Pretty new to 3d printing, but wanted to document what I did when I forget. 😊 Using Creality K1 Max with Elegoo PLA.
4/08/24 - IDEA: About this time, Millenium Fandom Bar (MFB) posted an event for Fallout in celebration of the new TV Series and the Bartender, Tyler's birthday. Phill follows this very talented https://www.kamuicosplay.com/ @kamuicosplay and gave me the idea of a cowgirl-type outfit:
Phill played the game and knew he wanted to an NCR Ranger. He also suggested doing Euclid's C-Finder Gun. The gun reminded me of Marven the Martian, but probably because of the color scheme. I deferred to him on it.
4/9/24 - GUNS. For some reason, I started with guns. I grabbed the Euclid's gun from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1025405. Euclid's Gun. I also printed a simple Sequoia Pistol from Thingiverse. Also found a Gladius Machete from Thingiverse.
My first print, I apparently have no idea how large the pistol or the machete should be, because they came out small. Took about 7 hours to print.
Euclid’s gun came out a great size. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with the small ones at this point, so I moved on.
4/10/24. Next, SHOULDER ARMOR. I downloaded Riot Armor. Worked great, printed perfectly the first time. Took about 13 hours.
4/10/24 – I started the LOWER LEG ARMOR and KNEECAP ARMOR. I used the leg and kneecap armor from NCR Ranger Patrol Armor. A bit of a struggle, first 5 prints on 4/10 and 4/11 failed. Kept an eye on the printing, so caught them mostly pretty early.
I have a few profiles. One of the perfect ones I received from Uncle Jessy by subscribing to his Patreon. He has SOOOO many good tips.
Finally 4/13/24, I had lower leg armor printed. 4/12 at 4:30 pm to 4/13 at 6:35 am., about 14 hours. I started painting with a combination of browns for a rusty look. I used part airbrushing and part sponge painting. Once I received The Army Painter Dry Rust airbrush paint from Amazon, it really took it up the rust color up to a perfect color I thought:
4/13/24 – CHEST ARMOR. I used the chest from the NCR Ranger Patrol Armor. Printed perfect the first time. 9 and ½ hours. I painted with the same techniques as the leg armor:
4/13/24. I decided I need some SPIKES. I used some from Death Spikes, Rail Spikes for Mailboxes and Bird Spikes (Phill helped me remove the bottom part the connected them). I used Phills Wagner Furno 300 Heat Gun to bend the spikes a bit so they weren’t straight. I used my new Dremel to drill some holes and stuck them through hot glueing them. The flat ones, I actually drilled a long hole, and heated them up and bent them so they would stay. I was pleased with the final version. Didn’t think it through waling through the crown with them, but most survived. 😊
4/13/24 – KNIVES. I decided to embrace my little machete knives I printed and printed more. I made a knife holder for my thigh and put a couple in my holster:
4/15/24 – BOTTLE CAPS. Must have bottle caps. First print, were not hollow on the bottom. So I switched to Nuka Bottle Caps and Bottle Cap Bottle Opener to give to the bartenders. I printed it with red filament. I was waiting for the new filament to be delivered. 2 ½ hours to print. I printed A LOT.
4/16/24 – PHILL LOWER LEG ARMOR. I could not get Phlill’s lower leg armor to print. New box of filament and it just would not work. After 8 failures, we moved on to more important things.
4/17/24 – Phill SHOULDER ARMOR. We used the same file. Failed 4 times, but then I got them to work with a 10-hour print.
4/18/24 – PHILL HELMET. Phill found some Riot Gear he liked. First printing, 8 hours. And he forgot to scale it. I tried to heat gun it bigger, but still too small:
So, since I work from home, it is easier for me to load up a new print and start it. We scaled it up a bit larger than planned through some miscommunication, but the final result still came out great. We oriented it in a way to try to reduce the printing, but the printer didn’t like that. After a few fails, I went with the most sturdy, but very long print. So after a 23-hour print:
I missed a couple greens to make an army-colored green. My airbrush decided not to cooperate, so I painted the helmet with sponge technique, which worked very well. A little black splotches to make it look worn and turned out great.
4/19/24 – PHILL’S MASK. A few failed prints for this one, I finally got an 18 hour print to come out with a not very visible small failure.
4/20/24 – SHOTGUN SHELLS- Phill needed some for his belt. Printed out a few that took about 1 ½ hours. We were in a rush and I totally forgot to take any photos. 😊
FINAL TOUCHES leading up to and on 4/20/24.
On 4/13/24, Phil and I went to SaniThrift at Primm Outlet Mall to find two blue jumpsuits. I just HAD to sew gold on them.
Finished painting the pieces, covering with Matte sealer spray
I blued D-rings on the chest armor and shoulder armor.
The lower leg armor, I glued stretch straps and Velcro to secure.
Phill received a bunch of gun holster and belts in a lot from Goodwill, which had the perfect gun holster for me. I painted the black holster brown.
I had an old brown cowboy hat and had painted some old boots brown already, so I used those.
We used a back stretchy thing that Phill had to attach the chest armor. I don’t remember what it was from and pinned the shoulder armor to the straps.
Lower leg armor was too small to go over the boots, so I didn’t use them. Kneecaps, I had planned on just gluing them to the jumpsuit, but forgot, so I didn’t use them. Saving for the next armor cosplay.
Phill grabbed some form and made himself some chest armor.
Phill glued an old snowboarding mask to the inside of the face mask which worked great for the eye shield and made everything stick together.
And final result:
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