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3D Printed Traditional Crown and Hairpins

This time, I was printing a traditional Song dynasty-style equal-shoulder ceremonial crown and two small swallow hairpins for my photograph. Since this was my first time doing 3D printing by myself, the staff helped me a lot.

Two Prusa Mini 3D printers on a wooden table, in front of a white cinderblock wall. The printers are side by side, and each one is back with orange accents. Both printers have a roll of filament attached (white on the left, gray on the right printer) and both are actively printing.

The printers used, at the beginning of the prints.

Because the Song ceremonial crown was quite large, they kindly helped me split it into two halves for printing and allowed me to use two build platforms at the same time to print the crown and the hairpins. At first, for some reason, there was always a defect in the same spot when printing the first layer. They patiently helped me restart the print several times and eventually solved the problem.

A desktop computer and two Prusa Mini 3D printers, from left to right, on a wooden table in front of a white cinderblock wall. The computer screen shows a 3D print slicer of two flower hairpins on a print bed; the prints are colored in orange, and the supports are in green. The two 3d printers are black, with orange accents, and each has a roll of filament attached. The way the picture is taken the corner of the room is visible behind the second 3D printer on the far right, and the other wall is gray-green.

Before the print started - the slicer image of the hairpins.

The final printed pieces turned out exactly as I had hoped. Afterward, I painted the model myself and successfully wore it for a photoshoot. Overall, I am very grateful for all their help!

A white hand holding a painted flower hairpin in front of a hardwood floor. The stick of the pin is painted blue, and the flower and buds are painted white and pink. In the background, an out-of-focus table with plates is visible in the background.

One of the painted hairpins.

A painted traditional ceremonial crown. The crown is a large rectangular shape, with the edges of the rectangle curving down to look semicircular from the front; the top of the crown is much longer than the bottom. There is various detailing across the entire crown, and it is painted blue-gray and gray around the entire crown. The crown is on a black tabletop, and in the background various small, out-of-focus trinkets and pens are visible.

The completed, painted crown.

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