0:01 what's going on everybody i'm quest for
0:03 nostalgia i love talking things video
0:06 games and nerdy i hate long intros this
0:08 video is gonna be about how i 3d printed
0:12 this awesome life-size buster blade
0:14 so let's get into the video so yeah you
0:15 guys have seen a few different things
0:17 now about 3d printing i've done some
0:20 things like the bb unit over here
0:23 calcus's lightsaber i've got iron man
0:25 and mando but this one here is
0:28 definitely my most impressive 3d print
0:30 so far i mean it's huge you see this
0:33 thing comes in at about you know five
0:36 nine ish and it's awesome i i love this
0:38 thing it was a free file over on
0:40 thingiverse and i wanted to show you
0:42 guys how i did it i documented
0:44 everything i wanted to show you how to
0:46 put it on the 3d printer how to get it
0:48 with the you know fewest amount of
0:50 supports and just you know create
0:52 something of your own like this i mean
0:54 you could do the classic cloud poses
0:56 here this thing is super cool super
1:00 sturdy and it's just an iconic sword and
1:01 i know there's other people that have
1:03 done build videos about building the
1:05 buster blade but i think there's
1:07 information that they've missed and just
1:09 skipped out on and i wanted this to be
1:11 something for you guys to really have a
1:14 good guide about how to do this for
1:16 yourselves not just a few pictures here
1:18 and there hopefully this video will be
1:20 helpful for you if you have a 3d printer
1:21 or maybe you just enjoy watching the
1:23 build process of how i created you know
1:26 this iconic sword but yeah let's start
1:28 with how i got these files put onto my
1:30 printer and kind of the build
1:31 orientation that's always probably the
1:34 most tricky part about these builds is
1:35 figuring how you want the little pieces
1:37 to be put onto your printer and this was
1:40 printed in like 25 pieces or something
1:41 like that so i'm going to show how they
1:44 are all welded together and how it
1:46 became so sturdy of a sword here
1:48 cool so
1:50 the hardest part in 3d printing is
1:52 honestly trying to figure out
1:55 the print orientation getting good at
1:57 figuring out how we're gonna put the
2:00 pieces onto the bed is it something that
2:02 i i feel like takes the most mental
2:05 brainpower and you know is what people
2:07 really want to see and so i took you
2:09 know there's multiples of these pieces
2:12 so like there's so many of this section
2:14 here uh this like blade piece you're
2:17 gonna have tons of those same thing with
2:19 the edge pieces here there are a ton in
2:21 this build so you only need to see it
2:23 once but i just wanted to take out some
2:24 of the different ones some of the tricky
2:26 pieces and really show you because
2:28 that's what i wish i had somebody to
2:30 tell me and and that's where i think
2:32 this tutorial is really going to help you
2:33 you
2:35 so with this this is just the end cap to
2:37 the end of there i printed it just like
2:40 this i had it where the base is here
2:42 what i do though is i take the support
2:44 blocker here and i touch inside there
2:47 boop and i block out the
2:49 center support there but i do leave the
2:52 supports on this overhang here but i did
2:55 not want it to fill this whole damn hole
2:58 with supports and i usually just go
3:02 um supports from the build plate so
3:04 instead of saying everywhere we would
3:07 just go touching build plate and that's
3:09 it right there the next one this one
3:13 here this is the base of your blade
3:14 and so
3:16 here we go oh wrong way print it just
3:18 like this on these edges i did not
3:21 support anything in here i only did
3:24 touching build plates so i let there be
3:27 small supports in these grooves and they
3:30 were really not hard to pull out of at all
3:30 all
3:34 but i did not want to dig out uh
3:36 you know support material inside of
3:38 these detail pieces
3:41 also i found that my printer here really
3:44 does a good job with spheres so anything
3:46 here that has an arc each layer is going
3:48 to build on top of the next layer so i
3:51 had no issues at all doing anything like
3:53 that so when it came to
3:56 this circle here everything stayed nice
3:59 i just wanted this t-piece supported and
4:00 then these little grooves inside of
4:02 there and just let it go so like i said
4:04 just touching the build plate nothing
4:07 inside here and this printed great you
4:09 know that gap nothing nothing had any
4:12 issues and then this one is very similar
4:16 to all the other uh blade pieces but
4:17 but
4:20 again i just did touching build plate i
4:22 did no supports in here i i mine came
4:25 out absolutely fine that overhang is so
4:29 tiny that it filled it it worked fine
4:33 and so i had a little tiny cube of
4:35 support right there and then a little
4:37 bit of support here but that is it only
4:40 supports touching build plate and that
