Centurion - From the 3D printers

So the Cent was signed off and it was sent to the printers a week ago.

Here it is out of the box needing a good clean to remove all the wax (which I've now done).

I'm on to surface finishing now and that'll take as long as it takes because its messy, bloody figured work and I have to still be careful not to damage the tiny details.

It came out really nice eps the variant options Gauss/LBX/Laser/AC20/AC10/UAC5. SO looking forward to getting some paint on it :)

I've been getting allot of "can you teach me" or "can you write a tutorial" emails. The short answer is sadly no. There lots of well written tutorials out there for the many of the different programs that people use. There also a lot of 3D printing help out there too. Writing isn't my strong suit I don't have the free time to write a tome of the knowledge picked up over the years and it would eat into my time spent modelling.

MWO Centurion progress

Long story short back to work in the centurion after and enforce break while my house was remodel. I wanted to beat Christmas but from mid September to early November there was just too much dust and noise to achieve any kind of productivity.

The Cent has lots of fins, unjoined up parts, undercuts and variants so its been a ton of work to make good the model for casting and make working joints. I thought about trying to cast with the fins in place but for every good cast they'd probably be 3 broken ones and there's only so much swearing my neighbours will put up with. I also broken down bigger parts into smaller pieces either because they'd trap bubbles or parts to lock into the mould (like the claw hand).

So here it is as you can see alot of parts (34) goes into making this one up.

It looks done here but there's probably 7days work still left in the 3D desing. The CT still needs locator pins then every part has to be looked at to check it'll make good moulds and given a final clean.

The barrels slot in the fore arm and the AC20 section can make either AC10, AC20 or UAC5. There's also a laser barrel, LBX10 barrel and a Gauss barrel for clan invasion Kai Allard Wangs.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween, 

I asked my son what he wanted me to carve on the pumpkin he screamed "Dinosaur!". Not sure he knows what a pumpkin or halloween is but he sure does like dinosaurs at the moment

Cent test prints

Centurion test prints from the new printer looking pretty in jade green.

Centurion - WIP

I've just finished fixing the mesh on this bad boy. The shin and foot are done so I could request some sample prints from a new printer to see if I can get a better surface finish. The rest still needs joints and details but the heavy lifting (making a good soild mesh has been done)

I'm still working on where to separate the AC arm to give a strong joint given its a lots of levered weight hanging out there. I've made 6 barrel types but chances are due to costs I'll only keep 3 and they will slot into the forearm. Its likely the head and the shoulder shield will have to be separated because the fins will be too fragile for casting as one.

Mechwarrior Online - Dragon

Mechwarrior Online - Dragon 
mwomercs.com
Scale: 1/60
Size: 19.5cm tall (to main mass)
Articulation free: Elbows, shoulders waist
Articulation glued: Ankles, Knees, Hips


Arms and legs detach from the main torso with a 90degree turn similar to the armorcast Atlas. Its been painted in default MWO red and given the shark mouth from the MWO concept art and I was asked to make it a look as if it had been on active duty. The red and the mech origin suited the Draconis Combine Sword of Light Brigade. 

(IMW Atlas for scale)

CMDO in 3rd person OMG OP!

It was very hard to let this one go (The DRGN-5N at the start of MWO open beta it was my main ride). Later today it should arrive at its new owners and take pride of place at PGI's front desk.

As always you can contact me using the email below. I tend to save emails up then tackle them all in one go as I can't always set enough time aside to field them as they come in. I should mention I did mean to answer a few this Monday but i got taken out with the flu (god bless toddlers and their germs) so I decided the couch was a better bet with a few episodes of "Space above and beyond".

The dragons finish but you have to wait a little longer

I finished the Dragon on Friday, I've taken some photos and I'm waiting for the Fedex dropship to collect.

I want the client to be the first to see it in person once I get delivery confirmation I'll post pictures here hang tight





Also for those contacting me with questions now that I've reclaimed my desk and scrubbed away all the red paint I'll get tackling those emails! Sorry I don't reply while I'm working, I like to keep focus or I find my self loosing a few hours after a 'just a quick peek' of MWO/emails/Facebook/etc.