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Mar 2016

Hi guys, my entry is a full size “Wookiee Bowcaster” that I designed for this contest. I have only recently started 3d printing and my first project was a custom lightsaber. I chose not to enter that because I designed and made it just for me. The bowcaster is not from any movie it’s built to fit me. I decided it needed a little something extra so I added a detachable “Ryyk”, a Wookiee blade that also acts as a fore-grip. My original design was not so smooth, the entire body was more textured to give the impression that it was carved from a Wroshyr tree. When the rear stock took 7 hours to render, I figured a change of plan was called for. A couple of pieces I left for you to source, the wires from the scope mounts to the body, although I have holes for them to go in to. The bowstring I’d suggest you drill into the half ball on the strut, tie it off and then glue the the other half of the ball on. The reason I didn’t design those is because the wire looks more realistic if it’s a real wire. I will use coil wire for mine. I broke the pieces down to fit an Ultimaker 2 bed, and oriented them for the cleanest prints. If you have questions about assembly post here and I should get back to you. It’s a big project that takes a long time to print, but I think the finished product will be worth it. Normally I like to make my weapons somewhat functional but in this case I went with a cosplay friendly version. I could lie to you and say this build went smooth but that is not the case. As I’m new to all this I am still struggling with the settings. Failure after failure and I can’t blame my machine for doing what I told it to do. I could have also photoshopped pictures of a finished build, photography kind of being my thing. I definitely could have fooled you, but, with Billy Joel on replay while I designed this I must have heard “… honesty is such a lonely word, everyone is so untrue” a hundred times. So I’ll be honest. I’m probably not going to finish building this before the deadline and though I know master Yoda won’t approve… I’ll try. If it is the will of the force that I be disqualified, so be it. I still want to submit something and share with the community. I hope you like it.
01 rear stock print 1.stl 2 (320 KB)
02 front stock print 1.stl 1 (144 KB)
03 grip left print 1.stl 1 (5.12 MB)
04 grip right print 1.stl 1 (5.03 MB)
05 scope mount bottom left print 1.stl 1 (704 KB)
06 scope mount bottom right print 1.stl 1 (664 KB)
07 rear scope mount top print 1.stl 1 (346 KB)
08 front scope mount top print 1.stl 1 (401 KB)
09 side scope print 2.stl 1 (1.71 MB)
10 main scope print 1.stl 1 (6.46 MB)
11 dials & scope rods print 1.stl 1 (2.07 MB)
12 base rear left print 1.stl 1 (1.63 MB)
13 base rear right print 1.stl 1 (3.67 MB)
14 base front left print 1.stl 1 (2.34 MB)
15 base front right print 1.stl 1 (2.34 MB)
16 main barrel print 1.stl 1 (1.09 MB)
17 large left bow strut print 1.stl 1 (133 KB)
18 large right bow strut print 1.stl 1 (141 KB)
19 small strut left print 1.stl 1 (221 KB)
20 small strut right print 1.stl 1 (221 KB)
21 bow strut pins print 1.stl 1 (1.27 MB)
22 polarizing balls print 2.stl 1 (2.22 MB)
23 front assembly print 1.stl 1 (416 KB)
24 secondary barrel print 1.stl 1 (134 KB)
25 front sight print 1.stl 1 (59.9 KB)
26 ryyk back lft print 1.stl 1 (2.11 MB)
27 ryyk back rt print 1.stl 1 (2.16 MB)
28 ryyk front lft print 1.stl 1 (199 KB)
29 ryyk front rt print 1.stl 1 (231 KB)

Oh my God! I’m speechless!

I just got back from the Midwest RepRap Fest with a ton of new filament too.

This is going to be one hard working machine, and make a bunch of kids really happy!

These are some other hands that I have printed customized, and donated if anyone is curious to see what I do in my off time.

http://imgur.com/a/cRYlb

I know, I know it’s too late but I just finished the print (I underestimated the model complexity and the speed of my printer) and as it’s still March 21…

Hammerhead class cruiser: https://www.youmagine.com/designs/hammerhead-class-cruiser-kotor

As seen on the Knights of the Old Republic.

PS Congratulations to the winners, as for the management of this contest, I really hope you learned something, because was really poorly managed competion.

Congratulations. You are doing awesome work and the smiles on kids faces reflect that. Well deserved.

Yes. I noticed that before if you look up top right when Simona told us to ask if there was any questions and I knew immediately a time deadline was left out and tried to ask for everyone but it was never answered. Looks like a few others had asked later in the contest too without avail. The contest was quite a disaster in the way it was handled. Hope 3DHubs learn something from this experience. I wish we could have seen your entry. =(

Hi everyone!

I thought the deadline was today at 23:59. Silly me.

Anyways I have been working on a sculpted Vader pencil holder(+misc holder) for the contest. The prop can also go on the tip of the car hood or on the interior as awesome decor haha. I skipped class for it but it seems I might not be able to enter.

