Recent content by tvanhelene

Hey yall long time with no updates but im starting up work again! Im back on campus and have moved things onto one of our makerspaces. Im working on finishing up the chest armor rn, but here is some of the armor on the stand.

Small update, I've applied the base coat of gunmetal gray to the chestpieces, and will do the full white gray and orange paint job before joining all the pieces together.

Decals added, heres a lil sneak peek

Weathering done, now waiting on those decals!

Finished the base coats of paint today! The back and some minor details still need to be painted and attached. Now for weathering and decals! The visor is temporary, and is haphazardly tapped in here.

Resin printer

Looks great! Im jealous of the resin printer, do you need any post processing on a resin print?

No problem, I'll check out the decals that guy sells when I'm ready, although I hope they're not too expensive lol

You can drop it down to 5% for future prints, usually that's all that is needed for infill. If you're worried about strength, infill actually doesn't contribute as much as outer layers.

Very nice. What did you do for the decals? Waterslide? I need to find what I will use. Also, dangggg thats alot of infil. What percent are you printing at?

Thanks! But no, still lots of work to do. I'm hoping to finish it by the end of the summer.

First base coat of gunmetal grey for the helmet.

Well nothing is glued in place yet, but I've found that they can be static and I can have enough range of motion anyways.

I worked on combining a bunch of the chest pieces today in hopes to get closer to sanding out the final seams and to start painting! Because of the way I 3d modeled the shoulder gaskets (black parts), they line up perfectly with where the outer chest shells should be, so I used these gaskets as...

I thought I should share a very cool tool I've come across that really helps with getting rid of layer lines. It's called a card scraper/cabinet scraper. I've never heard of this before, and it does a fantastic job of carving away layer lines! This is with one pass of using the card scraper...