But that's all my old printer puts out!
P.s. That looks to be a Glock 17 Gen 3 or 4 lower; could easily find a cheap parts piece through the airsoft channels.
(tho, probs already knew that)
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P.s. That looks to be a Glock 17 Gen 3 or 4 lower; could easily find a cheap parts piece through the airsoft channels.
(tho, probs already knew that)
Time to upgrade, then.But that's all my old printer puts out!
Depending on what size you're looking for, a new small X-Y-translation kit like the Prusa i3 or Creality Ender can be got for well under a thousand. And you can get the parts you need to build a large-volume Z-translation, dual-extruder FDM rig for about the same price (and print the mounts and fittings to put it together on the small printer).Or you can luck out with location and contact. My local makerspace has a bank of Prusas and a couple larger printers, plus laser cutters and on up (jewelry studio, machine shop, metal-fab studio, woodshops, bookbinding and papermaking, fiber arts, culinary arts, recording studio... It's pretty frikkin' nice). The whole place is $300 a year or $30 a month, or you can just pay a drop-in fee if you only expect to be in sporadically. On top of that, a friend's step-dad works for Amazon (corporate/IT) and got transferred to London. He and his wife didn't want to bother trying to pack their 3D printers for the trip or store them for years States-side, so he gave me his Creality and she gave me her small SLA printer.
On top of that, I'm building a modified Vulcanis Max 520 (build volume 520mmx520mmx1500mm). The most expensive parts for that are teh two extruders and the control computer (that I'm saving for last, so I can get the latest versions). Everything else -- extrusions for the framework, motors and belts, threaded and smooth rods, build plate and heaters for it, power supply, all came to a couple hundred. I'm printing the other parts to put everything together on my Creality, so that's pretty much just the cost of filament. Next layer of cost will be the heated pressure-chamber I'm going to put it in, but I can get a large used pizza case and put a hasp on the door for cheap.
Point is, for the cost of less than a week's work, one can easily upgrade their gear, which pays for itself pretty quickly in fewer misprints and otherwise wasted materials.
Yeah, they started with that. Thing that's a pisser for this new era of Star Wars is they start with an existing base gun, then 3D model it and alter it juuuuust enough the original article can't be used. The Glock for the SE-44C, the base guns for Poe's and Finn's blasters, the Bergmann for Mando, the airsoft Hi-Capa for the Westar-35, etc. Fortunately for my anal-ness, Germain over on the FISD, is an absolute machine for accuracy and detail. He spent months getting the SE and the F-11D (all versions) balls-on dead-accurate.P.s. That looks to be a Glock 17 Gen 3 or 4 lower; could easily find a cheap parts piece through the airsoft channels.
(tho, probs already knew that)
Mind if I DM you about the other stuff?
Perhaps it's Plano?
Considering it, actually... The one I've got currently is a knockoff Prusa i3 from 2014. Not horrible, but it's impossible to do deep work on it, because literally everything is knocked off; board is a knockoff, firmware is a knockoff, etc... I'm afraid to try and screw with the firmware to correct its slight scaling issues...Time to upgrade, then.
Tho, I've been drooling over the latest Prusa i3's, pretty sure I'm gonna pick one up very soon...
By all means!Yeah, they started with that. Thing that's a pisser for this new era of Star Wars is they start with an existing base gun, then 3D model it and alter it juuuuust enough the original article can't be used. The Glock for the SE-44C, the base guns for Poe's and Finn's blasters, the Bergmann for Mando, the airsoft Hi-Capa for the Westar-35, etc. Fortunately for my anal-ness, Germain over on the FISD, is an absolute machine for accuracy and detail. He spent months getting the SE and the F-11D (all versions) balls-on dead-accurate.
Mind if I DM you about the other stuff?
Also, those slight differences could indeed be from the use of firearm-inspired parts... Fennec Shand's MK Modified is a cheap A&K Dragunov airsoft rifle underneath (I had a broken one kicking around my shop for many years now, currently turning it into an MK Modified, thread over on TDH)... So, the inaccuracies of the A&K as compared to a real SVD rifle are actually accuracies in the prop itself...
It always pays to double-check the cheap crappy airsoft world when building props; after all, I highly doubt they're going to continue to modify real firearms, when airsoft replicas are WAY cheaper... Way back when, they needed real blank firable machines, and used what was available. Now days, airsofts are the way to go.
