Metal Arms : Glitch in the System has always been a favorite of mine. And of many other people, chances are that if you ever meet someone who had this game, this someone may have loved it.

The model

Eleven years after its release, I wanted to try to make a cool statue of the main character, Glitch. Fortunately for me, some skilled people already extracted and 3D model from the game, and even rigged it. So I downloaded what Vissova had made for the Steam Workshop and started posing Glitch. Unfortunately, the game model was not made to be 3D printable at all, so I had a bit of work to be done, mostly to connect loose faces and recreating some meshes that were simply not gonna print as it.

Once done, I split the model into multiple parts to be more easily printed. Assembly will be required, but that’s a small price to pay in exchange of a way better printing experience.

At some point I wanted to split even more and make the figure articulated, but that was simply out of my skills at the time.

It tool multiple prints and 3D adjustments to have a great results. Once assembled, I started painting the figure, mostly using Citadel paint.I used UV resin on all shiny parts (eyes, headlamp and various screens) to give a bit of depth and realism.

3D files are available both on my Thingiverse and my Makerworld profiles. I’ve already seen some people printing their own, if you do, please send me a picture!

Beauty shots