroom to make room for baby #2, and we figured a marvel theme for the new room would be pretty cool. So we got marvel bed sheets, a bunch of wall art, and had the room repainted (Thanks Mom!). Unfortunately, we could find a pull string lamp that we liked (the little guy likes to turn it on and off himself). I figured we could pick up a cheap lamp from target and re-theme it.

The base on the lamp we bought was way too narrow for our son to use with out tipping it over, so I bought a clock base from Michaels, stained it, sealed it with Mod Podge, and bolted it to the existing base.

For the lamp shade, I printed out some Spiderman comics and Mod Podged them over the existing shade.

I thought that it would be cool to set up the pull chain as Spideys web and hang him over the city. I 3D printed some buildings, painted them, and glued them to the base. Then I bought a small Spiderman and glued him to the base of the chain.

Overall, I am pretty happy with how it turned out.