3D Printed Zorg ZF1
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AGFRX7
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Looks great so far. You'll want to resize and chsnge the piece that mounts to the bottom. It's too large and not accurate. I also broke apart the frame differently. You may run into issues using the shell and the 3d files, so I hope you are prepared to do some custom fabrication.
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Thanks for the tips! Yeah I'd hoped using the shell would save time in not having to print a lot of pieces, glue them, etc. So I guess we'll see, hopefully everything isn't too far off. Looks like a trip to Home Depot may be in order for some odds and ends to assemble this thing. I too ended up recombining a lot of the frame pieces so they weren't so cut up (after printing one side and realizing how much of a pita getting that assembled would be). Seems to have worked so far. Lots of epoxy and maybe a little fiberglass in my future. Also first time using smooth-on, but it looks promising.
As far as the bottom piece, do you have any kind of measurement for that (or percentage you scaled it down)? Thanks in advance.
Another frame piece, main gun assembled:
As far as the bottom piece, do you have any kind of measurement for that (or percentage you scaled it down)? Thanks in advance.
Another frame piece, main gun assembled:
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Just got my box from the superkrates guys. If anyone was thinking of ordering the shell they sell, this is what you get. Haven't tried fitting anything to it yet to see how well that will work, but at least it's a nice piece anyway. I obviously have some cutting to do as well. They were really friendly and the guy I spoke to, Jeff, was always quick to get back to me and helpful. I'll let you folks know if it works, it will save a lot of printing time if it does.
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Ok, so after a massive amount of fiddling, really late nights and weekends, I finally got this all done a week ago, just in time for an early Halloween party on the 24th. I've hit-up 4 parties over the last week and folks seemed to love it (got a $150 visa gift card from work for winning the costume contest!). So now I finally have time to post some stuff about the build.
I will say that when printing this file, I wish I had paid more attention to how things were laid out. I did end up breaking the frame pieces down differently (as did AGFRX7), but there were some other pieces that in the 3D model were just stuck into one another, so when printed, things had to be cut back apart, etc to get them to fit. Still a great model, I do a lot of modeling and do stuff like that all the time if it's not going to be seen. I was just in a rush and didn't take the time to check that stuff out. So beware of that should you start your own build.
I ended up using an arduino with a couple lines of code to get the blinking LED's in the viewer. They're not totally accurate, but definitely good enough. That runs to a 6-AA battery pack that has so far run for at least 16 hours worth of parties.
I was able to use the superkrates upper shell, the lower one however was just too small compared to the scale of the model and lacked the support and inner shell, so I just printed the lower shell, and then fiberglassed the inside for strength. I also added some small black support pieces to the sides in between where the lower frame sits and the bottom shell as otherwise there is very little of the model that actually makes contact with that shell and there's a lot of weight and flex stress on it.
The outside shell was done with an airbrush as well as most of the pieces with various metallic paints from Amazon, as well as a few rattle cans I had laying around. I painted pretty much all the parts in one night, the shell on another. I was just pressed for time. Realistically a lot more sanding and coats of paint would have made things much cleaner, but from 5 ft it's fine. The smooth-on XTC stuff is a miracle, saves tons of sanding for 3D printed stuff, I'll be using it forever. The viewer screen was just a window decal sheet run through an inkjet printer with a little image I made in photoshop based on ref. I'll include it here.
Some pieces from the model that I did manage to catch beforehand as needing to be remodeled, we're fixed by booleaning out one piece from another in Maya. That helped a lot, I only wish I'd done it more. The only things that seemed off when everything was assembled is a. I think the viewer is a little small, there's almost no way to fit all the LED's one would need (using standard 5mm LEDs) to make a screen accurate viewer front, but I suppose it could fit, I simplified mine for time sake and b. the red gun? laser? on top, that I'm not sure is ever seen doing anything in the film, seems a little small. Again, these are pretty nitpicky things but something someone may want to think about before blindly diving in like I did.
I also made some 3D printed feathers for my wife's stewardess costume. She sewed both of our costumes, it took her about two weekends all said and done. Both lavendar neoprene and black and white striped PVC vinyl is not fun to sew. She did a great job imo and I'm glad she fully supports my brand of crazy.
I have some fabric left from my costume, probably enough to make another whole outfit, I still have the lower shell from superkrates and I'll throw the stewardess wings model up on shapeways or something if anyone ends up wanting some. If anyone wants the fabric or lower shell, let me know.
Now for the pictures:
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I will say that when printing this file, I wish I had paid more attention to how things were laid out. I did end up breaking the frame pieces down differently (as did AGFRX7), but there were some other pieces that in the 3D model were just stuck into one another, so when printed, things had to be cut back apart, etc to get them to fit. Still a great model, I do a lot of modeling and do stuff like that all the time if it's not going to be seen. I was just in a rush and didn't take the time to check that stuff out. So beware of that should you start your own build.
