[Ongoing]

Will have 3 center mounted servos controlled by a ESP32s (for future upgrades when I want to connect to Google assistant or make it my assistant). Wire routing and management is going to be hard.

I wanted it to be as proportional to the original one but a lot of other factors like print times and known warping issues with our filament/printer made me squeeze it a little bit. (Lets call it length contraction :p)

Printed it before the holidays in a hurry and as expected, stuff went wrong. Printed the middle servo mount adapters with wrong dimensions. Till the university re-opens and I get access to the printer again, I decided I will get done with the cosmetic part of it.

Starting off with sanding it with 9 levels of grit from 120-3000.


After sanding with 120 grit paper.

After sanding with 120 grit paper.
After wet-sanding with 3000 grit
After wet-sanding with 3000 grit

Masking off 'TARS'

Masking off 'TARS'

Sweet

Sweet


Semi-Gloss black paint+primer
Semi-Gloss black paint+primer

Metallic Dark Steel x 3 coats
1 Black Base coat + 3 Coats Metallic Dark Steel + 3 Clear Coats

Some masking


The front side. Looking good.

The back side.
Sprayed silver on the back to see how it looks.

To  finish it off, I applied some Meguiar's ultra-cut compound and a Mirror glaze polish and rubbed it with a micro fiber towel. Painted the 'TARS' with a gold-ish acrylic marker. I think I'll stop with the visual part now.