Following this with great interest! May be encouraging me to buy my first printer
Based on what you've printed so far, say Chest and Helmet, can you tell how much material/cost you'll go through and what sort of time you expect to be done?
Plus the 3d files which I've already spoken to D03D about. But still, that's pretty bloody good. And you can budget. A 'typical' armour style costume will cost $1000-$1500- upfront, all in one go. $25- every so often, print when you can, is a lot more budget friendly....After all the trial and error, failed prints, wasted material etc.... I'm guessing about 10 rolls of filament at $25.00 (I'm using Makergeeks filament and its been great so far) I'm sure some cheaper filaments would suffice but to each is own. So I'm assuming 250.00 just in filament for a whole suit. Probably add another 150.00 dollars more for misc materials such as sandpaper, filler primer, glazing putty, dremel bits, etc...
All in all you should be able to print a whole entire Robocop suit, clean it up yourself and have something that looks pretty close to the original for around $400.00. I'll be using different gloves and latex inserts from a member on Robocop archive which will cost just a bit more over that price range but if you stick to the original files that's probably what you'll be spending.
Yes, I'm going to print the abs with PLA, the model is thin so it should still be wearable as is.Beautiful so far...are you going to print the abs the same way or with another material?
Thanks for the comment. I've been running the printer quite a lot but have had a lot of trial and error with bad filaments clogging, failing during prints, rescaling issues etc.... I probably would have been done by now but after the learning curve things are going much smoother. I actually ended up cutting the chest into 8 pieces which is better for my build volume and easier on my printer.Wow. Looks so smooth! Amazing progress. You must have the printer going 24/7
So that chest, for example, is that in about 6 pieces like your Netfab pic on the first page?
Great build! Your build inspired me to do a robocop also.
Thanks for the comments and glad to be an inspiration or motivation, if you ever have any questions or vice versa we could help each other out . Although I have a little bit done, I don't even feel like I've even started yet. Since most of the work is actually going to be put into cleaning the pieces up and modifying them to make them a tad more accurate.