With people playing the alpha and the beta soon on it's way, I can't help but really love this game! Aside from it looking absolutely beautiful, the weapon designs are super unique and look like they would be a lot of fun to make! Gun builds are cool, but I'm a fan of blades, so here's my take on the Hunter's Knife.
The original model was designed 3 dimensionally in Rhinoceros, based on a reference image and converted to a .stl for 3D printing. At my place of work we have access to several different 3D printers, I ran through a few Makerbot prints without success and a lot of heater extruder errors (it wouldn't be a makerbot if it didn't mess up at least once) haha.
Unable to get a good print on the Makerbot, I found this to be a great opportunity to learn and use the Dimensions printer. The machine we have is a Dimensions SST 1200es, although it has a lower print resolution compared to the Makerbot, it provides a consistent print almost every time.
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Here's a quick mock-up photo of the pieces together. The discoloration in the middle section of the blade is due to the acid bath required to dissolve the support material, since the tolerance where slightly higher this solution was able to get into the middle and deteriorate some of the infill support materials, so it kinda looks like a bruise now. Weird I know, either way the pieces will be glued with an ABS specific glue or just regular super glue (Cyanoacrylate Glue). There are a few spots, which will need spot putty, and maybe a little bit of bondo work, but if I can avoid it, that would be ideal.
In the next update the piece should be together as one, and we may start working on molding this bad boy! As always if you found this interesting or have any questions let me know.
Cheers,
Kevin
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