![]() The bearing slipped over the peg on the body, and the barrel fit on the outside of the bearing. I forgot to take photos of the bearing which joined the barrel to the main body, but you can see here how it all fit together: Once they’d been printed, I gave them a coat of epoxy resin to strengthen them a bit and smooth out some of the layering you always get with 3D printing: The body of the gun was printed in two halves, and each took a couple of hours each. For some of the smaller pieces, we ended up keeping the metallic filament but for body of the gun I just ended up using regular PLA (The see-through bits are still PLA, which can be produced to be transparent) I bought a fairly low metal content filament but to be honest I think this was the worst of all worlds: It was brittle, slow to print, kept clogging up my printer and the results didn’t really look much better than regular PLA filament that had been painted. ![]() Depending on the ratio of metal to plastic you can either have filament that’s easy to work with, or looks really metallic, or at least that’s the theory. I said before the plan was to 3D print the metallic parts with a metal filament plastic filament that contains a certain amount of metal particles. You can see here that the new bit (I started calling it a spindle in my head) sits within the barrel, but it is joined to the interior of the post that holds the bearing the spindle stays still so the magnet stays at the top, and the barrel revolves around it. In the end, I happened on the idea of having a solid structure inside the barrel that stayed fixed to the main body, that the barrel could rotate around: the newly designed spindle in green, with a slightly smaller magnet in purple The only place on the body where I could have fitted a magnet would have been where the battery was designed to go, which would have involved a large redesign. It took me a long time to figure this one out. This would only ever have worked if the barrel was upside down! When the barrel was the right way up, the switches would have been nowhere near. In my head, this was going to be so simple three reed switches in the barrel (you can see in purple where i was going to nestle them in) and one magnet in the space below in the body of the gun (purple again):īarrel is the right way up, but the switches are nowhere near the magnet When you bring them near a magnet, the reeds bend, touch each other, and complete the circuit. Reed switches are tiny flexible metal plates (the reeds), set in an little glass tube. My plan here was to incorporate three little reed switches into the barrel, so the Arduino would know which way the barrel was rotated, and which effect to ‘fire’. In the game the gun has three barrels that each have a different elemental effect the player directs Fiona to rotate the barrel, to choose the desired effect before taking her shot. It’s a great game and you should play it. Just to recap, I’m making a prop gun for my friend Thomas (aka who is cosplaying as Fiona from ‘Tales from the Borderlands’. ![]() It threw me a bit, but I got there in the end. When I last wrote about it (in October!) I was waiting for parts- they duly arrived, and when I started figuring out how to put it all together I realised I’d made a bit of a mistake with the design. The sharpie dye worked perfectly! Lastly I clipped in the extension and used Got2B Freeze spray the wig fibers in place.It’s fair to say I stalled a bit with this project. I used this method to make my orange extensions have a more redder tone and my light brown wig to be a darker shade. Thankfully I read the article and watched the tutorial video and realized that you actually had to make a dye using rubbing alcohol and sharpies. To be honest the first thought I had was that you had to physically draw on the wig with the sharpie. One tutorial I came across was actually by Epic Cosplays on sharpie dyeing. I had never dyed anything other than fabric before so I did extensive research into wig dyeing before jumping into the process. Next came the part I wasn’t so sure about – dyeing the wig. When I first got it I carefully removed a few wefts before giving it a good trim so that I could wear a hat on top of the wig, which was fairly easy to do. Epic Cosplay wig: Aphrodite in Light Brown & Autumn Gold Clip On Extension (clip on extensions have been discontinued)įirst of all I love Epic Cosplay Wigs because of their thickness… which gives me plenty of hair to style! Therefore I bought the Aphrodite light brown wig.
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