Blender 3D Printing by Example

Adding a material to specific faces

Once you have an initial material defined for the object, you can customize specific faces so they have a different material and, therefore, a different color. In our hand model, an example would be the fingernails. I could assign just those faces a different color. The steps are as follows:

1. In Edit Mode, switch to Face Select mode. Press Shift + right-click to select all the faces you want to change the color for. In my example, I selected all the faces involved with a fingernail:

Selecting the faces for one fingernail

2. In the Properties Window, click the sphere icon to access materials. There is already ...