Eagle strike!

[halo three rat]

After I realized that my last attempt at armor kinda failed and had no idea what I was doing, I decided to start working on a suit of armor that I knew would look good, so I found some eagle strike photos online and based my armor off that.

Then I scaled and sliced all the pieces, so now all I have to do is print them. I’m printing them in order of largest to smallest, so I. Printing the chest piece right now, then I’m going to move to the helmet, then the calves, the forearms, then the thighs and last with the little pieces like the shoulder, knees, hands, etc.

 

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How do you plan on rigging the whole thing together?

 

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How do you plan on rigging the whole thing together?

I plan on gluing straps to sanded parts of the print. Might try something else if that doesn’t work, but I haven’t put too much thought into how I’m going to strap them together yet.

 

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JB weld would work great for that! Stuff is indestructible and bonds really nicely to both sanded plastic and nylon strapping

 

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Haven’t updated this thread in a while, so I guess now’s as good a time as any to do it.

The chest piece had had terrible print quality and layer adhesion, so I chucked it. I then decided that I would print all the parts that were small enough to fit on my prusa, so I spent a while printing all those.

Christmas came and went, and I got a bunch of filament and the mmu (basically the amu of prusa) upgrade for my printer. I spent a couple days assembling it and have gotten to the stage where I need to install the firmware or something like that, and have been too scared to touch it, because I dislike updating my printers (it sucks).

I kinda lost motivation for my project early from November to early January, and getting the mmu reminded me that j like working on projects. I decided to start sanding some of the pieces that I had printed, then remembered that the reason I wasn’t printing anything with my big printer (elegoo neptune 4 max) was because I thought it was broken (I leveled the bed then printed a benchy and no filament came out), so I decided I would try and fix that. Turns out, there was nothing wrong with it, so now I’m printing a forearm piece, because I decided that printing the largest things first is stupid (in my opinion)

Recently I’ve been sanding all the prusa prints in order to do something while my armor prints, and some parts of sanding are easy, like large flat pieces, but others are difficult, like sanding pieces that have channels or bumps on them

 

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Got the first part of the forearm printed and now I’m printing on the second part. I got a bunch of sanding work done. I sanded the hand pieces, the bicep/shoulders, and finished the knees and boots

 

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Second part finished last night and I found that the forearm was too big, so I’m going to scale it down to better fit my body. I started printing the shin because I didn’t want to waste filament on the second forearm

 

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Shin finished printing, and I think it might be too big. Going to re-scale some of the parts now that I realize my scaling might be off

 

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My computer monitor isn’t working right now, so I can’t slice the armor for 3d printing. I did get the armor re-scaled, so all I’m waiting on is a new thunder cable for my computer (it’s an old apple) then I can get back to printing.

 

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I haven’t gotten around to getting a new cable, so I got the slicing programs on my mom’s computer. I’ve been having issues with printing on my elegoo for a while (the model just doesn’t print at all) and my prusa hotend broke, so I need to fix it

 

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Still haven’t gotten the prusa fixed, and the elegoo also broke, so I decided to start sanding the armor that I have. My process is:
60 grit
Bondo where needed
Another pass of 60 if bono was used
Filler primer
100 grit
Filler primer
150 grit
Filler primer
220 grit
Filler primer
220 grit

 

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Finally got my prusa fixed so now I’m printing the jet pack. Still working on fixing the elegoo hot end.

 

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Hey, it’s been a while. Here’s a recap of what I’ve done:

Printing:
I got the jet pack about halfway done (2/4 parts printed) before it started getting thermal errors again. I also got the Neptune up and running again, but when I was doing a test print, the print detached from the bed and clogged the nozzle with yet another blob of death. I was able to remove it by heated mg up the nozzle to 300°C and pulling the blob off. In the process of doing that, a wire got pulled (I’m not sure where) and there’s a thermal error on the elegoo now. I’ve ordered a new hot end for my prusa and I plan on fixing my elegoo later today.

Sanding:
I got almost all the printed pieces sanded. The only ones I haven’t sanded yet are the forearms and the jetpack. After sanding (almost) everything I hit it all with 1 layer of filler primer, which exposed a whole bunch of gaps that need to be filled with some bondo

 

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Right after I posted the previous update, I got an email saying that the part for my prusa had arrived. I just finished installing the new toolhead and plan on doing a test print in a couple minutes