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Star Wars [inspired] Helmet

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Star Wars [inspired] Helmet for a Full Suit.

Another update on the slow progress of this personal, in-house project at IDM Imagineering.

This full suit of Star Wars inspired Helmet for our Stormtrooper Armour is being printed on our Creality CR10-S4 and FormBOT TREX 3d Printers in white, recycled PLA Filament.

The hardest part has been keeping the print as clean and white as possible while we glue and sand and smooth the parts. The 3D prints were fantastically smooth to start with, but some of the curves always suffer from stepping layers in FDM 3D printing.

We have tried to keep to using metal files to sand/smooth, since sand comes off all sandpapers then discolours and embeds itself in the white PLA. A combination of filing, scraping, shaving and 3D-pen welding has gone into achieving a first-look great result!

Next: onto the painting!..

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First on our list of Large Investments – FlashForge 3D Printer

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Part of our list of Large Investments … FlashForge 3D Printer(s) for COSplay Prop Making.

IDM Imagineering 3D Printing Mass Production

IDM Imagineering 3D Printing Mass Production

Our open sourced FlashForge 3D Printer(s) are perfectly compatible with different slicing softwares and firmwares to access more functions and materials from PLA  and ABS to Wood and Rubber.

One as not enough, so now we have access to 10 in-house and more remotely at 3D Print Works, the company that supplies us with our custom mixed filaments and advanced 3D Print engineering support.

We use these FlashForge 3D Printer(s) to Prototype Master Props for moulding and casting and we also use them to mass-produce COSplay props, badges, guns, toys and gadgets for all areas of COSplay costuming, armour and weapons.