I did some work today on the swords that I’ve printed. they both needed to be assembled so I got them all glued together. Then after they dried I sprayed them with the fill primer that I purchased earlier this week. I’m going to give it a couple of coats this weekend but I still need something else to fill the gaps that I am seeing. Even though the prints were pretty precise they were not precise enough and there are gaps.
I tried printing another thing for Eva. While it should have been fairly easy to print it was not. I worked on the options for printing and finally got a viable print this evening. Eva will be painting that sometime soon as well.
This is the Sword of Omens fully printed and I even found craft dowels to add to it to strengthen it. I still have a lot of work to do to actually assemble it. I do have to reprint part of the handle because the first time I printed it the bottom curled up and peeled away from the hotbed. I ended up adding some supports to it so that it would print flat. I also will have to do a lot of sanding and also add some filler to it before it can be printed. I also noticed that one piece does not quite fit into another and I’ll need to sand that down as well. I’ll also have to sand the larger dowel down in order for it to fit through one smaller part of the handle. Once I have it all assembled I’ll see if the Prestons’ daughter Cady would like to paint it.
