Hey All,
New to the forum.. love the awesome designs everyone is coming up with particularly CrazyAries who started this thread... already had to thank him privately for a couple of his designs I downloaded to try and build haha.
So to keep things as short as possible the first one I have decided to try and build is Crazy's Rimuru Tempest bey. This because both my son and I love the spin stealing mechanic in this game also I am a fan of the anime and frankly I think it just looks awesome. I do have access to a fairly basic dremel 3d40 printer at work so I was able to print out the whole thing to get an idea of the mechanics ie. how to put it together and that was reasonably successful but this also lead me to realize the limitations of just 3d printing everything. Among those being that without a metal base the frame really is quite light despite doing 100% fill.. and obviously certain mechanics like the important spin steal just aren't going to work with plastic pieces haha.
As a result now here I am with a couple questions...
1) Does anyone have any suggestions on an easier way to get 'teeth' for these builds? By that I mean in his read me Crazy says he used a legend spriggan / god spriggan teeth for Rimuru however I live in Canada and am fairly new to this so I don't have a ton of parts just laying around. And as a result the idea of having to buy a god spriggan just to break him for pieces is less then appealing... if anyone has any suggestions in terms of where I might be able to buy parts.. or even print/cnc them would be much appreciated. ( or if I am just screwed and have to bite the bullet haha )
As a follow up to that question I actually had one broken driver that I pulled a lock and spring out of but I did want to try and build flamma and/or Zeus as well so if people have suggestions on those as well I would more then appreciate it.
2) In reading through this thread I saw people mention shapeways and that is very interesting didn't know such a print site existed... however I need someone that can print/cut rubber or something extremely similar and they don't seem to do that. Virtually all the builds I have seem to be drawn to either have some rubber on the base of the driver or on the layer and plastic just doesn't cut it. So does anyone here know of any good online print service that will work in that medium?
..also on that note will the 3d plastic printed piece still work with a rubber build piece on the other side? I think I saw Crazy mentioning that the other dragon was made of Vinyl not plastic which I think would make it heavier but I am unsure if that would be a requirement.. if anyone with more experience can confirm it would be appreciated.
Alright that's enough rambling from me... to anyone who takes the time to read and/or respond to this thank you in advance.