MrPoopie

Printing directly on the buildplate or with a raft?

Possible Over-extrusion. Check the link below. What's your infill percentage? https://all3dp.com/2/over-extrusion-3d-printing-tips-and-tricks-to-solve-it/

Do you have any pics.

I sure looks like they reused the model for the battery pack at least.

We have one @MrsPoopie

This. 3D armor looks great but needs a great deal of work to stand up to intense extended trooping.

yes, If the elastic is properly stretched (not too much) it will just hold itself in place. Gloss coat the white then paint the black snout area last since it's a flat black. You can attach decals before or after gloss coating. Sometimes it helps to gloss after decals so they are underneath a coat of paint and less likely to get scratched off. If you're using stickers and not decals then put the stickers on last after the gloss coat.

Thanks. All great advice. I made my girlfriend's boots out of the white deer skin from Tandy and it is a bit fragile. It'll work for her since she doesn't troop nearly as much as I do. I did have to back the uppers with a cardboard like leather backing material but it's too rigid. Painting might be a better option. I've painted leather shoes before so I'm at least familiar with that process. The vinyl is definitely the easiest route and probably best at this point. We were trying to go with leather as it's screen accurate but like many things that are screen accurate, it's also more of a pain in the ass. I'll have to weight my options and come up with a plan.

First of all, nice finishing work. That looks mighty smooth and clean. As for the back. You actually want the seam to show. For the screen used Scouts you can clearly see that the back and tank are to separate parts. You can make this work in two ways. First you can glue the tank to the back without finishing off the seams to give the appearance of two parts but for structural stability they will act as one part. You'll still have the black elastic running from the tank topper rivet as well as on the bottom rivet. Second, you can just place the tank in it's place and actually make the elastic function as it did on the screen used Scouts. Basically the elastic is attached to the top rivet and run on the inside of the back and down to the bottom rivet. With just the right amount of tension on the elastic it will hod the tank in place properly. Someone around here maybe @BikerScout007 has pictures of this very thing and hopefully they can post them to better show what I'm talking about.

Appreciated

That seems to be the best option so far and probably the easiest. I was just hoping that someone who had built leather boots might chime in, but so far nothing.

I wouldn't be surprised if this got delayed and will come out in the parks later this year when they need to drum up visitors. With the ride delays and this causing them to be very over budget it probably got shelved for now until they need some new things to bring in business.

So... I need to go to India and find somebody to make boots for us. Even with his skill that didn't look easy. Maybe we should find someone like this to make leather Patrol boots too.

Has anyone made boots from leather like they are on-screen? I made one pair from leather but wasn't totally happy with how I needed to back the leather internally for rigidity. The outside look is amazing though but I'd like to know what anyone else has figured out.

Sorry the late response. It might be possible but you'd most likely need to make this with an injection mold to have something that was a bit thinner but also strong enough.

You could try red rubber tubing instead.

After a shitload of painting I finally finished the Staff (Cattle Prod). The finish work isn't as super as I'd like it to be (I hate sanding) but I think it still looks pretty good. This should be CRL ready at this point.

If you PM me I'll send you a link to download armor files. As for helmets you've got 2 good 3D options. Both are good representations but will take a little bit of work to make fully approvable. Otherwise you can always pickup a helmet kit from a vendor and build that separately. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3416367 and https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/hobby-diy/other/wearable-scout-trooper-helmet-by-jesus-salmeron-3d-print-model

It looks to me like the black series toy photoshopped into the Galaxy's edge backdrop.

Agreed. It helps that it can be molded and bent with a heat gun especially for the connection points where two wires feed into one hole. All the parts that I modeled are fit for 1/4" tubing.

We're going to go with the "Red" buttons like they are seen in the information screen.

I prefer the red too, there might be a case for a variation with either red or mirror but I think that needs to be decided by others higher up than me. The knurling was a slightly complicated process the first time I did it but looks good once I figured it out.

Staff parts almost done. Just printing the handle right now, it'll be done tomorrow with the super neat knurling. *Sorry, my sewing room is a bit of a mess after the holidays.

I think we're sticking with in-game assets but someone please correct me if I'm wrong. I would say the control box is somewhere between satin and flat. It doesn't reflect very much at all so probably closer to flat. The top battery greeble (near the red cables is gloss black. The other one on the side is probably matching as well. I think they're supposed to be black gloss almost a graphite metallic color. The same goes for the Staff, I think it's supposed to be metal so a gloss or graphite color. With the electrified end of the staff being almost shiny black metal. The buttons which look red are actually a weird silver mess on the in-game model. I was never able to figure out exactly what it was. I don't think someone ever meant for the camera to get that close. It's almost a mirror finish on the 3 vertical buttons.

It extends 31cm (~12.2")