Lucky 13 Cloud Strife FF7 Skin

prusaprinters

A simple skin for Lucky 13 - Cloud Strife, Final Fantasy 7.Only three parts - his hair, shoulder guard and the buster sword.The hair I remixed from this model: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3393568The hair is quite a complex piece with lots of fine pieces - I thickened it up by duplicating a bunch of times on offsetting - it prints quite well, but the model is a bit of a mess to be fair - feel free to tidy it up if you have the skills. Print the hair with supports from the bed.The buster sword is my own design, taking the handle from the sword in the main accessory of the original. I printed mine with low infil, but in hind sight I should have printed it much more solid - the handle split in several places and could have done with being more solid - I ended up gluing a piece of paperclip into the handle of the sword to give it some strength. The sword is two pieces so it can be printed without supports. It might need some triming to fit the parts together and glue.The arm guard is small, but I didn't want to make it so large that it would hinder movement. it completes the look I think. It needs to be printed with supports from the build plate.Regarding colour, obviously I printed legs and torso in black and the upper part in skin tone, but one thing I would do differently next time is the armature piece for the torso - I printed this in skin tone thinking you would see the linkages, but in hind sight I should have done this in black, as you can see some flesh in the middle of the torso. Not too big a deal, but worth pointing out.I left the main torso skin piece as is - Cloud has a few straps on his outfit, but I left the classic 13 look in place. I may come back to that and add some straps and a fancy belt, but as they are just black I didn't think it was essential.I printed my Lucky 13 in PLA and it seems to work just fine.