My Adventures in 3D Printing

[Bengrim09]

Coming along nicely

 

[TazMan2000]

View attachment 1595397 Coming along nicely

What is it? Looks like a lightsaber with a scope.

TazMan2000

 

[Bengrim09]

Book of Bobafetts EE-3 blaster, making a wood stock and working on the grip and trigger section

 

[masterjedi322]

Some Boba knee cylinders for my friend’s Boba Fresh build. Printed on the AnyCubic Photon Mono X in SirayaTech Tenacious to give them some flex since they’ll take a lot of abuse.

Sean

 

[Bengrim09]

Some Boba knee cylinders for my friend’s Boba Fresh build. Printed on the AnyCubic Photon Mono X in SirayaTech Tenacious to give them some flex since they’ll take a lot of abuse.

Sean

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Just tenacious?
How much flex does it have
I use tenacious with a mix of another resin
But never tried it on its own

 

[masterjedi322]

Just tenacious?
How much flex does it have
I use tenacious with a mix of another resin
But never tried it on its own

It depends on the piece…

The knee cylinders are pretty solid so they don’t flex much.

I also printed some darts for Boba’s gauntlets. Those are much thinner and have a lot of flex to them. Will post a video later.

Sean

 

[JiminSTLouis]

I‘ve stepped away from printing for a while but I’m back into it again. My latest job is the communications wall and gun locker for my 4 foot Jupiter 2.

 

[masterjedi322]

Helping a friend print his BoBF Boba Fett armor. He was struggling with finishing a multi-part resin back plate, so I threw it on the AnyCubic Kobra Max and printed it in one piece using PETG.

This was my first PETG print on that printer, so it took a bit of tweaking to get it working. I used Cura's "super quality" profile adjusted for PETG. In total, the print took just over 199 hours - my longest print to date! Overall, really happy with how it came out. Most of the stringing and goobers you see rub right off. While filament is typically more challenging to sand than resin, I don't think this will be too bad given the large surfaces.

Sean

 

[JiminSTLouis]

After months of being in the box, I finally put my CR-6 Max together. This thing is a beast. I’m reprinting the upper deck on my 4 foot Jupiter 2 and this bulkhead is the first part off the Max. I used 2 colors of filament to represent the lighting effect from the show.

 

[masterjedi322]

For the Mando and Boba Fett armor I’ve been printing, I’ve been using a mix of Phrozen’s ABS-like resin with a bit of Siraya Tech Tenacious.

Unfortunately, the Phrozen resin has been out of stock on Amazon for a few awhile now, and purchasing it direct from Phrozen costs a lot for shipping and takes a few weeks to arrive.

So I opted to replace it with Siraya Tech’s Fast resin (still mixing some Tenacious in). First print was my Mando knee plate, which came out pretty good!

Printed on the Phrozen Sonic Mega 8K.

Sean

 

[masterjedi322]

More Boba parts…

Meanwhile, the FEP on my AnyCubic Photon Mono X tore a hole, leaking resin all over the LCD screen. I tried to clean it off, but I don’t think it’s salvageable.

Note that I had a screen protector on the Mono X for awhile, but it seemed to be interfering with the print quality, so I took it off. Lesson learned…

I have a replacement LCD on order and will strive to get the screen protector installed such that it doesn’t interfere with the prints.

Sean

 

[masterjedi322]

Mando thigh plate! Getting close to the finish line on the prints needed for my Mando build (separate thread for that coming soon…)!

Sean

 

[Bengrim09]

Nearly finished the pulse rifle, the electronics kit is in, just the grenade trigger to design and print then

a little dirty weathering

 

[TazMan2000]

Nearly finished the pulse rifle, the electronics kit is in, just the grenade trigger to design and print then View attachment 1604689 a little dirty weathering
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I didn't realize there was an electronics kit for that. It makes it twice as nice.


TazMan2000

 

[masterjedi322]

You can see a slight layer shift on the thigh print I posted previously. Not a huge deal and easily sanded.

But I wasn’t quite as lucky on the other thigh which actually tore.

I’m guessing it might be time to lubricate the z-axis, so I’ll give that a shot and try again.

Sean