Mandalorian Darksaber Split by Color

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<p>The Mandalorian Darksaber model designed by <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4694307">Polymath314</a> is gorgeous and I wanted to print it with the right color filaments to avoid painting anything so I split it up. The biggest challenge was splitting up the vertical stripes to still be easy to print.</p><p>This split model allows you to print a full color Darksaber without painting if you have filaments in the colors of black, dark gray, silver, and white. If painting is your preference, the split parts make it easier.</p><p>Use supports for Upper Section 5, Emitter Section, Guard split, and Pommel.</p><p>I printed all my saber parts at .15mm layer height.</p><p>Upper Section 6 has a removable support fin and brim at the bottom to help with bed ahdesion footprint. Use pliers to tear it off and file/sand it clean. When inserting it into Upper Section 5, you need to slightly wedge it into the slot and it will fall into place as it goes.</p><p>For the tall Upper Section parts: if brims are used or if elephant foot occurs, file/sand down the bottom edges to ensure they are smoothly round and fit snugly with the adjacent parts. While it technically isn't required for all of them, I also enabled supports to keep the rounded bottoms of these sections from warping up too much.</p><p>The Lower Rings have a tiny hole on the side that need to face up when stacking them.</p><p>Special thanks to <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/polymath314/designs">Polymath314</a> for sharing this awesome model!</p><p>Also includes a more accurate pommel designed by <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4917256">jle2199</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>The filaments I used were PLA: Eryone carbon black, Ziro dark gray, and Ziro silk silver.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Use color change/swapping for the display stand tag.&nbsp;</p><p>Here is a guide that explains how color swapping works, at least with Prusaslicer: <a href="https://help.prusa3d.com/en/article/color-change_1687">https://help.prusa3d.com/en/article/color-change_1687</a></p>