Rocketeer Jetpack

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Wearable artist fan art of the Jetpack from the Rocketeer is up for grabs. This kit should fit an average-sized adult perfectly, and the back plate might not be necessary depending on how you choose to wear it. The backpack frame and/or straps are not included in this deal, nor are hoses and some hardware. I'm sharing these files as is, providing the full components both unsliced and sliced exclusively for the CR-10s. Hope you like it! I'd love to see pics of your finished builds. Don't even think about selling copies of these files – that's a big no-no. I'll keep this listed as a work in progress until someone manages to print and build one completely. I plan on putting together a comprehensive list of the exact hardware needed to put this together soon, but for now, you'll need braided hoses, some 3mm and 4mm bolts of varying sizes, and corresponding nuts and washers. Be aware that the "ports" for the braided hoses were modeled by eye and weren't designed to fit any specific hose fitting, so some adjustment might be necessary. The left side of the rocket and its parts are not included – just mirror the right side parts in your slicer or other 3D modeling/editing program. UPDATE: The Main Rocket Housing and the Outer Vent show up as having non-manifold edges in Blender but seem to slice okay in S3D at a quick glance, so I've uploaded them for now. UPDATE 12/19/18: Split Rocket Housing into 3 parts. All 3 parts slice fine in S3D. UPDATE 12/29/18: Split Center Cowling into top and bottom along curved panel line in the middle. Slices fine in S3D. I might still split this up even further into top front, top back, bottom front, and bottom back – what do you all think? UPDATE 2/15/19: Split Thruster into 3 parts for easier printing without supports. I also made the upper flange a little less wide so it was easier to get into the rocket tube housing. I also made the hole in the center of the flange much larger as requested for those of you who want to add lights and/or other effects inside. I've split the center cowling into 4 pieces for easier printing. All parts slice fine in S3D. I did not add peg holes to any of these newly split parts – they all have features that will help align them fairly easily, and there are plenty of adhesives that will hold the parts together without the need for pegs. I personally use Hobby Lobby's Extreme Power Medium CA glue with the spray accelerator – great stuff for gluing PLA. I'm in the middle of finally printing one of these out myself. Once it's complete, I'll post pics and change this to no longer be a work in progress. So far, I've printed the nose cones, center circular vent, fan, and right flap. They've all printed great except for the fan – it printed alright and is usable but had some artifacts/scarring. There have been a lot of downloads. I would love to see some of your finished packs! UPDATE 2/27/19: Modified the Nose Cone file so that it has a little more clearance to easily fit on top of the rocket. UPDATE 4/23/19: Ran inner and outer rocket vents through netfabb to repair non-manifold edges and uploaded the fixed files here. The tolerances on these vents are very tight, so you may want to reduce the size to something like 95% in your slicer before printing or you may need to sand/file the edges after printing to fit into the rocket housing.