God Damn It Leeroy !

Wan gwan ?

So had me a little longer exodus there than I was expecting.

The weekend was always going to be a write off as I was planning to do a lickle bit of boozing.

I did. It worked.

Cut to monday morning and hanging in rags only to end up prepping  on set for a big shot on tues.

1030 pm finish on mon and midnight finish on Tues.

Got in and managed to get to sleep about 130am only to be awoken by a yapping little bastard dog down the road.

All in after a boozy weekend and a hard grafting two days at work I think I got 2 hours sleep.

What's this got to do with 3D printing ?

Fuck all.

I just want some sympathy "bitches" !

Sorry about that last comment, been watching breaking bad.

Anyway back to the Pipboy 3000

This is with the components that I printed last week added and roughly cleaned up.

Have to say last week's prints were pretty shit. In the Cube you have the option to add supports and rafts so I tried it and every piece came out worse for some reason.

I managed to save them  but they were a bit poop.  I say a bit poop its still amazing that a glue gun on steroids has made this in a few hours ! it's just that I know it can be better.

That's the reason I'm looking in to this technology to see where it can fit in to my workflow in prop making.

Anyway these are the extra pieces with some basic ageing. You might notice it doesnt look as finnished as some of the bits did a few posts ago. That's because there is still a lot of weathering to do and i'm doing different pieces at different times.

I know. I'm impatient. So what ;-)

Oh yeah the Cube told me it didnt have enough filament to finish the last print I tried but I thought i'd give it a go ( told you I was impatient ! )  and not only did it finish the print it still has some in the spool although I have no idea how much as you cant see inside.

It has a chip in it ( that obviously isnt up to much ) and seems to be geared towards making you use there own filament  which cost's up to 10 times the amount of other filaments out there. Just the same as the old school 2d printer manufacturers i suppose.

Right I need to eat so here are some more shot's from today. Oh and I just put in GTA V. That's ok though isn't it ?

It's not like it's going to take over my life !

Night Night ! xxx

Pipboy 3000 progress photo's.

Two in a day again ! This is addictive ! Here's a load of photo's from today. I printed one piece today and got a bit carried away with the clean up. Photo's range from straight print to finished part and every stage between.

Any question's on finishing drop me a line.

Huzzah !

Well alrighty ! Today has been a good day. Ive got five of the main component's for the pip boy art worked. Three of them ( the back piece ) completely done.

Was only meaning to finish one part after work but got a bit carried away.

The photo's don't really do it justice as it's a horrible yellow workshop light but i'll try to get some done in the daylight and post those as well.

Anyway here are some shot's...

 Figured it's should look a bit bashed about seeing as the vault hunters had a bit of a fucking hard life !

Below is the backside in it's three separate printed components.

This is two of the front pieces at a metal finish stage. Still have colour and ware to add.

Fuck it ! Kermit's back !

Try to get the final piece of the main body done tomorrow but think I got a busy day coming up ( although there alway's fucking busy aren't they ?

Stay lucky San Diego !

Two a day ? He's fucking Loco !

Hate blogs that scroll forever so thought i'd post two today.

First off Kermits back. Soz, but it's not my fault. That's the colour it ships with. Any way if you read the previous post you'll have seen the first cleaned up piece.

This is just to show what printed today.

Yup it's the piece that failed the other day. As its been running ok thought i'd risk a 4 hour print. This time it worked a treat. Also put supports in this one. It's in high build now so hopefully clean it up tomorrow.

Ooohh. And I think it goes together like this. Although I wont lie, I  havent looked at the instructions on how it goes together !

And here is a pic of everything I have so far.

Hmmnnn yep your right that does look a bit shit. Look good when it's done though.

Right beady bye's. ( Not really ! Iron Man 3 )

HEY YOU GUY'S !

Yup ! Three point's if you guessed that was me being Sloth from The Goonies. Well done.



Now I believe I promised that Kermit the frog filament was gone so.........

Tadaaaaaaaahhhhh !

Is that Kermit checking out his reflection ?

So this is the peice that I printed the other day. Shit ! Just seen the green reflection in the top photo. Annoying.

This was just a quick clean up using high build primer ( three coats the other day ) and then a lickle bit of sanding at lunch and after work. I'd say 20 - 30 mins top. Just wanted to get rid of those facet's that print with all of the curved surfaces.

My friend was saying that the facets are the 3d softwares interpretation of a curve using many lines to do this, makes sense I suppose. However almost all of the photo's show these facet's so I wanted rid of them. Also I grabbed an image of the pipboy from wikipedia and , yeah zero facets. Didnt have that image when I threw some paint at it though so once it's all done i'll go back and artwork it using that reference.

It's not too bad really especially as everything is really rushed. This is what i'll artwork it up as eventually. Source - Wikipedia.

Well then the idea of doing this blog everyday has failed after , oooohhhh, less that a week. 

To be fair i'm busy and trying to do too much I think so  i've decided to print one thing per day as long as i'm in the workshop and if I can get one piece art worked a day i'll be happy.

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Still working !

Afternoon. Had a busy day at work on friday but managed to get in early and get another part of the pipboy on the machine and running in the morning. Here is a little shot of it halfway through the build.

It looks good here but the over hang of the circle was a bit sketchy by the time it had finished. Nothing I can't fix though.

Now I know you must be getting bored of seeing vague shapes made of bogey's but bare with me as once it start cleaning and art working  it up, well, phwooey it's gonna get exiting. Well ok, not exiting maybe but definatly less green !

Ooh look I just noticed you can see the other part in the background ! It's beige because it's had three coats of high build primer. 

I had a little clean up at lunch and it come's up a treat !

So i'm not going to be around the printer for a couple of days now as I'm on set on mon but should be printing again from tues. Also hoping to start print some of my characters next week time permitting, hell yeah.

Any way bye for now internet and have a great rest of your weekend.

Peace out.

Now were cooking.

Alrighty. Today has been a good day. Iv'e been trying to get to grips with the Cube during teabreaks and lunch breaks and i'll be honest with you, how it hasn't ended up in a million peices is a miracle.

Managed to get it printing after lunch and 3hrs in to a 4&1/2 hour print it failed with a blocked nozzle.
Ce la vie. Up until that point it was looking pretty sweet. Going to slice the model in rhino and print the remainder and glue the two pieces together rather than reprint the whole thing.

Any how here are a few pic's of today's failure/triumph. Think I might start printing with a support structure in it to see if that helps any.

Impressed with the holes in it !

And here we have a little high build primer on just so I can have a little clean up tomorrow seeing as the cube will be running faultlessly and i'll have my breaks back. Cos it is going to be running faultlessly from now on right ?

And this is what i'm printing at the moment. Pweeeeeeeease don't fail. Pwetty pwease !

Laters Tater's.