4:42 was great left this open and
4:44 here this overhang right here at the top
4:48 i was worried i did one piece at a time
4:49 to see if it would work and i was like
4:51 you know if it fails it fails
4:54 but i was able to bridge this gap very
4:56 easily very easily so i had no support
5:00 in here just let it fly and yeah it
5:01 covered this super easy i don't know if
5:03 it was just like because the
5:06 uh infill was going in a diagonal but i
5:08 had no issues leaving this completely
5:10 because again i did not want to dig out
5:12 support next here we have one of the
5:16 trickier uh like edge pieces here
5:19 and this is honestly how i printed it
5:21 just like this as well touching the
5:23 build plate there except for this one i
5:26 did do everywhere because i did want the
5:27 support here
5:30 and because it was coming from somewhere
5:31 open it was gonna be very easy to grab
5:33 this with pliers right on the outside of
5:36 this and pull it and it come off cleanly
5:38 so i did support everywhere on this
5:41 piece here and it was good to go no
5:42 issues at all
5:44 and then here comes what you're gonna
5:46 see way more often
5:49 is you're gonna have like 10 of these
5:50 pieces to do
5:53 and i did these ones similar to that
5:56 first like handle cap so i wanted the
5:58 piece to go here right i wanted the
6:01 support but what i actually did was i blocked
6:03 blocked
6:05 this red piece here so what i would do is
6:06 is
6:07 take this
6:10 move this up just a tad here
6:12 and then let's scale it
6:14 scale it there
6:16 you can do you know uniform or snap
6:19 scaling whatever but all i wanted really
6:21 was it to block
6:24 this red section there underneath so i
6:26 didn't support that because i didn't
6:27 want to dig this out
6:30 but i let it support this big overhang
6:32 here so all it would do is it would
6:34 print the same little kind of triangle
6:36 here and then this tower up and that was
6:39 it and it would leave this spot hollow
6:42 and it really this made that tiny little
6:44 overhang super easy and then this was
6:46 the only support i needed and so that
6:48 was how i did every one of my blade
6:49 pieces and i would do these about three
6:52 at a time because i have a cr-10s so i
6:53 could go one
6:56 two and then three all in a row
6:58 and that i knocked out about three at a
7:00 time there everything else all the big
7:05 uh edge pieces or blade pieces i did um
7:07 one at a time just in case there was
7:09 failures or anything
7:12 this scared me um i didn't do any
7:14 supports in there at all i didn't want
7:17 it to get all nasty in there it did it
7:20 fine but tubes big long tubes like this
7:21 i had a terrible time printing a
7:24 keyblade early on in printing and it has
7:26 just always scared me from now printing
7:29 giant tall tubes uh this comes in two
7:31 parts where it's split in half as well
7:33 which maybe if you're more concerned you
7:36 can do it in two parts and just not risk
7:40 it falling over at this height up here
7:42 but yeah my mind survived i was very
7:44 very happy i might have lowered the
7:46 print speed a little bit uh jets for
7:50 this print alone uh but that is about it
7:51 all right we only have a few more pieces
7:54 here this one is your bread and butter
7:56 you're gonna sit like i said have you
7:59 know a good eight to nine of these and
8:01 i laid mine here where like like i said
8:05 my printer was able to this gap up here
8:07 this this overhang at the top
8:09 i was able to bridge that fine so i
8:10 didn't want that to be on the ground
8:13 because how it lays when it first comes
8:15 in here is something like this where you
8:17 have this big long thing there and i was
8:19 like ugh i probably could even get away
8:21 with no supports in there i was like why
8:23 even risk it so what i did was this
8:26 really nice flat edge here i actually
8:28 laid it on the smoothest edge i only had
8:30 to support
8:31 sorry it's actually clipping through the
8:34 bed right now but i only had to support
8:36 this tiny little block there
8:39 this i left open and then it that it
8:41 does that overhang fine and then this
8:43 groove you know clearly had no issues
8:45 and that's it those are super easy and
8:47 like i said you have like five that are
8:48 very similar to that
8:51 and then the last one
8:54 is the handle guard and god that's so
8:56 far away oh wrong one wrong handle there
8:57 we go here we come
8:58 here we come
9:01 uh this one i positioned them upright
9:03 instead of doing them flat along the bed
9:05 because there's this little tiny lip
9:07 here you can see it
9:09 i didn't want that to be there i didn't
9:11 want it to try to start to do supports
9:13 or anything like that i just supported
9:15 all of this so i did jets touching build
9:19 plate and did the supports here and
9:21 these peeled off so easily so easily
9:23 there was no issue at all peeling out
