tomwardill
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Hi!
I bought myself a 3d printer. I mentioned this to a friend. Friend said 'Can you print a set of ODST armour?'. I've tried making pepakura based things before, they didn't go well, so let's see if most of the hard work can be done by a printer.
First job, find a file.
Download Halo 3 ODST helmet Wearable Cosplay by jeffrey
Thanks Jeffery (DutchProps), that will do nicely.
Sliced it up into 8 parts to fit on my printer, basically in half in all 3 dimensions. Then, start printing:
And this is where I made my first mistake, although it'll take a while to realise it. See also, the remains of my pepakura attempts in the background...
Print a bit more...
Print some more...
At this point, I realised it was going to take about 3 weeks, as I can't run my printer overnight (it's too loud). So I enlisted the help of work's slightly fancier one.
Unfortunately, I didn't get the settings quite right for this, so there was a lot of this looping in the overhangs. Oh well. Fix it in post.
After about 9 days worth of prints in various forms, and about a whole roll of filament, I had some work to do.
But, that's more than 8 parts! The aforementioned problem was that I didn't slice the model very intelligently, so ended up printing a few parts with massive amounts of supports. Slicing them in half again allowed a better orientation and reduction in the support material. The downside was doing more work to stick it all together.
I didn't want to reprint the original parts that I'd got wrong, so spent 2 days doing this:
And breaking out all the support material that had printed in the channels. In retrospect, I should've just printed them again. Too late now, WE MUST MAKE PROGRESS!
Printed out some test spheres to check that my glue wasn't going to melt anything:
Then got on with the sticking:
After a lot of sticking my gloves to the table, my gloves to the helmet, my gloves to my gloves and my gloves to the glue, I broke out the dremel, carved out the last bits of support material and had this:
Join us in part 2 as I use body filler (bondo) for the first time ever and try and work out which way up sandpaper goes...
I bought myself a 3d printer. I mentioned this to a friend. Friend said 'Can you print a set of ODST armour?'. I've tried making pepakura based things before, they didn't go well, so let's see if most of the hard work can be done by a printer.
First job, find a file.
Download Halo 3 ODST helmet Wearable Cosplay by jeffrey
Thanks Jeffery (DutchProps), that will do nicely.
Sliced it up into 8 parts to fit on my printer, basically in half in all 3 dimensions. Then, start printing:
And this is where I made my first mistake, although it'll take a while to realise it. See also, the remains of my pepakura attempts in the background...
Print a bit more...
Print some more...
At this point, I realised it was going to take about 3 weeks, as I can't run my printer overnight (it's too loud). So I enlisted the help of work's slightly fancier one.
Unfortunately, I didn't get the settings quite right for this, so there was a lot of this looping in the overhangs. Oh well. Fix it in post.
After about 9 days worth of prints in various forms, and about a whole roll of filament, I had some work to do.
But, that's more than 8 parts! The aforementioned problem was that I didn't slice the model very intelligently, so ended up printing a few parts with massive amounts of supports. Slicing them in half again allowed a better orientation and reduction in the support material. The downside was doing more work to stick it all together.
I didn't want to reprint the original parts that I'd got wrong, so spent 2 days doing this:
And breaking out all the support material that had printed in the channels. In retrospect, I should've just printed them again. Too late now, WE MUST MAKE PROGRESS!
Printed out some test spheres to check that my glue wasn't going to melt anything:
Then got on with the sticking:
After a lot of sticking my gloves to the table, my gloves to the helmet, my gloves to my gloves and my gloves to the glue, I broke out the dremel, carved out the last bits of support material and had this:
Join us in part 2 as I use body filler (bondo) for the first time ever and try and work out which way up sandpaper goes...