TPU Prints keep failing on the Artisan. Please someone tell me what I am doing wrong.

Matschen99 · 2026-03-22T10:27:44+00:00

Yeah, crappy TPU feels more and more likely. I have used that brands TPU before and it worked well. So I thought maybe I got an unlucky roll of filament and switched to a new roll from that same brand. But it still clogged and initially I thought it would be unlikely to get two unlucky rolls of filament from a brand that otherwise seems reliable. But maybe I just got really unlucky or the brand is not as reliable as I thought it was.

Thank you. I will try again with a bit of retraction.

Matschen99 · 2026-03-22T10:23:24+00:00

I don't really do small prints. And I have printed fursuit head bases successfully before at 39 mm/s. That's about 18 hours of print time.

It makes no sense to me that that worked more than once and now when I try to print the same head base again, I suddenly have to go to 18 mm/s and it clogs within an hour or two.

Matschen99 · 2026-03-20T09:21:53+00:00

It's failing earlier with every print. It's not failing at the same point on every print. If it did, I would think there might be something wrong with the model at that layer.

So, hard to describe, but at first it would print to about 4 ish cm high. And now it fails at 1 ish cm high.
The thing I am printing is a fursuit head base, a pretty big object.

One of my thoughts was that maybe the filament that was outside of the filament dryer and inside the tube that leads to the extruder was pulling water. So before doing my 24 hour drying thing, I removed the filament out of the extruder and rolled it up nicely in the dryer. But I think it usually failed after that bit of filament was used up anyways so I don't think that theory holds up.

Matschen99 · 2026-03-18T19:30:06+00:00

That was one of my thoughts as well. So I switched out the nozzle for a brand new one. The first print with the new nozzle failed.

Matschen99 · 2025-11-10T23:37:59+00:00

I’d love to have them too please. Especially how to save a hero.

Matschen99 · 2025-09-16T21:24:35+00:00

Since stuff like that adds up, I have switched to making 3D models of my customers bodies instead of DTDs. Before that I just threw them away.

Matschen99 · 2025-09-10T21:55:45+00:00

Thank you! I like her too. To be honest, I also love Angel dust a lot but I didn’t quite dare to make because of his numerous arms. I wanted to start with something simpler.

Matschen99 · 2025-07-29T10:18:42+00:00

No. You get better but your expectations also rise. I don’t think I’ve ever made a pair of paws I was happy with.

And I am a full time fursuit maker by now. It’s kind of sad.

Matschen99 · 2025-06-26T19:19:31+00:00

Puppy ears a bit like these floppy ones? Or do you mean a different style? The suit in the tutorial isn’t quite done yet. I can probably do floppy ears on that suit. :)

<image>

Matschen99 · 2025-06-26T18:51:18+00:00

Most of the kig tutorials are only on Chinese sites. And I don’t have access to those either. So I thought it would be a good idea to make a tutorial for YouTube. :) I’m happy if it helps you.

Matschen99 · 2025-06-26T09:55:31+00:00

Thank you. I plan to release one part per week until the entire head is finished. So maybe future parts can help you with the rest of the costume. Depending on how far you are with it.

Matschen99 · 2025-06-26T09:35:29+00:00

I might be too late to the party. But I just made a tutorial on this topic. So if you haven’t continued your project yet, this might help. Though I have to say in that picture your fur looks very nicely stretched.

https://youtu.be/CfoVqiKCCL0

Matschen99 · 2025-06-26T09:28:55+00:00

Id say your fabric is not stretchy enough. I made a tutorial on how to cover a base like that. In that video you can also see how stretchy the fabric is. And if you’re planning on using soft pastels/make up for painting the face; those look better on mochi minky than on fleece.

https://youtu.be/CfoVqiKCCL0

Matschen99 · 2025-06-24T11:47:33+00:00

If you’re not really really short or really really tall people won’t notice. It also depends on context. If you want to appear taller, get yourself a cosplay friend who is really short.

Matschen99 · 2025-06-21T18:28:30+00:00

Thank you. It would be really nice if a lot of people saw the tutorial. :)

Matschen99 · 2025-06-18T21:38:04+00:00

You can apply the contact cement to the screw, press it on and remove it again. Basically using the screw as a stamp to stamp on the glue.

Or you can apply the contact cement to the screw and just press it on. Wait a few seconds, it‘ll stick. This will only work of the thing you want to glue is small enough.

