BioWare inspired 3d printing Thread

Ok, so I have moved forward a little. I have purchased two spools of .285 PHA filament, following the recommendation of my friend who prefers the product I bought (colorfabb) for his TAZ printer. I bought "shiny silver" which looks gray to me, and should be a good base for finishing with epoxy and then paint. 2 rolls, cost about 80USD.

I was a little shocked by the time it takes to print an undertaking of "this size". I look at a pistol sized thing, and think "this is small, no biggie." This is ignorance.

There are 8 pieces to the model I linked in OP. Each one has a timing, based off of his software's estimation after loading the model -

Print 1 - 9hr15m, 10 meters of filament
Print 2 - 8hr47m, 11m
Print 3 - 15hr03m, 19m
Print 4 - 8hr31m, 10m
Print 5 - 6hr32m, 9m
Print 6 - 3hr32m, 4.5m
Print 7 - 8hr05m, 8m
Print 8 - 3hr32m, 4.5m

Uh... that's over 52hrs of printing. Thank god he's my friend, and I hope he still is when this is done. One spool is about 90m, so I purchased enough for two runs on his advice, as there are sometimes errors and an entire print can be garbage.

Material arrives later this week, once he starts producing parts I will share the process. I have nothing better to do :|

I'm too boring to have plans for LE release, other than playing the game I am working on my own Garrus (roughly 1/4 scale), and he's a mix of 3D printing and apoxie sculpt. He might be ready by N7 day if I would just get on with it already.

If our local comic-con happens this summer, I'll probably show up with one of my N7 shirts and my omnitool.

Purchased. It's just transparent orange plastic, although the blade can rotate into attack position.

This is something

It is the smallest piece, but arguably the most important one!



Not my hand. He sent me this and asked me if I felt triggered. badum-tish

I think he has replaced the printer head, so hopefully there will be more progress in the near future.

Edit: apparently two other small pieces are finished, will share pics when I see them. I have a short video of the printer at work, will make a compilation perhaps when this whole mess is done.

Where did it collapse?

So, this thread is sort of a disaster and I will have to ask regack for some help in cleaning up my double-posts, once I make a properly formed edit to the OP.

Since I am absolutely exhausted, that isn't happening right now.

Instead, this is what's happening right now!!


There were also a couple small donut pieces that are complete, didn't share them here because for the life of me my tired brain cannot think of what they are... barrel pieces I imagine.

But just look at that curve...

Ooh... it says "work in progress" and "no moving parts" though...

www.thingiverse.com/thing:26792



Deadly on full auto...
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/m8-avenger-mass-effect-3

Yes!

This is what the thread is supposed to be, with my current story a nice walkthrough of the process from a total rookie perspective rather than the main focus.

I made it too narrow. It should be any BioWare 3D printing related, from NWN to Anthem, no judgment here just sharing pics and advice/experience/things to avoid etc.

I will see about heavily editing the OP and title (if possible?) to reflect this better direction for discussion.

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Hey, check this out!



Nearly there, several large pieces remain but you can see it is happening now

Translucent is no problem, but yeah transparent isn't something a hobby printer can do. Not sure if it is possible at this point at all, but I wish it was!

However, printing the "frame" is doable I think, and especially the fitting for the lens, which you could find some nice high-vis plexy for and cut it real clean... I like this idea

My gun won't be nearly finished once my friend finishes printing (the machine is busy the next few weeks on their jobs, so I am back burner'd atm) - I have to sand the edge surfaces and any really rough print edges on the body. Then glue carefully (nervous about this). Then use some product (bondo, XTC-3D) to smooth some of the surfaces, maybe all. Hopefully not screw up the trigger mechanism and slide in the process!

Then paint, rough up a little, retouch and finish satin clear coat... It's no big deal

You can buy this pistol on Etsy right now for like 150 bux. I will absolutely spend more than that in the end, hopefully not too much though and there is satisfaction involved in crafting. Also beer, head scratching, cursing, more beer... It's gonna be awesome

Edit: @vella, as usual I talked about me instead of focusing on you, but I was trying to I just forgot the relevant ending. With all of these projects, and especially something with optics - will require more than just press a button and it's done. In my example, it us a bunch of finishing. For a Kuwashii Visor, there would be fabrication in addition to finishing. Totally manageable!

The issue with 3d models for the Kuwashii Visor is sizing. Fortunately all of us have differently sized brain cages, which allows us to look different which is delightful! However, this makes a one-size-fits-all impossible. I didn't think of this, I found this old post on another forum - link

That said, I think this person just didn't want to do it. I have friends from other communities who might model a model for us, and make 3 size versions of it. They also might tell me to kick rocks

That's really cool!