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