{"id":181,"date":"2013-06-21T01:20:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T01:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=181"},"modified":"2013-06-21T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:39:36","slug":"pistol-display-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Pistol Display Stands"},"content":{"rendered":"

I collect pistols. Not real, functional ones, but prop pistols from Science Fiction TV shows and movies. I have some very nice ones including a model kit of the Galax<\/em><\/strong>y Quest<\/em> <\/strong>pistol, a Steampunk pistol, a medical tracking gun from Doctor Who<\/strong><\/em>, more Star<\/strong><\/em> Trek<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>phasers than I can remember, a very nice resin model of a Space:1999<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>Stun Gun, a QMX Mal Reynolds<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong><\/strong>pistol from\u00a0Firefly<\/strong><\/em>, or more accurately from the film Serenity<\/strong>, and a gorgeous die-cast\/plastic blaster from Blade<\/strong><\/em> Runner.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>One of the projects I want to take on with my Afinia printer is to make theme-based display stands for these.<\/p>\n

One thing that 3D printing doesn’t yet have, at least easily or cheaply, is a 3D scanner. I would love to be able to scan the pistols and use the exact dimensions as a template to build the display cases. Let’s take the Serenity Pistol, for example.<\/p>\n

\"qmx-firefly-mal-reynolds-pistol\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I searched online and found a model of it on Thingiverse:<\/p>\n

\"thingiverse-firefly-pistol\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So ideally, to model a stand that would take the shape of the butt of the gun, I cut the butt off, inverted it and printed it to see how closely it matched the QMX pistol.<\/p>\n

\"firefly-pistol-butt-only\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I printed this in black. It was hard to get off the raft, and the hole was filled with support (normal) which was hard to get out.<\/p>\n

I am reprinting it in a reel of blue premium<\/strong> filament I just got. The premium filament prints so much nicer.<\/p>\n

There is, I believe, a systematic problem with printing with the cheaper Octave filament. Even Afinia’s web site store says that the extrusion temperature of the Octave filament is 210-250 degrees, while the head heats to 270. I found the hairs on the TB3 rocket project were likely due to the extra heat making the Octave filament “runny”.<\/p>\n

I think most of my important printing will be done with premium filament from here on out, though I will probably need to print some things with the cheaper stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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