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Wow I'm so sorry people. For some reason my email decided to start marking notifications from PFD as spam... Lame. Progress on armor has been slow as I ran out of my current supply of filament, but I'll be getting more soon. I've mainly been working on the helmet since that's just a matter of sanding and painting. It's alMOST DONE I'M SO EXCITED. Easily the coolest thing I've done with my printers thus far. I'll have more photos to post very soon, in the mean time I have some paint to go watch dry... Thanks for saying thanks! I think it's really cool that others are taking interest in this. I'm ridiculously excited to be a part of the Legion again and spending so much time and care in making the armor with my favorite other hobby is just like a cluster of excitement! Looking forward to seeing your progress as well! If I'm being totally honest this is something that has crossed my mind and worries me slightly. I'm not questioning the accuracy of your designs but if I don't do the finishing work properly I'm nervous of running into disapproval. BUT if I finish things right and it looks like a normal ABS kit when it's done, what's the difference? I think as long as the shaping is similar to the screen used suits and the finish is just like ABS, it'll be approvable.

I'm actually using JB Weld KwikWood. It's a two part epoxy putty stick. That fills the gaps in seams and any major outer wall seam issues that may show from printing. It's wood filler but binds well to plastic and sands nicely when fully hardened. The overall layer filling though is just multiple rounds of rattlecan filler primer and sanding. The Carbon Fiber PETG is printing with a nice enough texture that it doesn't take much to get it smooth. With a steel nozzle it's printing like a dream too. Only problem is supports are a pain to remove, the layer bonding is really good with that material. But because it sands so we'll a Dremel with a sanding drum does a real good job of knocking down the support that won't peel off clean.

Thanks so much!

I'm making more progress, will post photos later, but I had another question to add to my above list... 4 - The CRL photos make the Tbit details almost look dark grey. I thought they were black... Which is it?

Update time... I've made significant progress on sanding and filling, and made a few mistakes but hey, we can't win them all. I used putty to fill in some of the imperfections from the printing process, and I've wet sanded those spots down and I'm letting them dry for the day. I'll put a coat of regular primer on them after work to see where things are at smoothing wise. I've filled and shaped the visor problems I mentioned earlier in this thread, and the seam line from where I split the files up is really starting to disappear. On the printing side of things, I've printed some of the MrPoopie details with the Orion and .4 nozzle setup I described in my first post on this thread. The detail here is pretty epic. Armor wise, the Artemis printer with the carbon fiber PETG setup I described in my first post is cranking out MrPoopie shoulder bells. Yes I know only two shoulder bells are needed... You'll see why there are extras later... That's it for now! I'll post more when I have more! At this stage I do have a few questions though. 1 - The Tbit details MrPoopie has that I printed seem to be even more detailed than screen used photos I've seen. Will this be an issue? 2 - Is there a correct or close to correct "medium grey" to use for the snout pieces? Preferably in spray paint, I don't have an airbrush. 3 - Do the details like the frown, traps, fishhook, etc. HAVE to be decals? Can they be painted? I'd love to paint them on if I can. Thanks in advance to those who help answer my questions

First round of filling / sanding complete. I'l letting things dry overnight, more progress later this week!

****Adding at the top of this thread for those interested, I have a live stream running of parts if I'm currently printing any. It can be found here: https://www.seemecnc.com/pages/videostream Hey all! I'm beginning my scout build using 3D printing and a combination of Jesus Salmeron's helmet (found here) and MrPoopie's armor (found here). I work for a 3D printer company so ready access to printers and filament made this seem like a really great way to go for me. I'm using a combination of two different machines and materials to accomplish this. Setup 1: SeeMeCNC Artemis with 0.5mm steel nozzle printing Atomic Filament's Carbon Fiber PETG. This is for all the large parts that need to be rugged and withstand the occasional leaving-costume-in-the-back-of-the-car-after-a-troop scenarios. These parts are being printed with a 0.2mm layer height because the large smooth surface areas of the build will make sanding and filling really easy. The CFPETG material has an insanely nice surface finish that's easy to sand and smooth out too. More on that later. Setup 2: SeeMeCNC Orion with 0.4mm brass nozzle printing whatever Atomic Filament PLA I have on hand, usually silver or black. This is for the smaller detail bits that need the higher definition printing and won't take up a whole lof of surface area. I'm using PLA because it's easier to print tiny detailed parts with, and since the parts are so small and non structural I'm not worried about them getting soft in a hot car, they should be fine. The Orion is printing at a 0.1mm layer height for added definition in the final print. I started with the helmet, as that's usually the most exciting to have on display while armor and soft parts and being finished up. I printed it in a few different scales because I figured my tall fat body would make a normal scale helmet look like a pinhead. I eventually decided to just finish printing the helmet in it's native scale and sure enough it doesn't look dumb on me, it seems to be the perfect fit! The snout greeble / aerator shown in the photos above is temporary, just for showing off the helmet so far. The helmet designer's files have a snout plate that's designed to fit perfectly within the shape and curves of the snout of his helmet. So the snout plate in MrPoopie's designs doesn't fit quite right. So I printed the plate from Jesus's designs, but printed the engine detail portion off of MrPoopie's plate to glue on to it later. This gets the accuraccy of MrPoopie's design with the perfect fit of Jesus's helmet plate. Original MrPoopie plate: Separately printed MrPoopie engine detail: Test fit with the Jesus snout plate: There are some extra seams on the helmet that are there only because I cut the files up a little more for easy printing. Those will be sanded off later while doing all the other sanding / filling that will be needed. I begun that process today, and I'm writing this as I'm waiting for paint to to dry so I can start sanding. There was an issue with printing the visor portion that was really hard to avoid. The curling of the filament while printing and my very low support percentage (5%) caused some areas to be uneven, that I feel will be a problem when it's all white against a black visor. I'll have to fill this in with some putty and try to get the shape back to where it should be. I've also begun printing shoulder bells, and after a test fit I've decided to scale them up to 105% to fit my body shape a little better. I'm printing the new upscaled versions as I type right now. Thanks for checking out my WIP thread! I can't wait to show more progress as this project unfolds!