I ended up using an arduino with a couple lines of code to get the blinking LED's in the viewer. They're not totally accurate, but definitely good enough. That runs to a 6-AA battery pack that has so far run for at least 16 hours worth of parties.
I was able to use the superkrates upper shell, the lower one however was just too small compared to the scale of the model and lacked the support and inner shell, so I just printed the lower shell, and then fiberglassed the inside for strength. I also added some small black support pieces to the sides in between where the lower frame sits and the bottom shell as otherwise there is very little of the model that actually makes contact with that shell and there's a lot of weight and flex stress on it.
The outside shell was done with an airbrush as well as most of the pieces with various metallic paints from Amazon, as well as a few rattle cans I had laying around. I painted pretty much all the parts in one night, the shell on another. I was just pressed for time. Realistically a lot more sanding and coats of paint would have made things much cleaner, but from 5 ft it's fine. The smooth-on XTC stuff is a miracle, saves tons of sanding for 3D printed stuff, I'll be using it forever. The viewer screen was just a window decal sheet run through an inkjet printer with a little image I made in photoshop based on ref. I'll include it here.
Some pieces from the model that I did manage to catch beforehand as needing to be remodeled, we're fixed by booleaning out one piece from another in Maya. That helped a lot, I only wish I'd done it more. The only things that seemed off when everything was assembled is a. I think the viewer is a little small, there's almost no way to fit all the LED's one would need (using standard 5mm LEDs) to make a screen accurate viewer front, but I suppose it could fit, I simplified mine for time sake and b. the red gun? laser? on top, that I'm not sure is ever seen doing anything in the film, seems a little small. Again, these are pretty nitpicky things but something someone may want to think about before blindly diving in like I did.
I also made some 3D printed feathers for my wife's stewardess costume. She sewed both of our costumes, it took her about two weekends all said and done. Both lavendar neoprene and black and white striped PVC vinyl is not fun to sew. She did a great job imo and I'm glad she fully supports my brand of crazy.
I have some fabric left from my costume, probably enough to make another whole outfit, I still have the lower shell from superkrates and I'll throw the stewardess wings model up on shapeways or something if anyone ends up wanting some. If anyone wants the fabric or lower shell, let me know.
Now for the pictures:
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AGFRX7
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Great job on incorporating the multiple parts. Sounds like you had to mod the parts as I had to, to get them to fit properly.
Jumping in blindly or not, It looks like you're happy with your new toy. Anyone who thinks that the free file is a simple print and assemble build, is sorely wrong.
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Yeah, it takes so much to make things print/assemble smoothly, but hey, free model get's you like 95% of the way there. I'm really happy someone was cool enough to share it. I'm super stoked about the build and really happy with how it turned out, regardless of the stuff I'd like to change if I'd had the time. Looks like a ton of the pictures of the actual build didn't post, second try:
MWiggs
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Aww dang I can't believe I was there and I missed that! I would have loved to have gotten some pictures with it! Hit me up if you plan on making another appearance at FanX in March! Nice work!
Curious - why was the 3D file created by referencing a 5 year-old fan-made replica instead of images from a 'Hero' gun?
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MWiggs
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Funny you should ask that.
Actually I used whatever photo references I could find online, as well as repeated watching of the movie. I saw how people were building replicas, and the pre-built kits you can buy and kind of based it off of those. I had no solid reference to go off of apart from what others had done, so I did my best with what I had. I also took a little artistic licence with the parts I either had little reference on or I didn't particularly like the look of, like the grip. Hence why most of the parts are only kind of accurate. I wasn't done with the innards at all before I shared the file on GrabCAD, so the version someone downloaded then shared on Thingiverse was not actually ready for printing or assembling. Which is why so much extra prep and improvising had to go into the physical model. Plus I was trying to figure out where inside you'd fit the ammo clip, freeze tanks, air tanks for the arrows, power supply for the display, etc. so all of that is just my interpretation. I plan on revisiting that model again after my current build but for now, as you can see, it's only mostly done, missing the real world prep and finish work. I'll keep everyone on here posted on any progress I make on it in the future. Glad you like it! And I'm stoked to see people putting it to good use! Don't hesitate to ask anything else about it. Build on!PipBernadotte
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Do you have a copy of the 3d printable still? If so, would you mind emailing it to me? It seems it was taken down off of Thingiverse...
Thanks!
Thanks!
MWiggs
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PipBernadotte - Huh! wonder why they took it down.. That's ok tho because it really wasn't practical to print. When I get a chance after i'm done with my Terran Marine I'll finish up work on my print-ready version and get that uploaded.
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