Ace of Spades From Destiny 2

[wjbrandel]

Got a commission to do. 2 Ace of Spade guns from a video game called Destiny 2. A coworker 3D printed 2 guns (1 for him and one for his brother) and asked me to put them together and paint them.





Clean up was a pain with all of the supports and I have already started the paint process by painting the barrel black. next step is to assemble the guns. It should be easy, only 4 parts and he provided the glue for it. However I am not looking forward to seam filling.

 

[Nikati]

Got a commission to do. 2 Ace of Spade guns from a video game called Destiny 2. A coworker 3D printed 2 guns (1 for him and one for his brother) and asked me to put them together and paint them.

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Clean up was a pain with all of the supports and I have already started the paint process by painting the barrel black. next step is to assemble the guns. It should be easy, only 4 parts and he provided the glue for it. However I am not looking forward to seam filling.

If you have access to bondo putty you can thin it down with acetone and spread it over the print lines to cut down on your sanding. you can also use filler primer as well to assist.

 

[the Baron]

What's the material, WJ? Are they printed in styrene, some variety of resin?

 

[wjbrandel]

What's the material, WJ? Are they printed in styrene, some variety of resin?

It is printed in PLA filiment.

If you have access to bondo putty you can thin it down with acetone and spread it over the print lines to cut down on your sanding. you can also use filler primer as well to assist.

With the print lines, Joe doesn't want the lines blended. he likes the lines, said it looks great with the lines.

I got the parts together and here is how it looks.



A little more sanding and a little more putty and the seams will be filled.

One bad part is that they won't fit easily in my paint booth, so I need to get some rattle cans to paint them

 

[wjbrandel]

A little update. No photos, I'll try to get some up tonight or tomorrow.

I have filled and sanded the seams, and they are looking good so far. On one of them there is a little more filling and sanding to do. Some how there were voids in the putty I used. I've never encountered that before, I think it is because I hade to use so much to fix a mistake I made.

 

[wjbrandel]

As promised-photos


Finished sanding and filling the seams. Some of the seams were a fair size, up to 1-2 mm


With this gun, the barrel halves kicked just a bit when I went to clamp the halves together. I saw right away but the glue had already set so the halves were about 2-3mm from being aligned. It was here that I was getting some voids in the large amount of putty I used.


Here the guns have primer on them














Next is to get the black and white paint so I can finish the paint job, then a gloss coat over that to seal it all.

 

[dave]

Intresting to say the least ,looking forward to the next installment. Dave