Get ready for madness as Fauxhammer is 3D prints edible chocolate Space Marines in this wild tutorial- check it out!
Fauxhammer has some amazing hobby content, and if you need some sweet tips, you should follow him to get up on all your painting and conversion techniques!
This time, he does something a little different and prints out an edible chocolate, Space Marine! Let’s see how to do it!
3D Printing Edible Chocolate Space Marines: Fauxhammer Tutorial
To start, you’re going to need a MyCuisini printer, which is made specifically to 3D print out things with chocolate! So, while not all of us are going to use this, it’s just cool to know it’s out there! Let’s see how it works and how to make Space Marines with it! Here are the specs on the printer:
- Large 3.5″ touch color display for quick access to the integrated template library with over 1,000 creative objects, including object preview
- Multilingual user interface: German, English, Spanish, Italian and French
- Illuminated print area (dimensions 90 x 90 x 45 mm)
- Easy to clean thanks to rounded corners, production platform can be removed for cleaning
- The mycusini 2.0 works with special 3D Choco refills that are included – for an immediate sense of achievement
- Incl. access to the mycusini Club. For easy creation of your own 3D objects, individual lettering and names
- For more information on the mycusini Club subscription models (mycusini Credits)
- No bigger than a coffee machine (footprint only 24 x 23 cm)
How it Works
It’s obviously made for making cool custom food creations and probably not miniatures, but why would we use it for anything else? This is a tiny printer, so it has a minimal print surface, as it’s made for printing out text and the like in chocolate, but he’s going to push it!
You can load up your own files, but it does come with a ton of pre-loaded designs if you actually want to use it for regular food creations.
It comes with chocolate fondant that you cut in half and load into the tube as your printing material.
There isn’t much slicing with this, and unfortunately, you can’t reload the chocolate once it’s out, meaning if you print something bigger than a single bar of chocolate can print, you’re out of luck.
You can also load up your own files and scale them (which you’ll need to do for this project), but it is an extra cost to get access to their service.
Printing the Marine
Considering he couldn’t print this out all at once, he had to break down the print into a few pieces. Luckily, the printer was fast, and the body only took about an hour, but the rest of the pieces were much faster.
Then, he took a lighter, heated up the chocolate, and pushed the pieces together!
He tried to paint the marine, but there was a lot of beading from the white. He tried again with pure blue, and there was beading everywhere. That didn’t stop him, though; he airbrushed where he could and splodged on the paint where he needed to!
Finished Chocolate Marine
Here it is, the final result! He said the rest of the chocolate was decent tasting, but there was so much food coloring on this one that it tasted mainly like food coloring. But hey, this is pretty amazing either way! Overall, he was pretty impressed by this. There are some issues, but for what it is, this is amazing! If you run a cake business, this is a no-brainer!
Be sure to watch the video below for all the details.
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About the Author: Travis Pasch
Travis Pasch
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About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
