peterthethinker
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Oh Boy! here it goes !
SO a few months ago I was challenged to do some thing Mad with my printer.
First ,A little background . I am a EE/ inventor whom runs a small R&D firm in the Portland OR area,
while I college I did theater costuming as a 2ed degree. Ive allwas enjoyed building harder and harder things to wear.
So I found some sweet files from King rahl on thingaverse
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:88881
Ive fixed the mesh in to a solid STL.
Ive used meshmixer from 123D ( autodesk) to Dice the huge shells in to chunks to print .
so far I started with a helmet File by "big red frog"
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:158120
Took 60 hours of total time. I had 2 failed prints.
( one of them I bumped the print stop button on my printer at 90% of a huge 15 hour print ( FAIL!)
Next was a new helmet for Donut.
It ook under 40 Hours and used 1.1 Kg of ABS !
Also I used a 3D pen to Weld the parts together .
I heat treated it in the oven at 170*F for a few hours to dry the paint and to stress relieve the thing.
BTW this works really well!
So on last Monday I started the main armor.
Shoulder plate 4 is on the bed right now .
Gloves took about 2H a pop of print .S houlder pads are 2.5 per .
still on my 2ed roll of red ABS .
The weapons and figure in the back are PLA and are not in this .
I am on the body armor doing 100% infill . 3-5 mm walls or so, raft everything .
I need to get both boots done along with all shoulder parts by next Friday .
That will put me on track for the BIG parts ( shudders)
Ill need to muster up large spools .
Ive got a place to get 5 kg for 100 bucks . Vs Frys with there's at 25 per kg.
price is not a issue as much as scraps.
Ive budgeted 500 bucks for the costume.
More to come as I print like mad! . I better get a new print going tonight!
PS Here is the Donut helmet with the primer on it and then some light red paint
OK soooo I noticed you can add spreadsheets ( hello office space ! )
SO a few months ago I was challenged to do some thing Mad with my printer.
First ,A little background . I am a EE/ inventor whom runs a small R&D firm in the Portland OR area,
while I college I did theater costuming as a 2ed degree. Ive allwas enjoyed building harder and harder things to wear.
So I found some sweet files from King rahl on thingaverse
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:88881
Ive fixed the mesh in to a solid STL.
Ive used meshmixer from 123D ( autodesk) to Dice the huge shells in to chunks to print .
so far I started with a helmet File by "big red frog"
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:158120
Took 60 hours of total time. I had 2 failed prints.
( one of them I bumped the print stop button on my printer at 90% of a huge 15 hour print ( FAIL!)
Next was a new helmet for Donut.
It ook under 40 Hours and used 1.1 Kg of ABS !
Also I used a 3D pen to Weld the parts together .
I heat treated it in the oven at 170*F for a few hours to dry the paint and to stress relieve the thing.
BTW this works really well!
So on last Monday I started the main armor.
Shoulder plate 4 is on the bed right now .
Gloves took about 2H a pop of print .S houlder pads are 2.5 per .
still on my 2ed roll of red ABS .
The weapons and figure in the back are PLA and are not in this .
I am on the body armor doing 100% infill . 3-5 mm walls or so, raft everything .
I need to get both boots done along with all shoulder parts by next Friday .
That will put me on track for the BIG parts ( shudders)
Ill need to muster up large spools .
Ive got a place to get 5 kg for 100 bucks . Vs Frys with there's at 25 per kg.
price is not a issue as much as scraps.
Ive budgeted 500 bucks for the costume.
More to come as I print like mad! . I better get a new print going tonight!
PS Here is the Donut helmet with the primer on it and then some light red paint
OK soooo I noticed you can add spreadsheets ( hello office space ! )
| Part | printed? | glassed? | painted ? |
| gloves | X | X | X |
| arm L | X | NA | X |
| arm R | X | NA | X |
| shin L | X | X | X |
| shin R | X | X | X |
| thigh L | X | X | X |
| thigh R | X | X | X |
| shoulder L | X | X | X |
| shoulder R | X | X | X |
| boots | WIP | ||
| Abs/Butt | X | X | X |
| Knees | X | X | X |
| Chest | X | X | X |