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Vagabond Elf
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Man, I wish I earnt 1,000$ a week. That's about double my income - in CAD, never mind the conversion and shipping markups to get something to me!
But I overall agree with the sentiment. There's lots of times I wish I'd just saved longer and bought a higher quality printer in the first place. I've finally managed to make my Ender-5 work for me but there was a lot of fighting with it along the way.
I’m trying all sorts of brands, somewhere a rumor started that it was a pelican but I think that was a rumor or miss information because I can’t find anything close
So I found the make but not the right model.. at the prices of these I’ll never own one. So what I have found is.. they are made by parker plastic
SC3822-20T Shipping Case w/ Removable Lid
Shipping Container SC3822-20T Inside Dimensions: 38" L x 22" W x 20" D. Base 10"; Lid 10". Weight 55 lbs. Removable Lid rugged duty shipping containers made from high density polyethylene. These cases meet ATA spec 300; have rubber gaskets to seal out dirt and moisture and are considered water...
midwestcasecompany.com
Not the exact model but you can see this length has the accurate top web count.. 6 lines down the top, the spacing is perfect but the height it too high..
You can see all they modified the corners and added some bump outs on the top
neophyl
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I don't think they are the ones. First of all the case in the show has a hinge at the back and support bars to stop the lid opening too far. Those linked are lift off lids. Second I also don't think they added the bump corners. There are far far too many cases with that feature out there. Its very common if you search for ATA cases.So I found the make but not the right model.. at the prices of these I’ll never own one. So what I have found is.. they are made by parker plastic
SC3822-20T Shipping Case w/ Removable Lid
Shipping Container SC3822-20T Inside Dimensions: 38" L x 22" W x 20" D. Base 10"; Lid 10". Weight 55 lbs. Removable Lid rugged duty shipping containers made from high density polyethylene. These cases meet ATA spec 300; have rubber gaskets to seal out dirt and moisture and are considered water...
Not the exact model but you can see this length has the accurate top web count.. 6 lines down the top, the spacing is perfect but the height it too high..
You can see all they modified the corners and added some bump outs on the top
Unfortunately there are hundreds of suppliers and many of them do customs too.
neophyl
Sr Member
Found these, Thermodyne ShokStop Rugged Transit & ATA Shipping Cases not the right ones but some of theirs have the knock bumps in the middle as well as the corners. I think they didnt modify them too heavily. Probably just the interior and a few stick on greeblies like the electronic lock. Might have painted them too. In fact I think they had to paint them to get the two tone colours.
neophyl
Sr Member
I've looked at far too many ATA cases lol. One thing that I find interesting in my internet travels is that these types of ATA cases are used to transport lots of film and photog gear. That link I posted previously has pics of a steadicam harness stored in one of theirs.
Who wants to place bets that they just modified something they already had that was/is normally used for transporting their normal film gear.
Who wants to place bets that they just modified something they already had that was/is normally used for transporting their normal film gear.
100% agree, that’s where I started when searching. Figuring it was camera related
Ares X
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Makes perfect sense.
Honestly? I would expect no less... If I was tapped to work on a Star Wars title, you could bet all my gear boxes would receive the Star Wars scene treatment; paintjob, random techno-greeblies glued to it, etc. etc. etc.... <3
I've been on the hunt for a Grogu carry bag for Mando. It seems that many here use a WW2 British Army P37 "Large" Pack...But isn't that the pack used by the Biker Scouts?
I found this pic...isn't this a DIFFERENT bag?
** I'm looking for a bag to use with Sideshow's new Mando bust...I want to hang Sideshow's Grogu (in the bag) around Mando's shoulder on the bust!
I found this pic...isn't this a DIFFERENT bag?
** I'm looking for a bag to use with Sideshow's new Mando bust...I want to hang Sideshow's Grogu (in the bag) around Mando's shoulder on the bust!
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woodywaverider
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That is a different bag, looks custom made to me, it’s kind of crudely sewn up, reminds me of a farm vegetable sack with an extra long shoulder strap made up of sections of fabric, probably loops of fabric cut from the same sacks
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The Sweatshop -- ...Yes...?
Looks like a base of a helmet in todays episode.
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