JalopyGinger
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So I just signed up for the RPF thinking that making posts about projects will give me extra incentive to actually make progress on things as I'm having a rough patch and tend to get in the middle of stuff and then drop it for long periods of time. I'm hoping I'm posting this in the right place.
This is probably my farthest along project at the moment, the ACME Disintegrating Pistol from the Loony Tunes short "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1⁄2th century"
So I started with a screen cap and modeled the whole thing out as best I could trying to make it as accurate as possible
I wound up botching the 3D model in such a way that I couldn't separate out the individual components for 3D printing by themselves, but for a one piece print it cam out pretty nicely.
Then came sanding and filler and more sanding and more filler. The plan was to make a mold and then cast a few out so I wanted it to be perfect.
It was just about done when one day my brother moved the bag I kept it in to someplace it ought not have been so it wound up getting stepped on / crushed and all kinds of screwed up.
So that's where it stands now. I've finally got the means to print off another one so I'm going to go in to the maker-space I frequent to do that today. I'm going to try a few things on the model to see if I can get the pieces separated out to do multiple prints. hopefully that helps because some of the bits were an absolute nightmare to sand while maintaining a uniform shape. This is my first project like this so I'm pretty inexperienced, but I think I have a pretty solid grasp of all this stuff.
This is probably my farthest along project at the moment, the ACME Disintegrating Pistol from the Loony Tunes short "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1⁄2th century"
So I started with a screen cap and modeled the whole thing out as best I could trying to make it as accurate as possible
I wound up botching the 3D model in such a way that I couldn't separate out the individual components for 3D printing by themselves, but for a one piece print it cam out pretty nicely.
Then came sanding and filler and more sanding and more filler. The plan was to make a mold and then cast a few out so I wanted it to be perfect.
It was just about done when one day my brother moved the bag I kept it in to someplace it ought not have been so it wound up getting stepped on / crushed and all kinds of screwed up.
So that's where it stands now. I've finally got the means to print off another one so I'm going to go in to the maker-space I frequent to do that today. I'm going to try a few things on the model to see if I can get the pieces separated out to do multiple prints. hopefully that helps because some of the bits were an absolute nightmare to sand while maintaining a uniform shape. This is my first project like this so I'm pretty inexperienced, but I think I have a pretty solid grasp of all this stuff.
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