Mass Effect M8 Avenger Assault Rifle (Split Files)

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**UPDATE** Thanks to MiZer1981 for suggesting that I combine two parts for a better fit, I removed Bottom Part 1 and Interior Part 1 and combined them into Bottom Part Redux. This should make printing and gluing easier. **UPDATE** I reworked some of the pieces because they weren't printing correctly. You'll need to re-download and print the new files. Print ten of the Greeblies and four of the Greeblies2 objects. **I have not assembled this yet** **Print at your own risk** I'm in the process of printing this now, but it's a large file and will take some time. I can't guarantee that it will fit together without a lot of sanding. We shall see... OK, I've wanted a Mass Effect assault rifle for a while now, but couldn't find any decent ones on any STL sites, so I had to do it the hard way and make it myself. I had zero experience with Blender, but I made 3D models twenty years ago with 3DS Max, so I thought, "It can't be that different." Well, I'm a bit rusty, and Blender isn't the same as 3DS Max, but I did my best. My skills will improve with time. I downloaded the .OBJ file straight from the game and worked it as best I could, smoothing it and adding details. Everything should fit nicely together. I split the larger sections to fit on an Ender 3 bed and added some pins so they don't shift when gluing them together. I designed it to be thirty-four inches long once fully assembled. That's the length of the official, very expensive, Bioware licensed version, so I went with that. **UPDATE** Well, thirty-four inches is waaaay too big. After asking various prop makers who have made this out of foam and MDF, it turns out a better size is between twenty-nine and thirty inches. So scale these parts to eighty-five percent in your slicer. Going to reprint with these settings and try again. Update to follow. I will update this more as I continue to print and tweak the prop. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to let me know.