Recent content by Chooka

And this would hold up to some hot temps? The resin will resist the top layers from warping?

Now, on a similar note (no need to make new post). If the costume is to be used outside in the sun, PLA is probably not a great choice...but I hear PETG can be a paint to paint. what suggestions do you guys have? Resin coated PLA? PETG and try and get a good paint to stick? I don’t want to...

Is it supposed to read AMORY assistant for Random Ranger?

Thanks! My wife gave me a hand lol. I will certainly need a handler I think. Gotta get a suitable undersuit. Start attaching clips or something.

Sooo. I did a thing. Doesn’t all hand properly. But it’s literally just slid on. Still very much WIP, but I am super stoked. rethinking colour...again.

Agreed. One whole helmet was an example. Likely split them near the visor top. But you get the idea :) Is that backpiece on an Ender 5 plus?

Ok, so i have a friend who is looking to get some stuff printed, and my small Ender 3 printers would require the pieces to be split. He has offered to front some cash for a larger printer to limit the splits... so the question is, what (not stupid expensive [over $1500]) printer should I take a...

I’ve never used Bondo on that scale, but they even in the kits for cars, if there is a straight up hole they supply a metal screen for support. with all that in mind, depending how thing it is, it may hold. Though it may be heavy as hell lol

Just note that this one is ‘green’. But as you can see, it doesn’t really show.

It’s actually just a ‘face shield’ from Amazon. Just traced out the lens I printed and chop chop. I am getting another Spartan to vacuform my real lens soon. Just gotta smooth out the print and send it :) here’s the listing S35120 Replacement Shade 3 IR Visor for 390 Series - Uncoated S35120...

So I ordered a face shield for my Mando helm...and I managed to squeeze it so I had some left over for my HAZOP lens. Now I AM getting a lens formed for me, and it’s just loosely toed in, so this is just a stand in. But DAAAAAAAYUM it looks good. bonus Mando, in severe WIP state LOL.

so waiting on the epoxy to set, but i tried going with just 2 sets of rare earth magnets in the 'cubes' above. one set was able to hold it in place, the second set should make it solid. i might run a small bead of black caulking or something along the gap to give it some cushion, and stop rubbing.

So the wrench in that idea is the ears. I would have to add them vertically at the back (which could work) because my ears actually go in that big cube of the back piece lol. It’s a snug bucket.

Next conundrum on the list. The back piece of the helm. So I need to have it open/close I. Order to fit my head and not look like a 10 gal bucket. I cut the back neck area off and now I’m looking for a way to mag/connect it. as you can see in the side pic, I have added the little cubes behind...

Thanks! Some of these tricks should help for sure. I’ve had decent results when it doesn’t dip below -5. I did some today at -1 and it turned out pretty good. But it is certainly not ideal haha.