9:26 those um i had nothing else you know i
9:29 you can check and see if it's trying to
9:30 do maybe something on these circles make
9:32 sure you don't you don't need it at all
9:34 it'll be fine and yeah there's two of
9:36 these you know
9:38 to complete the whole handle guard and
9:40 that's it so that's orientation
9:42 i think that's what people always
9:44 struggle with but there's probably three
9:46 hard things to this
9:49 uh print or not print but the whole the
9:51 whole build the orientation so now you
9:54 guys are covered with that uh welding so
9:56 i welded all of those pieces because you
9:58 have like 25 pieces so i welded those
9:59 pieces together and i'm going to show
10:01 you guys how we're going to do that and
10:04 then filling it with bondo or wood
10:06 filler whatever you choose and i
10:07 actually did different on each side i
10:09 did wood filler on one side and i did
10:11 bondo on the other so let's get into the
10:13 next steps all right so always wear a
10:15 respirator when we do the plastic
10:17 welding we're going gonna be using the
10:19 soldering iron to weld these two together
10:20 together
10:22 um i'm getting them nice and snug
10:23 they've got registration keys on this
10:25 thingyverse file but yeah i just drag it
10:27 across the seam there and it kind of
10:29 bubbles up a little bit on each side and
10:31 then i fold that excess back into each
10:35 other and using plastic from both sides
10:37 to fuse it into one piece and so here i
10:39 am just kind of you know like i said
10:41 folding it back and forth to really get
10:43 a good adherence there
10:45 this is a great spot to weld it's
10:48 underneath of the material slot holder
10:50 and so that's not even going to be seen
10:52 so it's a really nice place to do a weld
10:54 but i tried to weld in areas that
10:57 weren't going to be affected by detail
10:58 that i was going to have to fix lines
11:00 and and whatnot
11:02 but yeah here i am again on the other
11:04 material slot and you just see me you
11:07 know fold it back and forth
11:09 i first saw this through frankly built
11:12 and here it is a better close-up view
11:14 dragging across and then you can see me
11:16 kind of wiggling it back and forth just
11:18 folding those in back and forth
11:19 sometimes i do kind of circles almost
11:21 like a real weld
11:23 and make it nice and i just make a divot
11:26 that i can fill later with bondo
11:28 as opposed to you know having like a big
11:30 mound like i'm not adding plastic in
11:32 there some people use a 3d pen
11:35 to fill the hole back up but for me i'd
11:38 rather have these small grooves that i'm
11:40 going to fill with bondo later which is
11:42 going to be a lot easier instead of
11:44 sanding a bunch of extra plastic down
11:46 i'm gonna fill the hole up and this
11:50 thing came in like 25 pieces uh it's the
11:52 free file on thingiverse so there's a
11:54 lot of welding to do here and here
11:55 you're seeing again i just used that
11:57 like five pound plate uh it worked
11:59 perfectly for the edge of the handle
12:01 guard uh to give me a little bit off of
12:03 there but yep just tacking these down and
12:04 and
12:06 that's it you gotta do this a ton i put
12:09 on some gundam and uh now we're ready to sand
12:10 sand
12:13 and this i'm using 80 grit sandpaper on
12:16 a walmart like uh detail sander here i
12:19 have a ryobi circular orbital sander and
12:21 that thing is way too powerful for 3d
12:23 prints this thing is so much less
12:26 horsepower it doesn't really you know
12:28 wreck the print but that ryobi one will
12:30 cut through plastic way too fast so this
12:32 is just 80 grit i'm trying to be random
12:35 with it trying to be fast over all of
12:37 the spots and just knocking down the
12:39 layer lines as best i can getting into
12:40 the the corners that's why i like the
12:43 detail sander that point is really nice
12:45 and yeah just going back and forth over
12:47 this and
12:49 knocking it down before i start putting
12:52 in filler so i want to make sure that
12:53 there's a
12:55 divot and it feels kind of smooth to the touch
13:03 so here you're seeing after i bonded and
13:05 wood fillered i did one on each side to
13:07 see what was better i didn't show the
13:08 process of doing that because i don't
13:10 think my process was correct bondo was
13:12 hard to work with the wood filler was
13:14 much easier to work with but you'll see
13:16 the my complaints about wood filler later
13:17 later
13:18 so here's me sanding the wood filler
13:21 first and oh my gosh this gums up your
13:24 sandpaper so fast so so fast it's
13:26 miserable you can only go like two
13:28 seconds before your thing is completely
13:29 gummed up so you either have to clean
13:32 the sandpaper off or you have to get a
13:34 new sheet and i hated it absolutely
13:37 hated it the bondo here this side was
13:39 much better i mean goodness it was a
13:42 pain to apply like working with the
