Allan1313

A few posts up...Already fixed and suited up.

Just another bump in the road. All good now.

I fixed up the busted back piece and tried suiting up again. Pretty pleased with how it came out. Picture with my 000 coin Just waiting to hear back from the GML now.

Ok so I have been a bit slacking on updating this post. I have completed my 000. Here are some pics of the finished pieces. Don't mind my messy kids toy room While trying it on completely for the first time I had a bit of a setback. My daughter was helping suit me up and let go of the back piece. It fell and broke.

Been awhile since I updated this. real life has gotten in the way big time. Haven't had a ton of time to work on it. But recently things have eased up a bit. First thing is one of my buddies picked me up the Bandai 000 model at Celebration. It is super detailed and was a fun little build. I did some more sanding and prep and resprayed the chest and back. They are not perfect but they came out pretty good. Up close you can see some imperfections but a few feet away it looks real nice haha. Next I laid down a layer of primer on the arms, shoulders, legs, feet, and shorts. This shows me where any problem areas are and can get to sanding

No I am in my TX under suit. It may look like jeans because the 000 "shorts" were in a sanded phase and wasn't as black looking as the legs that didn't have much post processing done since being printed. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Haha yeah. I see why Anthony Daniels walked like that. My helper is always super excited to play along haha That shoe cover took about 30 hours to print. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

So I wanted to see how the legs would fit together. Did a little test run. The left shin was just taped together as I don't have the hinges glued in yet. The right shin fell apart from the tape before I could get walking (good help is hard to find haha). Wanted to make sure it was all in proportion. 000 Test It went ok, once I get the hinges installed and the shin doesn't fall off it will be good to go. I did have 1 issue when I was putting some the stuff on. 1 of the shoes covers broke I will just have to print another and re-enforce where you have to pull it "open"

It's definitely the most claustrophobic helmet I have been in. What makes it even worse is the very tiny field of view. I am not bad with stuff like that so it's not a big deal, but I know this could turn a lot of people off. There is very little space between my eyes and the backside of the eye lenses. Once I get the padding right and it doesn't shift it will be golden. Yeah you can't hide anything with black paint, it shows every little blemish. I feel it's the hardest to paint with as well. Once I do some clean up on this coat and lay down 2-3 more light coats I think it will look nice. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

So yesterday I did a little test fit on the helmet. I had never worn it with the eyes and stuff hooked up. It was pretty good, I am just going to have to put some padding on the front half so that my eyes line up in the right spot to see through the pin holes of eyes haha I am going to eventually repaint the front half as there is some orange peel that I want to get rid of. Today I got adventurous and laid down layer of black on the chest and back. There are definitely some problem areas which I expected there would be some, and few drips here and there. I am about 70% happy with it. I knew the first shot wouldn't be perfect. I am going to fix the issues and do another coat. I want to get a coat on all the parts first and then fix what needs it and then do 2-3 light coats after that. Some progress which is always fun. Next weekend I plan to put epoxy on all the large parts that still need it and start sanding the lower half.

Just depends on the time I can get to sand and prep for painting. There are just so many parts haha. With things like the fingers, all the little arm greeblies, etc. I am hoping for about 2.5-3 months. I am going to put some primer down on a few parts this weekend and see what issues are still there. I also plan to put epoxy on the rest of the large parts this weekend. At that point only small parts will remain for epoxy and I can really concentrate on all the sanding and prep. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

While I try and find some time to do some more sanding I figured I would share this. I had a batch of these made in anticipation of finishing. Its a real motivator as I don't want to fail now haha I am hoping to have a few parts with primer on them by next weekend. Also looking to finish with the epoxy on all the large parts. Just have the right legs and arms to epoxy before sanding.

That's a quick one. About 7 hours with a filament change for color about halfway through. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Not really build related but I made this to put on my storage bin. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Yeah I kinda got a system of wood filler (believe it or not lol) for the seams and then epoxy. After that a whole bunch of sanding haha Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Thanks! Well it's good and bad. Glad to have all the parts, but now the hard part with all the sanding haha Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Well today marks a monumental day for my build. The right shoe cover finished printing and I then printed the thigh "buttons". Those thigh buttons are the last things I needed to print. So I am done printing all of the pieces. There are so many pieces!!! Haha It feels good to be done printing ting and now it's time to get the sanding into overdrive! Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Printer been humming along. Finished printing the right leg. Started printing the leg greeblies. I printed the left foot cover to test it out. Looks good and I think it was a success! I had purchased some plain black canvas low top sneaker with a black sole. Pretty happy with the results. Will do the right foot cover. After that it think I finished all the parts that need printing and it will all be post processing at this point. Lots of sanding in my future haha The second picture is the shoe cover on top of the shoe. More progress!! Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Small update. I finished glueing the left leg together and just wanted to do a little test fit to see the lower half. It fits reasonably well. After putting it on I see why all these droids just shuffle along haha, very limited mobility. All in all I am very pleased so far. I started printing the right leg today. After that and the feet just a few greeblies left to print. Hopefully all printing will be done within 2 weeks. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

