gyoung2993
Sr Member
These are tears of joy....I love it...
Wow.
Not much more to say...
That is a stunning piece of workmanship right there. It's obvious that you were on a mission with this build.
I'm intrigued by 3d printers, unfortunately they do come in at a higher price point than I can swing. Besides, I'm not sure I'd be able to knock together the required 3d files to make anything as cool as Vera!
Amazing work!! I am always amazed at the projects I find on here. I recently learned that you can use Acetone to smooth 3D prints. Here is the link I found, MakerBot Mystery Build: Smooth Move, Ferguson - YouTube Keep up the good work!!
Dig the costume! Vera adds so much to it!
Thanks for the words on the rest of my costume.
Last year, I suited up as Jayne for a day or so... but so did about 3-4 other people I encountered.
None of us really had anything to set us apart.
I aimed to change that for this year.
Special note: I also have a complete gen 1 set of metal castings pulled right from castings of Jayne's Boo
(actual screen-used pistol)... but I built Vera first.
Boo will have to wait.
Vera is so much more visually impressive, even if it isn't cast from screen-used parts.
How much do they weigh?
I know nothing about 3-D printers,
but I'm wildly guessing a "no labor just materials" printer parts cost of $350 to $500.
1. Absolutely gorgeous!
...
I know that I love going back over the "in-process" shots of some of my builds;
in part to re-appreciate the work that went into them, and sometimes to think,
"Whew! I'll never do THAT again!"
2. ... I'd suggest mirroring your build threads at fireflyprops.net ? Index page
3. ... Letting the 3-D files out is purely personal;...
...Many will be interested in parts until they see the cost....
4. And finally, far as VERA setting a Jayne costume apart; yer durn tootin'.
There are probably a few dozen metal Boo's, a few hundred resin ones.
There is one metal VERA and less than a half-dozen rubber stunt VERA's out there.
I think even if you did a run, there would still be under two dozen VERA's in the world.
I'll chime in here since I suspect that I'm (possibly) responsible for that guess. The makerbot that these parts were done on uses fairly cost-effective ABS plastic, so a single part would cost nowhere near that to produce. My estimates were based on using HQ detail plastic at a place like Sh*peways. The downside with the ABS extruder printers is of course the texture, but I wonder if some really good spray-filler might not take care of that.