•WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
This is a custom 6.5"(not including crown) deluxe action figure of King K. Rool from the Donkey Kong Country series of video games by Nintendo. King K. Rool has been my all-time favorite Nintendo villain since Donkey Kong 64 as this has been my life long dream to have a legitimate action figure of King K. Rool!

•HOW DID I MAKE THIS HAPPEN?
I know 3D Printing is a fairly new technology but I didn't relize what you could do with it. Once day I Google searched how to make action figures. After days & days of extensive research and ripping apart a few old WWE action figures I had, I figured out how the joints worked. I thought, "you know what? I know all the joints that go into an action figure, maybe I could 3D model a King K. Rool figure with articulation!" As easy as it may seem, its actually quite difficult to 3D model a character with articulated points if you've never worked with 3D modeling software before, so in short, this was a nightmare for me. I later thought I could model this guy out of Sculpey clay. Well that also didn't workout for me as I've never modeled anything out of clay before and putting it on a wire armature just wasn't cutting it for me. I wanted a King K. Rool figure like you would buy at a store as I wanted it professionally made. Well I found this 3D Printing website that is based in New York called Shapeways where you can hire freelance 3D modelers to make you a 3D model of any design and from there you upload the file on the website, select the material you wish it to be printed in, and it arrives at your door in 1-2 weeks. I spent days on end trying to find the appropriate modeler to do the job and later got an email from a professional 3D artist named MLal. I basically provided him with all of the reference images from Google of King K. Rool that I could. I even had him change a lot of things along the way on the model to make it resemble King K. Rool as much as possible. I then designed and told him all of the articulation that I wanted as well as the texture. After all of that was said & done, I paid the modeler a little over $200 for the file so I can print it via Shapeways. 3D printing this was definitely the most expensive route I could have went, but its also the most accurate and professional way if I wanted to truly make this an action figure as if I would have made this from clay myself, knowing all of the articulation and joints it has, it would have require serious precision on my part to make sure every part fits, definitely would have been a ton of trial & error. So it wasn't that I couldn't make it from clay because if I took my time, I could have probably made it happen, its just the articulation part that was unrealistic to me.

•RECEIVING THE 3D PRINTED MODEL FROM SHAPEWAYS
After receiving my 3D printed model of King K. Rool in the mail from Shapeways, it was time to do some prep work. Each piece of the action figure was sprued together as I had to cut them off and sand excess off each part. From there I primed each part three(3) times followed by three(3) coats of clear coat.

Since a lot of people are interested in buying this truly, one of a kind, King K. Rool action figure, I decided that I'm going to purchase the materials necessary to reproduce it. I'm going to be doing a silicone molding/casting process with the 3D printed parts. I'm going to mold each part of the figure separate & then use urethane plastic resin to pour into each mold to produce strong, plastic parts. I'm then going to clean up the parts followed by airbrushing each piece with K. Rools signature colors. After that I will assemble the figure and its done! But I need your help. For more information and any questions, 'LIKE' the pages and follow/contact me through the links listed below:

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