Dtrasler
Sr Member
Got a new reel of PLA yesterday, as well as approval of the model I put together for the machine donor. Life is complicated by a sudden hospital admission for my wife (non-covid related, but scary as hell and, for the moment, without any easy answers or release date. It feels like making armour at this point is weird and disrespectful, but so is sitting around staring at the TV or the walls. My kids and I are working things out between us, so in the meantime, I'm keeping projects running to stop my brain from running.
The larger bed size of the Tinker means I can cut down the number of parts I thought the chest would have to be split into - it's now 10 instead of twelve. The first three are together already:
Gratifyingly, it's about the same size as the foam armour I made, so that wasn't as much of a muck-up as I thought.
The fourth piece is printed off, and waiting for the fifth piece which is probably finished by now, but is at home while I'm at work.
When those two get attached, that'll be the left half of the front of the chest piece. Five more, and I'll have the whole front done. I'm more confident about printing the whole thing now, because the chest was the largest piece, and with a decent plan for how to slice it, I'm happy I can do the other large pieces too.
The larger bed size of the Tinker means I can cut down the number of parts I thought the chest would have to be split into - it's now 10 instead of twelve. The first three are together already:
Gratifyingly, it's about the same size as the foam armour I made, so that wasn't as much of a muck-up as I thought.
The fourth piece is printed off, and waiting for the fifth piece which is probably finished by now, but is at home while I'm at work.
When those two get attached, that'll be the left half of the front of the chest piece. Five more, and I'll have the whole front done. I'm more confident about printing the whole thing now, because the chest was the largest piece, and with a decent plan for how to slice it, I'm happy I can do the other large pieces too.