The Orville PM-44 pistol build
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Used a great option for the view screen, tint film applied to the top gives it a very screen accurate look when not lit.View attachment 1062795View attachment 1062796
Taking my time. The primed surface was wet sanded to an ultra smooth, semi-gloss surface which enhances the natural sheen of the Duplicolor application.
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Gorgeous!
I thought about it... actually even made one back in July, with the idea of printing it in clear resin. I did a clear stand for my Captain Marvel pager and that turned out pretty good. But the reality is that it would cost more to make that it would be worth I think- as much as the resin parts of the pistol itself, or at least not too far off. (And casting is not an option.) I haven't even printed one for myself, haha.
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You could put the .stl file up on Shapeways and let folks acquire it directly through that process....
-Jeff
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We were talkin' about a stand... so I went and test printed one. Clear resin sprayed with Tamiya clear blue, then clear gloss lacquer. The big footprint uses a lot of support (=a lot of extra resin).. could maybe do 'em for 120-ish if folks wanted, BUT the problem is printing large-surface objects like this in clear resin is that one spec of dust can mar the whole print, and it's basically impossible to guarantee a spec of dust will not get in there. (One got into this... you can see an angled line in the rightmost pillar where a spec of dust blocked the laser for a number of layers. When printing small items, it's usually not a problem... and a reprint doesn't cost much, but with something like this it isn't worth reprinting just hoping it'll be clear. Sometimes large parts can be positioned so as to minimize the risk as well, but this could really only be done in one orientation, making it vulnerable. One way to mitigate is of course to clean all the optics before a print like this, and I do that regularly anyway, but it takes a good couple hours (and a cleared-off kitchen table, haha).
Thanks! And yeah, mid-high level prototyping tech costs what it costs, and prices are going up rather than down on these things at the moment, unless you run the simpler lower-end Chinese systems that require a lot of fiddling and messing around.
Anyone else actually build one? Im about to start mine!
Sending you a PM. No talk of sales outside the junkyard.
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how much are they? you take paypal for payment?
Check your Pms. Talk of buying/selling outside the junkyard is frowned upon on the RPF.
colinjreed
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Good god man, everything you do is remarkable!
Thank you! I try my best to approach the skill of all the master builders around here that I've learned so much from over the years.
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