Really happy with how it turned out! Decided to show it off to strangers for now as I haven’t given it to him yet and i know he isn’t on here. 😆. And it lights up!

        • jballsEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          How’d you pull that off? The question mark looks like filament, not like a neon tube.

          • PiJiNWiNgOPEnglish
            3·
            2 hours ago

            Its translucent green filament with green EL wire run through it, with the battery pack stored in the base.

          • PiJiNWiNgOPEnglish
            4·
            7 hours ago

            Printed plastic, but I’m glad my paint job made you question! I do wish the gears turned, but the model designer was trying to emulate what he saw in the game, which didn’t seem to care about real functional parts, haha

    • PiJiNWiNgOPEnglish
      7·
      9 hours ago

      Apologies, the issue has been rectified 🙂

        • PiJiNWiNgOPEnglish
          3·
          8 hours ago

          Thanks! I do wish the EL wire was a bit brighter, but when the lights are all off it looks great!

    • PiJiNWiNgOPEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      Haha, thanks! He’s a fellow gamer, so i get to work on cool 3D printing projects without clogging up my living space with knick knacks. 😆

      I printed/painted this for him a couple years ago (sorry for potato quality photo):

    • PiJiNWiNgOPEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      Thanks!!!

      Here’s a quick rundown:

      • printed all parts in PETG
      • Sprayed all parts with multiple liberal coats of sand and fill primer
      • sanded things down with disposable nail files (wasnt too finicky, mostly wanted to smooth the box part and get rid of some bad layer lines on the posts)
      • wiped everything down to get rid of the dust (i sanded only a few hours after spraying, so there was hardly any dust anyway, but just to be sure
      • based coated all parts in metallic gunmetal (sans “neon”)
      • heavy metallic silver dry brush over most everything
      • assembled it
      • dry brush stippled dark rust around most the rivets/edges, and anywhere grime would settle (way easier to tell where that would be when its full assembled)
      • Dry brush stippled bright orange rust color over top of the brown areas where corrosion would be worst
      • came back through with light silver dry brush in non corroded area (i got a little overzealous with the dark rust color)
      • used a homemade oil wash (black and burnt ochre oil paints mixed with some mineral spirits) over top of all the gears, and ran a heavily loaded brush along the top edges and over rivet, letting the wash drip dpwn the sides.
      • after it dried for 5-10 minutes, i used an old frayed brush to lightly drag the wash down to make the big drips look for natural
      • After i was done, I realized i overdid it a bit again, and went back through with some mineral spirits and cotton swabs to re-expose some of the “bare metal” in the centers of the panels. I love oil washes! You have a ridiculous amount of time to manipulate the paint before it dries up, and looks terrific after it’s dry.

      And there you have it!

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    Are you going to hide it behind a cage with an elaborate hidden way to get to it?

    • PiJiNWiNgOPEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      It crossed my mind, and i want to SO BAD, but unfortunately i don’t have enough time to print out something large enough to house it. But maybe for Christmas! Lol