shortstack
New Member
Hey babes! I've been active on the discord for a couple of weeks now but I wanted to officially start my build thread.
I started off by using my Christmas Bonus from work to buy myself a lovely Ender 5 Plus. She's been working day and night for me the last couple of days. The first stuff I printed we're pieces to assemble a Reach magnum with room for electronics (will link tutorial in next post I mention it). Now, she's cranking away at the second half of my helmet. I gotta say, I went through a lot of heartache and filament figuring out the helmet.
My helmet is going to be the Scout model from Reach. It has a very teeny tiny neck hole. I did not discover this issue until I had already printed the first half of my helmet. Turns out that whole armorsmith is incredibly useful, it's not infallible. I had improperly scaled the helmet due to difficulties with the software. I figured out, finally, though, to use 3D builder to cut down the model to ONLY the neck hole after rescaling it. Well I found a neck hole size that worked.
Then I told the discord about my success and started a new print. Thank God I said something when I did. They stopped me from getting too deep into that print with some assurances that the neck hole is just inherently too small for the model, and if I used the properly scaled neck hole, the helmet itself would end up uncomfortably massive.
I rescaled it once again. I've found a happy medium between "literally a child's helmet" and "bobblehelmet". The first half of it is done, and the second half is printing away as I type this. I'm excited to keep y'all updated on my progress, and I'll start posting pictures once I have something to show off!
I started off by using my Christmas Bonus from work to buy myself a lovely Ender 5 Plus. She's been working day and night for me the last couple of days. The first stuff I printed we're pieces to assemble a Reach magnum with room for electronics (will link tutorial in next post I mention it). Now, she's cranking away at the second half of my helmet. I gotta say, I went through a lot of heartache and filament figuring out the helmet.
My helmet is going to be the Scout model from Reach. It has a very teeny tiny neck hole. I did not discover this issue until I had already printed the first half of my helmet. Turns out that whole armorsmith is incredibly useful, it's not infallible. I had improperly scaled the helmet due to difficulties with the software. I figured out, finally, though, to use 3D builder to cut down the model to ONLY the neck hole after rescaling it. Well I found a neck hole size that worked.
Then I told the discord about my success and started a new print. Thank God I said something when I did. They stopped me from getting too deep into that print with some assurances that the neck hole is just inherently too small for the model, and if I used the properly scaled neck hole, the helmet itself would end up uncomfortably massive.
I rescaled it once again. I've found a happy medium between "literally a child's helmet" and "bobblehelmet". The first half of it is done, and the second half is printing away as I type this. I'm excited to keep y'all updated on my progress, and I'll start posting pictures once I have something to show off!