Re: 3D printed Robocop suit 1987 build
Very cool! May I ask how much is this costing you to do?
Thanks! If you already have a printer, it will probably run you around 400-500$ in filament plus purchasing the files from Do3d and all your clean up materials bondo, putty, sandpaper, dremel bits etc....etc....
To be quite honest to anyone who is thinking of purchasing this suit or any other suit for that matter, it's going to take a lot more then money and a 3d printer to finish the suit. I'm not trying to discourate you or anyone else I just want you to know what to expect when taking on an endeavor like this.
The most important factor is the determination and will to complete what you start because printing is really the easiest part. The hardest part is having the determination and will to sit down for hours and hours upon a time and tediously and meticulously glue and weld all the parts together. Then you have to do all the clean up and modification work. Then you have to reinforce the parts somehow and even still you'll have to make it wearable. So please to anyone considering this it will be a mountain of work and at times it will feel like your only chiseling a very small amount of that stone mountain.
This Robocop suit is far from perfect, It's not as popular as the iron man suits that are around now so it really didn't get the attention to detail as the other more popular culture icons have that Do3d sells. There really isn't a lot of Robocop reference either so considering what they were able to find they didn't really do too bad of a job. So depending on how good you want the suit to look and your skill level expect a huge mountain of work and time.
It's been over 7 months now and I'm nowhere near done. I'm closer but still have quite a bit of work. Here is the left cuff with it's finished modifications,