MythMaker’s Amphora: A Customizable Canvas

🏺 Myths in the Making: Sculpting Legends in Layers

Bring ancient tales to life with this fully customizable and printable Greek amphora - an iconic vessel once used to store not just wine and oil, but stories etched in clay. 

From heroic epics to divine mischief, amphorae served as canvases for mythmakers. Now, you can become one yourself!

This model is ideal for educators, makers, and myth-lovers alike, this amphora invites you to sculpt history with your own hands!

Utilize an SVG file to personalize the images depicted in the middle of the Amphora to suit your own narrative. 

Encircling the top and base of the amphora are classic meander and scroll designs found among Greek Amphoras. A meander is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line and shaped into a repeated motif. A scroll in art is an element featuring spirals and rolling incomplete circle motifs. This model includes designs such as the Greek key and the Greek wave. Such designs serve to ground the piece in ancient tradition while framing the myth in eternal rhythm.

Below you may find a section about print settings followed by a section with instructions on how to customize with your own SVG file!

Print Settings:

The standard model is designed to print with no supports required. It was designed with no overheads requiring supports.

The layer height is recommended to be 0.16mm. Default line width and outer wall line width were both altered to 0.32mm.

Variable layer height is toggled on in the print profile to allow for a smoother finish.

Colors utilized include Matte Black (from Bambu Lab) and Matte Orange (from Giantarm on Amazon) so as to convey the Greek art of black-figure pottery painting - one of the common styles of painting on antique Greek vases especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries BC. 

The models depicted above were printed utilizing the Dual-Nozzle feature of the Bambu Lab H2D printer. This allowed minimal purge and maximized time efficiency. 

Included are three additional print profiles:

1. A print profile with the Greek Amphora printable at 150% scale. This profile does require supports due to the size creating more significant overhands. 
2. The Greek Amphora model designed to print in one color. To accomplish this, the designs normally printed flush with the model and in black are cut into the side of the Amphora. The cut depth is 0.20 mm. Optionally, you may paint the cut sections to create the same visual effect as the two-color Amphora. 
3. A print profile with the custom SVG's of Megara and Hercules from the Disney movie Hercules already applied to the amphora! This is the custom vase pictured above.

Customize with an SVG file!

Download the model and open in Bambu Studio to customize to your liking! Identify a suitable SVG file to utilize (ideally two-colors with the negative space being transparent) and upload it to Bambu Studio.

Right click the model - select “Add Modifier” - select “SVG”

Select the file you wish to use and load it. Once loaded, you will be able to move the image around the object - try and center it along the face of the Amphora. 

Once it is situated where you would like, check the “Use Surface” box to have the image curve along the Amphora surface.

Do note! When selecting the “Depth” option, it is recommended to use “0.60 mm” as the depth. 

For Operation - choose “Modifier.”

However, if printing the one color print profile, it is recommended to use “0.20 mm” as the depth.

For Operation - choose “Cut.”

Finally, to make sure the model prints correctly, make sure to change the SVG file color in the “Objects” list of Bambu Studio. The default is no color and may result in nothing printing.

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