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...