40k Plasma Pistol V1

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V2.3 01-02-19 Printed out the Front Muzzle, super thin and robust so I have halved the wall thickness. Still having issues with the Main body, battery cell, and Grip V1. I have moved the bodies to all negative locations in space and re-exported with no errors. V2.2 12-18-18 Cura didn't like the simplified grip or body, so I remade them with complex geometry and extra features. Previously I only enabled wanted features but left them out of the data. Also removing single files. V2 12-03-18 Adding pictures of assembled pistol, and without coil for LED assembly. Coil printed beautifully in 1 hour, 0.4mm layer thickness. Printed in Gold as I am waiting on Transparent Blue, both 3DPro brand. Pistol scale test worked, but two halves were perfectly aligned. I have created a new pistol grip file as a single part, and modified the front side a bit so that it can be printed from the top. width and curve has not changed. Due to the new angle of print, the locking pins on the bottom have been added. With the information form the grip test, I also merged the body into a single piece. Will fully rework when the PCB comes in for the mounting holes. Changed print orientation to be back on the build plate. Added a simplified file that is hollowed out for electronics. Going to do a scale and fit test of the whole pistol over the next few days. Will post updates and progress after I build a dummy model. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V1 Plasma Pistol Cut to be printed on a Prusa i3. I designed this with extensive supports on everything but the Body_Left / Body_Right. This will take an LED Driver board, which I will have to move supports for depending on model of board. Need to finish the LED Brackets before I fully assemble. These were created with a rotate function, but would work better if I mirrored them so the legs of the LEDs match - to - in parallel. Note for those who choose to print this, Red/Yellow/Old green LEDs have a forward voltage drop of about 2.3, whereas Blue/White/New green have a drop of 4. This will change the number of LEDs per chaser circuit to 3/2 respectively. The supports to front muzzle will hold an 18mm LED and I have added a hole for wires to reach through. A 9v battery should fit in the base of the body, I used min tolerances plus a few mm open space so that it can fit with enough room to wire multiple sets of LEDs in series. There is a slot on the Grip that will accept an 11mm micro switch button that will be activated with a trigger pull, it will need cleaning due to the orientation of print, I could not cleanly chamfer this for no support, but as long as the wired switch can fit in the channels and not rip the wire coating it is fine. Grip will be resized. I want to do a fit test in my hand before I fully publish the grip. Will include multiple sizes when finished. ------------------------------------------------------------------------