Painting and Printing

Got in to the Hammerspace this afternoon and managed to print out the Large Data Port:

That'll be at the top middle of the barrel once I get the fame and all that. The bit above gets glued to the top of the bit below (it's printed that way to avoid having to do support structure). It gets painted blue.

Speaking of paint, I picked up all the paints and things I'll need (I think) and started doing that while waiting on the print jobs:

Now, I've used the XTC-3D on the parts above. If you see some shininess then that's why. It seems to do rather well, but I'll have to see how it looks once painted.

Here you can see some of the parts that have been painted. This is a very good chrome paint (Valspar metallic). It gives a good look. You can see one of the shoulder hydraulics which I have also painted.
I'm going to see how to age the metallic finish on these parts, but they already don't look anything like the printed originals, so that's promising. More painting tomorrow.