Recent content by Farris

I'm still building. Had a couple of setbacks. Mostly from being dumb. Computer restarted over night and I had forgotten to save and software didn't retain my state properly so I lost all of my cuts. Restarting the chest and back again, but had some spaghetti failures when tree supports break so...

Thanks. I agree. I scaled it down to cut about 1.7 inches off of the overall width, which should bring it in much closer to reference photos, giving my shoulders about 3/4 of an inch out of the armor. First panel is printing now.

Alright... Need opinions on sizing. Pieces are literally being held together by scotch tape and a prayer right now. So jankier than I'd like. The chest piece comes to the center of my chest (lined up on the star). The "ring" around the arm hole comes to the very edge of my shoulders. I feel...

Logging an initial decision before I forget: I want to print the boot soles in TPU, or some other similar rubbery filament. I have time and the printer can handle it. It should be easier to walk on/have better traction/be more durable than just straight petg. On my last suit, I just cut a rubber...

Torso pieces are printing now. I'm printing the top parts to make sure the scaling looks right (not too wide for my shoulders) before I print the lower parts. The first chest piece printed successfully. It has some surface blemishes, but nothing a little sandpaper and filler won't fix. I have...

Alright... update time. Last helmet panel printed after about a week of trial and error. Long story short, it is a minimum 30 hour print when using PLA for a support interface layer for my PETG prints. And I spent a lot of time working on settings for supports since they kept failing. But...

It was my first costume project back when I was broke and I still show people the YouTube video of me showing it off literally 10 minutes after I finished it and people are still moderately impressed. Granted it doesn't hold up to today's standards, but I did ok. Video link below. Just...

I have been printing in PETG for years with lesser printers so this is a piece of cake for me. Literally the first printer I've never had to tinker with. Thanks to you, I knew to check the scaling and they definitely haven't fixed it. I brought the parts into the 3D Builder program in Windows...

Alright... So.. My first MC build was back in 2009. In the time before times... When dinosaurs ruled the earth and pepakura was the new hotness. So much cutting and scoring. Had fun marching with the group at Dragon Con 2009. Even still have my 405th lanyard. Link here if you want to take a...

After some fiddling, and since I really didn't want to waste 2 more reels of filament to reprint both backpack parts, I decided to just slice off the side piece and re-print that to glue on later. If anyone is interested, I can provide the STL. It's probably not perfect, but it's workable

After some research... 1. The hands are simply an issue of the slicer not liking that the 3 ridges are connected surfaces. So that's a slicer issue I can probably fix by making sure everything is merged into a single mesh. 2. The backpack models have a definitive gap. While they're all part of...

It's possible. I sliced using Simplify3D. It might also be the orientation. I print my files standing up because I don't like sanding down the rings that you get when you print it lying down. Just a personal preference. Also possible. I just wanted to ask since, if it was a geometry error...

I finally got around to printing these parts. I then ran into a weird issue I haven't seen posted about. Pictures attached. 1. On the backpack pieces, the raised section on the side popped off and there's a distinct wall. 2. On the hand covers, the raised bits also came off and now show as...

I'm sorry for the dumb question, but is the helmet to scale with the rest of the suit? As in roughly meant to fit someone slightly over 6 foot tall? I printed the arm piece and it looked fine. But the helmet almost looks like a bobblehead scale by comparison. Are most people able to print it at...

Just a quick update. New helmet and the rest of the left leg is together. Starting to get some stuff fiberglassed tomorrow while I start working on the right leg.