Last cup of coffee

This is the last morning cup of coffee for this year??

To all of my visitors of this and my other blogs a good slide into the new year and the very best wishes for 2020 !!

New latch design

An improvement on the Rocket Booster lifter System was made.

My favoured Lasercutter made me some new latches for the lower Slider mechanism.

Mando Gauntlet and upper leg cover

my sons mando costume still wasn´t what i wanted to have it...

parts were missing...

so i built the upper leg cover...

and the gauntlet for the lower left arm...

the parts were made of 4 mm thick white styrol.

some ali parts on the gauntlet (rockets) and parts of an old digital camera with display were taken for this build.

this was an easy and quick build. it took me only half a day.

Aluminium Booster Rocket Kit Update

i made a change in the design on the rocket boosters´ lifter lower latch.

there will be a small gap for a screw, so that the latch can´t fall out of the flat square opening.

pics to that later, when i have the pieces from the lasercutter. 

Rey asks...

...is this right???

DKMS Troop

Here are some pictures made on the troop at the REWE Supermarket in Erkrath for the DKMS.

Having big fun here...

Helmet and gauntlet

my son´s mando helmet needed a small repair, because it had a small crack.

the simple use of some power glue brought back the strength in the construction.

another part was fallen off; the visor part of the movable helmet visor arm.

my son did a new version in 3d, but this part was a little bit too small and very detailed, but much too thin, so when touching it a little too heavy, it would crack immendiately.

after our printer breakdown we couldn´t do another version and decided to glue the old version back to the visor arm.

another thing to do is the gauntlet for the left arm.
on the first mando costume, he didn´t want to have it, but i could persuade him now, after he saw pictures of the new disney+ series "the mandalorian".

so it´s up to me to build the gauntlet by scratch. not a copy of the mandalorian´s gauntlet, only a fantasy version for him.

so more pics to that later!

Wood work on the Mando project

yesterday i found some time to do the wood work on one of the booster rockets.

pics will follow

now some glue and everything is fine again!

Mando Update

My son's Mando costume get's better and better. We won't use the lower pads now.

Therefore i will build new upper leg cover.

And the Arms will get some gauntlets.

D-O printed parts update

the parts for the second d-o are still in progress.

my buddy oskar helps me getting a better quality print using his creality cr-10s.

here the parts that are already done until now:

unfortunately his printer broke down last week too.

almost the same problem as we had with our printer, but with the effect, that his filament got stuck all around the nozzle unit and all over the printing bed while he wasn´t at home...

he too ordered a nozzle unit and will wait for weeks now!

3d printer issues

problems with a nut on the nozzle of the printer...

there is an attached secure ring, that felt/broke off. now the tubing slips out of the of the hollow nut and we cannot print anymore...
bad thing.
a quickly ordered repair set (unfortunately only a complete nozzle unit was available) will come from china...

so 3d printing is a long time not possible. approximately arriving time of the ordered part: between 27.12.2019 and 07.02.2020 !!

damn´....

Zorii Bliss Blaster

first designs of her blaster are made by another guy on the rpf:

let´s see, what we can do with this as a base...

Zorii Bliss

i think this would fit my daughter pretty good! the costume of zorii bliss, a new star wars character from star wars episode 9.

here is a pic of her (taken from the net):

i found jesse on the internet doing some great detailed 3d designs for the helmet. still a beta version, but even now already really cool:

 

Rey´s laser sword...

...a never ending story...

the 3d print was ok, but i found an offer of a vr goggle plus a laser sword from lenovo.

for a price of 300 euros back in 2017 to a cheap 37 euros today it was worth to buy this immediately...

and i was not disasppointed;

here it is in comparison to the 3d print...

pic will follow

i tried the game with my mobile phone, but i hadn´t enough place in my sleeping room (gotta have to hide it from my curious kids!! LOL)

so i will check this later!!

SMD light strip

for the lasersword i had choosen a red smd light stripe. powered by a 4,5 volt battery system

i thought it would be light enough, but when i put it into the acrylic tube, i was kind of disappointed!

pic will follow

the tube wasn´t "transporting" the light around enough and i ordered another smd light stripe. let´s see, if this will work better...

Next evolution step

I had three tubings of stainless Steel left.
The second got some fine glassblasting to get a more roughly surface for a better grip.