13:44 hardener and mixing it but look at that
13:46 sandpaper at the end after doing the
13:49 entire sword face there it was so much better
13:50 better
13:52 and you see how much more comes off of
13:54 the wood filler it almost leaves behind
13:56 nothing whereas the bondo really stays behind
13:58 behind
14:00 now we're using filler primer and this
14:02 is i'm going to show you the filler
14:04 priming stage but whenever i paint all
14:06 the rest it's it's very similar to this
14:07 i'm not going to show you painting again
14:10 and again and again uh but yeah here's
14:11 filler primer
14:13 going through and doing about a half of
14:17 overlap on every spray there and yeah
14:19 just really you know it's going to help
14:20 me fill in even the smaller nooks and
14:23 crannies that the sandpaper left behind
14:24 at this point this thing is sanded all
14:27 the way up to 120 i did 80 grit first
14:29 and then 120
14:31 after that and then did the filler
14:33 primer and so here's time for the other
14:35 side you're gonna do exactly the same
14:37 thing so the little nooks and crannies
14:38 were hand sanded and then the big
14:40 surfaces were
14:42 orbital sanded uh but yeah this is at
14:46 120. my i ran out of filler primer so i
14:48 grabbed all of my quote unquote empties
14:50 and see if i had enough left to just
14:51 kind of finish this out so i didn't have
14:54 to run to the store i got super lucky
14:56 that i was able to finish this out with
14:58 just some of my leftover cans that were
15:00 just you know sitting by uh being
15:06 now i'm moving it into the garage
15:07 because i've got some more stuff to do
15:09 here and that's one thing about doing a
15:11 print this big is it sucks when you're
15:13 reliant on having to have good weather
15:15 to print to paint outside as opposed to
15:17 being able to like paint in a spray
15:19 booth oh you're about to see disaster
15:22 i'm needing the putty to make sure the
15:24 hardener and everything is mixing well
15:25 and then all of a sudden this thing
15:28 decided to pop on the end and just fall
15:29 on the print
15:32 but it's okay i used it to you know go
15:33 ahead and
15:35 fill up all these little lines here you
15:36 know so i knew i was going to do this
15:38 eventually i turned this area into a
15:40 little spray booth i put a you know that
15:41 bed sheet kind of thing that you're
15:43 seeing beside it down and started
15:45 spraying in here so that way i could get
15:47 out of the wind the wind was so annoying
15:49 and just ruining
15:52 just making it hard to to paint so
15:55 having to wait between gusts so
15:56 being able to spray in my garage and
15:58 have an area was much better but that's
15:59 where it's like i don't really want to
16:01 do big prints
16:04 this is sanded down to uh
16:08 220 after this point or 240 i sanded all
16:10 of those down and then here i am i did
16:13 sandable primer after that phase and i
16:15 actually didn't sand this again i let it
16:17 go there and i
16:19 used this metallic rust-oleum paint and
16:22 to spray the blade side of this
16:25 i end up doing um two layers there
16:28 and then next is gonna be this dark
16:31 gunmetal uh metallic finish this is only
16:34 one coat here but i as you see i mask
16:36 the silver off and then sprayed this
16:38 dark gunmetal but i ended up doing two
16:39 coats of this
16:41 and here's the finale i love the way
16:43 this thing turned out super impressed
16:45 with it it's so crazy it's such a giant
16:48 print like i said it's hard when you
16:50 don't have an area to paint in but i
16:52 really love this such an iconic sword
16:53 and i hope you guys like the way that
16:54 this turns out and that this video is helpful
16:56 helpful
16:58 i'm over here editing this whole video
16:59 and i realized i didn't even film an
17:01 outro so i was all the way done and
17:02 realized i had to do this but if you
17:04 made it this far thank you so much
17:05 you're the backbone of the channel you
17:07 guys know that i see that every time it
17:08 means the most to me if you haven't
17:10 subscribed already if this video helped
17:12 you it would mean a lot we passed the
17:14 500 mark and we're on to our next goal
17:17 uh this is you know my first 3d printing
17:18 kind of build video so hopefully you
17:20 guys enjoyed it hope you learned
17:22 something hopefully you just liked
17:24 seeing that awesome sword being made uh
17:26 if you want me to do more stuff and more
17:28 projects that i'm working on i think you
17:30 might have seen a green ranger helmet in
17:32 there or you know we could do some other
17:33 different things i've got the white
17:35 ranger on the the printer right now so
17:37 we could do more of these if you want
17:39 them just let me know but thank you guys
17:41 so much for watching the video uh and i
17:43 had a great time doing it i love you
17:44 guys and i'll catch you in the next one peace
17:47 peace [Music]
