Category: Back Plate

Smoothing Begins…

Time to make it smooth…

Welded seam, before.

All of the seams smoothed with the soldering iron.

Let’s Build This Thing…

Assembling all of the pieces…

Pieces ready to assemble.

Pins glued into place…

Starting the seam weld.

Welded seam, inside.

Welded seam, outside.

Middle section assembly completed.

Pins glued in place to assemble the bottom and middle sections.

Welding the seam…

Crazy clamping set up to keep everything properly aligned.

Back seam completely welded.

Front seam completely welded.

Bottom and middle sections assembled.

Top sections clamped down for assembly.

Back side seam welded.

Ready to add the top section to the rest.

With all six pieces assembled, I then used my soldering iron to go over all of the seams on the back side. By smoothing them out and melting down the alignment pin blocks, it should add more strength to the seams.

Entire back side, smoothed out.

Front side, with all of the seams welded.

Let’s Build This Thing…

Assembling all of the pieces…

Pins glued into place…

Parts glued together.

Starting the seam weld.

Welded seam, inside.

Welded seam, outside.

Bottom section assembly completed.

Let’s See How Things Align…

With the six smaller pieces and alignment pins done, it’s time for a test fit:

Not a bad fit…

Lots Of Small Pieces Requires Lots Of Pins…

The Back Plate is one of the larger pieces of Fett’s armor. Since it won’t fit on my build plate, I’ve had to cut it into six smaller pieces, which will then be assembled. These pins will aid in the assembly process:

I did 4 runs of 11 pins.

And, That’s A Wrap…

The Sixth piece of the Back Plate is completed…

Part #6 on the build plate.

Back of print with supports still intact.

Front of print with supports intact.

Front of print with supports removed.

Back of print with supports removed.

A Big Part Means Lots Of Small Pieces…

The Back Plate is one of the larger pieces of Fett’s armor. Since it won’t fit on my build plate, I’ve had to cut it into six smaller pieces, which will then be assembled…

Starting the print of part #6.

Five down, One To Go…

The fifth piece of the Back Plate is completed…

Part #5 on the build plate.

Back of the print with the supports intact.

A Big Part Means Lots Of Small Pieces…

The Back Plate is one of the larger pieces of Fett’s armor. Since it won’t fit on my build plate, I’ve had to cut it into six smaller pieces, which will then be assembled…

Starting the print of part #5.

Four down, Two To Go…

The fourth piece of the Back Plate is completed…

Part #4 on the build plate.

Front of print.

Back of the print with the supports intact.