My buddy Thommy Fontana put the first one onto his lathe and made some grooves into it:

In the end they made some wider and deeper grooves for me:

Laserswords

Next step on the 3d lasersword print; after two coats of grey primer, it is looking like this:

next step was to paint some dull black on the lower part of the sword:

After this, the Fake Rubber parts are masked and three coats of chrome silver found their way onto the sword's surface. Meanwhile i started another build; made out of a crappy stainless steel tube. I found some aluminium pieces in the trash metal box and formed a switch for the sword. Some masking tape and blue metallic paint later they looked like this:

Here a pic of both sword's:

In between...

...i realized some quick builds;

i had some stainless steel tubings left.

the first one is for a friend of mine. she is doing a more or less unknown star wars character, something between sith and jedi...

so here is an early version of her lightsaber:

the other lightsaber is a 3d printed version of darth vader/anakin skywalker.

this one is for my oldest daughter, who is actually preparing her episode 9 rey costume. Here she is primering her 3d printed lasersword:

D-O almost finished

my d-o droid is almost finished now...

now some more weathering, and changing some colors to the right scheme, assembling the cables and the latches...a lot of "finetuning"...

Lightsword and Nerf Blaster

i am working on a quick build for a friend; a small lightsword and two tiny nerf blasters have to be painted, welded, grinded, etc...

here some pics...dismantling, removing decals, sanding...

then a primer job. left the basic supermarket nerf, right the freshly primered half of the blaster and the detail parts...

here freshly painted in dull black, in the front i added an aluminum stripe

now some more minor detailing and an aging effect...

now to the Lightsword...

i had a small diameter stainless steel tube on stock...and a normal steel stube, some ali blocks...

what could i do with that...??

this !!!😋

to be continued...

Finishing touches

Today i made some progress on the Booster Rocket kits...it was assembly day...

Down under files

the files i got for the booster covers weren´t as thought from JAG, they were from ian from australia.

the files were great, ian did an outstanding job!

but they were not useful to get them machined as cnc parts, because they were stl files, so only for 3d printers.

my cnc buddy told me, that he has to completely redo all the files from scratch to make stp files out of it, which was nearly impossible, because he only had polygons instead of start and finishing points, no radius, no real length or diameter.

but in the end he made it!! a very time consuming job for him!! thanx to all that were involved in the production of these parts!!



   

First Booster Rocket Kit

Well, i guess i am one of only a few in Europe having an Aluminium Booster Rocket Kit.

Meanwhile...

My son prepared the files for an R2 in scale 1:2 (i guess) to get them printed in 3d...
Here are the first results...

Ali legs and Booster Rockets

Booster Cover

the booster cover must be cut. ther eis no other possibility, because nobody is doing a three sections version of it for the booster kit.

cut one; the upper part:

pic will follow

cut two; the lower part(s):

pic will follow

here i made a mistake i think; they are cut at the wrong point...

pic will follow

but nevertheless the sliding of the parts to get hidden in the ankle works.

video will follow

let´s see, how much place is left for the booster rocket...

A box full of fun and joy !!

i got the majority of parts for the ali booster box kits:

a quick assembly to see if everything works fine together...

the screws aren´t the correct ones. i will change them asap.

now i am waiting for the remaining parts; the slider mechanism.

Progress on Booster Rocket parts

Here you can see some actual pics of the Ali Booster Rocket parts:

Last parts printing

For my little fellow D-O i am actually printing parts to finalize the build.

In the background are the last parts, in the foreground you can see some detail parts for the Aluminium Booster Rocket Sets, that are actually in their building process.

Progress on the D-O Parts mixture assembly

Having parts in 3d from several downloading times from david's thingiverse page,  i am totally confused now in assembling the parts.
Some fit perfect, some not.
Some.needed to be printed again, some are still missing. Unfortunately david's page is covered now, so now you have to donate money to him.
Pretty fair, but those first version parts were for free.
Now i have to see, what i can do...
My son will help me with the CAD work on the parts hopefully.

Here is an actual picture of the Droid:

Color change

The D-O Droid parts are getting a new color.
Red is Out, White is in!

Here the Center wheel parts..

Pic will follow

And the still missing cable holder

Pic will follow

Some rods were reprinted too...

Pic will follow

Booster Kit...First Ali parts

 First Ali parts are in the cnc'ing process...