OK so here is a rather large update of what I have. I am getting close to being done with all the printing. I just have the entire right leg, feet, and leg greeblies. After that the printing is all done. The all the laborious sanding takes place. First things first, I got my custom helmet bag the other day. I think it looks pretty sweet. I plan on repainting the helmet as I have some orange peel going on. So here is an overview of the large pieces. The shiny ones are the ones that have no post processing yet. I also just need to glue the last piece of the thigh on. I have purchased 2 different sanders, a DA Sander and a smaller mouse sander. These have helped immensely but there are some areas they can't reach so some hand sanding will still be required. The chest and back are almost ready for primer, just need to get the areas that need hand sanding done. Here is a closeup of the left shin, front and back. They will go together with some piano type hinges. Here is the left thigh. The top with the tape still needs to be glued on. Next up is the shorts. Once i finish the thigh I can do a little test fit and see where the shorts need to be trimmed. Just a close up view of the chest and back. Close up views of the arms and shoulder/shoulder rings Here is the large arm greeblies and the chest pistons. Here is a Box-O-Fingers Box-O-Arm greeblies in various states The gloves I got. I will be gluing the fingers to the gloves once they are done. Some electronics for the gloves. It has 4 discrete channels for sounds or sound clips. Thinking about recording some quotes relating to 000 that will be played based on what finger button I push. Here are the hand guards and hand pistons. Here we have some belly wire pistons. I am going to try and stick to the comic book images and keep the wires gray and black. These black wires fir very nicely in those belly pistons. Here is the rather large mat that i purchased for the belly. The belly wires will attach to it and it goes around my torso under the chest and back. Some earring back that are used for the "nipple" greeblies. I took them off to make sanding easier. I had the 3rd one but lost it. No worries as I had to buy 50 of them haha I was hoping to be done earlier than originally anticipated around June. But what I am realizing, especially laying everything out like this and seeing the sheer volume of parts, is that it is going to take a bit longer because of all the sanding. I would rather have it look good than rush it. I still think I can get it done by my original timeline of the end of November. There is a troop I do every year during Thanksgiving weekend that I am shooting for. If only I could take 3 weeks off from my job haha. I am still chugging away, just realizing that with all the post processing that needs to be done its gonna be awhile. The sanding is my limiting factor. Within the next 2 weeks I should be completely done with the printing. In the meantime I better get sanding!!!

I do, I haven't been diligent updating my progress [emoji22] I am gonna take some updated pictures this weekend [emoji4]. Thanks for checking in. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Overall I think it looks good, but I think you gotta fix the pouches on the cummerbund. The one on the right seems to be towards the side and it should be in the front more. Nice work, you are close. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Thanks! It's a blast. If you can swing it I highly recommend it. Thanks, I am getting excited haha Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

So I have been making some decent progress. The back is almost ready for primer, just need to hit some more spots with the XTC3D. Have a few more greeblies on the the chest to add then it will be ready for primer/XTC3D. Had a little accident with the neck ring on the chest. Dropped it right on the corner and took a chunk off, reprinted it and will add it back on. Got the shorts printed but way more sanding to go. The shoulders and shoulder rings are ready to go for primer/XTC3D. I have both arms put together and have been adding the greeblies. Just have to put together the large arm greeblie (in the box in pieces). Need to attach the chest pistons, but will do that either right before paint or after. Got the hands started, printed out the hands, hand pistons (in pieces in the box) and have the fingers printing right now. Making some good progress. Just have the lower half to print, thighs, calves, and feet. I think if all goes well I can be all ready and primed by the end of March. Tough to steal time here and there. The easiest part is printing, set it and forget it. I would love to have it completely done by May, that's my new goal with how well it's been going.

I decided just to throw the chest and back on to make sure I scaled the parts correctly. Relatively happy with the result. If I had to do it over again I would shorten the shoulder to shoulder distance. Other than that I am happy with the neck to belly size and the width from belly to back. Need to add the greeblies to the chest and back. Starting to print the greeblies for the arms and have to finish the shorts. After that it's onto the legs and feet. I would like to print it all out and the do all the filling and sanding. I have been printing in PTEG if anyone way wondering. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk