New Parts

The printer is working day and night.

Here you can see my upper Body parts:

 

 

Umrüstung

Töchterchen Maike hat auf Sommerreifen (und Felgen) umgerüstet...

 

Problems

I have severe problems to get small surfaces glued strong together.

The plastic glue doesn't work as it should do.

But luckily i quickly found an advice on Google to use a glue based on cyanacrylate.

Let's go to the store and buy some of it to see if it works...

Detail Work

It's the Details...

Testfit Part 2

After the first set of parts were a little too small, my brother printed me a whole new set of them after taking measurements of my body.

Here they are:

Pic will follow

Glued

The first knife parts are.glued together now. Later today i can sand it.

 

 

Assembled

The Blaster is glued together. And only one area needed some bondo.

Pic will follow

Backpack parts

The first of a whole bunch of parts for the backpack of Wrecker is printed.

Done too!!

The Second lower leg part is done, too.

Pic will follow

More and more...

 ...parts are finished now..

This is what i could do today After Work:

Knife

After a first failed printing attempt, the knife parts could be printed as good as the other parts.

Painting parts

After a long time consuming work on the leg parts, these are now all bondo'ed.

One piece must be sanded (tomorrow) and the other parts are already painted with a first layer of primer.

Testfit

I am little disappointed; this Part doesn't fit at all.

 

I am too big for it. So my brother must change the files for me and print the parts again...

Blaster DC 17-m

the parts for the blaster are all printed now!

here they are:

Finished lower leg

The bondo work on the first lower leg is finished.

Now on to the paint work...

Wrap around

Next parts glued together; 

 

unfortunately i got two parts that weren't printed perfect. I glued them together without noticing that first.

Two days later my brother brought me the spare parts in perfect condition. Because i don't want to cut everything on the already glued parts, i decided to cut out the missing bits and.glue them onto the already glued parts.

Sanding, sanding and...

...you guess it! Sanding!!

This work is time consuming, but i wanted to have a nice looking Armor.

But in the end after all that blood and tears, sweat and fears, everything will look great! 

Bondo work

the lower leg parts needed some attention concerning their surface. 

here you can see one of them already with the second layer of fine putty:

Upper leg parts

yesterday i found some time to glue all parts of the upper legs together.

next step is to sand them. after this i will add some putty to the surface to get everything smooth.

Gloves

My Enterprise neighbour is wearing protecting gloves at Work.

I asked him for a used Set.

This is what he gave to me:

Because they we're produced in black and a kind of blue mylon, i had to paint them with a rattlecan in black. This worked pretty good!

Bad files

the files from the net for the birthday present of my oldest daughter were not made very good.

the person who did it, wanted to make a bo katan krize helmet. the result was horrible! triangular polygons everywhere, no real curves, nothing.

even my brother couldn´t really help me in this case. he changed some areas as far as he could do it and i changed some areas here with some polystyrene sheet parts, making it another helmet that doesn´t really look like bo katan´s helmet.

anyway, after some bondo work and a lot of filler it looks better now than before:

 

Leg work

the legs were printed in sections; my brother did a fantastic job to get this work done. 

it took him several hours to scale the original files up to a printable version, because the original files weren´t by far as good as expected. some changes here and there, but in the end everything worked fine!

i even can slide with my leg into the now one piece lower leg part without problems.

this is sectioned into four parts which needed to be glued together in the end.

Helmet paint work

i had a half day for myself, using it to paint the wrecker helmet.

at first there was a little bit sanding of the surface, to get a "rough" ground for the primer paint.

here it is in a light grey:

after that i painted it dull black.

now let´s go to the much more complicated work. 

using some reference pictures from the net from the original tv series to get an authentic looking helmet, i worked in steps. masking here, drying with an industrial air dryer there.

Some more pictures from the painting process:

in the end it looked like this; not perfect, but very close...

 

 

 

 

Arm parts

the work on the arm parts was very time consuming.

i primered them, i applied bondo, then sanded them and then painted another two layers of primer with some drying time in between. 

here are some pics of it;

Upper arm Part primered:

Shoulder Part primered too. next is to apply some bondo to get the gaps filled.

And the already masked and painted lower arm Part:

Paint prepping

There is a lot to do before the final paint goes onto the parts.

Here you can see the progress of the works.

Filling gaps with bondo, then sanding.

After that several layers of light grey primer, then two layers of a dark Grey.