My Halo Spartan and Weapon

[TastyGumbo]

Hello everyone,

After a long long break from 3D printing I am back at it in full swing. Recently bought a Bambu P1S AMS 2 Combo during the Black Friday sale. After, what I feel was a successful obi wan cosplay it pumped me up to finally start over on my spartan armor. I decided that I will be working on the weapons of choice for now to try and slowly get back into it. I won’t tell what weapon it is right off the bat but it will be pieced together throughout this post (although I’m sure some can guess based off the pictures alone). Attached to this initial post will be four pieces of it plus a picture of the next seven pieces currently printing. I will say the weapons are not primarily used by Spartans but I really really like them and it’s from my second favorite game of the franchise. Anyways stay tuned for more updates!

 

[TastyGumbo]

Hello everyone,

After a long long break from 3D printing I am back at it in full swing. Recently bought a Bambu P1S AMS 2 Combo during the Black Friday sale. After, what I feel was a successful obi wan cosplay it pumped me up to finally start over on my spartan armor. I decided that I will be working on the weapons of choice for now to try and slowly get back into it. I won’t tell what weapon it is right off the bat but it will be pieced together throughout this post (although I’m sure some can guess based off the pictures alone). Attached to this initial post will be four pieces of it plus a picture of the next seven pieces currently printing. I will say the weapons are not primarily used by Spartans but I really really like them and it’s from my second favorite game of the franchise. Anyways stay tuned for more updates!

Well all pieces have been printed. Just gotta clean it up a bit, glue together, sand and paint. Looking forward to it!

 

[elNoX]

Welcome to the Forum TastyGumbo. Thats a really good start! Just to give you a tipp: Dont start with the fun parts of the Cosplay. Start with the feet, legs etc. This helps with keeping up the motivation. And if you are still in the learning-process then those are the parts where mistakes wont stick out that obvious.
If you have some questions, dont hesitate to ask me or others from your regiment

 

[TastyGumbo]

Welcome to the Forum TastyGumbo. Thats a really good start! Just to give you a tipp: Dont start with the fun parts of the Cosplay. Start with the feet, legs etc. This helps with keeping up the motivation. And if you are still in the learning-process then those are the parts where mistakes wont stick out that obvious.
If you have some questions, dont hesitate to ask me or others from your regiment

I absolutely intend starting from the bottom and working my way up. The weapons are my exception to the rule since I really didn’t have to scale them. With the armor though that’s gonna be a lot of trial and error since I am not great at using armor smith. So I’m sure I will be failing a lot but hey what’s learning without failure. Thank you for the advice!

 

[TastyGumbo]

Well all pieces have been printed. Just gotta clean it up a bit, glue together, sand and paint. Looking forward to it!

I officially put it together and started priming. I did not rough sand prior because the print already felt super smooth and lines were not very noticeable except at some bottom parts where I will just be using bondo at anyways. However, I will still be sanding the bondo and wet sanding the print overall.

So far it feels good and is coming out a bit better than my previous pieces since I’m not rushing to meet a deadline….well lvl up expo but I anticipate being done by then. I think I might start the M6C socom prints tonight because it doesnt have a ton to print.

 

[TastyGumbo]

I officially put it together and started priming. I did not rough sand prior because the print already felt super smooth and lines were not very noticeable except at some bottom parts where I will just be using bondo at anyways. However, I will still be sanding the bondo and wet sanding the print overall.

So far it feels good and is coming out a bit better than my previous pieces since I’m not rushing to meet a deadline….well lvl up expo but I anticipate being done by then. I think I might start the M6C socom prints tonight because it doesnt have a ton to print.

I finally got back to it since the holidays took up so much of my time. I tried working on the boots but man was it frustrating me to no end. I wanted to throw my laptop through the window lol. You can even see how bad I screwed up the scaling in one of the pictures. So I gave up on it for now to work on some larger pieces that I felt more comfortable on. So I started on the cod piece. I think I did a pretty good job scaling it! I’m currently printing the rest of it right now but it was uniformed so it should hopefully all match.

Question! Is it best practice to process the sanding and priming before putting together or put together then doing everything?

 

[tahu505]

Question! Is it best practice to process the sanding and priming before putting together or put together then doing everything?

It's going to depend on the files. If it's something that was intentionally separated to make painting easier, you'd want to sand and paint them separate. Most of the time, you'd want to assemble the prints, then fill the seems and sand

 

[TastyGumbo]

It's going to depend on the files. If it's something that was intentionally separated to make painting easier, you'd want to sand and paint them separate. Most of the time, you'd want to assemble the prints, then fill the seems and sand

So they had a file with three separate pieces and another file that was all connected. I went with the three separate pieces because it made printing easier on my smaller print bed. I know I could have just scaled and cut in a slicer, I just thought the already sliced ones were better. Plus the scaling wasn’t to bad with three separate pieces because the separated side piece actually helped me keep everything uniformed. Sorry for the tangent but with all that said it doesn’t seem to separated for any specific reason so I’ll just put it together and then process it this weekend if this weather permits lol.

 

[tahu505]

So they had a file with three separate pieces and another file that was all connected. I went with the three separate pieces because it made printing easier on my smaller print bed. I know I could have just scaled and cut in a slicer, I just thought the already sliced ones were better. Plus the scaling wasn’t to bad with three separate pieces because the separated side piece actually helped me keep everything uniformed. Sorry for the tangent but with all that said it doesn’t seem to separated for any specific reason so I’ll just put it together and then process it this weekend if this weather permits lol.

Yeah! That sounds like the files were separated to make printing easier. Some 3d modelers will make full and split versions to accommodate for different sized printers