mattycsi
Master Member
A friend at work was interested in my some of my past builds, particularly since I got the 3D printer. He asked if I could print him something and he settled on the mini nuke from the Fallout games.
We settled on a model from Thingiverse by a user called Powerhobo.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2170272
It is made to be a container also, so it has some functionality too.
First off, printed the model
It is an excellent model, it printed very well with no problems at all, it came out really clean.
I started at the top with the nose cone. I used Halfords knifing putty to fill it. It goes on well and is really easy to sand. I gave it a couple of passes and then hit it with primer. I painted in some rust with acrylic paint. Part of why I agreed to the job was to have a go at some heavy weathering. Most of what I do is only light or clean.
I used vaseline to dab around the rust areas as a mask. I'm using Halfords camo green for the main colour, so I didn't want the other colours to be too bright, and as I already had some, I used red primer for nose colour.
Still working from the top down, the next piece is the lid of the container. Same process as before. This time I gave it a coat of silver hammer finish before adding the rust and top coats, wipe off the vaseline when done. I used the filler primer I had for the yellow as again it is quite flat and doesn't stand out too much from the green. Then glued it to the nose cone. I use power flex gel Loctite, its solid.
Then decided to go at the fins and tail ring. I wanted to try a different technique on this, so sanded/filled etc, coat of silver and rust.
Then gave it a light spray with plain water and chucked a load of rock salt it.
Let it dry a few hours and then hit it with the green.
Let that dry then wiped and lightly brushed off the salt. Was praying that it didn't come out a godawful mess.
It did ok! It leaves a lot of texture on the part too, it feels a lot more authentic.
The fins and centre ring are done too, but not a whole lot to look at there really.
I used real screws on the part and have some nice little bolts that will go in that tail ring. I'm currently leaving those bolts and some for body outside to try and get some natural rust on them.
So now I'm filling and sanding the main body of the nuke. will update when there is something of interest with that.
We settled on a model from Thingiverse by a user called Powerhobo.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2170272
It is made to be a container also, so it has some functionality too.
First off, printed the model
It is an excellent model, it printed very well with no problems at all, it came out really clean.
I started at the top with the nose cone. I used Halfords knifing putty to fill it. It goes on well and is really easy to sand. I gave it a couple of passes and then hit it with primer. I painted in some rust with acrylic paint. Part of why I agreed to the job was to have a go at some heavy weathering. Most of what I do is only light or clean.
I used vaseline to dab around the rust areas as a mask. I'm using Halfords camo green for the main colour, so I didn't want the other colours to be too bright, and as I already had some, I used red primer for nose colour.
Still working from the top down, the next piece is the lid of the container. Same process as before. This time I gave it a coat of silver hammer finish before adding the rust and top coats, wipe off the vaseline when done. I used the filler primer I had for the yellow as again it is quite flat and doesn't stand out too much from the green. Then glued it to the nose cone. I use power flex gel Loctite, its solid.
Then decided to go at the fins and tail ring. I wanted to try a different technique on this, so sanded/filled etc, coat of silver and rust.
Then gave it a light spray with plain water and chucked a load of rock salt it.
Let it dry a few hours and then hit it with the green.
Let that dry then wiped and lightly brushed off the salt. Was praying that it didn't come out a godawful mess.
It did ok! It leaves a lot of texture on the part too, it feels a lot more authentic.
The fins and centre ring are done too, but not a whole lot to look at there really.
I used real screws on the part and have some nice little bolts that will go in that tail ring. I'm currently leaving those bolts and some for body outside to try and get some natural rust on them.
So now I'm filling and sanding the main body of the nuke. will update when there is something of interest with that.