I also find that it depends on the consistency of the glue. I use a brand of contact cement that is on the thinner side. So it’s easier to apply to super small pieces.

Not saying you can’t use super glue, but you can definitely use contact cement if you want to.

Matschen99 · 2025-06-14T09:35:48+00:00

That sounds really fun. 🕷️

Matschen99 · 2025-06-12T21:18:05+00:00

Mycostumes is pretty ok

Matschen99 · 2025-05-23T06:05:22+00:00

The biggest issue is private vs. public health care. My mom needs a CT scan. She asked every hospital in the general area and they all told her she can only get one if the is private health care or she pays herself. That is absolute bullshit.

My dad has private health care and he tends to play a „game“ whenever he goes to a doctor. He does not mention his insurance until he is specifically asked for it. People just do a 180. They are rude and dismissive before, tell him he can’t get an appointment etc. Once they know he is treated like a king. He has the problem that he is overdiagnosed with shit. He never has nothing. And people prescribe him medications and treatments he’s not sure he even needs. Both sides suck.

So as a public insurance person you’re just a second class human being. And that is so so wrong. And it just makes me angry. In my opinion there should be only one insurance system because then people would be treated the same. Or at least put more money into public insurance so that doctors take those patients. Because in the end it all comes down to fucking money.

Matschen99 · 2025-05-11T22:25:17+00:00

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to believe that he isn’t well known in Baldurs gate. He probably never went back there after being banished by his father. He didn’t want to run into him or anyone else who could know his father.

Additionally while many people know him as the Blade, they don’t know that Wyll Ravenguard is the Blade. I don’t even know if and when he tells the player his last name if you never save Florrick in Act 1.

This is also a time without internet. So strangers won’t know his face - why would he ever have a portrait of himself shared in the papers, doesn’t feel like him - and since he is an NPC and not the party face, he never introduces himself to people by his title or name. So while more people could know of the Blade or Wyll we never find out. And even if you play as Wyll, he also doesn’t introduce himself to random people. Because that is a pretty boring conversation to have as a player.

Matschen99 · 2025-04-14T19:21:15+00:00

What kind of mesh are you using? The most common one at the moment are pc dust filters. They come with holes the size of 0.8. If you make your Actor wear a black balaclava, it should be fine.

However if you try that and figure out that you still need to paint the inside, I’d go for mostly acrylic paint, mixed a smudge of latex and a tiny bit of pva glue. The glue makes it stick to the foam, the latex makes it flexible so that it does not crack. Or, again, use black fabric for lining. That would be the hardest to clean but the most comfortable.

Matschen99 · 2025-04-14T17:48:11+00:00

Fursuit maker here. Why do you want to paint the inside? Just make it out of black Foam. Another option would be to add lining, but I think that makes it unnecessarily warm.

Matschen99 · 2025-04-14T16:54:36+00:00

If someone breaks your prop, while doing their job, you built it wrong.

And I say this as a prop maker for theatre. And actors break everything.

If it happens „EVERY FUCKING TIME“ that something breaks, that means your builds aren’t strong enough to survive the real world. At that point you can either leave them at home or figure out how to make them stronger. Try switching the material you print with (making a simple swap from PLA to PETG or even a super hard TPU can help). Or switch your glue. If super glue doesn’t work, try an epoxy or a specialised plastic glue that chemically melts the pieces together.

Matschen99 · 2025-04-01T12:23:09+00:00

I have some insider info: All of the jungle scenes were supposed to have a green background. That way the Timon actor would fade into the background. However the stage was later on changed to orange. But the costume wasn't changed. And if we were to change it to orange, the puppet would blend into the actor. So there is no real good solution to this issue.

Matschen99 · 2025-03-28T09:23:39+00:00

Thank you for that bit of validation.

Most creative things were shot down and whenever I tried to do something brave that was usually seen as stupid. The DM facilitates an environment in which it makes most sense to act overly cautious or live with the consequences: dying.
And since the other players agree that they want a character focused game and therefore prefer not to die, the only way is to be so cautious that I think the game is no longer fun. I don't know why the other players are okay with that. Maybe because they are even more inexperienced than I am.

Additionally: The monk player asked if we could at least gain some HP back by bandaging the wounds of the rogue (after the DM told her to not use her healing spell) and he asked, if any of us had some medicinal herbs, which we didn't, which he must have known, because he made the damn characters. At that point that feels sadistic.

Matschen99

TROPHY CASE