I wanted the model to be easily printable and printer friendly so no Critical layers(tested on the Retina Software) and it is sub 100k polys. It was tough and alot of corrections made but I kept the printer friendly-ness in mind constantly while sculpting while keeping important details and pose. Most printers are able to print this. It is meant to be printed upright for FDM printers. This has been heavily sculpted and I wanted a detailed companion close to Yoda. If the contest ended at the end of the month it would have allowed for me to finish sculpting Obi-Wan and Anakin. There are two versions. One is with the cape and the other without if you want to save material for checking calibration detail. Enjoy for the moment! :slight_smile:
Vader.stl 1 (5.04 MB)
VaderwoCape-ByDecadia.stl 1 (3.47 MB)
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Not your fault. They never properly stated a time deadline nor time zone. This is a high quality model. Great job. Did you try printing this yet? Can this be printed properly without support? Left arm may be trouble?

Thanks, I did spend lots of hours on this model to bring the quality up enough for the Yoda companion. :slight_smile:

I aim to have others print this happily without supports.

I’m having it printed without supports myself and so far so good. I posed the left arm just at the right angle to have 0 critical layers but if other people have issues I can raise it a bit more. I dont currently have a FDM printer with me so I’ll be testing it out at school. Thanks for the comment!

I can not believe the winner was a 3D printing service who does it for a living & already have there own 3D printer. Talk about unfair is this another case of a rigged contest? I feel total cheated by this

I don’t even own a printer and had to have my good friend run the 48 parts and overnight them to be to make this thing happen. I didn’t know the winner was a company that actively provided services and did this stuff professionally.

Perhaps 3DHubs should have had stipulations on WHO could enter. You can’t get upset at Axis Labs as they didn’t do anything wrong. It’s a position you can take advantage of when those rules don’t apply It all falls on the people responsible for the contest who didn’t think this through well at all.

Hey @GIFT3D, apologies for the late reply. We share the same concerns as you, which is why about 3 weeks ago we announced switching from upvotes to a jury to assess the contest entries. Please see Simona’s message below:

‘Judging Criteria Update: Together with Ultimaker we saw the issues in the upvoting system for the design entries. For this reason we’ve changed the judging criteria system from upvotes to a jury, which will be composed by Ultimaker and 3D Hubs. The winner of the competition will be declared on March 21st. In this way everyone will have enough time to create and print the best Star Wars gadget around. Hope this can solve any issue around the competition. If you’ve any question, please ask’

Hi Wes, really sorry for failing to get back to you in due time. Fair point though, we’ll make sure to communicate the exact details of of when a contest ends moving forward. I do hope you got to enter the competition in the end! Thanks for understanding

Hey @GIFT3D, albeit too late, let me to clear things for you. Multiple entries are definitely allowed, whether in the same comment or not, otherwise we would have mentioned it in the competition brief. Hope this helps.

Hey @tanwalin @edthomp @ItsATrap, thanks for your input. Let me start by saying that we certainly weren’t pressured in any way to end the contest sooner. I do agree however that we could’ve handled this contest better, and as one of the largest competition we hosted on Talk, there’s definitely a lot to learn from the experience.

@tanwalin I’m sorry you didn’t get to show us your project! I hope you’ll still share it with the community here on Talk.

Cheers

Mike, the only thing I can say to that to hopefully make you feel less cheated, is keep in mind this is a 3D Hubs hosted contest. 3D hubs is literally a network of 3D printer owners using printers as a service. 95%+ of us on here already have machines that we try and use professionally, and why we have a hub in the first place.

The only thing different with me, instead of doing it from home, I rented an office space to teach classes too, and yes, I’m trying to turn it into something full time. However I assure, sadly most days it doesn’t even pay for my lunch lol.

I’m sorry you are mad at me for it, but I assure you, any machine I have works it’s butt off off for limb different children, community events, and local school groups. I put that before everything.

I’m not mad at you your doing a good thing for your community. It’s the way the contest was run. I feel cheated because I have mental health problems and are house bound, I could never afford a 3D printer of my own and I have entered many 3D printing contests and have never won a thing and it adds to my spiralling depression which does not help

I created a replica of the lightsaber Luke Skywalker ANH.
I did the internal chassis to make a replica of the film my way.
There are brass parts turned by a friend.
It is made with metal, 3D printing, welding, motherboards sound and light management.
He is also scheduled to fight

https://www.facebook.com/christophe.gonthiergeorges/videos/10208533720164713/?l=2225951761780510063 2

Thank you for choosing me for the third place. There were many awesome entries to compete with.

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This is my version of the Super Star Destroyer - Executor from the well known science-fiction-movies we all love.

Time for modeling about 40 hours. Print time about 80-90 hours. My biggest project so far.

The scale is 1:19000 (about 1 meter long)!

I already uploaded the model to YouMagine:

https://www.youmagine.com/designs/super-star-destroyer-executor 13

The pictures are rendered from my model. I will add some photos when the print is finished.

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Edit: I added some pictures of the progress. I’m still printing. :wink:

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Edit2: Print and assembly is done. Added some photos. Also made a wall holder and a info-sign.

Thank you very much! How do I get the two rolls of Colorfabb Ngen? I got no message from you.

Thanks in advance for your help.